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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 612: STAKES IN HAITI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC & THE LOGICS OF IMPERIALISM
11 January 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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New Boss at the CIA: Brennan’s “Legal Framework” for Drone Killings By James Gundun
Rumored since President Barack Obama secured his second term in office, Brennan has finally received a formal nomination to replace the scandalized David Petraeus and advance his work at the CIA. Continue reading
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Exposing Five Key Media Myths about Chavez’s Health and Swearing-in By EWAN ROBERTSON AND TAMARA PEARSON
The media, often taking its line directly from Venezuela’s right-wing opposition, is exploiting a sad time for the Venezuelan people. Media Observatory journalist Mariclem Stelling, talking on public television station VTV, called it a “combination of glee, irony, and necrophilia…an attempt to remove [Chavez] from his political role”. Continue reading
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All 27 UK Foreign Affairs lawyers: Iraq war unlawful. Obama, politicians, US media: no response By Carl Herman
All the lawyers in the UK’s Foreign Affairs Department concluded the US/UK invasion of Iraq was an unlawful War of Aggression. Their expert advice is the most qualified to make that legal determination; all 27 of them were in agreement. Continue reading
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Egypt in Light of the Iranian Revolution: The Restoration of a Dictatorship? By Araz Bagban
The new constitution submitted to referendum by Mohamed Morsi, the president of Egypt elected with the support of the Freedom and Justice party, i.e. the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in addition to its properties of attacking working-class achievements as well as women’s and minorities’ rights, is preparing the legal ground for… Continue reading
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Chavez. Venezuela is on the Threshold of New Tests By Nil NIKANDROV
The issue of Chavez succession is constantly debated. Mostly the campaigns are initiated by the opposition and pro-American media, and sometimes by «moderate Chavistas» who believe in a «Bolivarian revolution without Chavez». Allegedly, his radicalism, his attraction to Marxist ideology, desire to use Soviet and Cuban experiences (literacy, free health care, education, mass housing construction),… Continue reading
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Does Hugo Chavez Keep Fooling Venezuelans? By Peter Hart
The New York Times updates readers today (12/13/12) on the health status of left-wing Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and the political implications for his country. But the paper starts out by suggesting that the people who keep electing him must have some kind of problem. Continue reading
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US seeks ‘world supremacy’ through advanced weapons – Russian Security Chief
Nikolay Patrushev, commenting on how atomic weapons play more of a political role than a military one, said the consequences of even a “limited nuclear intervention” are so catastrophic that it makes the usage of such weapons absolutely impossible. Continue reading
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Speak2Tweet: Google & Twitter Partner Up with US State Dept. to Monopolise Information Flow Out of Syria By Martin Iqbal
Amid Internet and telephone network outages in Syria, US-trained opposition activists use US-supplied satellite phones to contact Google & Twitter’s ‘Speak2Tweet‘ service. Despite these efforts, the service seems so far to be a resounding failure. Continue reading
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Western media and the Brotherhood: Secrets behind the love affair By Hani Shukrallah
Why does the Western media refuse to see the epochal resurgence of Egypt’s revolutionary spirit? Because love is blind Continue reading
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Books: Catastrophism — Left, Right, and Center by Ernesto Aguilar
One of the Left’s great challenges is to understand when the great watershed of change is upon people and seize the time. Racism, sexism, inequality, and uncertain futures have weighed heavily on the conscience of many a movement. For every great moment, hundreds of crushing defeats never to be remembered are handed down. Once in… Continue reading
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Egypt erupts in anger. Democracy is not the final word (II) By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
Without doubt, the ground reality is that Islamism does enjoy majority support among the people of Egypt and it becomes all at once highly debatable today to argue that Morsi is imposing an agenda of ‘Islamization’. Continue reading
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Leveson’s Punch and Judy show on the press masks ‘hacking’ on a scale you can barely imagine By John Pilger
In Britain, this world of subjugated news and information is concealed behind a similar façade of a “free” media, which promotes the extremisms of state corruption and war, consumerism and an impoverishment known as “austerity”. Leveson devoted his “inquiry” to the preservation of this system. Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Anonymous: “Media Instruments” Supportive of US-NATO Sponsored Regime Change? By Ryan O’Neill
Throughout early 2011, the European liberal left were in a frenzy over the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings that were sweeping across the region. The Mainstream Media supplied around the clock coverage of the mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square as we were told that the people of the Arab world were standing up to tyranny and demanding… Continue reading
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Egypt's Morsi: Biting the bullet By Eric Walberg
At last Egyptian politics is moving. President Mohamed Morsi is slowly building on his summer ‘coup’, when he stared down Egypt’s generals and put his men in the top army and defence positions, following terrorist attacks in Sinai which the army, so old and bumbling, so involved in Egyptian internal politics, failed to prevent. Continue reading
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The Death Agony of Anti-Imperialism, 2 Egypt, 1 By S. Artesian
The organization of landed property, of the landed estate, and of landed labor in Egypt was driven and determined by that which could not truly be appropriated as property—water. Water and the lack thereof, regulated, so to speak, the oscillations between scarcity and abundance. Water and the lack thereof imposed an approximate egalitarianism; a communalism… Continue reading
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Video: Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, NYC, 11.14.12
The present moment is arguably one of unprecedented confusion on the Left. The emergence of many new theoretical perspectives on Marxism, anarchism, and the left generally seem rather than signs of a newfound vitality, the intellectual reflux of its final disintegration in history. As for the politics that still bothers to describe itself as leftist… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 