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Big $$ and Media Madness — It’s a Global War Against Activism, Grassroots Movements, Civil Society By Paul Haeder
So, in Washington, the defeat of I-522, the genetically modified organism, i.e. food, labeling initiative has been aided and abetted by, well, they call it a “war in the media” with the armies of the corporations launching frontal, rear, aerial, underground, cyber and Madison Avenue assaults. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 November 2013
4 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterEight Palestinians Kidnapped, Two Injured, In West BankIMEMC – [Monday At Dawn November 4, 2013] Israeli soldiers invaded different parts of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped at least eight Palestinians. Two Palestinians were shot and injured by army fire near Nablus. … Continue reading
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Where do broken ANC hearts go? By By Ranjeni Munusamy
For people who have been in the ANC from during the liberation struggle, it is no easy choice to leave the organisation, no matter how disappointed and angry they get with it. But as the 2014 election approaches, there might be a whole batch of ANC leaders, members and supporters wondering what they will do… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 20 October 2013: Israel heightens campaign to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque and build alleged Temple
20 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael Refuses Entry Of 120 Trucks Into GazaIMEMC – Sunday October 20, 2013, the Israeli Authorities refused to allow 120 trucks, loaded with construction material, into the Gaza Strip as they tried to cross through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) terminal between Gaza and Israel. … Continue reading
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South Africa: Sectarian shame of the SACP By Terry Bell
Shortly after the column below was written and blogged, the SA Communist Party issued its statement on Marikana that reveals the deep and dangerous sectarianism of this organisation. Here, I feel, is exposed one of the roots of the problem. I include here the final paragraph of that statement as an introduction to a repeat… Continue reading
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Africa: Monsanto – the Unrepentant Repeat Offender By James N. Kariuki
The uproar in Ireland over horsemeat, the narrow defeat of Proposition 37 in California which would have made it mandatory to label all food containing GMOs – reveal that Africans must now join the rest of the world in resisting GMO foods and biotechnology, no matter how effectively packaged Continue reading
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ICH 10 July 2013: Russian Inquiry to UN: Rebels, not Army, Behind Syria Aleppo Sarin Attack
10 July 2013 — Information Clearing House NSA Blackmailing Obama? Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice Video Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how he saw spying orders for including former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35505.htm Continue reading
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Israel Threatens Russia By Stephen Lendman
Israel gives chutzpah new meaning. War on humanity defines its agenda. It’s partnered with Washington’s war on Syria. It’s heading perhaps toward greater intervention. It warned Russia about supplying Syria with sophisticated defensive anti-aircraft missiles. It said Israel will react in response. Continue reading
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South Africa: Since 1994, a massive wealth shift from already poor to the 'uber-rich' By Dale T. McKinley
Every time the annual South African season of wage negotiations is about to begin, as it is now, representatives of capital unleash a tsunami of propaganda about workers’ “high and unaffordable” wage demands. Dire warnings of destructive social unrest/conflict, high inflation rates, poor competitiveness and generalised economic devastation roll off their silver-lined tongues. Continue reading
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South Africa’s ‘sub-imperial’ seductions By Patrick Bond
Thanks are due to an odd man, the brutally frank Zambian vice-president Guy Scott who last week pronounced, “I dislike South Africa for the same reason that Latin Americans dislike the United States”. Thanks are also due to South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma for forcing a long-overdue debate, just as the World Economic Forum Africa… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 19 April 2013: Detained: Testimonies from Palestinian children imprisoned by Israel
19 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News 17 injured in clashes in Beit Ummar4/19/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Seventeen Palestinians were injured with rubber coated steel bullets in clashes in Beit Ummar village near Hebron, a local official said. A spokesman of the popular committee against the wall and settlements told Ma’an that the injured Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 April 2013: Israeli occupation: You have to see it to believe it
16 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Official: 3 men attacked by settlers near Nablus4/16/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Three men were injured late Monday after being attacked by settlers near Nablus, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that a group of settlers from Homesh attacked Continue reading
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Venezuelan Government Foils Destabilisation Plans By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim
Venezuelan security forces have foiled a plot to violently destabilise the country, Vice-president Jorge Arreaza announced this afternoon…The plot involved Salvadorian mercenaries who “wanted, but could not, intervene to disrupt the peace of the republic at the last minute”. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 625: THE LEGACIES OF HUGO CHAVEZ, CHRIS HANI AND MARTIN LUTHER KING
11 April 2013 — Pambazuka NewsThe authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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BRICS from Below!
In Durban, South Africa, five heads of state meet on March 26-27, to assure the rest of Africa that their countries’ corporations are better investors in infrastructure, mining, oil and agriculture than the traditional European and US multinationals. The Brazil- Russia-India-China-SA (BRICS) summit will also include 16 heads of state from Africa, including some notorious… Continue reading
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Israel Strikes Syria: First Act of «Endgame»? By Dmitry MININ
According to initial reports, the Israeli Air Force delivered air strikes on January 30 at night, the target was a defense chemical facility situated in the vicinity of Damascus. The interpretation was rapidly picked up by Syrian opposition. It made easier to explain why the historic enemy was on its side. Continue reading
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When 'Confirmed' Means 'An Official Told Me So' By Peter Hart
On January 30, reports emerged that Israel had carried out an airstrike on Syrian targets near Damascus. Much of the initial reporting took Israel’s claims at face value, though it appeared impossible to confirm that the story was true. A reader might conclude, based on some of the more credulous accounts of this strike, that… Continue reading
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ICH 3 February 2013: Americans Are Living in an Orwellian State
3 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Turkish FM Slams Assad for not Responding to Israeli Strike By Yoel Goldman Ahmet Davutoglu says his government will not stand by as Israel attacks a Muslim country. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33824.htm Continue reading
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