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Video: Restructuring Europe – For Whom?
The structural reform now being discussed in Europe would mean an even more neoliberal agenda Continue reading
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The Obama Defection: Former Supporters Lambaste The President By Danny Schechter
Roberto Unger’s argument boils down to a damning indictment spelling out charges that the President has betrayed the progressive cause and those who militated for his election. The alleged betrayal is all the more painful, Professor Unger says, because it reveals a man who never was what he claimed to be. Continue reading
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Turning Point on the Syrian Front: Dealmaking in Search of a Face-Saving Exit By Sharmine Narwani
In recent weeks, there has been a notable shuffle in the positions of key external players in the Syrian crisis. Momentum has quite suddenly shifted from an all-out onslaught against the Assad government to a quiet investigation of exit strategies. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 2012 10 11 March 2012: US intelligence: Assad firmly in charge in Syria
11 March 2012 11:12:08 — williambowles.info 012Syrian stalemate hampers Annan peace talksRussiatoday.ru Today at 10:11The UN delegation led by Kofi Annan is heading into its second round of talks with Syrian President Assad. But with both the opposition and the regime flatly refusing to open dialogue until violence has ended, the… Continue reading
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Strong Russia Of Strategic Importance To China
Putin’s victory is a positive factor for the stability of China’s northern border and its global strategic environment. As China’s competition with the US intensifies, this becomes a valuable asset. China’s growing influence will also in turn provide support for Russia’s path ahead. Continue reading
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“We Are Drowning” On A Road To Nowhere: New War on the Horizon By Danny Schechter
Oil prices are rocketing. Iranian warships are moving into the Mediterranean to shadow the US warships already there. Propaganda news is growing with rumors of Al Qaeda links with Iran, and, then, less speculative news about real links between the terror groups and the armed opposition in Syria. Continue reading
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Blindness On The Road To Damascus By Fiona Hill
As the calls for President Assad to step down get louder, including from Australia, evidence on the ground suggests that Syrians want elections, not international intervention, writes Fiona Hill Continue reading
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Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us By Robert Scheer
Four decades ago Richard Nixon, a once famously hawkish Republican president, cut a deal with the Communist overlords of China to reshape the world. The result was a transformation of the global economy in ways that we are only now, with the sharp critiques of Apple’s China operation, beginning to fully comprehend. Continue reading
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Syria’s ‘Arab Spring’: failed or hijacked? By Fiona Hill
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is ‘disgusted’ at the stance taken by Russia and China against foreign military intervention in Syria. But clearly ‘Madame Clinton’, as many Syrians enjoy calling her, has not made time to read the report by the Head of the Arab League (AL) Observer Mission that was deployed throughout Syria’s… Continue reading
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Stop Murdoch’s BBC robbery
The BBC is being forced to hand over tens of millions of pounds every year to line Rupert Murdoch’s pockets. Murdoch’s cronies in government are determined to save this scheme — but together we can stop this outrage. Continue reading
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UK Parliament: Phone Hack Report Published / Welfare Reform Bill: So far
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Iran Newslinks 25-28 December 2011
28 December 2011 — williambowles.info 28 December 2011 Iran signs fuel deal with Afghanistan: Iran to export oil to Afghanistan GlobalResearch.ca Today at 13:04 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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WHAT IF GORBACHEV HAD WON TWENTY YEARS AGO? By Gaither Stewart
I have presented here excerpts from some of my own articles written during the Gorbachev perestroika period, plus notes and reflections concerning Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Chief of State of the USSR, and his role in the history of Socialism. Continue reading
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“I Demand to Know What You’re Demanding!” Some Remarks on Programme at OccupyLSX By Dan Hind
There is something very striking about the occupation in the City of London. From the outset the ordinary dynamics of protest appeared to have been suspended. The form was different, for a start. This wasn’t a march from A to B, with its accompanying sense of an ending. But more than that, the occupiers weren’t… Continue reading
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Media Reform in Britain By Dan Hind
We are here because we know that there is something profoundly wrong in the communications sector. It has been obvious for a long time that much of the media are incapable of describing the world when doing so would disrupt the interests of powerful institutions and individuals. Continue reading
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Media: The Leveson Inquiry: Should We Care? By Des Freedman
The aftermath of the phone hacking scandal and the establishment of the Leveson Inquiry, ‘is a hugely significant moment both for the British media and for British democracy’ and that ‘the spell of media power is facing its most serious challenge to date’. Given that official inquiries rarely generate genuinely radical proposals and we have… Continue reading
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Interrogating Contemporary News: Asking the Right Questions By Natalie Fenton
The Leveson inquiry has been launched to investigate phone hacking and the culture, practices and ethics of the press; there is a Lords Select Committee on the future of investigative journalism; a joint Select Committee on privacy and injunctions; all of which will feed into a Communications Review leading up to the New Communications Act… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio 14 September 2011: Fauntroy's Libya Massacres Story: No Time for Teasing
Rev. Walter Fauntroy has so far failed to follow up on his abbreviated tale of witnessing European special forces troops on an orgy of massacres and beheadings in Libya. The former DC congressional delegate’s story loses credibility with each day that he withholds further information. Continue reading
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Syria: Marches in Most Governorates to Support Reforms, Reject Misleading Media and Foreign'Intervention
Popular activities continued in the Syrian governorates to express support for the reform program under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad, rejection of misleading media channels and any foreign intervention in the Syrian internal affairs. Continue reading
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