June 8, 2011
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Events in Syria -taking sides against imperialist intervention by International Action Center
The progressive political movement must avoid being just an echo and a justification of Pentagon war policy, especially whenever any developing country is in the cross hairs of a U.S. attack. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info SCF: China calls for prompt ceasefire in Libya North Africa NATO Plans for Libya Without Gadhafi Voice of America NATO says it is committed to its military campaign against forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and is preparing for a Libya without the authoritarian leader. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Continue reading
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Turkey’s Not-So-Subtle Shift on Syria By M K Bhadrakumar
The conclave at Antalya was entitled “Change in Syria”. Ankara would go ballistic if a neighboring country did to it such a thing. The conclave at Antalya didn’t happen accidentally, either. It was well planned. Turkish authorities allowed it to go ahead but with one caveat: no Kurdish political parties would be invited. The Syrian… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, June 8, 2011: “Del Silencio a la Memoria: Acto para celebrar el Informe del AHPN”
The National Security Archive publishes a copy of the report “Of Silence to the Memory: Revelations of the Historical File of the National Police”. Hoy, el National Security Archive publica en su sitio de web una copia del informe “Del Silencio a la Memoria: Revelaciones del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional”. Continue reading
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The rights of Israel By Joseph Massad
Israel’s entire basis for beginning negotiations lies in the false premise that it has a ‘right’ to exist Continue reading
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After the spring By Sama Ramadami
Sami Ramadani considers the response to the popular uprisings from the region’s dictators and other reactionary forces, as well as the role of imperialism Continue reading
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Apartheid, Sand Nigger Style: The Tunisian Model for a New Colonialism in Libya? By Nathaniel X. Turner
The Great White Fathers of Europe and the United States excel in lies, lies and damnable lies. ‘’Humanitarian intervention’ by Europeans in Africa is always a subterfuge for theft, mass murder, and sadism’ – Europe’s main export to the world. ‘This is a new scramble for the African Continent.’ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 8 June 2011: Fake Prison Reform – The Real Deal on Libya – Obama's Black Critics
8 June 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left What Fake Reform of the Prison State Looks Like: Georgia’s Criminal Justice Reform Commission by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In Georgia, where prisoners staged a brief and courageous strike for their human rights last December, the state’s Continue reading
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U.S. Agency Sabotages Haiti Earthquake Aid By Glen Ford
It was the unkindest cut of all. A U.S. Agency for International Development report claims Haiti, the United Nations and the Red Cross all conspired to exaggerate the death and displacement toll from last year’s earthquake. In doing so, it ‘calls into question both Haiti’s financial needs and the trustworthiness of its government.’ There are… Continue reading
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Libyan rebels are foreign terrorists – Russian Communist leader
The leader of the Russian Communist Party believes the so-called opposition in Libya is made up of employees of foreign oil companies and terrorists. Continue reading
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NATO’s “Alternate Universe” in Libya By Wayne Madsen
The Pentagon and its NATO partners are engaged in one of the most obvious and intensive propaganda ploys in their military operations against Libya since the days leading up to the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ attack on Iraq. Suggestions that the government of Muammar Qaddafi is on its last legs and that life in Tripoli… Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info NATO: Time to plan for post-Gadhafi Libya CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: “We will keep up the pressure for as long as it takes.” (CNN) — It is time to start planning for what to do in Libya after leader Moammar Gadhafi’s Continue reading
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Promised Crossing Denied By Mohammed Omer
RAFAH, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) – Many hoping to find free movement between Egypt and Gaza have found the border gates at the Rafah crossing closed. Egyptian officials closed the gates on Saturday, according to Palestinian officials. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 8, 2011
8 June 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s Libyan Air War: 10,177 Sorties, 3,860 Combat Missions Sixty Blasts Tear Through Tripoli As NATO Steps Up Bombing NATO Defense Chiefs Discuss Libya As Tripoli Bombing Is Intensified No NATO Operations In Syria And Yemen…Except With UN Resolutions Expanded Shanghai Cooperation Organization Can Offset U.S.-Dominated Unipolar World, Eastern Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info Yemen: Political talks open as Saleh recovers in Riyadh BBC News Yemen’s ruling party has opened talks with the country’s main opposition coalition following the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. Protesters have called on the acting president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, …www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13693731 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: India told US to beware of Pakistan’s ‘game’ in Afghanistan The Express Tribune A WikiLeaks cable filed by US Political Counselor Uzra Zeya in New Delhi in February last year contains details of his meeting with YK Sinha, India’s A/S equivalent for Afghanistan. The US diplomat wrote: Sinha told Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info US presses crown prince to ease Bahrain crackdown Los Angeles Times Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bahrain’s crown prince, Salman bin Hamad Khalifa, speak with reporters at the State Department. (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images / June 7, 2011) By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times President Obama pressed Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info 1 in 4 US Hackers are FBI Informants, Report Says PCWorld The Guardian gives the example of Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker who ratted out Bradley Manning last year. Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst, passed classified documents on to Lamo, who turned around and passed those documents right back Continue reading
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Corporate Media’s Capital Crimes Against Libya – and Humanity By Glen Ford
Western reporters in Tripoli dismiss the casualties inflicted by their own countries’ bombs on Libyan civilians, but are careful to alert NATO when they themselves venture outside their hotels. The war criminals and their corporate media are morally – and probably legally – indistinguishable. Continue reading
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