July 2011
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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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Sign the petition to recognize a Palestinian state
AFTER A LONG TIME AVAAZ THE LARGEST WORLDWIDE PETITION SITE AGREED TO POST A PETITION ON RECOGNIZING A PALESTINIAN STATE. ALREADY ITS COLLECTED OVER 40,000 signatures Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 21-22 July 2011
22 July 2011 — williambowles.info Hacking groups say they are back after FBI arrests Reuters WikiLeaks supporters wear masks of the ”Anonymous” internet activist group and a mask of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (R) during a demonstration calling for the release of Assange, in Malaga, southern Spain December 11, 2010. … http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/us-cybersecurity-response-idUSTRE76K66G20110721 Continue reading
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Leading voices in Britain call for respect for Venezuelan Sovereignty & Oppose US Sanctions
Prominent figures including Members of Parliament, performing artist Linton Kwesi Johnson and film-maker John Pilger have called for opposition to the recent imposition of US sanctions on the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA. Academics, trade union leaders and peace campaigners also backed the call. Continue reading
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ECHELON: The Global Eavesdropping Scheme Dwarfs Murdoch’s “News of the World” By Sherwood Ross
As eavesdroppers go, next to Uncle Sam and John Bull, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur. That’s because a global eavesdropping scheme being run today by the United States and Great Britain dwarfs anything that Rupert Murdoch’s editors at The News of The World (TNTW) ever dared attempt. Continue reading
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News Corp scandal just tip of privacy-breaching iceberg — RT
As the scandal over voicemail and phone-hacking by the Murdoch media empire rages, public and political fury has focused on ruthless tabloids out of control. But some say in this day and age, the whole concept of privacy is falling apart. Continue reading
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News Corp scandal just tip of privacy-breaching iceberg — RT
As the scandal over voicemail and phone-hacking by the Murdoch media empire rages, public and political fury has focused on ruthless tabloids out of control. But some say in this day and age, the whole concept of privacy is falling apart. Continue reading
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The NewsCorp inquiry: an exercise in mass deceit By Robert Stevens
For the British ruling elite, Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to a specially convened session of parliament was a critical moment. The decision to hold the special session was dictated by demands that Cameron respond to Tuesday’s appearance of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News of the World editor Rebekah… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 July, 2011: Troops Uproot Olive Orchards Near Jerusalem
21 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into Room Of Detained Fateh Leader, Barghouthi IMEMC – Thursday July 21, 2011 – 19:19, Palestinian Ministry of Detainee at the dissolved government in Gaza reported Thursday that Israeli soldiers broke, on Wednesday at night, into the room of detained Fateh Continue reading
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Gaza: The Blockade Runners: Pro-Palestinian activism to break the illegal siege By Julie Lévesque
The following article by Julie Lévesque is Part I of a review of the lone humanitarian ship to Gaza, “The Spirit of Rachel Corrie” which reached Palestinian territorial waters before being brutally intercepted by The Israeli Navy. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter July 21, 2011: Banks to Pay $25 Billion Bribe For Immunity
21 July 2011 — Information Clearing House Headless Corpse, Mass Grave and Worrying Questions About Libya’s Rebel Army By Ruth Sherlock, Al-Qawalish The five corpses floated disfigured and bloating in the murky bottom of the water tank. Wearing green soldiers’ uniforms, the men lay belly down, decomposing in the putrid water. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28645.htm Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks for 21 July 2011
21 July 2011 — williambowles.info James Murdoch evidence questioned BBC News Today at 20:27 News International chairman James Murdoch’s evidence to MPs on phone hacking is called into question by two former company executives. Continue reading