The latest on Dandelion Salad Global Research RSS Feed25 August 2011 — Morning Star
Peace campaigners vowed today to oppose RAF plans to operate deadly unmanned Reaper drones from a Lincolnshire airbase. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed it intends to station a ‘Reaper squadron’ at RAF Waddington from next year.
26 August , 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Thousands Protest In Front Of Israeli Embassy In Cairo
IMEMC – Saturday August 27, 2011 – 04:00, Thousands of Egyptians continued their protest in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from Cairo, to stop gas exports to Tel Aviv and to void the Camp David peace deal between Egypt and Israel.
26 August 2011 — Palestine Chronicle
The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist. The invention of Max Brenner the Jewish chocolatier demonstrated the lack of integrity and journalistic ethics employed within the Murdoch press’s campaign against the pro-Palestinian advocacy groups who have called for a boycott of the Israeli owned Max Brenner chocolate franchise.
26 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
Libya: 80 Found Dead at Abandoned Tripoli Hospital
By The Telegraph
Rescuers finally reached the hospital late on Thursday, finding 21 surviving patients among a macabre scene of dead bodies.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28959.htm
27 August 2011 — Stop NATO
26 August 2011 — williambowles.info
Rebels in Libya work to rub out loyalist pockets
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Opposition and NATO forces took aim at the Gadhafi regime in Tripoli and Sirte on Friday as rebels worked to consolidate their power across strife-torn Libya. British warplanes pounded a “large headquarters …
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/26/libya.war/
26 August 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The Libyan rebels’ somewhat dubious success in Tripoli threatens to draw NATO into a ground operation while Washington is wondering whether the European coalition was right to rush into battle.
26 August 2011
If it continues on its projected track, Virginia Beach is going to lose its virginity and then some. NYC has already battened down the hatches.
26 August 2011 — williambowles.info
US distances itself and NATO from Gaddafi manhunt
Reuters
By Phil Stewart and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday distanced itself from efforts to hunt down Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying neither US assets nor NATO forces were targeting the fugitive strongman. …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/us-libya-usa-gaddafi-idUSTRE77O6TA20110826
26 August 2011 — WSWS
Five days after ‘rebels’ entered Tripoli, under the cover of NATO bombing and led by foreign special forces, the abject criminality of imperialism’s takeover of Libya is becoming increasingly evident.
25 August , 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Eight Palestinians Killed Thursday; 11 in Two Days
IMEMC – Thursday August 25, 2011 – 23:43, Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday evening that two residents were killed when the Israeli Air Force fired a missile at their motorcycle, north of Gaza City. The assassination raises the number of Palestinians killed on Thursday to 8, while a total of 11 were killed in two days.
26 August 2011 — Global Research
Independent journalists trapped at the Rixos hotel were evacuated Wednesday under the auspices of the Red Cross. They were taken and housed at the Corinthia hotel. Since their arrival, armed gunmen have entered the premises of the hotel on various pretexts.
The hotel is in rebel territory.
26 August 2011 — RT
[How ironic that the only relatively reliable news out of Libya should come from a Russian-state funded TV station, RT! WB]
British Tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at Colonel Gaddafi’s command and control bunker in his hometown of Sirte, despite previous claims the coalition would not assist rebels in hunting him down. The colonel’s whereabouts are still unknown.
Earlier Libyan rebels said they had sent Special Forces to hunt down Gaddafi, whose loyalists are still fighting in Tripoli. They also tried to reach Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, but met with fierce resistance.
22 August 2011
There seems to be some question over the authenticity of the date of this video, with a comment suggesting that it’s actually the 22 August, not the 25th and I just checked with the source and it is the 22nd! I don’t know who changed the date, certainly not me! But it means whatever she says about the situation is meaningless! It’s four days old. Disinfo indeed! It’ll teach me to check the source first!
Hang on a minute… are you suggesting that Phelan altered the date of the video? Look, whatever she said on the 22nd might or might not have been true, at that time and we’ll never know now, but it doesn’t automatically make her a ‘creature’ of Gaddafi.
Can provide proof of your allegations concerning Phelan? They’re pretty serious.
