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McKinsey is already benefiting from contracts worth undisclosed millions with GPs arising from the Bill. It has earned at least £13.8 million from Government health policy since the Coalition took office – and the Bill opens up most of the current £106 billion NHS budget to the private sector, with much of it likely to go to McKinsey clients.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 4th to 10th 2012.

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Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 4th to 10th 2012

On 8th Feburary 2012, Professor Keith Whitelam addressed a packed room at the Friends Meeting House in Sheffield, on the subject of "The Invention of Ancient Israel, the Silencing of Palestinian History", the meeting was organised by the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

As fracking envelops the UK - watch the American experience. "Gasland" director Josh Fox arrested at U.S. Congress Fracking Hearing. Speakers Rep Harris (R-MD), Rep Miller (D-NC), Kathleen Sgamma (Industry), John Fenton (well poisoned, Pavillion Wyoming), Theo Colborne (air pollution health impacts of fracking). Interview with EPA whistle-blower Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, inspiration for the No Fear Act.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday February 8th, 2012.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday February 7th, 2012.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday February 6th, 2012.

A talk from the Leeds Antifascist Film Festival held on 4th Feburary 2012 in Leeds.

Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for January 28 through February 3rd 2012.

On Saturday 28th January Unlock NAMA opened an occupied building in the center of Dublin for a day of lectures about NAMA, Ireland's 'Bad Bank.' The event was cut short by a large number of police who turned up and ordered them out of the building. In this 40 minute interview Andrew Flood interviews Cat & Moira from Unlock NAMA about the occupation, what NAMA is and what Unlock NAMA demands.

Squamish Voices Protest Aboriginal Land Management Forum

How will we grow food as oil dwindles, and climate changes? Wes Jackson of the Land Institute speech at ASPO 2011 finds a way. Plus critique of soil carbon solutions and biochar by Australian scientist Dr. Michael Raupach of CSIRO.

On today's show... * a report back from the 14th annual Summit Against Racism * "Occupy Your Mind" brings together protestors, artists and intellectuals to discuss the Occupy movement * violence provoked by a Canadian mining company results in death in Oaxaca, Mexico * the Human Rights Coalitions Prison Radio report * we investigate the idea of a 20 hour work week * And more in our local and global headlines

Report from J29 Oakland's Rise Up Festival with 15 min audio of first hand accounts from Move-In march and speakers David Graeber and Andrej Grubacic including the ideas that the strategy of squashing direct democracy with war mobilization has run its course, the importance of conflict, and expanding on the anarchism inherent in friendship and love.

The news of misdemeanor domestic violence charges against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has obscured all other news in San Francisco, making the Chronicle and Examiner look like tabloid press. Meanwhile, as Mayor Lee encourages Sheriff Mirkarimi to resign, the investigation of Mayor Ed Lee's mayoral campaign, for campaign money laundering, and of the independent expenditure committee to elect Ed Lee, for absentee ballot tampering, seem to have fallen all the way off the radar. Except at KPFA. Audio three minutes and 13 seconds.

Canada Becomes Bad Cop: Haiti, Wikileaks and Washington

The Bay Area Coalition on Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) held a rally in support of abortion, and for a full and comprehensive reproductive rights agenda at the Embarcadero near Justin Herman Plaza. The rally took place Saturday, January 21, the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. As in each of the past 8 years, the rally was held at the same time as the Christian-based anti-abortion Walk For Life West Coast, which is continually and successfully moving towards a complete nationwide elimination and criminalization of abortion as a prime position in its right-wing public policy agenda. A new record of over 1,100 anti-abortion provisions have been introduced at the State level during 2011, with 135 laws enacted in 36 states. (49 minutes).

The Socialist-Feminist organization Radical Women organized on short notice a "loud, militant" counter protest of the march through Market Street from the also militant, Christian-based West Coast Walk For Life, The purpose was to directly counter the misinformation and lies from that group, while making it much more difficulty for them to expand their recruiting activities because her in SF they are ineffective when met with opposition. (28 minutes).