SOUTH AFRICA: Wits protest: Habib forced to hear student demands
“Students would not allow Adam Habib to address them unless he was to tell them “one thing and one thing only: no-fee increments for 2016″.”
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SOUTH AFRICA:  Victory for  ABAHLALI  reinforces rights of shackdwellers
“Today the Durban High Court dismissed with costs the KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Human Settlements and Public Works’ application to appeal its decision to invalidate its pre-emptive attempt to conduct unsupervised evictions on 1568 properties throughout the EThekwini Municipality.”
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SOUTH AFRICA: Medium term budget statement 2015: Slow economic growth, more taxes on horizon
“It probably won’t come as a shock to many to learn that South Africa’s economy has grown more slowly this year than was estimated when Finance Minister Nhanhla Nene gave his February Budget. “
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MIDDLE EAST: The Third Intifada?
“As deadly violence escalates across Israel and the Palestinian territories, the Guardian’s Phoebe Greenwood travels to the West Bank to ask why now – and why Palestinian women are getting involved.”
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MIDDLE EAST: The AKP government is trying to manipulate The Kurdish ceasefire and the massacre
“The Kurdish Freedom Movement, PKK, declares a new ceasefire, but the Turkish military and police are attacking the Kurdish civilians and the guerrillas daily.”
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MIDDLE EAST: Tel Aviv NGO files charge against US union over Israel boycott
“Shurat HaDin says United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America can’t ask members to jilt Israeli companies.”
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USA: Tech’s low-wage workers disrupt the disruptors
“Leland Stanford — Gold Rush railroad baron, former California governor and senator and founder of the namesake university — is considered one of the Golden State’s greatest innovators. But his lasting social contribution was not technological invention or equitable statewide policy; it was the import of Chinese laborers who were willing to work for a small fraction of the usual wage.”
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SYRIA: Canada Pulls Out Jets, Assad Visits Putin
“Cracks are growing in the US-led war against Syria after Canada pulled out of the illegal military adventure.  New Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made good on his election pledge to end Canada’s involvement in a phone call with US President Barack Obama on Tuesday.”
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FRANCE: Why does France want to overthrow the Syrian Arab Republic ?
“Looking back over the history of the French colonisation of Syria, and comparing it with the actions of Presidents Sarkozy and Hollande, Thierry Meyssan brings to light the desire of certain of today’s French politicians to recolonise this country.”
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INTERNATIONAL: The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and Imperialism
“About 20 years ago, in a conversation with a Bangladeshi organizer, the topic of non-government organizations (NGOs), or non-profits as they’re often called, came up. He said bluntly: “I hate NGOs.” “
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SOUTH AFRICA: Break ranks with varsity inequality
“State support should go to students with the greatest need, not universities with the best results.”
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SOUTH AFRICA: Remarks by President Jacob Zuma during Media Freedom Day Commemoration Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria
Zuma: We are still working on the Secrecy Bill (and the Media Appeals Tribunal)
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MIDDLE EAST: 200 Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village with firebombs
“More than 200 Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Wad al-Haseen and Wad al-Nasara near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba overnight in the eastern Hebron district of the occupied southern West Bank, locals and medics said.”
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MIDDLE EAST: The World Has to Respond to Israel’s Expansionism
“There are now over 600,000 Israeli settlers colonising Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Their stated and avowed intention is to build Palestine out of existence”
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MIDDLE EAST: Are the U.S. and Russia Forming 5 New States in the Middle-East?
“The Mideast map-redrawing ‘Act One’ has begun. Ba’athist/Alawite Syria, Sunni Syria, Kurdistan, Sunni Iraq and Shi’a Iraq are the first batch of new ‘states’ to be formed as the Obama Administration has finally accepted Russia’s role in preserving a Ba’athist Syrian state for the Alawis…”
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MIDDLE EAST: Holocaust experts to Netanyahu: No, a Palestinian did not convince Hitler to kill Jews
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stirred controversy by intimating the Holocaust may not have been Adolf Hitler’s idea, and that in fact, he had been led down the garden path by the then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a Palestinian.”
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USA: A Look Into the US ‘Process’ for Calling In Drone Strikes
“Secret military documents obtained by online media outlet The Intercept offer a revealing look into ‘the process’ behind the Obama administration’s compilation of and action on its secret ‘kill list’ of terror suspects in Yemen and Somalia.”
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RUSSIA: The Unipolar World Is Ending
“International Relations studies, like other academic subjects, has its passing fashions, its own changing hemlines. One of the new conceptualizations of the present-day global political landscape that is enjoying some discussion these days in places as far removed as Washington, Brussels and Moscow…”
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TURKEY: Mulberry supplier workers in Turkey hail union victory
“A nine-month dispute at a Turkish supplier of handbags and purses for the British luxury brand Mulberry has come to an end after the factory agreed to allow workers to organise a union.”
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GREECE: Greek head of privatisation programme says ports, rails and other public properties for sale
“Disputes among hard-left cabinet ministers and lingering concerns about Greece’s future in the eurozone have not made it any easier to sell Greek assets to foreign investors.”
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