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Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research 28 April 2016 Good to see that history, if it does not possess historical cunning, as Hegel rather foolishly observed, has, at the very least, some humour. US President Barack Obama has been busy making it his business to make sure that Britain remains in the European Union after the referendum elections of June. The urging has all the meaning of a Wall Street plea. If Britain leaves, there will be instability. A world of chaos will ensue. Obama in imperial mode has been some sight. Armed with words of condescension, he has treated Britons in a fashion they are rarely used to: being lectured as subjects in need of a good intellectual thrashing. For years, the nostalgic establishment Briton has become the supposedly sagacious backer of US power in various parts of the planet. The US has been assured that it can count on vassal insurance when Washington’s more bizarre imperial failures come to light. The mood from Obama on F...

Prof. John McMurtry Global Research 18 April 2016 Professor John McMurtry Ecological and social science research increasingly demonstrate that ‘globalization’ is not what it seems. It does not produce more prosperity and reduce poverty for the world, but just the opposite. Ever more powerful transnational corporate money sequences multiply through organic, social and ecological life hosts looting and polluting them.    But what can the social alternative be? Philosophers across schools reject any ultimate common value, and no political party has any unifying solution. Meanwhile a Hobbesian imperative rules – that all must compete harder in this end-game to survive. The cumulative consequence is that common life capital bases are increasingly depredated and stripped to further enrich the corporate rich. Business statistics themselves show that the poorer half of the world has lost over 40% of its wealth in the last five years , while less than one...

Mark Taliano Global Research 27 April 2016 Well-documented facts pertaining to the 9/11 wars, all supported by sustainable evidence, have barely made inroads into the collective consciousness of Western media consumers. The War on Syria is no exception.  Despite the presence of five years of sustainable evidence that contradicts the Western narratives, people still believe the “official” lies. The consensus of ignorance is sustained by what Michel Chossudovsky describes as an “American Inquisition”. Beneath the protection of this psychological operation, the engineered enemy is Islam, and the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) has become a brand to disguise imperial wars of aggression as “humanitarian”. Thus, huge sums of public monies are diverted from worthwhile, domestic projects such as healthcare schools and roads, to support a criminal Project for a New American Century (PNAC) that is globalizing death, poverty, and destruction as the U.S led empire...

Palestinian BDS National Committee Palestinian BDS National COmmittee 24 April 2016 Read our recent statement Israel’s legal warfare on BDS fosters repression and McCarthyism across the world  here . Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights defenders are unnerved, but certainly undeterred, by the thinly-veiled threat of physically harming leading BDS activists recently made by Israeli Minister of Intelligence  Yisrael Katz . Katz in his statements, made during an anti-BDS conference organized by a right-wing Israeli daily on 28 March 2016, plays on the official Israeli military term for assassination, “targeted thwarting,” and adds “civil” to it. But nothing “civil” can be expected given the prevalence in Israeli society of almost unprecedented racial and violent incitement against the indigenous Palestinians and the popular Israeli cheering of  extrajudicial killings . Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs and anti-BDS czar, ...

Hello again. Hope you enjoyed the ANZAC Day Long Weekend. It is time for the recommended readings for this week. And here hoping that this week's Ne News is better than the problems that the station had last Friday (sorry about the lack of music and having to put up with talk for almost 1 hour). Firstly, while the world has been focused on the apology by a celebrity couple, there has been a movement building in the United States against money in politics (http://www.globalresearch.ca/thousands-of-enraged-americans-storm-washington-media-yawns/5521737). It is worth noting that in many parts of the world, only the rich can get involved in politics, and each election cycle in the United States can cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and Australia is about to enter an election campaign for a double dissolution election on Saturday 2 July, and like in the United States, the one that spends the most money will win the election. Most of the politicians in Australia come from the top ...

Peter Koenig Global Research 24 April 2016 This incisive article first published by Global Research in December 2014 is of utmost relevance to the ongoing process of US-EU negotiation of the TTIP Author’s Introduction and Update  President Obama will be visiting Germany and Mme. Merkel tomorrow (24 – 25 April) for the Hannover Industrial Messe, the world’s largest Industrial fair, lobbying, in a last ditch convincing effort, Madame Merkel, of the good of the TTIP – that must be signed as soon as possible – maybe even during his upcoming trip to Europe. Everything around the infamous and nefarious TTIP is possible, as it all happens in secret and behind closed doors.  One of the most important items on Obama’s check list before he leaves office is obtaining the signatures of the ‘free trade agreements ’ – the TPP – Transpacific Partnership with 11 Asian and Pacific countries, and the TTIP – Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partne...

Israel Shahak Association of Arab-American University Graduates Inc. 3 March 2013 EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was first published on Global Research on 3 March 2013 and has been published on many websites since. This highlights the true aims of Israel, and that is to dominate the Middle East, and the Israelis are using Daesh (also known as Islamic State, which is neither Islamic nor a State hence the fact that Ne News uses Daesh) to eliminate Iraq and Syria. Israel (and their allies, including the United States and the European Union, Turkey and Saudi Arabia among others) is using Daesh to destroy Syria and Iraq and create a Greater Israel in their place. What Israel is doing in the Middle East, as well as its aim for a Greater Israel, is no different to the methods used by the Nazis to create a Greater Germany during World War II. The Zionist Plan for the Middle East   Translated and edited by Israel Shahak The Israel of Theodore Herzl (1904) and of Rabbi Fischmann (1...