June 15, 2011
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Rape in Libya: America’s Recent Wars have all been Accompanied by Memorable Falsehoods By Prof Peter Dale Scott
The past history of American wars tells us that, when the war-going begins to get tough, the professional p.r. campaigns get going, often with wholly invented stories. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 June 2011: Charters Divide Blacks / McKinney in Libya / Lupe Fiasco and Obama
15 June 2011 — Black Agenda Report How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Charter school supporters are denouncing the NAACP for filing suit, along with the teachers union, against preferential – separate but unequal – treatment of charter schools in New York City. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 15 June 2011: Cameron humiliates first sea lord over Libya in Commons
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info 10 US lawmakers sue Obama over Libya strikes CBS News President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, March 28, 2011. (AP) WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers is suing President Barack Obama for taking military action against Libya without … Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 15 June 2011
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info Grapel denies Mossad ties Ynetnews Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm reports Israeli held in Egypt told interrogators information he sent friends via email didn’t was not confidential, could be found online. Meanwhile, Al Ahram daily insists Grapel ‘an important element within Mossad’ … http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4082378,00.html Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks for 15 June 2011: CIA to send armed drones into Yemen
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info UN official calls for Syria probe…US preps for Yemen problems 9&10 News WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is getting ready in case the worst happens in Yemen. The US is building a secret CIA air base in the Persian Gulf region to target al-Qaida terrorists there in case anti-American Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks for 15 June 2011: South Africa condemns NATO attacks on Libya
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info Who Needs NATO? New York Times Americans have been grumbling about the failure of the European partners in NATO to pull their weight almost since the organization was founded in 1949. “Because we had our troops there, the Europeans had not done their share,” President Eisenhower … http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/opinion/16iht-edwheatcroft16.html Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks for 15 June 2011: Bahrain to sue Independent newspaper over articles
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info Ex-editors of opposition Bahraini newspaper to go on trial CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — The trial of three Bahraini opposition journalists accused of fabricating news to disrupt peace during the civil unrest in the Gulf state adjourned after a few minutes Wednesday. Civilian High Court judges Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 15 June 2011: Wikileaks Haiti cables show US deployed troops after the earthquake before Haiti granted permission
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Asks For Anonymous Bitcoin Donations Forbes (blog) By ANDY GREENBERG WikiLeaks was built on the idea of anonymous, untraceable transfers of digital information. Now it wants to fill its coffers with equally untraceable injections of digital cash. On Tuesday the secret-spilling group announced via … http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/06/14/wikileaks-asks-for-anonymous-bitcoin-donations/ Continue reading
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“Rule of Law” Report Targets Venezuela
Greg Wilpert: Methodology of report mostly based on views of opposition experts Continue reading
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Low-End High Design and the Butterfly Effect By Greg Lindsay
In 2004, MediaTek sold 3 million of its chips [3]; six years later, its sales had soared to 500 million, more than a third of the worldwide market. Nearly half of those went to shanzhai. The sudden ability to design, manufacture, and ship millions of dirt-cheap handsets in total secrecy led to an explosion in… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks for 15 June 2011
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info Turkey Spurns Assistance as Syria’s Attack on Town Forces More to Flee Bloomberg “Maybe this stems from Syria’s special status and Turkey doesn’t want to involve the international community, but this is an international crisis.” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will visit the camps holding Syrian refugees on his country’s Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 15, 2011
15 June 2011 — Stop NATO Huge Columns Of Smoke Over Tripoli After NATO Strikes U.S., French Amphibious Assault Ships Link Up In Mediterranean Britain Mulls Continuing War In Libya Global Military Dominance Becoming Unaffordable When Will U.S. And NATO Decide It’s Venezuela’s Turn? Belgrade: NATO Conference Has Tri-Continental Military Significance Overwhelming Majority Of Serbs Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 14 June 2011
14 June 2011 — williambowles.info LIVE: Canada backs Libyan opposition, as MPs debate mission CBC.ca By Laura Payton, CBC News Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird delivers a speech during the debate on the mission in Libya in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 14, 2011. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 June, 2011: Gaza: Young Palestinians Lead a Global Movement
14 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Attacks Political Prisoners In Qidar Prison, Four Injured IMEMC – Wednesday June 15, 2011 – 01:01, Israel soldiers attacked on Tuesday the Qidar Prison, and violently attacked Palestinian political prisoners before transferring more than half of them to the Ramon detention facility; at Continue reading
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The War in Libya: The African Union’s Mistake of Policy and Principle By Dr. Kwame Akonor
Africa’s handling of the Libyan crisis at the United Nations has been timorous and confusing, but it presents an opportunity as well as a challenge for the continental body on how it defines its future strategic interests. Continue reading
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The War in Libya: The African Union's Mistake of Policy and Principle By Dr. Kwame Akonor
Africa’s handling of the Libyan crisis at the United Nations has been timorous and confusing, but it presents an opportunity as well as a challenge for the continental body on how it defines its future strategic interests. Continue reading
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ColdType June-July 2011 Issue
14 June 2011 — Coldtype Download in pdf format at http://www.coldtype.net 1. Back to the, er, past . . . This month we’ve changed our name from The ColdType Reader back to the original, and simpler, title of ColdType. It’s the third time we’ve changed our name: the first incarnation of ColdType was in tabloidprinted Continue reading
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