May 2011
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The killing of Osama bin Laden By Patrick Martin and Alex Lantier
Obama’s speech and the press commentary was clearly an attempt to rally public support for wars that have become deeply unpopular. Obama asked Americans to ‘think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed.’ Media commentators repeatedly expressed the hope that the killing of bin… Continue reading
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BALKAN ENIGMA AND NATO’S CHAINS OF PROGRESS By Gaither Stewart
NATO seems to find Serbia’s autonomy outrageous, its semi-neutrality unacceptable, its modernity anomalous and above all its path to progress dangerous. For North Atlantic Treaty planners and schemers, Serbia—maverick, outsider, rebel—is an infectious disease to be eradicated. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 2 May 2011 By William Blum: Everything you wanted to know about 'humanitarian intervention'
If you went into surgery to correct a knee problem and the surgeon mistakenly amputated your entire leg, what would you think if someone then remarked to you how nice it was that “you actually no longer have a knee problem, thank God.” … The people of Iraq no longer have a Saddam problem. Continue reading
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THE OSAMA BIN LADEN FILE
The Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, killed in Pakistan by U.S. special operations forces yesterday, ranked as “one of the most significant financial sponsors of Islamic terrorist activities in the world” as early as 1996, according to declassified U.S. documents posted on the web today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University Continue reading
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Libyan Scenario For Syria: Towards A US-NATO “Humanitarian Intervention” directed against Syria? By Rick Rozoff
His order targeted among others Syrian President Bashar Assad’s brother Mahir and cousin Atif Najib and also included – in an indication that broader objectives are also being pursued however tenuous, even farfetched, the link – the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with the presidential demarche contending: “Despite the Government of Iran’s public rhetoric claiming… Continue reading
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Media Lens: If At First You Don’t Succeed – Four Decades Of US-UK Attempts To Topple Gaddafi
Behind a wall of silence, the US and UK have been conducting over the last four decades a massive, largely secret war against Libya – often using Chad, the country lying on its southern border, as its base. The current attacks on Col. Gadafi’s troops and attempts to assassinate the Libyan leader with the US… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 1-2 May 2011: NATO Bombers butcher Gadaffi relatives
2 May 2011 — williambowles.info 2 May 2011 SCF: The Agony of Libya: What can be done (II) SCF: Libya Faces Attacks Against Civilian Infrastructures and Tough Information Warfare Mathaba News: Join The Fact Finding Mission in Libya Mathaba News: US Intervention in Syria Stop NATO News: May 1, 2011 1 May 2011 Global Researcg: Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 1 May 2011: ‘Humanitarian’ war escalating
1 May 2011 — williambowles.info 1 May 2011 Greenleft: Libya: ‘Humanitarian’ war escalating The Independent: Nato action ‘in line’ with policy, says Cameron williambowles.info: Nil Nikandrov – US and NATO in Libya: International banditry turned into legitimate strategy BBC: Nato strike ‘kills Gaddafi’s son’ Dandelion Salad: Obama Doctrine Allows for Regime Change by Assassination by Continue reading
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Nil Nikandrov – US and NATO in Libya: International banditry turned into legitimate strategy
As of today, Libyan security service seems successful at keeping M. Gadhafi safe amidst the West’s air raids. Targeting him, NATO drones dropped ‘point strikes’ which left schools, hospitals, and shopping malls in ruins, but Libya’s defiant leader remained unharmed. The Libyan security service also manages to shield Gadhafi from the death squads sent by… Continue reading
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