July 2011
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“Gaddafi is a survivor” — RT
NATO is surrendering in Libya. The alliance did not realize that the operation would take so much time and effort, Stephen Brown, contributing editor to FrontPage Magazine, told RT. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 13, 2011
13 July 2011 — Stop NATO 117-Day War: France Extends Libyan Military Mission Poll: 68% Of Israelis Back NATO Membership, 60% NATO Troops In Palestine Georgia: Base To Be Used For Training NATO Militaries Afghanistan: NATO Air Strike Kills Four Civilians In Kunar Province Latvia: French NATO Jet Scrambled On Intercept Mission Commentary: End U.S. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 12 July 2011: How The Empire Rationalizes Murder
12 July 2011 — Information Clearing House How The Empire Rationalizes Murder Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war? By Sanjeev Miglani The idea that the United States can arrogate to itself the right of life and death of people around the world can set off a dangerous precedent. Continue Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 July, 2011: 4.2 million Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza Strip
12 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Over Two Thousand Jewish Americans And Canadians Make Aliyah This Summer IMEMC – Tuesday July 12, 2011 – 19:35, Twenty-five hundred Jewish Americans and Canadians are expected to immigrate to Israel this summer of 2011. The immigrants will be residing in areas with Continue reading
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Ahmad Karzai: From dishwasher to drug kingpin BY Eric Walberg
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house, according to Kandahar’s Canadian Governor Tooryali Wesa. He was shot in the head and chest with a AK-47 fired by Sardar Mohammad, a former bodyguard to another Karzai brother Qayyoum. Continue reading
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Video: Dan and Dan in "NOTW'
12 July 2011 Dan & Dan are back with a scathing, coruscating piece of satire that will leave Murdoch humiliated and frankly begging for mercy. Continue reading
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Video: Dan and Dan in “NOTW’
12 July 2011 Dan & Dan are back with a scathing, coruscating piece of satire that will leave Murdoch humiliated and frankly begging for mercy. Continue reading
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Press Release: News Corp’s Hack Shows a Double Standard
The explosive allegations about widespread illegal voicemail hacking by British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch are getting very little coverage on Murdoch’s Fox News Channel (TVNewser, 7/12/11). But Fox’s top host took a very different view when a Republican politician’s email account was hacked, calling for the prosecution of the website that published the emails. Continue reading
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Economic Abyss and Empire Run Amok: Selected Articles
12 July 2011 — Global Research The Global Economic Abyss Big Banks Waging Warfare Against the People of the World – by Washington’s Blog – 2011-07-12 Continue reading
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News Corp Newslinks 12 July 2011
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info Murdoch agrees to face MPs:The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at 17:43 Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks have agreed to appear before MPs next week to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal, it was revealed tonigh” Continue reading
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Syria News Roundup: The Beginning of the End of the Syrian Revolt? Syrians for BHL
Bernard Henri Levy? . . . He was one of the first to enter the shattered remains of Jenin on board a Zionist tank to express his admiration for the Israeli army’s excellent work in ethnic cleansing and genocide…This is the man who has taken the job of ‘liberating’ Syria. Continue reading
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Pakistan, the Army and the Conflict Within By Pervez Hoodhboy, Zia Mian
The single most important change needed is that the army must stop seeing everything through the prism of competition and war with India. Six decades of this policy has left Pakistan exhausted and indifferent to its own suffering. Continue reading
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The end of Murdoch media?
Yesterday Murdoch pulled a last minute manoeuvre to exclude his company’s outrageous hacking practices from the BSKyB deal review. Let’s call on the government to immediately rule that the Murdochs aren’t fit and proper to own half our commercial media. Tomorrow this will be debated in Parliament. Let’s beat the Murdoch mafia – sign the… Continue reading
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The Fourth Estate is bankrupt By William Bowles
How can such a press be considered free or independent in any real sense of the word? Controlled either by the state or three large corporations, the MSM plays an intrinsic role in maintaining the status quo and it does it quite openly. Until now that is… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 12 July 2011: UN official says US breaks rules in torture probe
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info The Conscience & Agency of Bradley Manning Firedoglake With previously unreleased instant message chat logs, Steve Fishman for New York Magazine published a feature story July 3, 2011, that further examined the accused whistleblower to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning. It looked at his family life before going … http://my.firedoglake.com/kgosztola/2011/07/11/the-conscience-agency-of-bradley-manning/ Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 12 July 2011
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in court for extradition hearing Telegraph.co.uk WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived at the High Court today for an appeal against being extradited to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Julian Assange is challenging a ruling by District Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court in … http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8631859/WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-in-court-for-extradition-hearing.html Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 12 July 2011
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info Syria beefs up security at embassies after attacks The Associated Press Mobs broke windows at both embassies Monday to protest a visit last week by the American and French ambassadors to the opposition stronghold of Hama in central Syria. The French Foreign Ministry said three embassy workers were injured. … Continue reading
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Rachel Corrie’s family claim Israeli military withheld vital video evidence
American activist’s father says incomplete footage was given to court hearing into his daughter’s death in Gaza Continue reading
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Let them eat doughnuts: the US response to Bahrain's oppression By Mehdi Hasan
Syria was subjected to sanctions and Libya to air strikes; Bahrain, however, was rewarded with visits from the Pentagon’s two most senior officials – the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, and the then defence secretary, Robert Gates Continue reading
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The boycott law subverts Israeli democracy — Haaretz
Knesset members who vote for the anti-Boycott Law must understand they are supporting the gagging of protest in an effort to liquidate democracy. Continue reading