She is totally delusional, her contact across Tripoli is a Libyan agent from Gaddafi of course and she has been paid to spread these lies… the recent facts trashed her credibility down the drain, what a low life,
this is a video from the 22nd august – please remove dis-info,
I think I’ve explained it above. And apparently, the original on Youtube also had the 25th August and apparently was first shown on RT on the 23rd. Now whether a typo or intentional, it definitely adds confusion to an already confused situation.
26 August 2011 — Craig Murray
There is no cause to doubt that, for whatever reason, the support of the people of Sirte for Gadaffi is genuine. That this means they deserve to be pounded into submission is less obvious to me. The disconnect between the UN mandate to protect civilians while facilitating negotiation, and NATO’s actual actions as the anti-Gadaffi forces’ air force and special forces, is startling.
26 August 2011 — Global Research – Press TV – 2011-08-25
A political analyst says the leaders of NATO member states taking part in the bombing campaign in Libya are guilty of spilling the blood of many innocent Libyans.
25 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
Lies Unmasked As UK Admits Boots On The Ground
Britain’s SAS Leads Hunt For Gaddafi
By Thomas Harding, Gordon Rayner, Damien Mcelroy
The SAS soldiers, who have been dressed in Arab civilian clothes and carrying the same weapons as the rebels, have been ordered to switch their focus to the search for Gaddafi.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28938.htm
26 August 2011 — williambowles.info
I’ve collated these stories for future reference but I’m sure there are many readers who are also interested in how the MSM hasn’t covered the crisis.
26 August 2011
UK planes target Gaddafi bunker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-africa-14677754
26 August 2011 — Asia Times Online
The white man’s burden doesn’t allow asking Africans what they think about the current Western/monarchical Arab onslaught on the northern shores of their continent. At least some are not beating around the bush.
I said that it was curious that Escobar never uses the terms like AMERICAN imperialism or American Empire–not just “imperialism.” It should be obvious why it’s important to do so. The American Empire is the geopolitical force behind NATO, and it’s the military lynchpin of the aggression against Libya. Without the USA, there most likely would not have been an attack on Libya—and certainly a much less successful one.
Not even calling out the America Empire in a piece that purports to analyze this war is politically disingenuous. It would be like failing to mention the Third Reich in criticizing some Axis military assault during WWII.
It’s not just about terminology. It’s about political obfuscation.
I’ve noticed that many so-called antiwar critics and “Leftists,” particularly from America, Britain, or their allied countries, have an allergic resistance to calling out their own nations.
Instead, they prefer to use weasel words and euphemisms like “the international community,” “the West,” “the Globalists,” “Coalition of the Willing,” “NATO,” or abstractions like “imperialism.”
Now why do you think that is?
Where you come from does matter. It’s part of who you are, whom you identify with, and can bias what you report—or don’t report.
Why are you being so hard on him? It’s not a bad piece. He identifies the issues andwhat’s at stake. Ok so he doesn’t use the word imperialism, so what? And he can’t help where he lives or even chooses to, it has nothing to do with anything. I live in the UK, so what?
So the US establishment is now as brazen as the wealthy right-wing nut jobs of the Donald ‘that thing on his head’ Trump variety. Trump told Fox News, ‘We are NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization]. We back NATO in terms of money and weapons. What do we get out of it? Why won’t we take the oil?’
Donald Trump is more brutally honest about the real power behind NATO than many “progressives” like Asia Times’ Pepe Escobar, who curiously can’t even bring himself to use terms like “American imperialism” or “American Empire” in his piece. Perhaps, it’s because these terms are too honest in describing what the Land of the Free truly stands for as a nation.
Make no mistake. NATO is a sockpuppet of the American Empire. Without the United Snakes of America and its war machine, NATO would not have been able to colonize Libya. America will try to rape … I mean, liberate Libya of its oil just like it has tried to do to Iraq.
And the R2P doctrine is not new. This doctrine was basically applied against Haiti with the invasion of that country back in the mid-2000s.
It should be noted that the colonial occupation of Haiti under this humanitarian pretext continues today, with Brazil (Pepe Escobar’s home country) being the primary occupation force, curiously enough.
25 August 2011 — Global Research
Libya represents a new low in Western government war crimes – which is something of a disturbing record given the decades of war criminality by these governments.
rd 11:48 on August 27, 2011 Permalink |
This hurricane is Allah is punishing America for its latest colonial war of aggression. ;-)
InI 11:55 on August 27, 2011 Permalink |
Called Irene? I think not