7 November 2013 —Dissident Voice
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
4 November 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Eight Palestinians Kidnapped, Two Injured, In West Bank
IMEMC – [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. …
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4 November 2013 — Daily Maverick
[This article pretty much sums up my feelings about the ANC and just as importantly, the South African Communist Party. WB] Continue reading
20 October 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Israel Refuses Entry Of 120 Trucks Into Gaza
IMEMC – 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. …
16 August 2013 — 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 of the Inside Labour column that appeared here yesterday: Continue reading
9 August 2013 — Pambazuka News
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
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
Arizona’s John McCain: an egomaniac interloper and warmongering chauvinist that has been petulantly fouling American politics for decades. The kind of politician that makes the world hell for everyone, and the inevitable offshoot of a reactionary state, media support, and brute plutocratic power.
30 May 2013 — Greanville Post
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. More on that below.
13 May 2013 — South African Civil Society Information Service
Johannesburg — If capital is to be believed, it is the worker who is the main source of our contemporary social and economic problems.
9 May 2013 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
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 summit opens in Cape Town: is Pretoria a destructive sub-imperialist power? Continue reading
19 April 2013 — VTJP
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17 injured in clashes in Beit Ummar
4/19/2013 – 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 are aged between 15 and 22, and one of them was shot….
16 April 2013 — VTJP
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Official: 3 men attacked by settlers near Nablus
4/16/2013 – 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 three men near the village of Burqa. Ala Yaish, 25, and….
12 April 2013 — Venezuela Analysis
Venezuelan security forces have foiled a plot to violently destabilise the country, Vice-president Jorge Arreaza announced this afternoon.
11 April 2013 — Pambazuka News
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3 April 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 796
By James Brophy, Robert DeMatteo, Margaret Keith and Michael Gilbertson
As part of a team of international researchers, we have produced a new epidemiological study[1] on the causes of breast cancer. This study adds considerable weight to a growing body of evidence that challenges the prevailing beliefs of the cancer establishment that has minimized the risk of breast cancer posed by occupational and environmental exposures to chemicals. Continue reading
30 March 2013 — Groundwork – University of Kwa-Zulu Natal – South Durban Community Environmental Alliance
6 February 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Speaking at the defense chiefs meeting in Munich, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak finally confirmed what the news agency had been raising ballyhoo about for the previous few days: the Israeli Air Force had launched a military operation against the legitimate government of Syria. It gave rise to speculations about a large-scale military intervention to start pretty soon. Continue reading
5 February 2013 — FAIR Blog
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.
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
24 December 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 749
The New Dark Age 