23 July 2011 — Countercurrents
Al Nasser University, Tripoli: ‘When I grow up, I want to be just like you guys,’ this increasingly flaccid middle-aged American visitor joked to his teenage to early 30’s Libyan interlocutors, as we parted last night and promised to meet again soon to continue our dialogue on our chosen subject of ‘What the hell is going on in Libya and why?’
23 July 2011 — Mathaba
Famed journalist George Seldes (1890 – 1995) condemned press prostitutes in books like ‘Lords of the Press,’ denouncing their corruption, suppression of truth, and news censorship before television reached large audiences, saying:
‘The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself – the most powerful force against the general welfare of the majority of the people.’
21 July 2011 — Global Research – Asian Times
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. [1]
22 July 2011 — 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.
The five mutilated bodies were found in a water tank just off the main road between Zintan, the area’s main town, and Al-Qawalish, according to The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
22 July 2011 — 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.
The five mutilated bodies were found in a water tank just off the main road between Zintan, the area’s main town, and Al-Qawalish, according to The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info
23 July 2011
Why Murdoch is Not a Fit and Proper Person
Craig Murray Today at 12:21 craig
Hateful lying racist propaganda. That’s the real reason.
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
23 July 2011 — Stop NATO
22 July 2011 — Stop NATO
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.
22 July 2011 — Stop NATO
21 July 2011 — Global Research
For the last twenty years, Somalia has been entangled in a “civil war” amidst the destruction of both its rural and urban economies.
The country 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.
22 July 2011 — 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
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
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 of Business Secretary Vince Cable, who claimed he had ‘declared war’ on Rupert Murdoch.
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 weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements built on Palestinian lands. Soldiers attacked the protesters and fired gas bombs at them, several injuries were reported.
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
23 July 2011
For well over a century the British state has relied on its professional civil service (known as the Establishment and for reasons I hope that become apparent) to maintain the status quo and whilst the state has had to make concessions over time (eg, universal suffrage, legalize trade unions and eventually establish the ‘welfare state’) the Establishment’s primary function is to preserve the rule of Capital, regardless of the party in power. Thus continuity is preserved through the role of a permanent and unelected elite run by the ‘Whitehall Mandarins’.
The New Dark Age 
