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17 February 2012 — – williambowles.info
Every time I read a BBC news piece about events in Syria it invariably includes the following phrase (emphasized):
“Troops are shelling intensively parts of the Syrian city of Homs, activists say, a day after the UN General Assembly called for an end to violence.” — ‘Syrian city shelled after UN vote’, BBC News, 17 February 2012
15 February 2012 — williambowles.info
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US-Backed Regime Replays State of Emergency to Crush Pro-Democracy Movement by Finian Cunningham
Dandelion Salad Today at 07:12
by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 14 February 2012 Bahrain’s first anniversary of its pro-democracy protests has been met with massive police and army violence, with many civilians injured from regime forces firing birdshot and teargas into homes and at cars. Reports are coming in of Saudi-backed troops and mercenaries attacking mainly Shia [...]
14 February 2012 — williambowles.info
VIDEO: Protests on Bahrain anniversary
BBC News Today at 13:30
Police try to prevent people marking the anniversary of pro-democracy protests in Bahrain’s capital, after a second day of clashes in outlying villages.
7 February 2012
“’The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950.)
For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot, to whose people a US-led posse of nations, must deliver “freedom”, with weapons of mass, home, people, nation and livlihood destruction, here is a salutary tale from modern history.
24 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.
15 December 2011 — Eric Walberg
Russia’s parliamentary elections have sparked a political crisis, surprising everyone, from President Putin (excuse me, Medvedev) down, including the demonstrators themselves, marvels Eric Walberg
14 December 2011 — williambowles.info
14 December 2011
Syria military convoy ‘ambushed’
BBC News Today at 15:47
Army defectors open fire on a military convoy in central Syria, killing eight soldiers, in retaliation for a deadly attack on civilians, activists say.
25 November, 2011 — Global Research
According to numerous reports from the Western media, human rights organisation, as well as the UN, countless peaceful civilians have been killed by the Syrian forces since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid March. But where do the numbers come from?
23 November 2011 — williambowles.info
23 November 2011
Egyptians defiant as death toll soars
Morning Star Today at 16:40
Egyptian riot police attacked citizens with tear gas and rubber bullets for a fifth day in central Cairo today in a vain bid to quash protests demanding an end to military rule.
22 November 2011 — williambowles.info
Obama Must Condemn Egyptian Military
Dissident Voice Today at 16:00
As we watch the Egyptian police and military viciously attack democracy activists on the streets of Cairo, using U.S. weapons, it is outrageous that the Obama Administration has failed to issue a strong condemnation of this latest attempt to crush a revolution that has inspired people around the world, including millions of Americans.
15 November 2011 — williambowles.info
15 November 2011
Syria: The West’s Strategic Gateway For Global Military Supremacy
GlobalResearch.ca Tomorrow at 03:46
For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
15 November 2011 — williambowles.info
15 November 2011
Syria uprising falls victim to power plays
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
The Arab League’s machinations on Syria underline how greater powers – after seeing the protests had failed – have hijacked the bloody uprising to further their geopolitical objectives. As the West takes a harder line and as the Russian camp solidifies opposition to a Libyan scenario, neither the Syrian opposition nor its government has the country’s fate in their hands. – Ramzy Baroud (Nov 15, ’11)
27 October 2011 — In These Times
The Occupy protests are important, but soon the difficult question must be answered: What social organization can replace capitalism?
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We should avoid the temptation of the narcissism of the lost cause. What new positive order should replace the old one the day after, when the sublime enthusiasm of the uprising is over?
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What to do after the Wall Street occupation, after the protests that started far away (Middle East, Greece, Spain, UK) reached the center, and now, reinforced, roll back around the world? One of the great dangers the protesters face is that they will fall in love with themselves, with the nice time they are having in the ‘occupied’ places. In a San Francisco echo of the Wall Street occupation on October 16, a guy invited the crowd to participate as if it was a hippy-style happening in the 1960s: ‘They are asking us what is our program. We have no program. We are here to have a good time.’
11 September 2011 — Global Research – News International (Pakistan)
-If each strike delivered four bombs or missiles per run, more than 30,000 bombs would have levelled buildings, killed and maimed innocent Libyan men, women and children.
25 August 2011 — RT
Libya’s opposition claims to be in control of most of Tripoli, but there are still reports of resistance by government loyalists. And while the battle continues, the carve-up of Libya’s vast oil riches is already in full swing.
Drill to the heart of most modern wars and you will strike oil. Regardless of whether or not that saying is true, when it comes to Libya, oil is going to play a pivotal role in the country’s future.
22 August 2011 — williambowles.info
U.N. council to hold special meeting on Syria
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — The UN Human Rights Council is scheduled to meet Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss allegations of human rights violations in Syria. The special meeting comes after the United Nations sent a humanitarian mission to …
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/22/syria.unrest/
11 August 2011 — williambowles.info
Yesterday, 10 August our vainglorious pm announced that the communities from which it is alleged the ‘rioters and looters’ emanated from were “sick”. But more on who is really sick in our society later. In the meantime I’d like to pick up on an aspect of the state’s response (or apparent lack of) to the uprising that I referred to yesterday, namely my assertion that the forces of ‘law and order’ deliberately allowed fires to burn and shops to be looted, as it served to demonize the people involved as well as justifying the use of heavy firepower and a complete lockdown (which happened yesterday).
5 August 2011 — grtv
The process of destablization of Syria is being conducted along the same lines as Libya, with external political interests driving and manipulating the protest movements in both countries.
3 August 2011 — williambowles.info
Egypt’s Mubarak, in hospital bed, goes on trial as protesters clash
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff Cairo (CNN) — An ailing Hosni Mubarak — once a symbol of autocratic rule in Egypt — was wheeled into a Cairo courtroom cage in a hospital bed Wednesday to face trial for allegedly ordering the killing of protesters calling for …
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/03/egypt.mubarak.trial/
27 July, 2011 — Libya Conflict
We’re now into the fifth month of NATO’s bombing campaign and Gaddafi has yet to be ousted from power. So far NATO’s act of “selective vigilanteism” has not brought down the government in Tripoli but it has entirely changed the narrative of the conflict in Libya, from an indigenous uprising to an act of self-defense against a foreign aggressor intent on shamelessly cloaking its designs of regime change in humanitarian garb. On July 26, NATO spokeswoman, Carmen Romero reiterated that Gaddafi “cannot wait us out… as long as his forces continue to attack or threaten civilians and as long as they continue and try and cut off humanitarian aid, our operations will continue in Libya [sic].”
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Ed Miliband, the Labour Leader in the Conservative-Labour Governmental Coalition, speaking in the UK Parliament on 11 August 2011.
“ Can I thank the Prime Minister for his statement (on the riots in Britain) and can I thank him for his decision to suggest to you, Mr Speaker, that Parliament was recalled.
Whatever we disagree on week by week, month by month, today we stand united, condemning the violence and vandalism we have seen on our streets.
The victims are the innocent people who live in many of our cities, who have seen their homes and businesses destroyed, their communities damaged and their confidence about their own safety undermined.
There can be no excuses, no justification. This behaviour has disgusted us all. It cannot be allowed to stand. We will not allow it to stand.
I want to join the Prime Minister in mourning the loss of life we have seen, including those killed in London and Birmingham. ”
And how many, amidst the general criminality of our ‘House of Commons’, are mourning the loss of life we have seen, including those thousands of innocent victims killed by the US-NATO-EU war machine in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya ?
There can be no excuses. There can be no justification.
How many of them are disgusted by it all ?
How many will still allow it to stand ?