July 23, 2011
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Student Questions From Tripoli By Franklin Lamb
One thing most foreigners and the local population agree on in western Libya is that there were few signs in early February that eastern Libya would erupt as it did and many are still unclear what and who caused it and why and how. But when half a dozen bright, energetic, nationalistic Libyan under and… Continue reading
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Murdoch’s World: Demagoguery, Propaganda, Scandal, Sleaze and Warmongering By Stephen Lendman
For sure Murdoch sustained a body blow. Calling it coup de grace strength, however, exaggerates how News Corp will be affected. It likely will survive long after its aging head steps down, but imagine a Murdoch-free media landscape. Then imagine freedom from all managed and junk food news. Tune out and make it happen. Continue reading
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NATO War on Libya in an Impasse: Another take on Libya Hubris for China By Peter Lee
Western self-regard was on full display in a United States headline describing the Libya Contact Group confab in Istanbul over the weekend. It read: World leaders open Libya talks in Turkey. Well, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was there. Much-diminished leaders of 19th-century world powers Britain and France – and first millennium world power… Continue reading
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Video: Mutilated pro-Gaddafi soldiers found dead in rebel-controlled area – report — RT
A mass grave believed to contain the remains of Gaddafi loyalists has been discovered in the Nafusa Mountains in Libya, adding to concerns over the way the Libyan rebels treat captives and the civil population in territories under its control. Continue reading
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Video: Mutilated pro-Gaddafi soldiers found dead in rebel-controlled area – report — RT
A mass grave believed to contain the remains of Gaddafi loyalists has been discovered in the Nafusa Mountains in Libya, adding to concerns over the way the Libyan rebels treat captives and the civil population in territories under its control. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 21-23 July 2011
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info 23 July 2011 Why Murdoch is Not a Fit and Proper Person Craig Murray Today at 12:21 craigHateful lying racist propaganda. That’s the real reason. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 23 July 2011
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks files show Norway unprepared for terror attack Telegraph.co.uk Norway’s intelligence service had previously been criticised for its failure to keep track of suspected terror cells and the country was felt to be complacent about the prospect of a terror attack, secret cables from the WikiLeaks files reveal. … http://www.telegraph.co.uk/8655964/WikiLeaks-files-show-Norway-unprepared-for-terror-attack.html Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 23, 2011
23 July 2011 — Stop NATO Libya: NATO Strikes Civilian Targets NATO Attack Helicopters Intensify Raids Along Libyan Coast Jordanians Hold Demonstration Against U.S. Interference In Region Georgia: U.S. Marines Train ‘High-Quality Combat Units’ Japanese F-15s Arrive For Red Flag-Alaska Continue reading
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In Past Ten Years U.S. Has Expanded Military Network Throughout The World By Rick Rozoff
The unprecedented expansion of American military presence throughout the world in the last decade, in support of and consolidated by attacks and invasions in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen and Libya, has been marked by the Pentagon securing new bases in several continents and Oceania. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 22, 2011
22 July 2011 — Stop NATO 126-Day War: Over 16,000 NATO Air Missions, Over 6,000 Strike Sorties Libyan War: Pentagon Considers NATO Request For More Drones Libya: Bishop Laments NATO’s Rejection Of Ramadan Truce NATO’s Women Warmongers Video And Text: Mutilated Government Soldiers Found In Rebel-Held Libya AFRICOM Commander In Gambia For 40-Nation Military Exercise Continue reading
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Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine By Michel Chossudovsky
Somalia is now facing widespread famine. According to reports, tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in the last few months. The lives of several million people are threatened. The mainstream media casually attributes the famine to a severe drought without examining the broader causes. Continue reading
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Pakistan vs the US: Moving on By Eric Walberg
The latest Mumbai bombings were not obviously the work of Pakistani extremists, but reflect the unrest thanks to America’s continued reckless policies of escalation in the region, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Update from the Electronic Intifada 22 July 2011:Pappe on statehood bid | Finland arms deal | Cook on boycott law | Beer Sheva mosque struggle
22 July 2011 — Electronic Intifada RECENT BLOG POSTS ON THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar wants to stamp your passport http://electronicintifada.net/blog/maureen/palestinian-artist-khaled-jarrar-wants-stamp-your-passport Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks 22-23 July 2011
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info Hacking In Brief: 23/07/2011 The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at Midnight News Corp executive ‘leaked Cable story’ Ian Burrell Kroll, the global corporate investigations company, has named a top News Corp executive as the strong suspect in ‘orchestrating’ the leak of a tape which led to the downfall Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 July, 2011: For Lieberman, human rights = terrorism
22 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Weekly Nonviolent protest Held In Ni’lin IMEMC – Saturday July 23, 2011 – 01:04, Local sources reported Friday that dozens of Palestinian residents of Ni’lin village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by Israeli and international peace activists, held the Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter July 22, 2011: Weekend Edition – The Enemy Is Washington
22 July 2011 — Information Clearing House “Stop The Machine! Create A New World” By October 2011 It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28662.htm Continue reading
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Outsourcing power (and its consequences) By William Bowles
In a sense the corporate press and the state have been hoisted by their own petard: by outsourcing propaganda to the corporate media it has exposed the media as an integral component of state/corporate control but one no longer under the direct control of the Establishment. Ergo, the arrogant bastards who run News Corp. Continue reading
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