Rape in Libya: America’s Recent Wars have all been Accompanied by Memorable Falsehoods By Prof Peter Dale Scott

3 June 13, 2011 — Global ResearchThe Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 9, Issue 24

When the war-going get tough, the professional P.R.Campaigns get Going

It is a troubled Time for NATO’s campaign against Libya. President Obama has seen a near-revolt in Congress against the costly war, while Defense Secretary Gates in Brussels has warned his European allies that their tepid response “is putting the Libya mission and the alliance’s very future at risk.”1 Back home, according to the London Daily Mail, “Mr Gates has requested extra funds for Libya operations, but has been rebuffed by the White House.”2

 

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Information Clearing House Newsletter 15 June, 2011: US Kills 130 People In Yemen

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

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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. 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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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 …
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/15/politics/main20071286.shtml

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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

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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 factions win the Yemeni power …
http://www.9and10news.com/Category/Story/?id=294090&cID=3

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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

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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 postponed …
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/15/bahrain.journalists.trial/

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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/

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Low-End High Design and the Butterfly Effect By Greg Lindsay

14 June 2011 — Solidarity Economy

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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].

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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 …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-15/turkey-spurns-assistance-as-syria-s-attack-on-town-forces-more-to-flee.html

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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 Reject NATO
  • Serbian Patriarch Condemns NATO
  • Montenegro Being Prepared As NATO’s 29th Member
  • Pentagon Appoints New Military Command For Kyrgyz Transit Center
  • McCain Demands Russian Withdrawal From Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transdniester

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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 Press The Canadian …
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/06/14/pol-libya-debate.html

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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 least four detainees were injured.

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Information Clearing House Newsletter 14 June, 2011: Who Owns You?

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

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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 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

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