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SDG7: The Impossible Energy Transformation
The alleged purpose of the United Nation’s (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) is to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.” In keeping with Agenda 2030, the target date to achieve this goal is, as you might expect, 2030. Continue reading
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‘No Farms, No Food:’ Dutch farmers confront billionaire ‘green’ elite’s food system reset plan
Dutch farmers’ protests offer a preview of the resistance to come as transnational “green” billionaires advance a “reset” of the global food system. The elite agenda threatens to deepen an international cost of living crisis and spark unrest well beyond The Netherlands. Continue reading
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China and Russia declare ‘new era’ of multipolarity, challenging US interventionism
After meeting in Beijing, China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin released a joint statement clarifying the ideological divisions of the new cold war: Eurasian calls for multipolarity, cooperation, sovereignty, and “redistribution of power in the world” against US unipolar hegemony and interventionism. Continue reading
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Remembering Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè, Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, Haiti freedom fighters
This (July 4, 2012) re-post is dedicated to all the Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè, the most hunted Black man in Haiti stood up against the US occupation behind UN mercenary guns in 2004 for 17-months until he was assassinated by UN multinational guns on July 6, 2005. HLLN honors the life of the Haiti hero for… Continue reading
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The Syria Peace Talks: When the “International Community” Supports Terrorism By Dr. Ismail Salami
The negotiations started on Wednesday in an ambience charged with vitriol and spite. While Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem was trying to clarify the real situation in Syria and give a “Syrian version of facts,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon interrupted him and tried to deny him the chance to continue with his speech. Continue reading
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Dominican-Haitian Tensions: Wag the Dog or Prelude to Genocide? By Dady Chery
A decision that strips citizenship from over 200,000 Black Dominicans was passed by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court on September 23, 2013. This highly flawed ruling designates at least four generations of DR-born individuals who descended from migrant Haitian laborers between 1929 and 2007, as being the offsprings of transients and therefore unqualified for citizenship. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #122 By William Blum: NSA / The United Nations vote on the Cuba embargo – 22 years in a row / Let’s not repeat the Barack fuckup with Hillary
7 November 2013 — The Anti-Empire Report National Security Agency – The only part of the government that really listens to what you have to say The New York Times (November 2) ran a long article based on NSA documents released by Edward Snowden. One of the lines that most caught my attention concerned “Sigint” – Continue reading
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The spread of social blindness: migrants & the immigration Bill By Dexter Dias
The vans have stopped rolling, the posters have been taken down, the police have been forced to apologise. But something of importance has been revealed. For this group of cultural signals are wind chimes. Chimes that have been set in motion by the torrent of rhetoric swirling around the Immigration Bill, which received its Second… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 November 2013
5 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Attack, Occupy, Home In Ibrahimi Mosque YardIMEMC – Hebron – Tuesday November 5, 2013, the Radio Bethlehem 2000 has reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers occupied a Palestinian home in the yard of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Continue reading
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Amnesty Intl. Tries to Explains Why It Won’t Oppose All Drone Murders By David Swanson
Shah [of Amnesty Intl] explained that AI cannot oppose all drone strikes in an illegal war, because Amnesty International has never opposed a war, because doing so would make it look biased, and A.I. wants to appear to be an unbiased enforcer of the law. But, of course, an illegal war is a violation of… Continue reading
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Turkey seizes massive chemical haul at Syrian border – army
Turkish authorities have seized a large quantity of chemicals from a convoy trying to illegally enter the country from Syria, which “could be transformed into weapons”, the army said Sunday. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 27 October – 2 November 2013
2 November 2013 — — Strategic Culture Foundation Who is the USA in Debt to? (II) 02.11.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV …Switzerland, Belgium, Great Britain, Luxembourg and Ireland each have a bundle of securities amounting to more than USD 100 billion, and each of them has external debt that far exceeds their GDP… It is one of Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 23 October 2013: Palestinians Entitled to Defend Themselves
23 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Child Injured By Settlers In NablusIMEMC – Palestinian sources have reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, late on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian child after breaking into her family s home, in Burin village, south of the northern west Bank City Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 23 October 2013: Drone Victims Recount Horror of Follow-Up Strikes Launched Against People Rescuing Wounded
23 October 2013 — Information Clearing House US is Fighting in Yemen’s Civil War By Ryan Goodman The president is waging a secret war in Yemen, and it’s time for him to come clean. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36620.htm Continue reading
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Victims of Haiti cholera epidemic sue the United Nations By John Marion
On October 9, a lawsuit was filed against the United Nations in the US federal court for the southern district of New York by lawyers from the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and a Miami law firm. The suit, brought on behalf of the families of five victims… Continue reading
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New Kind of War Is Being Legalized By David Swanson
There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as a declaration that, in fact, drone strikes violate… Continue reading
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What Comes Next: A secular democratic state in historic Palestine – a promising land Omar Barghouti
The ongoing, tumultuous popular upheavals in the Arab world are ushering in a new phase that may break the rusty but still formidable imperial and neoliberal fetters that have consciously, systemically, and structurally inhibited human development in the entire Arab region. In addition to its anticipated emancipatory impact on peoples across this region, this process… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 18 October 2013: Exposed: Bin Laden Killing Hoax By Pakistan TV
18 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Pakistan TV Exposes bin Laden Killing Hoax By Paul Craig Roberts This interview of an eyewitness to the entire event is powerful evidence that the Obama regime’s story of the killing of Osama bin Laden and his burial at sea is a hoax and a lie. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36573.htm Continue reading
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Video: Nuclear Danger: World Action Now on Fukushima By grtv
Journalist, author, activist and historian Harvey Wasserman has been reporting on, and participating in, the nuclear free movement for decades. In that time, by his judgment, only one other event matches the danger to the world posed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. That event is the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Continue reading
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Obscuring the Details: A Panoramic Look at America’s Case Against Syria By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The US federal government and the various agencies, media organizations, individuals, foreign governments, non-governmental organizations, lobbies, forces, and other entities that are tied to it have done everything in their power to obscure the details involving the chemical attacks that took place in Syria on August 21, 2013. Continue reading