Intifada Palestine | 26 July 2015 Jews around the world, especially younger ones, feel increasingly embarrassed and endangered by Israel and its actions, especially after last summer’s massacre in Gaza. This is a key conclusion from a new report by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), a think tank supported by Israel lobby groups that…
Robert Parry | 24 July 2015 Israel – in its desperation to kill the Iran nuclear deal – is exposing its often-denied influence over the U.S. political/media process. Israeli officials are even using football analogies to rally U.S. lawmakers while emptying the bench of friendly “experts” to mount a goal-line stand, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry…
Global Research | July 27, 2015 During their election campaign, the Syriza movement promised the people of Greece an end to the inhumane politics of austerity and the dictatorship of the Troika. After being elected in January, Prime Minister Tsipras and his Finance Minister Varoufakis negotiated with the EU commission, the ECB and the IMF for…
NZ Herald | 28 July 2015 Pressure to get sign off, as process breeds suspicion Negotiators from the US, Japan, New Zealand and nine other Pacific Rim countries could put the finishing touches on the most ambitious trade and investment deal in decades when they meet this week in Hawaii. But with the details of…
FT | 26 July 2015 High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. Pearson is in negotiations to sell its 50 per cent stake in the Economist Group, publisher of the Economist magazine, to other shareholders in the group including…
AFP | July 26, 2015 Washington (AFP) – Higher costs for needed generic drugs. Longer copyright protections than the global standard. Foreign investors empowered to overrule governments. A more tightly-regulated Internet. Those are just some of the potential pitfalls from any deal that could emerge from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 12-country free-trade and investment pact…
Scoop | 11 July 2015 New Zealand may not have warmed at all in the past 100 years, according to a peer-reviewed paper published in the international science journal, Environmental Modeling & Assessment. The paper, “A Reanalysis of Long-Term Surface Air Temperature Trends in New Zealand,” by New Zealand authors, Chris De Freitas, Bob Dedekind…
Exaro | 19 July 2015 Australia’s Channel 9 broadcast yesterday a special report on 60 Minutes about the ‘Westminster paedophile network’. Richard Kerr, Esther Baker, and ‘Darren’ talk to Ross Coulthart about Britain’s big scandal. Exaro helped 60 Minutes to make the half-hour, three-part film, which can be viewed below. The report, ‘Spies, Lords and…
Stuff | 22 July 2015 When your money goes into KiwiSaver it goes on a journey into the global financial system and some of the places it ends up will surprise you. Some KiwiSaver schemes invest a lot in New Zealand deposits, bonds and shares, but most have big chunks invested in overseas companies and…
F. William Engdahl | NEO | 22 July 2015 The dual summits that took place in Russia’s Ufa beginning 9 July were anything but routine. In fact it may be seen by future historians as a signal event that marked the definitive decline of the global hegemony of European civilization including North America. This is…