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Well, this is it folks. SWOT VAC Week, and a lot of you will be concentrating on the exams and essays that are due in the examination period (NOTE: University rules states that no assessments can be due this week). This week is the last general edition of Ne News before the themed episodes begins. Here is the programme for the themed episodes: 2016/06/10: US Presidential Elections 2016/06/17: Brexit and the Future of the European Union Pt. 1 2016/06/24: Brexit and the Future of the European Union Pt. 2* 2016/07/01: The Future of International Relations (2016-3016) * Note that with this edition, coverage of the Brexit will start on a dedicated Twitter account from 9:00am AEST with coverage on the radio from 1:00pm AEST. And now, recommended readings: The former Mayor of London Boris Johnson became the latest to compare the aims of the European Union to that of Hitler and the Nazis (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/News/2016/May.html#comment0272). As mentioned last week on the show...

Eric Zuesse Global Research 25 May 2016 Among Americans who lean toward the Democratic Party, trust in their nation’s elections plunged from 71% on 10-13 January 2008, down to 31% on 15-18 December 2011, and has since edged slightly down to 28% on 13-15 May 2016. Among Americans who lean toward the Republican Party, trust in their nation’s elections plunged from 46% on 15-16 January 2016, down to 30% on 16-17 March 2016, and is now 29% on 13-15 May 2016. This is shown in a Gallup news report on May 23rd, “Sanders’ Backers Most Likely to Say Election Process Faulty” , and the question that the respondents there were answering was: “Does the way the presidential campaign is being conducted make you feel as though the election process is working as it should, or not?” Their recent poll showed that the electoral process is now trusted by 39% of Hillary Clinton supporters, 35% of Donald Trump supporters, 23% of Republicans who supported a different Republican tha...

Anthony Bellchambers Global Research 25 May 2016 The ability of Israel to continue its illegal settlement on Palestinian land is wholly dependent on profits from its bilateral trade with the EU which is the single most important factor that fuels the illegal occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights by the Right-­wing Likud government. Without the extraordinary agreement that allows a non-European state (in the Middle East) to freely exploit the European Single Market, the policy of expropriating Palestinian land would not be possible and the Israeli government would be forced to sue for peace. It has been long  established that the Israel lobby exerts considerable influence over the European Parliament’s decisions to not only offer Israel free access to the single market but also to make research grants of billions of euros to the Israeli defence industries that currently export arms to regimes worldwide. There are man...

Well, it is the final week of Semester 1, but Ne News will be on during SWOT VAC and Exams period. So for the last time this semester (and before the SWOT VAC and Exams period editions begin), here is this week's recommended readings. Firstly, the United States is exceptional. And that because the people of the United States (and the majority in the West) are scared, and this is due to constant propaganda designed to scare people (http://www.4thmedia.org/2016/05/america-the-most-frightened-nation-on-earth/; http://www.globalresearch.ca/americans-a-conquered-people-the-new-serfs-russia-and-china-stand-between-washington-and-washingtons-goal-of-hegemony-over-the-entire-world/5526755), and this fear is encouraged by politician and the media. It is worth noting that if people are scared, then they are easier to manipulate, and therefore easier to control. Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, the United States has manufactured enemies to control the people through the fear ...

Mahboob A. Khawaja Global Research 23 May 2016 The Earth and Space are wired with secrecy, new and unthinkable weapons of mass destruction and global warming is a clicking time bomb for the future. The most hated and feared leaders do not have the intellectual and political capacity to solve nay problems which they have created. Humanity looks to men of intellect, scholars of integrity for solutions, certainly not to the warmongers destroying life and habitats throughout the globe. Rationality asserts that the future belongs to the global citizenry not to the few sadistic warlords, and that an informed and politically mature and active global citizenry must have the opportunity to exercise its rights, choice and freedom to develop the futuristic global institutions and governance by integrating the moral and spiritual values of man, humanity and the living Universe as the rational forces of global conscience for a sustainable future. Being one Humanity ...

Eric Zuesse Strategic Culture Foundation 23 May 2016 How can it be that in virtually all of the Presidential-candidate head-to-head Democratic versus Republican polling that was done of both Democratic and Republican candidates during the primaries, the preferred Democratic candidate against any one of the Republican candidates was Bernie Sanders, but he almost certainly  won’t be that Party’s nominee  (and there’s more on that  here ); and the preferred Republican candidate against either one of the Democratic candidates was John Kasich, but he certainly won’t be the Republican nominee? Sanders and Kasich also scored the highest in his respective Party for net favorability rating, but almost certainly neither candidate will even be on the ballot for voters on November 8th. What kind of ‘democracy’ is this? How can it be that in the UK, the ‘Labour’ Prime Minister Tony Blair served as George W Bush’s lap-dog on the invasion of Iraq in...

