February 2011
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 27 February, 2011: Weekend Update – Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda
27 February, 2011 — Information Clearing House Britain Should Pull Out Of Afghanistan, says Gorbachev By Matthew Bell The ex-Soviet leader argues the US must take some blame for fanning Islamic fundamentalism. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27573.htm Continue reading
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“If law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange” : Video
Former Reagan Administration Paul Craig Roberts says there is a concerted effort to shut Assange up. If the legal attempt fails, he’ll be assassinated by a CIA assassination team. Continue reading
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Max Roach and Booker Little “Stars Of Jazz”
Max Roach with Booker Little on ‘Stars Of Jazz’, KABC-TV, Hollywood, CA, October 6, 1958 Max Roach dms, George Coleman sax, Ray Draper tuba Art Davis bass. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 February, 2011: Israel: ’02 assassination justified despite mass casualties
27 February, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Clashes Continue in Silwan IMEMC – Friday February 25, 2011 – 17:22, Confrontations erupted on Thursday evening between Israeli forces and Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem village of Silwan, Continue reading
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Libya: The Empire strikes back By William Bowles
Let’s be clear, this is not about Khadafi whatever you think of the ‘Green Revolution’, it’s about the attempt by the US/EU to intercede directly and militarily into the situation in the Middle East / North Africa, most probably through the use of NATO. Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Saudi Arabia holding firm in the Middle East for now: Platts TV Platts The wave of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is not expected to touch Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporting nation, despite the spread of popular revolt in the region, guests on the Platts Continue reading
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Oman Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info OMAN: Ruler reshuffles Cabinet, announces reforms as deadly protests rock … Los Angeles Times Oman’s longtime ruler, Sultan Kaboos ibn Said, reshuffled his Cabinet over the weekend, changing six ministers, and ordered some social reforms amid rare deadly protests and growing unrest in the small Persian Gulf nation. The decree, Continue reading
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Egypt Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Egypt counts the cost of unrest BBC News The Supreme Council of Egyptian Armed Forces has dissolved Egypt’s parliament and suspended the Constitution. Elections will be held, they say, in around six months. Egypt’s economy is one of the most developed and diversified in the Middle East, … www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12581680 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 27 February, 2011 – Paypal off then on
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Catholic Workers Blockade London Court as Julian Assange Extradition Verdict Indymedia UK Free Manning! Free Assange! Free all War Resisters! End the War! O’Reilly and Gianstefani blockaded the entance to the court calling for an end to the war and freedom for Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and all anti-war prisoners. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Bush cancels out of event where Assange was due to attend Monsters and Critics.com Washington – Former president George W Bush abruptly cancelled a speaking engagement planned for Saturday after learning that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had also been invited to attend. Bush spokesman David Sherer on Friday said ‘the Continue reading
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Stop Nato News 27 February, 2011 – Cyprus / Kurils / Pakistan / Caucasus / Russia / Arab Uprising / KLA
27 February, 2011 — Stop NATO 1. Cyprus: NATO Eyes Only Non-Member/Partner European Nation 2. Defense Minister: Russia To Deploy Troops To Kuril Islands 3. U.S.-Pakistan Row Over CIA Killer Deepens 4. Integration: NATO Caucasus-Central Asia Representative To Visit Washington 5. Unilateral Concession: Russia Allows U.S. Afghan War Troop Transit 6. Pakistan: Blast Destroys Six Continue reading
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What Does the Libyan Opposition Want? by Yoshie Furuhashi
As everyone knows, Muammar Gaddafi is an authoritarian dictator. Authoritarian dictators are a dime a dozen in world history, though, so that is not what would distinguish him from the rest of his kind in history books. What might make him stand out is this: in the twilight of his autocratic career, Gaddafi had become… Continue reading
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Libya in the Great Game By Manlio Dinucci
Fleeing Libya are not only families who fear for their lives and poor immigrants from other North African countries. There are tens of thousands of ‘refugees’ who are being repatriated by their governments with ships and aircraft: they are mainly engineers and executives of major oil companies. Continue reading
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TRNN Exclusive: Report From Liberated Benghazi, Libya
JIHAN HAFIZ, JOURNALIST: Across the border from Egypt there is a new sovereign country ruled by revolutionaries. After 42 years under the rule of president/colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, the Libyan people are in full revolt and are now firmly in control of the eastern part of the country. Continue reading
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Liberty’s Easy Slide into Tyranny By Prof John Kozy
Executive privilege is the claim made by members of the executive branch that they can refuse to comply with certain subpoenas and other requests from the legislature and courts, but executive privilege is not mentioned in the Constitution. Some claim the privilege is a form of the common-law principle of deliberative process privilege whose roots… Continue reading
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Is Tripoli being set up for a civil war to justify U.S. and NATO military intervention in oil-rich Libya? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroay
There is no question that Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi (Al-Qaddafi) is a dictator. He has been the dictator and so-called “qaid” of Libya for about 42 years. Yet, it appears that tensions are being ratcheted up and the flames of revolt are being fanned inside Libya. This includes earlier statements by the British Foreign Secretary William… Continue reading
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Tunisia Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info N. Africa, Mideast unrest: Three killed as demonstrations turn deadly in Tunisia CNN (blog) [TUNISIA, 9:12 pm ET, 3:12 am local] Protests in Tunisia turned violent and deadly Saturday, just over six weeks after a popular uprising forced the president out of office, and lit a spark of desire for Continue reading
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Bahrain Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Bahrain: A fissured future in a ‘fictitious democracy’ Toronto Star The 22-year-old Bahraini was among the first throng of protesters to rush back into the landmark square on Feb. 19 after riot police retreated. But he hasn’t been able to sleep well since. “I keep worrying: What happens now?” he Continue reading
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Tunisia Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 26 February, 2011
26 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Refugees flood into Tunisia Los Angeles Times Tunisian and UN officials scramble to avert a refugee crisis as people fleeing the Libyan unrest fill the roads out of the border crossing at Ras Ajdir. Many Tunisians help as volunteers. By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times At first it was dozens Continue reading
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