June 2011
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Media Lens: Ten Years Of Media Lens – Operation Rheinübung
Working on Media Lens has given us ten years of first-hand experience of just how tightly discussion can be controlled in an ostensibly democratic society. No matter how carefully we have formulated our questions, no matter how politely we have delivered them, we have been branded angry, irrational, unworthy of attention. Continue reading
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US breathes life into a new cold war By M K Bhadrakumar
America, one of the most cynical superpowers in history, struts around the globe creating havoc unimpeded. Where’s the champion to relieve humanity of this newfangled pestilence? Continue reading
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Special Report: Foreign Military Intervention in Libya
NATO has resumed operations over Tripoli, as aircraft launched strikes on the heart of the capital. The renewed bombardment comes after a brief respite that followed the heaviest day of bombing since the campaign began. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 June, 2011: Gaddafi's daughter files “war crimes” lawsuit related to NATO air strike that killed relatives
8 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House “Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.” – African Proverb Libya: A Deafening Silence By Jody McIntyre We have been sold on a false premise, and, as Noam Chomsky would say, have allowed the manufacture of our consent. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28282.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 June, 2011: Israeli forces ransack Nablus offices of the Change and Reform Bloc
8 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Wine Bottles Smashed In Al-Aqsa Compound IMEMC – Wednesday June 08, 2011 – 17:56, Local sources report that a number of Jewish settlers broke into the al-Aqsa compound and began drinking wine and smashing bottles on the floor. Continue reading
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As Rigging Came to Light: US, EU Backed Haitian Election, Deeming “Too Much Invested” to Pull Out By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
The United States and other international donors decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections despite believing that the country’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), “almost certainly in conjunction with President Préval,” had unwisely and unjustly excluded the country’s largest party, the Lavalas Family, according to a secret U.S. Embassy cable dated Dec. 4, 2009… Continue reading
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Would A $5-A-Day Minimum Wage Make Life Better In Haiti? By Adam Davidson
8 June 2011 — National Public Radio Today, The Nation and Haiti Liberte posted a story about some Wikileaks memos that reveal that “Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the U.S. Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers.”… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
The United States, the European Union and the United Nations decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections despite believing that the country’s electoral body, “almost certainly in conjunction with President Preval,” had “emasculated the opposition” by unwisely and unjustly excluding the country’s largest party, according to a secret US Embassy cable. Continue reading
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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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