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‘West’s policy on Syria could ignite WWIII’ — RT
The situation in Syria is just a warm-up before a real confrontation, which will draw Russia and China into action, believes Lawrence Freeman from the Executive Intelligence Review magazine. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 2 December 2011
2 December 2011 — williambowles.info Crime and Punishment Bradley Manning’s Leaks Didn’t Actually Hurt Anybody But … Queerty It’s no blood, no foul when it comes to Bradley Manning. This week his lawyers stated that the alleged WikiLeaks culprit and confirmed Queerty reader didn’t actually cause any damage by releasing classified government documents. … http://www.queerty.com/bradley-mannings-leaks-didnt-actually-hurt-anybody-but-lets-torture-him-anyway-20111201/ Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review: Headlines of the Week 1 December 2011
1 December 2011 — Global Research Libya and “The Arab Spring”: Neoliberalism, “Regime Change” and NATO’s “Humanitarian Wars” ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER – by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – 2011-12-10 Continue reading
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Stop NATO news: November 28, 2011: U.S. Drone Strike Kills At Least 39 In Somalia
28 November 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Attack: Pakistan On The Boil Pakistan Buries Soldiers; U.S., NATO Flags, Obama Effigy Burned Pakistan To Completely Review Relations With U.S., NATO Pakistan: Several Thousand Protesters Surround U.S. Consulate In Karachi Hundreds Of NATO Containers Blocked At Crossing Points NATO Supply Line Has Been Cut Permanently: Interior Minister… Continue reading
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Global Research 17 November 2011: Week in Review: What’s Making Headlines this Week
17 November, 2011 — Global Research War Worldwide… had enough yet? – 2011-11-21 Continue reading
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Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution By John Bellamy Foster
5 November 2011 — MRZine This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review: What’s Happening in the World This Week
10 November 2011 — Global Research Bloggers, Writers, Online Activists: Time to get in on the action! – 2011-11-14 Continue reading
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Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe By John Bellamy Foster
30 October 2011 — MRZine John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by Carrie Ann Naumoff This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza),… Continue reading
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#OWS, Times Square, and the Global Labor Movement By Mark Nowak
Trade unionists I’ve spoken with around the world have related, over and again, how participating in the occupy movements have transformed their opinions. Continue reading
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Global Research: Week in Review: The Stories Making the Headlines This Week – Selected Articles
13 October 2011 — Global Research The World in Crisis: Time for responsible decision-making – 2011-10-18 Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review: What’s Happening in Your World this Week – Selected Articles
6 October 2011 — Global Research Global Crisis: Towards a World War Three Scenario Newly Released E-Book from Global Research Publishers – by Michel Chossudovsky – 2011-10-21 Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #98 By William Blum: The crime of making Americans aware of their own history
Is history getting too close for comfort for the fragile little American heart and mind? Their schools and their favorite media have done an excellent job of keeping them ignorant of what their favorite country has done to the rest of the world, but lately some discomforting points of view have managed to find their… 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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How Could the Largest Social Justice Movement in Israel’s History Manage to Ignore the Country’s Biggest Moral Disaster? By Joseph Dana
The decision to exclude the occupation from the grievances of the July 14 Tent City movement was entirely organic. The key question is why. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, August 12, 2011 – THE BERLIN WALL, 50 YEARS AGO
Fifty years ago, when leaders of the former East Germany implemented their dramatic decision to seal off East Berlin from the western part of the city, senior Kennedy administration officials publicly condemned them. Nevertheless, those same officials, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk, secretly saw the Wall as potentially contributing to the stability of East… Continue reading
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Tariq Ali on British riots: Why here and now?
Why is it that the same areas always erupt first, whatever the cause? Pure accident? Might it have something to do with race and class and institutionalised poverty and the sheer grimness of everyday life? Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 4 August 2011
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info A field commander says Libyan rebels regrouping for major new push toward Tripoli Washington Post (Sergey Ponomarev/Associated Press) – Libyan men eat food after breaking the fast on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with a portrait of Omar Mukhtar, the symbol of the anti-Gadhafi campaign… Continue reading
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How Has Murdoch Improved With Age? By Russ Baker
Here’s an old article that WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker wrote about Rupert Murdoch, the media titan whose News Corp is currently the focus of so much controversy. This ran in the Columbia Journalism Review in 1998. But it is useful for comparing the company’s (non-hacking) practices, then and now. Continue reading
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Debate between Omar Barghouti and Jonathan Freedland Why Boycott Culture?
Where basic freedoms are denied and democratic remedies blocked off, cultural boycott by world civil society is a viable and effective political strategy; indeed a moral imperative. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 