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By Countercurrents.org 26 January, 2013 Countercurrents.org The second anniversary of Egypt’s uprising saw thousands of Muslim Brotherhood opponents massed on January 25, 2013 in Cairo’s Tahrir Square – the centre of the uprising against Mubarak – to rekindle the demands of a revolution they say was stolen by the Muslim …

Emirates 24/7 and Cii News Residents of a small Saudi town were jolted out of their beds this week after hearing a man screaming through the mosque loudspeaker that he was the world’s saviour and that they must repent before it is too late. Instead of going back to bed, …

Cii News | 28 January 2013 In a move being celebrated as a South African boycott-of-Israel breakthrough, Karsten Farms, a local agricultural company backed by the Industrial Development Corporation, has severed its relations with the Israeli cooperative, Hadiklaim, and has also undertaken not to enter into any future relations with …

By Rajesh Makwana 23 January, 2013 Stwr.org Campaigners have long proposed measures to reduce extreme inequality, but policymakers remain fixated on an economic model that threatens to undermine the fabric of society. When will the political elite heed the growing demands for redistribution that are being voiced in countless reports, …

See Update Below Cii News Mr. Wilfred Taylor, the principal of a high school in Kraaifontein, Cape Town, has refused to explain to Cii News why his school decided to prevent two learners from attending class because of their wearing Islamic headgear. In a curt manner Taylor said, “I would …

By F. William Engdahl Global Research, January 22, 2013 Url of this article: GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s …

Canadian socialist Roger Annis provides the backdrop to France’s new war. FRANCE, THE former slave power of West Africa, has poured into Mali with a vengeance in a military attack launched on January 11. French warplanes are bombing towns and cities across the vast swath of northern Mali, a territory …

By Ernst Wolff 22 January, 2013 WSWS.org Amid continuing offensives by French troops in Mali, the imperialist powers are making clear that the assault on Mali is part of a lasting, neo-colonial escalation of military intervention throughout Western Africa and beyond. “This is a global threat and it will require …

OPINION by Yvonne Ridley – The only thing that surprised me when I heard that the Algerian kidnappers had called for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui was that it hadn’t happened sooner. Don’t get me wrong, as a former hostage myself, there is no way I condone the actions …

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, January 17, 2013 The decision of Germany’s Bundesbank to repatriate part of its Gold Reserves held at the New York Federal Reserve bank has triggered a frenzy in the gold market. German news sources suggest that a large portion of the German gold stored …