3 June 13, 2011 — Global Research — The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 9, Issue 24
When the war-going get tough, the professional P.R.Campaigns get Going
3 June 13, 2011 — Global Research — The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 9, Issue 24
When the war-going get tough, the professional P.R.Campaigns get Going
15 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House
US Kills 130 People In Yemen
By Hakim Almasmari
“The Yemeni government did not allow the US to conduct random attacks in the country, though it has agreed to cooperate in the fight against al Qa’eda,” said Tareq Shami, the ruling party’s spokesman.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28334.htm
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. The charter activists claim the NAACP is dividing the community, but that division was orchestrated 15 years ago, when the right-wing Bradley Foundation created the Black private school voucher “movement” out of whole cloth.
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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 …
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/15/politics/main20071286.shtml
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
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 factions win the Yemeni power …
http://www.9and10news.com/Category/Story/?id=294090&cID=3
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
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 postponed …
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/15/bahrain.journalists.trial/
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/
15 June 2011 — The Real News Network
Greg Wilpert: Methodology of report mostly based on views of opposition experts
14 June 2011 — Solidarity Economy
Egyptian Woman with Cell Phone
China’s Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments
1. Enter The Shanzhai
In 2004, a Taiwanese electronics firm named MediaTek [1] unveiled its latest product–a cell-phone-in-a-box aimed at manufacturers, equipped with everything they needed to make the guts of a working phone on one chipset. Write some software, add features, and snap a plastic case on the front and you’ve produced a new model. It was an immediate hit with China’s notorious counterfeiters, the shanzhai [2].
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 …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-15/turkey-spurns-assistance-as-syria-s-attack-on-town-forces-more-to-flee.html
15 June 2011 — Stop NATO
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 Press The Canadian …
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/14/pol-libya-debate.html
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 least four detainees were injured.
14 June 2011 — IPS ipsnews.net
NEW YORK, Jun 10, 2011 (IPS) – 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.
14 June 2011 — IPS ipsnews.net
NEW YORK, Jun 10, 2011 (IPS) – 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.
14 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House
Yet Another Illegal War — Now in Yemen
By Glenn Greenwald
Contrary to false denials, the U.S., under the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been bombing Yemen for the last two years, including one attack using cluster bombs that killed dozens of civilians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28332.htm
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 format; then, after a long hiatus, it became ColdType2, an e-magazine inside ColdType.net. After a couple of issues, we switched to the less-confusing ColdType Reader. Now, with our 57th issue, we’re back where we began: ColdType. – Tony Sutton, editor