July 2011
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Media Lens: Avalanche! Media Hyperbole On News Corp, The ‘Free’ Press And A ‘Berlin Wall Moment’
There’s no doubt that a body blow has been delivered to Rupert Murdoch’s mighty News Corporation empire. Leading politicians, who until very recently had been both obsequious and fearful, now want to put themselves at least a bargepole’s length away from the media mogul. Continue reading
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New York Times stands by Ethan Bronner’s Facebook fabrications By Ali Abunimah
The New York Times has told The Electronic Intifada it stands fully behind an article by its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner despite compelling evidence that the article contains fabrications, misleading statements, and gross exaggerations. Continue reading
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NATO will be Defeated in Libya: The Libyan Resistance Movement. A Defining Moment for Africa By Gerald A. Perreira
The argument in Libya has been won by the Al Fateh revolution. There is now a glaring truth confronting the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) – Muammar Qaddafi has handed out over one million kalashnikovs to the Libyan people. If he was the brutal dictator that NATO would have us believe him to be, then… Continue reading
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NACLA 15 July 2011: Out this week: Mexico Drug Crisis
This issue includes coverage of Mexico’s own history of prohibitionism by the historian Isaac Campos. His forthcoming book about marijuana, Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs, will explore how the substance became associated with madness and violence in Mexico, leading to its prohibition in 1920. Continue reading
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Murdoch’s News Corp Newslinks 14-15 July 2011
15 July 2011 — williambowles.info 15 July 2011 Murdoch outfoxed in UK as trouble brews across the pond Russiatoday.ru Today at 06:50 RT Rupert Murdoch’s disgraced media empire is now under FBI investigation over the possibility that the voicemails of 9/11 victims and their families were intercepted.” Continue reading
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Gaza rejects Greek government charity
The following letter was delivered to the Greek Government on July 12, 2011 making it clear that the people of Gaza seek freedom and respect for their human rights, including their right to lead a dignified life, not charity. Seemingly deaf to their call, yesterday a spokesman for the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr.… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 July, 2011: Israel’s Crackdown Grows with Boycott Bill
14 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Army Airstrikes Gaza; Four Residents, Including Two Children, Wounded IMEMC – Friday July 15, 2011 – 04:42, The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip leading to damages and four injuries among the Continue reading
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Democracy Now! 14 July 2011: Dr. Paul Farmer on Haiti After the Earthquake
Dr. Paul Farmer, who was worked in Haiti for nearly three decades and now serves as the the U.N. deputy special envoy for Haiti, discusses how U.S.-backed coups and neoliberal programs have not only subverted Haiti’s democracy, but also seriously weakened its public health. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter July 14, 2011: US Attack Kills 50 People In Yemen
July 14, 2011 — Information Clearing House 300 Somali Children Left for Dead in Drought By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED Andrew Wander, a spokesman for Save the Children, said his agency provides care to more than 300 unaccompanied children who were found on roadsides after their parents died or abandoned them. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28573.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Video Update — Two More Eyewitness Libya Videos
Although US drones are flying in, and US bombs are falling from Libyan skies, the president insists that the US is not waging war in Libya. The facts however, say otherwise. This week’s Black Agenda Video update includes two members of US citizen fact finding delegations, the Bay Area’s Dedon Kamathi and Atlanta’s Lucy Grider… Continue reading
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THE SLIME UNWINDS; MURDOCH MEDIA UNDER ATTACK By Danny Schecter
Rupert Murdoch withdrew his bid for British broadcaster BSkyB on Wednesday in the face of cross-party hostility in parliament following allegations of widespread criminality at one of his tabloid newspapers. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Turkey Urges Support for ‘Road Map’ to End Libyan Conflict Fox News AP ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey will seek support for a “road map” to help end the Libyan crisis when countries backing NATO’s military mission gather in Istanbul to increase the pressure on Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. US Secretary Continue reading
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Full-Scale NATO Ground Invasion of Libya is likely soon: Andrew Gavin Marshall
Andrew Gavin Marshall from the Centre for Research on Globalization says that a ground invasion is quite likely, and that the process is already underway. Continue reading
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Somalia Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Horn of Africa drought: Kenya to open Ifo II camp BBC News Kenya has agreed to open a new refugee camp near its border with Somalia, as thousands are fleeing the region’s worst drought in 60 years. Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the Ifo II camp, which can fit up Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info US airstrike kills 3 Islamic militants in Yemen The Seattle Times Yemeni officials say a US warplane has attacked a police station overrun by Islamic militants in southern Yemen, killing three of the fighters. By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article. Yemeni officials say Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Egypt Delays Vote, Fires Police Wall Street Journal By MATT BRADLEY Egypt’s revolutionaries are still able to mobilize large crowds to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, as seen Wednesday. CAIRO—Egypt’s interim government on Wednesday said it would delay parliamentary elections and fire police officers implicated … http://asia.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576444211066923724.html Continue reading
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Video: Getting Away with Torture
Human rights advocates urge criminal investigations into the Bush administration for torture Continue reading
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Murdoch drops BSkyB bid as PM flounders in House By Roger Bagley
News Corporation announced abandonment of the bid just minutes after Mr Cameron’s sheepish Commons announcement of an inquiry into phone-hacking plus links between politicians, the media and the police. Continue reading
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Freedom Rider: Rupert Murdoch and Media Corruption By Margaret Kimberley
The bottomless cesspool that was Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid News of the World is gone, but the ruthless corporate politics of its master still hold sway in the U.S. and Britain. Murdoch is the great vampire of media corruption and consolidation on both sides of the Atlantic. But he is not a solitary villain. ‘Murdoch… Continue reading
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