June 2011
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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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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 June, 2011: Jewish settlers vandalize mosque in Ramallah
7 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US Seeks To Maintain Central Role In Peace Process IMEMC – Tuesday June 07, 2011 – 15:37, The US has signalled that it intends to maintain its leading position in facilitating Middle East peace talks with its announcement of discussions aimed at renewing the… Continue reading
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Libya: a Deafening Silence: Escalation in yet another Bloody NATO War By Jody McIntyre
So now we are sending Apache jets to bomb Libyan civilians. An escalation in yet another bloody NATO war. Or, in the words of Colonel Jason Etherington, “it just brings something else to the party.” Continue reading
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Human rights fact-finders show Libyan deaths, injuries not ‘propaganda’ By Deborah Dupre
In the CIA kick-started war on Libya, The New York Times report Monday by John F. Burns, calling Libyan civilian casualties “propaganda,” does not square with a series of WBAIX in-hospital interviews with civilian victim survivors of US/NATO intensifying bomb raids, both witnessed by a human rights fact-finding mission including Cynthia McKinney and former MPs… Continue reading
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Unarmed Naksa Day demonstration meets brutal Israeli repression
7 June 2011 Qualandia 5 June 2011 Continue reading
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Syria may become another Iraq – author — RT
France and Britain are building the diplomatic pressure against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying he has lost his legitimacy. They are calling for a special UN resolution on Syria, which Russia strongly opposes. Author Jean Bricmont says that what France and Britain are doing is ‘crazy.’ Continue reading
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Media Manipulation and the Endless Onslaught of Empire Selected Articles
7 June 2011 — Global Research Media Manipulation: The Propaganda Machine at Work VIDEO: Mladic Arrest Will Not Open EU Doors to Serbia Watch the interview on GRTV – by Boris Malagurski – 2011-06-07 Continue reading
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Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is reponsible say Israel, US
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the… Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 7 June 2011
7 June 2011 — williambowles.info Morning Star: Help for expats in war zone by Our Foreign DeskBBC: Yemen’s Saleh ‘gravely wounded’BBC: Clashes rock south Yemen citiesSCF: Iran urges Yemeni people not to allow foreign meddlingUK marines on Yemen exit standbySocialist Worker: Yemen after Saleh?SCF: EU leaders call on Yemeni people to reconcile Continue reading
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Going Rogue: NATO War Crimes in Libya By Susan Lindauer
It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels or else rape them in front of… Continue reading
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McCoy Tyner ‘Giant Steps’
McCoy Tyner’s solo piano work is an all-too-rare confined to opening numbers at some concerts and the occasional solo album. This 1996 Hamburg appearance features his mentor John Coltrane’s classic “Giant Steps.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 