Welcome to the penultimate week of Semester 1. With assignments due and the exams coming up, tune into Ne News this Friday from 1:00 AEST on Radio Fodder. It is that time of week again, as the recommended readings come in. While there is nothing on the Powerball Brawl that has been covered by an alleged "current affairs" programme, Ne News brings you the real news This week on Ne News , the American Empire and how the United States has been sabotaging democracy throughout the world while the Americans claim to support democracy; and how the American Empire will eventually collapse, just like all empires has done in the past (http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-legacy-will-be-its-downfall-empire-always-comes-home/5523844; http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-imperial-empire-the-sun-never-sets-but-the-mote-remains-in-the-emperors-eye/5525635). Throughout history, and in particular during the Cold War, the United States of America overthrew democratically elected governmen...

Saed Bannoura IMEMC 15 May 2016 This is a special statistical bulletin by the  Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics  (PCBS) on the 68thAnniversary of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948. The number of Palestinians worldwide has multiplied about nine-fold — Israel Controls More than 85% of the Land of Historical Palestine The Nakba: Ethnic cleansing and displacement of the population Nakba in literary terms means a natural catastrophe such as an earthquake, volcano, or hurricane. However, the Nakba in Palestine describes a process of ethnic cleansing in which an unarmed nation was destroyed and its population displaced to be replaced systematically by another nation. Unlike a natural catastrophe, the Palestinian Nakba was the result of a man-made military plan with the consent of other states, leading to a major tragedy for the Palestinian people. The subsequent occupation of the remaining land of Palestine in 1967 resulted in an additional tragedy...

Tony Cartalucci New Eastern Outlook 15 May 2016 Myanmar’s “de facto leader” Aung San Suu Kyi recently warned the United States to not refer to the Rohingya ethnic minority as “Rohingya,” in an attempt to deny them the dignity and human rights she and her party posed as renowned defenders of. For those critically examining and long-following political developments in Myanmar and their wider geopolitical implications for Southeast Asia, Asia, and the world, Aung San Suu Kyi and her “National League for Democracy” (NLD) political front, along with a vast array of Western-funded NGOs’ turning against Myanmar’s Rohingya population after predicating their ascent into power upon “human rights” and “democracy” is no surprise. For those receiving their news from establishment media networks in the US and Europe, Suu Kyi refusing to recognize the Rohingya, many of whom have lived in Myanmar for generations, may seem puzzling, even disappointing, or more disturbin...

Nasouh Nazzal Gulf News 12 May 2016 To mark so-called ‘Independence Day’, Palestinian citizens forced to study the book that paints them as inferior to Jews Ramallah: An Israeli civics textbook under the theme of ‘Being a Citizen in Israel’, launched to mark the regime’s commemoration of the 68th anniversary of its establishment, has been slammed for its negative and dismissive attitude towards the native Palestinian citizens. After the Israeli Education Ministry officially launched the textbook as part of the curriculum taught in Israeli schools, including those attended by Palestinian citizens, Palestinians reacted by condemning the move. Israel on Thursday marks the 68th anniversary of its 1948 founding in Palestine, a celebration it refers to as its “Independence Day”. Palestinian citizens of Israel are those minority natives who were not forced off their land by invading Zionist forces at the time. They lived under military rule for almost two d...

Support for the European Union is falling across the member states in the lead up to the Brexit, with the Dr. Rath Health Foundation reporting that nearly half of all European voters wanting their own EU referendum. In a survey of 6 000 people from eight European countries, 45 per cent wanted referendums in their countries on whether their countries should remain part of the dictatorial construct with 48 per cent of Italians, 41 per cent of people in France and 39 per cent of people in Sweden stating that they would vote to leave the European Union if given a choice (http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/News/2016/May.html#comment0255). There is a real possibility that the European Union will collapse by Christmas this year due to the growing opposition to the European Union in Europe, as well as other superstates that are currently being created in other parts of the world, as well as those being proposed such as the North American Union. Watch this space. Note: There will be cove...

Peter Koenig Global Research 11 May 2016 Imagine – the European Union were to collapse tomorrow – or any day soon for that matter. Europeans would dance in the streets. The EU has become a sheer pothole of fear and terror: Economic sanctions – punishment, mounting militarization, the abolition of civil rights for most Europeans. A group of unelected technocrats, representing 28 countries, many of them unfit to serve in their own countries’ political system, but connected well enough to get a plum job in Brussels – are deciding the future of Europe. In small groups and often in secret chambers they decide the future of Europe. Take the TTIP – under pressure from their masters in Washington, behind closed doors under utmost secrecy – and most likely against their own personal good – a small group of European Commission (EC) delegates without scruples, without any respect for their co-citizens, without consideration for their children, grand-children and their c...