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28 November 2011 — Global Research - The National Security Archive – 2011-11-25
Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to Iran
Presidential ‘Exposure’ and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor Reports
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info
Compiled and Edited by William Bowles, December 22, 1988. This file is a compilation of texts that have either been uploaded to or posted on this system [New York On-Line] or Peacenet, which have been edited to remove duplication, and/or innacuracies and irrelevancies.
Updated 20/6/03. I came across this file very recently whilst doing some research on Michael Ledeen. I’ve edited out some of the contents as they refer to demonstrations or calls to phone people who are probably no longer around. But other than these minor edits, it’s as it was in 1988. It makes interesting reading 15 years later. — William Bowles
28 November 2011 — Global Research – Ynet News
[Ed's note: these are not new allegations, see 'October Surprise', a chronology of events compiled by me that documents the fact that Israel acted as the 'go-between' for the US, selling US-supplied weapons to Israel that Israel then sold to Iran. WB]
Comment by Michael Carmichael
New documents just released via declassification reveal Israel’s role in the Iran-Contra Affair that rocked the Reagan administration in the 1980s.
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
Russia’s NATO envoy to visit China, Iran over missile defense
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 16:24
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
28 November 2011
Closed-door politics: ‘Economic war’ against Syria seals crisis
Russiatoday.ru Today at 18:17
The Arab League’s sanctions against Damascus are in fact ‘a declaration of economic war’ against the Syrian people, which ‘closed windows’ for resolving the country’s crisis, the country’s senior diplomat says.
28 November 2011 — Information Clearing House
Pakistan Has Had Enough
By Simon Tisdall
The belief that weak, impoverished, divided Pakistan has no alternative but to slavishly obey its master’s voice could turn out to be one of the seminal strategic miscalculations of the 21st century. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29826.htm
28 November 2011 — Dissident Voice
Unknown snipers played a pivotal role throughout the so-called ‘Arab Spring Revolutions’ yet, in spite of reports of their presence in the mainstream media, surprisingly little attention has been paid to to their purpose and role.
26 November 2011 — Global Research
ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER by Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Forward
First in Global Research’s Interactive Reader Series, we bring to the attention of our readers a collection of Global Research articles on the “Arab Spring”, covering recent developments in several countries across the Middle East and North Africa region.
27 November 2011 – SolidarityEconomy.net via Foreign Policy in Focus
War: The Wrong Jobs Program
More than 40 years ago, long before anyone had ever heard of Barack Obama, before the collapse of Bear Stearns, and before contemporary debates about bailouts and debt ceilings, two authors, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, considered a tricky problem. In times of downturn, the government must spend to stimulate the economy. Yet getting the political establishment to agree on one particular program of spending seemed nearly impossible.
Baran and Sweezy phrased the conundrum as a question: “On what could the government spend enough to keep the system from sinking into the mire of stagnation?”
25 November 2011 — Global Research – Antifascist Calling…
The Iranian people know what it means to earn the enmity of the global godfather.
As William Blum documented in Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, 1953′s CIA-organized coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, guilty of the “crime” of nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, may have “saved” Iran from a nonexistent “Red Menace,” but it left that oil-rich nation in proverbial “safe hands”–those of the brutal dictatorship of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
28 November 2011
WikiLeaks wins Australian journalism award
AFP
SYDNEY — WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its “outstanding contribution to journalism”, with founder Julian Assange lashing out at “cowardly” Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech. The anti-secrecy website was lauded at …
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQRUCe6qxRkV8J7Q8Ix6HUPcD_Eg?docId=CNG.2fcb0cdc5742d63c5b84cb23c3483da7.271
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
28 November 2011
US and Pakistan enter the danger zone
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
Pakistan’s relations with the US continue to plunge after foreign forces breached the ”red line” with Friday night’s fateful air strike that killed 28 Pakistani soldiers. Islamabad’s response stops short of declaring an end to participation in the US-led war in Afghanistan, but the colossal breakdown of diplomacy at the political, military and intelligence levels is a shocking state of affairs for a superpower with over 100,000 troops in Pakistan’s vicinity. – M K Bhadrakumar (Nov 28, ’11)
28 November 2011 — Stop NATO
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info
May be updated as the day wears on…
28 November 2011
Will there be another Arab Spring in 2061?
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
Sixty-two years after Cairo tried to snuff out the Muslim Brotherhood with a targeted assassination, the movement stands on the threshold of power in Egypt, while its brand of political Islam is rising throughout the Arab World. The Brotherhood of today seems more aware of the need to be democratic, but it faces the same temptations that corrupted and eventually tore down Arab nationalism. – Sami Moubayed (Nov 28, ’11)
27 November 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Palestinian Authority unable to pay salaries & pensions due to Israeli seizure of funds
IMEMC – With the Israeli government continuing to seize Palestinian tax money and hold the funds in Israeli banks, the Palestinian Authority announced on Sunday that it will be unable to pay salaries to civil servants and pensions to the elderly and disabled this coming month. …
