The latest on Dandelion Salad24 December 2011 — Dissident Voice
We are in uncharted territory. This is like no time in our civilization’s history — global food shortages, climate crisis, unending war and violence, corporate domination, rampant systemic corruption, government collusion with corporations, abject poverty and homelessness, mass extinctions; it’s a long list barely begun here. It’s enough to leave one feeling hopeless in the face of such onslaughts. And yet there is hope.
27 December 2011 — ‘Confessional war the only way to divide Syrians’ — RT
Claims that armed extremists are fighting in Syria are backed by some foreign journalists working on the ground. Independent journalist Thierry Meyssan tells RT how efforts by some forces to turn the conflict into a full-scale civil war are failing.
‘It began with some armed groups entering the country, making troubles, trying to create Islamic emirates on the border with Jordan. These people recruit others to form bigger fighting groups and now they are entering in co-ordination with political opposition. And you know, in this country, there is a long history of opposition between the Baas Party and the Muslim Brotherhood. So, now there is an alliance between the Muslim Brothers and these armed groups coming from abroad,’ he explained. ‘These groups can go everywhere, because now they have some support inside the population.’
27 December 2011 — williambowles.info
27 December 2011
Arab League monitors arrive to Syria
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 04:41
26 December 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Hamas Expresses Support For Syrian Regime
IMEMC – Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Khaled Mashal, stated that the Hamas movement supports the Syrian President, Bashar Assad, “as he supported the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian people in every possible way”, according to Mashal, the Milad News Agency reported. …
26 December 2011 — Information Clearing House
Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria. The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30077.htm
25 December 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Boycott campaigners claim credit for denial of London contract to company invested in settlements
IMEMC – A French transportation company, Veolia, that has been the target of a campaign by human rights groups around the world for its investment in Israeli settlements, has been denied a contract in West London – leading supporters of the boycott campaign to claim credit. …
26 December 2011 — Palestine Campaign
20 December 2011 — grtv
Established in 2007, the United States African Command (AFRICOM) has been at the heart of the US agenda to secure the continent and its resources against America’s supposed enemies. Now, many are questioning AFRICOM’s role on the continent at all.
Find out more about the race for Africa’s riches in this week’s GRTV Feature Interview with former congresswoman and 2008 presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney.
25 December 2011 — williambowles.info
Three headlines, all telling a totally different story. Who to believe? It doesn’t matter, the bombings are taking place within the context of a Western media onslaught that has completely demonized the Assad regime, softening us up for yet another barbaric attack on a sovereign state in the name of ‘humanitarian intervention’.
Blast blame: Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood points finger at regime
Russiatoday.ru Yesterday at 20:02
The Muslim Brotherhood is denying responsibility for twin suicide blasts on Friday that took the lives of 44 people in Damascus, alleging that the Syrian government was behind them.
Muslim Brotherhood denies Syria blast claims – News – Mail …
Mail and Guardian 24/12/11
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood denied has denied it was responsible for Friday’s suicide bombings that killed 44, saying the claims were
fabricated.
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood Takes Credit For Friday’s Twin Suicide …
By Pat Dollard 24/12/11
(AFP) — SYRIA’S Muslim Brotherhood has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in Damascus that killed 44 people, saying they were the first step in liberating the capital and that more attacks were to come. The claim on Saturday …
24 December 2011 — VTJP
News
Mediator: Political detainees free by end of month
12/24/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Nablus billionaire and political independent Munib al-Masri said Saturday in the Gaza Strip that political prisoners both in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip would be released by the end of this month, following unity talks in Cairo.” By the end of the year, all political detainees will….
25 December 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
I don’t remember much about my high school years. Some of the highs (few in number) come back to me but it was mostly lows which probably explains why I don’t remember much. It’s not that I was dumb, I just had no motivation, but I was interested in history, jazz and politics (thanks to my parents) and even won a prize for a history essay as well as starting up the school’s first jazz appreciation society (not appreciated by the school I might add, the head of music tore down my posters).
23 December 2011 — Global Research
Preparing for a Confrontation with Iran: Beefing Up Israel’s Missile Defense
Turning point in the Structure of Israel’s Air Defense System
In late December 2008, coinciding with the onslaught of Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” directed against Gaza, the Pentagon dispatched some 100 military personnel to Israel from US European Command (EUCOM) to assist Israel in setting up a new sophisticated X-band early warning radar system as part of a new and integrated air defense system. (See defense.gov/news/, December 30, 2011). The project had been approved by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in September 2008.
24 December 2011 — Stop NATO
24 December 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Russia-EU Energy Ties Under Threat
24.12.2011 | 00:00 | Natalia MEDEN
The 20th World Petroleum Congress which convened in Doha, Qatar, in December, 2011, became the scene of a continuing dispute between Russian energy minister Serguey Shmatko and European Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger as at the moment the relations in the energy sphere between Russia and the EU are stuck at a fairly low point… Russia and the EU appear to be in the process of drifting apart…
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23 December 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Eshtayya: “Palestinian Lands Are For the Palestinians, Not For Settlements”
IMEMC – Mohammad Eshtayya, member of the Central Committee of Fateh movement, headed by Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government, must understand that the Palestinian lands are for the Palestinian people, and not for the illegal Israeli settlements. …
Season’s greetings to all Readers
What’s in store for 2012 I wonder? If 2011 was the year of Occupations will 2012 be one of Revolutions or is it just wishful thinking? Whatever happens InI will be covering events. So enjoy the respite.
William Bowles
23 December 2011 — Information Clearing House
Thud of the Jackboot
By Alexander Cockburn
At least the DPRK doesn’t trumpet its status as the last best sanctuary of liberty. American politicians, starting with the president, do little else. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30064.htm
23 December 2011 — Haaretz
Over the decades permit regimen grows into vast, triple-digit bureaucracy.
Israel’s Civil Administration issues 101 different types of permits to govern the movement of Palestinians, whether within the West Bank, between the West Bank and Israel or beyond the borders of the state, according to an agency document of which Haaretz obtained a copy.
10 October 2011
The U.S. today is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon, a distinguished American international legal authority says.
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23 December 2011 — ICAHD
”The significance of this development is not only the creation of a greater Jerusalem that controls the center of the West Bank” says ICAHD Director Dr. Jeff Halper “but the emergence of Israeli Occupation territorial contiguity, that effectively eliminates the two state solution.”
