September 2010
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 21 September, 2010: US Kills 19 People In Pakistan
21 September, 2010 — Information Clearing House The “Right Thing” in Iraq? A Depressing Statistic By Gary Leupp 58% of U.S. residents believe that the U.S. “did the right thing” in going to war in Iraq. This reflects the fact that most have been persuaded that combat is over, the troops having succeeding in toppling Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 September, 2010: Farmers vs. settlers: Some killings more ‘moral’ than others
21 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli settlers raid olive orchards, attempt to steal olive IMEMC – 21 Sep 2010 – Tuesday September 21, 2010 – 18:18, A number of Palestinian civilians were wounded in clashes with Israeli settlers who invaded the olive orchards that belong to the Palestinian farmers Continue reading
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Iraq: The Age of Darkness By Dirk Adriaensens
In the immediate aftermath of the 2003 invasion, the triumphalist verdict of the mainstream media was that the war had been won; Iraq was assured of a benevolent, democratic future. The Times’s writer William Rees-Mogg hymned the victory: “April 9 2003 was Liberty Day for Iraq. (…) It was achieved by “the engine of global… Continue reading
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U.S. BOAT TO GAZA UPDATE ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
In just twelve short weeks the US TO GAZA campaign has galvanized people throughout this country and the world in a great civil society effort to send a U.S.-flagged ship, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, as part of the next Freedom Flotilla sailing to break the illegal Israeli naval-blockade of Gaza. In record time we have… Continue reading
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Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: THE ATTACK ON THE GAZA FREEDOM FLOTILLA AND HOW IT CHANGED THE COURSE OF THE ISRAEL/PALESTINE CONFLICT
We are delighted to inform you that “Midnight on the Mavi Marmara”, the story of the Israel’s bloody assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, is available online. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 20 September 2010 (16/10): European Parlianment Resolution passed by 337 votes to 245 calling on France to ‘immediately suspend all expulsions of Roma’, saying that they ‘amounted to discrimination’
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org In 2010 an average of 432,649 pdf documents have been downloaded each month (January-August) from the Statewatch website: Researchers, NGOs, activist groups, lawyers, academics, students (completed dissertations), journalists – if you would like to get wider distribution for your work (articles, features, reports, studies) on civil liberties and justice and Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 20 September, 2010: Did Tony Blair Endorse Preventive War on Iran?
20 September, 2010 — ICH CNN Censored Footage of Iraq ‘War Crime’ By Daniel Tencer A former CNN Iraq correspondent suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder says his employers wouldn’t run footage he filmed of what he describes as a war crime by US troops. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26400.htm Depraved? Did U.S. Soldiers Create Afghan Killing Club?: Video Report Continue reading
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APN Releases Revolutionary Settlement-Tracking iPhone and Web App
Americans for Peace Now (APN) is today proud to release a revolutionary interactive mapping tool, which will for the first time give anyone, anywhere, a comprehensive real-time view of what is happening on the ground in the West Bank. “Facts on the Ground: The APN Map Project,” APN’s “app” for iPhone and iPad devices, available… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 September, 2010: PA official: Settlers harvest Palestinian olives
20 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protestors In Berlin Demand Prosecuting “Israeli War Criminals” IMEMC – 21 Sep 2010 – Tuesday September 21, 2010 – 01:45, Hundreds of German citizens, pro Palestine activists, and Palestinians rallied in the streets of the German Capital, Berlin, demanding the country to apprehend and Continue reading
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Save the Arts in the UK – sign the petition and watch the video!
If you are interested in the arts in the UK then you might be interested in signing this petition to the Government to try and prevent radical cuts to current levels of arts funding, which will decimate what has been one of the UK’s chief success stories over the past 20 years. The Prime Minister… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: A JOURNEY UNCHALLENGED – ANDREW MARR INTERVIEWS TONY BLAIR
So why +does+ the BBC, a public service broadcaster, habitually turn to journalists who have previously declared their firm support for Blair’s militant Christian policies to interview Blair about those policies? The answer is that no-one outside the BBC has the remotest idea – there is flat-zero openness on this kind of choice; it is… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 September, 2010: The “Obscenity” of Comparing Americans to “Killers and Terrorists”
19 September, 2010 — Information Clearing House Israeli Company Hired by State Government to Spy on Pennsylvanians and Other Americans By Dave Lindorff The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, along with a number of local police departments in the state, have been employing a private Israeli security company with strong links to Mossad and the Israeli Defense Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 September, 2010: Official: Israel to cut off East Jerusalem villages
19 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Syrian Aid Ship Arrives In Al Arish Port IMEMC – 19 Sep 2010 – Monday September 20, 2010 – 00:54, Lieutenant Hisham Al Janayni, assistant-director of Al Arish Port, stated that a Syrian aid ship heading to Gaza had arrived at Al Arish Port Continue reading
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Your Bank’s Crimes Crashed the Economy
In this scene from Danny Schechter’s investigative documentary ‘PLUNDER: THE CRIME OF OUR TIME’, fraud and collusion between mortgage companies, banks, and Wall Street firms is exposed. BandedArtists Continue reading
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Zionist incitement to violence against SPSC speakers: Gideon Levy and Ben White
The last speaker hosted by Scottish PSC was Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, in August. Shortly after his speaking tour, the Jewish Telegraph published a letter calling for the speaker to be ‘eliminated’, killed. The Jewish Telegraph is now the subject of several complaints to the Press Complaints Commission, on the grounds that publications in this… Continue reading
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Netherlands cancels Israeli mayors tour By Jonathan Lis
The Netherlands on Sunday cancelled a tour of the country by a forum of Israeli mayors because their group included representatives of West Bank settlements. Continue reading
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Lieberman: Peace talks must reassess Israeli-Arabs’ right to citizenship By Barak Ravid
With the Palestinians refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, negotiations must tackle issue of Israeli-Arab ‘loyalty’, foreign minister says – prompting accusations of ‘apartheid and ethnic cleansing’ from Arab MK. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 September, 2010: Disbanding the Palestinian Authority would scupper Israeli strategy
18 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center JCSER: “Bound Palestinian Shot To Death By Israeli Policemen” IMEMC – 18 Sep 2010 – Saturday September 18, 2010 – 12:42, The Documentation and Research Unit at the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) reported Saturday that the Palestinian resident from Jerusalem Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 September, 2010: Terror In The Village That Became A Minefield
15 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court Says Criminal Probe Into Fatal Shooting Of Two Palestinians “Unnecessary” IMEMC – 15 Sep 2010 – Thursday September 16, 2010 – 03:01, The Israeli High Court Of Justice had decided that a petition demanding a full investigation into the fatal shooting of two Continue reading
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For Palestinians, settler abuse is only the beginning of the ordeal By Avi Issacharoff
A Palestinian from the northern West Bank looking to file a complaint against settlers must appear in person at the Ariel police station – but Palestinians are prohibited from entering Israeli territory. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 