July 2011
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Video: Debtocracy
For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. “Debtocracy” seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. English subtitles. Continue reading
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The Limits of Acceptable Controversy By Dan Hind
The British media in their current form can neither regulate themselves or report adequately on their own activities. These failures must be added to their demonstrable inability to describe the broad outlines of the economic system in the run-up to the crisis of 2007-8, and their failure to expose the government’s manipulations and deceits in… Continue reading
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Report: Ground Invasion of Libya Within Two Weeks? By Paul Joseph Watson
In a piece entitled, US and NATO prepare final assault on Qaddafi, DebkaFile cites military sources for its contention that NATO powers are finalizing plans for a “large-scale, all-out military bid to kill or oust” Colonel Gaddafi. Continue reading
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NATO War Crimes: Depleted Uranium Found in Libya by Scientists By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
War crimes and crimes against humanity have been and continue to be committed in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya by NATO. Amongst these crimes, the Atlantic Alliance has been using depleted uranium against Libya, specifically civilians and civilian infrastructure. Continue reading
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European Missile System: NATO Not Prepared To Compromise
Perhaps somebody in the Kremlin at that time had hopes that NATO would listen to reason. But I think the evidence of the Sochi NATO-Russia Council meeting suggests that NATO is not budging, it is not prepared to compromise. Continue reading
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Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO News: July 5, 2011
5 July 2011 — Stop NATO Russia, NATO Clash Over Libya Campaign NATO’s Libyan Air War: 13,873 Missions, 5,229 Combat Sorties 28th Australian Soldier Killed In Afghanistan Afghan War: NATO Yearly Death Toll Rises To 280 ‘Mini-Surge’ Of U.S. Special Forces To Hit Afghanistan NATO Needed To ‘Democratize’ Ukraine: Speaker Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 July, 2011: Game Not Yet Over: Flotilla Considers Next Moves
4 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US Flotilla activists begin open-ended hunger strike in Greece IMEMC – Monday July 04, 2011 – 21:42, Members of the U.S. Boat to Gaza have begun an open-ended fast calling on the U.S. government to defend their right to sail out of Greece. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 July, 2011: Fourth of July Lies
4 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House “The Audacity of Hope,” A July Fourth Shame on the Founders By Ray McGovern The instructions, of course, come from a weak Greek government unable to stand on principle because of the economic damage that can be done to Greece by the U.S.-dominated IMF, the European Union and Continue reading
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US Boat to Gaza Update 4 July 2011
The lengths to which the Israeli government has gone to stop the boats only expose the real story: they are determined to hold on to their repressive, inhuman and illegal policies at any cost. Israel has outsourced its naval blockade of Gaza to Greece. Continue reading
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Surprise! Iraq War Deaths Exceed Vietnam War By Gary Vey
More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans. This probably is news to you. But the truth has been hidden by a technicality. So here is the truth. Continue reading
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Moeletsi Mbeki: On Wealth creation in South Africa
I CAN predict when SA’s ‘Tunisia Day’ will arrive. Tunisia Day is when the masses rise against the powers that be, as happened recently in Tunisia. The year will be 2020, give or take a couple of years. The year 2020 is when China estimates that its current minerals-intensive industrialisation phase will be concluded. Continue reading
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Fukushima Cover Up Unravels By Washington’s Blog
As I’ve repeatedly noted, the Japanese government, other governments and nuclear companies have covered up the extent of the Fukushima crisis. Continue reading
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Moscow: 'Weapons drops break resolution' By Tom Mellen
Moscow urged Western states to stop delivering weaponry to belligerents in Libya today – warning that Nato’s cavalier attitude to international law was undermining efforts to resolve cold war-era differences Continue reading
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Moscow: ‘Weapons drops break resolution’ By Tom Mellen
Moscow urged Western states to stop delivering weaponry to belligerents in Libya today – warning that Nato’s cavalier attitude to international law was undermining efforts to resolve cold war-era differences Continue reading
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Video: David Harvey – Greece Should Default
The consequences are going to be awful whichever way you look at it. What they’re doing right now is awful. There’s going to be no economic growth in Greece for about the next 10, 15 years, the standard of living’s going to decline, and at the end of that, they’re still going to have to… Continue reading
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U.S. And NATO Allies Expanding Global Military Footprint By Rick Rozoff
Recent statements by the defense ministers of Germany and Canada reveal that the globally-oriented Western military consortium that is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization plans not only to continue but broaden the wars and military occupations it has conducted over the past twenty years. Continue reading
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British Peace groups to deliver letter to Greek Ambassador demanding the release of the Freedom Flotilla boats to Gaza
British Peace groups to deliver letter to Greek Ambassador demanding the release of the Freedom Flotilla boats to Gaza Continue reading
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US Boat to Gaza: Action Alert Update
Just got word from Athens: the 8 people who were fasting in front of the U.S. Embassy have been arrested. They are Ken Mayers, Carol Murry, Medea Benjamin, Paki Wieland, Ray McGovern, Brad Taylor, Kit Kitteridge and Kathy Kelly. We will not have any more news until the morning. Continue reading