27 January 2016 — Media Lens
In a revealing tweet last October, BBC diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall, commented acerbically on a press conference given by Russian president Vladimir Putin:
‘… And he can’t resist bragging about his own experience going up in fighter jet’
We thought aloud on Twitter that we couldn’t recall any BBC journalist accusing Obama of ‘bragging’ about anything.
24 January 2016 — The Real News Network
Having gone far beyond an internal political struggle, the war is marked by a complex array of forces that the U.S. Empire hopes to command. Abby Martin interviews Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of Arab Spring, Libyan Winter.
25 January 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
Statewatch: Refugee crisis in the Med and inside the EU: 25 January 2016 (02/16)
See Contents list below or Access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/e-mail-refugees-25-1-16.pdf
See: Observatory: EU refugee crisis – a humanitarian emergency
See also regularly updated: European Commission: “State of Play”: Refugee crisis: Statistics: Sept 2015 ongoing
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25 January 2016 — Coldtype
February 2016 – Special Issue – is now on line
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26 January 2016 — Andrew Gavin Marshall
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall
One is Mexican, described by the Financial Times for his “Wall Street-sized reputation for financial wizardry”; the other is Indian hailed by India’s Economic Times as “the Poster Boy of Banking” whose “chiselled features are as sharp as his brain.” Meet Agustin Carstens and Raghuram Rajan. As the world’s economic elite gathers this week to meet in Davos, they are a perfect example of what has been called the “Davos class” – what Samuel Huntingdon described as a class who “see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations.”
25 January 2016 — Newpower
The United Nations has said Saudi Arabia is disproportionately killing civilians in its military operation in Yemen
by Jon Stone
British arms companies have cashed-in on Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen by ramping up arms sales to the country’s autocratic government by over a hundred times, new figures show.
24 January 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
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24 January 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
Checking out my neighborhood in New York City, before the wanker governor choked in the face of a few inches of snow and ordered the MTA to shutdown; before the wuss mayor panicked and ordered private citizens in their private vehicles to get off the public streets— can you imagine that? A government bureaucrat, worse, a politician, worse, two politicians, ordering private citizens to keep their private vehicles off the public streets…remember SDS? “The streets belong to the people!,” Mr. Scaredy-Cat Mayor. You can’t take away our large clip assault rifles, so now you’re going after our SUVs? Our Hummers? Our four-wheel drive steel belt radial studded snow tire gun-racked ram-tough pick-ups?…
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23 January 2016 — The Wolf Report:Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
From the Financial Times, Tuesday 19 January:
Iran sanctions lifted, 500,000 barrel/day increase in production planned. Pre-sanctions production 2011 at 2.5 million barrels/day; 2015 at 1.1 million barrels/day.
“If Iran does not increase its oil production, neighbouring countries may increase their production by the next 6 months or one year and take Iran’s share,” Rokneddin Javadi, Iran National Oil Company.
22 January 2016 — Coldtype
Download and read Nic Oatridge‘s 20-page photo essay of the year-long strike that began on January 24, 1986, at www.coldtype.net/Assets/pdfs/Wapping1.pdf
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21 January 2016 — Colin Todhunter
21 January 2016 — National Security Archive
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 539
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Posted – January 20, 2016
For more information contact: The National Security Archive 202/944-7000, nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, January 20, 2016 — U.S. military activities in cyberspace have been surprisingly widespread over the years, occurring mainly out of the public eye. Given the sensitivity of many of their operations, this is understandable to a point, but as the number of reported and unreported attacks on military and civilian infrastructure increases – along with the stakes – there is a corresponding public interest in how the Pentagon (and the U.S. government in general) has responded in the past and is preparing for future eventualities. Today, the National Security Archive is posting 27 documents that help illuminate various aspects of U.S. military operations in cyberspace. These materials are part of a unique and expanding educational resource of previously classified or difficult-to-obtain documentation the Archive is collecting and cataloguing on the critical issue of cybersecurity.
21 January 2016 — Black Agenda Report
They drowned New Orleans. Now they have poisoned Flint, Michigan. The corporate campaign to ethnically cleanse U.S. cities knows no bounds. Michigan’s emergency financial manager law is “part of Wall Street’s tool kit to starve, bulldoze, redline, over-price, oppressively police, and even poison Black people out of the urban centers.”
18 January 2016 — Statewatch
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