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22 May 2013
18:37 GMT: The suspect, a black male dressed in a grey hooded jacket and black brimless cap, apologized to people at the scene who witnessed the attack before going on to make several more political statements. Continue reading this...
22 May 2013 – http://www.boilingfrogspost.com
Imam Fethullah Gulen &the Grey Eminence behind Turkeys Erdogan & AKP By William Engdahl
22 May 2013 — Global Research
Syria is Washington’s war. Israel’s very much involved. It abhors peace and stability. Its history reflects belligerence. It’s a direct threat. It borders Syria.
23 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Syria opposition calls for reinforcements in embattled Qusair
Reuters
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s leading opposition group called on Wednesday for rebels across the country to send reinforcements to the strategic border town Qusair, where heavy fighting has drawn in fighters from Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/22/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE94L0EZ20130522
22 May 2013 — Media Lens
Introduction
I caught up with an old friend, after many years, on a muggy afternoon in Camden. Outwardly, he seemed the same wonderfully ebullient character he had always been – I got the usual bear hug and bristly smacker on the cheek. But as we talked, it became clear something had changed.
22 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Parts of Bradley Manning trial to be closed to public
Washington Post
The judge in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning said Tuesday that she will close portions of the trial to the public to protect classified material, a ruling that is likely to frustrate civil liberties groups that have alleged the case is being …
22 May 2013 — RT
UK’s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on drugs to fight a flu pandemic that has not materialized.
21 May 2013 – VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
PPP Slams Arrest Of Five Of Its Members By P.A. Forces
IMEMC – Tuesday May 21 2013; the leftist Palestinian People Party (PPP) issued a statement condemning the arrest of five of its members by the Palestinian Security Forces in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem. …
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21 May 2013 – Information Clearing House
Noam Chomsky: Obama Was Willing to Start Nuclear War to Kill bin Laden
By Eric W. Dolan
MIT professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Friday, saying President Barack Obama could have provoked a nuclear war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35033.htm
22 May 2013 — RT
“Everyone in Iraq must be terrified that the situation in Syria is spilling over into Iraq” Bambery said as Tuesday’s attacks in the country kill over 40, a day after over 70 people were murdered, escalating fears of all-out sectarian war between minority Sunnis and majority Shiites. Continue reading this...
22 May 2013 — RT
One of the methods used to extract information from Muslim inmates in Guantanamo was to apply sexual interrogation techniques, Terry Holdbrooks, former guard at the camp has told RT. Continue reading this...
21 May 2013 — Presstv
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, whose country has a long hand in interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, is seeking to kill any hope of possible talks between Syrians even before they start. Continue reading this...
15 May 2013 – Haïti Liberté
Image: Wendell Polynice/Haïti Liberté
Well over 15,000 people poured out from all corners of Haiti’s capital to march alongside the cortege of cars that carried former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide back to his home in Tabarre from the Port-au-Prince courthouse he visited on May 8.
Thousands more massed along sidewalks and on rooftops to cheer the procession on, waving flags and wearing small photos of Aristide in their hair, pinned to their clothing, or stuck in their hats.
The Syrian army, backed by members of Hezbollah, liberated the city of al-Qusayr. 80,000 Christians had fled their homes for more than six months, under the threat of mainly foreign jihadists, supported by NATO and the GCC.
The liberation of al-Qusayr puts an end to the intense fighting in the district of Homs. The city of Homs itself should be purged in the coming days.
Article published on May 20, 2013 by Freedom of the Press Foundation – Trevor Timm:
“Last night, the Washington Post reported on a little known leak case involving former State Department official Stephen Kim. In an alarming new extreme, the Justice Department and FBI argue there’s “probable cause to believe” Fox News reporter James Rosen “has committed or is committing a violation of [the Espionage Act], as an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator” by soliciting information from Kim for a story.
21 May 2013 — Russia Today
The US military has restricted access to wireless internet at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp due to hacking threats said to be part of a protest over conditions at the facility where detainees have been engaged in a hunger strike for over 100 days. Continue reading this...
21 May 2013 – Asia Times
So Bashar al-Assad has spoken – exclusively, to Argentine daily El Clarin (there’s a huge Syrian diaspora in Argentina, as well as in neighboring Brazil).Full transcript of his interview in available on SANA agency web-site -OR.
21 May 2013 — Climate and Capitalism
David Bollier & Soilke Helfrich, editors
The Wealth of Commons:
A World Beyond Market and State
Levellers Press, 2012
reviewed by Derek Wall
21 May 2013 — FAIR Blog
I was struck by this May 17 headline in the New York Times:
Reporter Elisabeth Malkin provides a pretty thorough accounting of U.S. support for Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt. The “long history” of U.S. support for the brutal military went back to a CIA-backed coup in 1954, Malkin reported. She added:
21 May 2013 – McGill Sociological Review
Given the prevailing research interest on the transition from anti- to alter- globalization, this paper examines where the World Social Forum is situated in the spectrum of movements against neo-liberal globalization. I argue that the progression of the anti/alter-globalization movements, while not linear or mutually-exclusive, can be traced along a continuum, marking the transition from condemnation, to advocating for change, to articulating means by which such change can be brought about.
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