May 2011
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 May, 2011: Protester Who Heckled Netanyahu Beaten
25 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House Dispatch From Tripoli NATO’s Feast of Blood By Cynthia McKinney NATO only attacks (as does the US and its allies) the poor and underprivileged of the 3rd world. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28182.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 23 May, 2011: The U.S.: Where Europe Comes to Slum
23 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House Killing Our Way To Defeat Obama’s Private Killing Machine By Frontline – PBS They’re known as “JSOC” — Joint Special Operations Command. They report directly to the president and, “operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directive.” John Nagl, a former counterinsurgency adviser Continue reading
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Why are we banking on banks to a promote economic recovery? By Danny Schecter
This week the financial crisis finally went prime time in the form of a big budget HBO docudrama called “Too Big To Fail.” Continue reading
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NATO airstrikes kill 19 civilians in Tripoli – Libyan TV
NATO airstrikes on Libyan capital, Tripoli, killed at least 19 civilians over the past 24 hours, the Libyan state television reported. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: May 24, 2011
24 May 2011 — Stop NATO “Thought It Was Day Of Judgment”: Heaviest NATO Bombing Of Tripoli Yet 67-Day Air War: Over 8,000 NATO Air Missions, Over 3,000 Combat Flights Attack Helicopter Deployment Brings NATO Closer To Libyan Ground War Washington To Host Libyan Rebel Office U.S. Drone Attacks In Pakistan: 32 Strikes, At Least Continue reading
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“Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt” – Samir Amin
Libya Is Neither Tunisia nor Egypt. The (Gaddafi) bloc in power and the forces fighting against it have no analogues in Tunisia or Egypt. Gaddafi has never been anything but a clown whose vacuous thought is reflected in the famous ‘Green Book.’ Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 24 May 2011: France, NATO to deploy helicopters in Libya
24 May 2011 — williambowles.info NATO Says Blast Kills 4 Service Members in Afghanistan Fox News In a separate incident, NATO says four of its service members have been killed by an explosion in eastern Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan – NATO says four of its service members have been killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan. Continue reading
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The Media Is a Curable Disease By David Swanson
Meanwhile, back in the land where every goddam airport and hotel lobby blares Fox News at you, our free and independent press has the drawback of all agreeing with itself about almost everything. There’s no anti-Fox News. There’s very little investigative, independent, anti-authoritarian reporting of any sort. Newspapers are dying out, and with them the… Continue reading
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Commentary: Libya overshadowed by “Kosovo model” By Wu Liming
In the 21st century, some Western countries take ‘neo-interventionism’ as their standard practice and even try to apply the so-called ‘Kosovo model’ elsewhere in the world. This should ring an alarm bell to the international community. Continue reading
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Nabeel Rajab: Bahrain situation beyond explanation + Protesters sentenced to death
An emergency appeals court in Bahrain has upheld the death sentences of two men accused of running over two police officers during anti-government protests Continue reading
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Michel Camilo ‘Blue Bossa’
23 May 2011 — Jazz on the Tube Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Humanitarian Ship to Enter Gaza Territorial Waters, Break the Blockade By Michel Chossudovsky and Julie Lévesque
23 May, 2011 — Global Research UPDATE Monday 23 May At 8.33am EDT (14.33pm local time) The Spirit of Rachel Corrie lifted anchor and started sailing towards Gaza. UPDATE: 9:53pm EDT, Egypt time 3:53pm “The Egyptian Navy is forcing us out of their territorial waters and has asked us to go to international waters. One Egyptian Continue reading
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Jeju Island: My Solidarity Fast Begins Today Bruce K. Gagnon
I have decided to begin an open-ended fast today in solidarity with Yang Yoon-Mo and the other eight leaders recently arrested for trying to stop the Navy base construction in the Gangjeong village on Jeju Island. By my calculations, professor Yang is now on his 49th day of his hunger strike. Continue reading
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BBC is ‘confusing cause and effect’ in its Israeli coverage By Tim Llewellyn
More than two years after Operation Cast Lead, the BBC continues to confuse cause and effect – Israeli attacks are always reported as retaliation to Palestinian violence or rockets, and the idea that Palestinian rockets, however ineffective, are armed resistance to Israel’s hammering from land, sea and air is rarely broadcast. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: 23 May, 2011: NATO To Deploy Attack Helicopters For Libyan War
23 May 2011 — Stop NATO Libya: Nearly 8,000 NATO Air Missions, Over 3,000 Combat Flights NATO To Deploy Attack Helicopters For Libyan War U.S. Missiles In Europe Can Fuel New Arms Race: Russian Military Chief Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Eastern Afghanistan U.S. Drone Attack Kills At Least Four In Pakistan United Arab Emirates Continue reading
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Video footage of interview with Miko Peled on his new book, The General’s Son
Miko Peled is an Israeli peace activist, and the son of the late Israeli war hero, General Matti Peled. Miko expresses his views very clearly Continue reading
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Hasan Hijazi interviewed on Israeli TV, a Palestine refugee who came in from Syria
Video footage of Hasan Hijazi, a Palestine refugee who came in from Syria, being interviewed on Israeli TV while sightseeing in Yafa Continue reading
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Video footage of Palestine refugees crossing from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
Video footage of Hasan Hijazi, a Palestine refugee who came in from Syria, being interviewed on Israeli TV while sightseeing in Yafa Continue reading
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Disclosure and Deceit: Secrecy as the Manipulation of History, not its Concealment By Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Julian Assange is quoted as saying that when he receives documents classified under the UK Official Secrets Act he responds in accordance with the letter of the law – since it is forbidden to withhold or destroy, his only option is to publish. The question remains for historians, investigators, and educated citizens: what is the… Continue reading
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