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Iraq Nation Destroyed, Oil Riches Confiscated. Surviving Iraqi Population Impoverished By Asad Ismi
Capitalism has inflicted war on most of humanity for centuries to acquire the world’s resources and markets. The establishment of capitalism as a global economic system by European imperialists has killed more than a billion people, most of them in the Global South. Continue reading
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Mapping Africa By T. Mayheart Dardar
In February the World Bank announced an ambitious plan to initiate a $1 billion fund to finance an effort to map the mineral resources of the African continent. Their plan is to use advanced satellite and surveillance technology to, in the words of a World Bank senior manager, “identify the areas with more profitability.” Continue reading
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As War Lingers in Mali, Western Powers Target its Natural Resources By Timothy Alexander Guzman
France’s military incursion with Western support was described as a “humanitarian intervention” which resulted in a race for Mali’s natural resources. That was the plan after all. New drilling contracts have just been established after Mali’s civil war was contained by the French military with the backing of the United Kingdom and the United States… Continue reading
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Brand new OurNHS guide to NHS campaigning and resources
10 December 2013 — Our NHS A brand new guide to NHS campaigning and resources from OurNHS’s own archives and across the web. Continue reading
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Resources – Get information on what’s happening to your local NHS
10 December 2013 — Our NHS What to ask and how to ask it. Part of the OurNHS Resource Guide. Continue reading
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Extractive World Order: Plundering Planet Earth, Seizing Resources and Erasing Cultures By Anonymous
Plundering the world’s natural resources and setting up proxy points of guaranteed distribution back to the Motherland is the lead stratagem behind an Imperialist-capitalist agenda that for centuries held their own class as chief inhabitants of the planet. Foreign and domestic policy today is almost entirely dictated by the interests of a few, a ruling… Continue reading
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Mythbuster: Health warning By Jacky Davis
By repackaging privatisation as ‘reform’, the government has tried to sell voters the idea of dismantling the health service. Jacky Davis exposes the main marketing myths behind the NHS giveaway Continue reading
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Even the World Bank Understands Palestine is being disappeared By Jonathan Cook
Two recent images encapsulate the message behind the dry statistics of last week’s report by the World Bank on the state of the Palestinian economy. Continue reading
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China – Avoid the West’s Debt Overhead: A Land Tax is needed to hold down Housing Prices By Michael Hudson
How can China avoid the “Western financial disease” – a real estate bubble followed by defaults and foreclosures? The U.S. and European economies originally sought to avoid this fate by taxing the location’s site value. A rent tax was the focus of Progressive Era reforms. Continue reading
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HLLN: US to re-write Haiti Constitution, again with change in mining laws | Using cholera pain to stealthy privatized all sources of Haiti water
21 June 2013 — HLLN Recommended HLLN Links: (in English) 2009: Ezili Dantò with Chris Scott- CKUT Interview on Haiti Riches http://bit.ly/r6Iei Continue reading
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Monsanto Refuses to Testify on Genetically Modified Crops in Puerto Rico By Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
Monsanto has refused to testify at a major government hearing in Puerto Rico about local testing and sale of genetically modified seeds. Critics say that crops from these seeds harm the environment and can cause serious human health problems. Continue reading
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Interview: Pentagon Plans to Penetrate Africa
The U.S. is preparing “to militarily penetrate the African continent” by building up its military resources within the Mediterranean Sea, says Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO organization. Continue reading
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Christian village breathes easier as Syrian army advances By Sammy Ketz
The advance of regime troops on the rebel stronghold of Qusair in central Syria has come as a relief for at least one village, mostly Christian, nestled on the shores of Lake Quttina. Continue reading
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New John Pilger film, Utopia, to be broadcast on ITV and released worldwide
Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia’s “premier tourist destination”. This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked for me Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil’s islands; what makes Rottnest different, indeed what makes Australia different, is a silence and denial on an epic scale. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 