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Day: May 17, 2011
Stop Nato: Updates on Libyan war: 17 May, 2011
17 May 2011 — Stop NATO
- Libyan War: Almost 7,000 NATO Military Flights, Over 2,700 Combat Missions
- China Presses For Immediate Ceasefire In Libya
- Russia: Libyan War First Litmus Test For NATO’s New Strategic Concept
- Russian Foreign Minister: West Oversteps UN Resolution In Libya
- The Real Reasons For NATO’s Attack On Libya
Stop NATO News: 16 May, 2011
16 May, 2011 — Stop NATO
- Russia Could Withdraw From START Over U.S.-NATO Missile Shield
- Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghan Bomb Blast
- Reports: NATO Killed Five Afghan Women, One Boy On Sunday
- U.S. Missile Strike Kills At Least Seven In Pakistan
- Pakistan: Call For Expulsion Of U.S. Envoy, Ban On NATO Transit
- General Leads NATO Delegation To Azerbaijan
- Montenegro Moves Closer To Full NATO Membership
- Georgian Opposition: U.S. Supports Autocracy, Pseudo-Democracy
- British Military Brass Tour NATO Training Mission-Iraq Headquarters
Stop Nato: Updates on Libyan war 16 May 2011
16 May 2011 — Stop NATO
- NATO Continues Libyan Air War, Naval Blockade: 6,808 Sorties
- NATO Bombs Still Claiming Victims: Bishop Calls For Libyan Truce
- Russia Backs African Union’s Road Map For Libyan Ceasefire
- Libya: Kwame Nkrumah Foresaw Western Re-Conquest of Africa
- Question For Caricom On NATO’s War In Libya
The truth about ‘civilized transitions’ By William Bowles
16 May 2011
“What about giving Gaddafi an exit strategy?” — Channel 4 News presenter to somebody or other, 16 May, 2011
This is what it comes down to: A TV ‘news’ presenter reveals in all its starkness, how the Empire corrupts totally. Here we have an apparently intelligent and educated person dismissing the leader of a country as if he’s just another expendable piece of the Empire’s junk. ‘Yeah, why you don’t just get rid of him, make him go away’. It’s absolutely outrageous that we accept this kind of rubbish and it’s echoed right across the MSM (see below).
Cannonball Adderley ‘Straight, no chaser’
17 May 2011 — Jazz on the Tube
1974 concert in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Cannonball Adderley (alto sax), Nat Adderley (trumpet), George Duke (piano), Walter Booker (bass) and Roy McCurdy (drums) play “Straight No Chaser.” Adderley died of a stroke only a year later, in 1975, and was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame that same year.
ColdType May 2011 Issue
17 May 2011 — Cold Type
THE COLD TYPE READER
Inside this month’s 80-page issue
– f5.6 should be right, Greg Marinovich & Joao Silva; Surprise, surpise! Iraq war was about oil, Ray McGovern; The strange death of multiculturalism, Trevor Grundy; More humanitarian regime change, Alan Maas; Bug Affairs, Hugh Pennington; A tale of two hospitals, Barry Lando; War reporting: Ours and theirs, Simon Liem; The Abu Ghraib pictures you haven’t seen, Nick Turse; the shrinking of New Orleans, Bill Berkowitz; Cowards and crack dealers, David Michael Green; Palestine unity and the new Middle East, Ramzy Baroud; Osama Bin Lynched, David Swanson; Where is your democracy?, Kathy Kelly; Why facts no longer matter, Danny Schechter; Need boots on the ground? Call Mr Transom, Philip Kraske; Harper can’t beat the BS-detector, Michael Keefer; Traveling along the highway of death, John W. Whitehead; Hurwitt’s Eye, Mark Hurwitt; Humanitarian intervention, again!, William Blum; Where have all the graveyards gone?, Adam Hochschild; Marching for Anzac in the 51st State, John Pilger
PLUS – Five must-read essays from our archives
Diesel-Driven Bee Slums and Impotent Turkeys, by Chip Ward
Conspiracy: The Downing Street Diaries, by David Edwards
Why the Media gets the War Wrong, by Michael Schwartz
Suicide Kool-Aid, by John S. Hatch
Off the Rails, by Paul Williams
Enjoy! (and if you don’t, let me know why)
Tony Sutton, Editor – editor@coldtype.net
WikiLeaks Newslinks 17 May 2011
17 May 2011 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks cables show oil a major focus of US diplomats
MiamiHerald.com
The communication, part of the cache of State Department cables that WikiLeaks passed to McClatchy Newspapers and other news organizations, is just one indication of how the US government over the years has maneuvered to influence the world’s oil and …
www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/16/2219683/wikileaks-cables-show-oil-a-major.html
BREAKING NEWS: Israel’s Attack on Humanitarian Ship to Gaza – Updated Report
16 May, 2011 — Global Research
The Spirit of Rachel Corrie (officially known as FINCH) carrying a humanitarian cargo to Gaza was attacked by an Israeli naval patrol within the so-called Palestinian Security Zone on May 15, at 10.54pm EDT.
In the course of the last few hours, Global Research has communicated several times with the Rachel Corrie vessel en route to Gaza. What is provided below is a detailed update. An earlier article was posted at 12.30am EDT
Libya Newslinks 15-17 May 2011
17 May 2011 — williambowles.info
17 May 2011
- RT: Washington sends forth stooges to replace Gaddafi
- SCF: Russia’s FM to hold talks with Libyan officials
- RT: Moscow to talk peace with Gaddafi envoys
- SCF: Tripoli may ask Russia to mediate Libyan conflict – Naumkin
- Socialist Worker: Chávez and the Arab dictators
- BBC: Moscow talks for Gaddafi envoys
- Mathaba: Lavrov calls for stopping violation of UN SC mandates on Libya
- Mathaba: Russia says it’s ready to talk to Libyan rebels
- Stop NATO News: May 16, 2011
- Mathaba: Question For Caricom On NATO’s War In Libya
PressTV – ‘Blair created pack of lies on Iraq war’
15 May 2011 — PressTV
The new-documents released by the Iraq war Inquiry has confirmed that Tony Blair and his communications advisor Alistair Campbell made up a pack of lies to involve Britain in an illegal war.
The New Dark Age 