4 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
US Commando War in 120 Countries: Uncovering the Military’s Secret Operations In the Obama Era
By Nick Turse
American secret commandos are carrying out raids in 70 countries—just today. By the end of the year, the number will probably be close to 120.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28747.htm
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info
A field commander says Libyan rebels regrouping for major new push toward Tripoli
Washington Post
(Sergey Ponomarev/Associated Press) – Libyan men eat food after breaking the fast on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with a portrait of Omar Mukhtar, the symbol of the anti-Gadhafi campaign at right, at the square in t rebel-held …
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/a-field-commander-says-libyan-rebels-regrouping-for-major-new-push-toward-tripoli/2011/08/04/gIQAVucQuI_story.html
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info
Former Egyptian Interior Minister Returns to Court
Voice of America
August 04, 2011 Former Egyptian Interior Minister Returns to Court VOA News Egypt’s former interior minister and six police commanders returned to court Thursday to face charges of ordering officers to shoot at protesters, a day after they appeared …
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Former-Egyptian-Interior-Minister-Returns-to-Court-126757048.html
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info
Wikileaks: UN discussed dropping #003
Radio Netherlands
United Nations officials discussed shutting down Cambodia’s war crimes tribunal without hearing a politically sensitive case involving two former Khmer Rouge leaders, according to a classified US diplomatic cable disclosed by Wikileaks. …
http://www.rnw.nl/international-justice/article/wikileaks-un-discussed-dropping-003
4 August 2011 — WSWS
The unexplained killing last week of the Libyan rebel military commander, General Abdel Fatah Younis, has highlighted the divided and unstable character of the NATO-backed Transitional National Council (TNC) and the military stalemate in its efforts to oust the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The assassination has provoked a series of comments by British and French ministers that effectively reverse months of US and NATO propaganda predicting the imminent fall of Gaddafi.
4 August, 2011
The Freedom Theatre was attacked by the Israeli army at the early morning of the 27th of July. The army spokesperson has claimed that the Israeli army did not raid the theatre. Photo and film documentation confirms that the army raid resulted in the shattering of most of the windows of the theatre’s multimedia centre and office building. Witnesses also report harassment and threats to several theatre employees.
4 August, 2011
The Freedom Theatre was attacked by the Israeli army at the early morning of the 27th of July. The army spokesperson has claimed that the Israeli army did not raid the theatre. Photo and film documentation confirms that the army raid resulted in the shattering of most of the windows of the theatre’s multimedia centre and office building. Witnesses also report harassment and threats to several theatre employees.
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info
UN Security Council rebuke of Syria hailed as potential ‘turning point’
Christian Science Monitor
The UN Security Council approved a statement Wednesday condemning human-rights violations in Syria. It contains no penalties, but it is significant as ‘a clear and unequivocal condemnation,’ the US ambassador to the UN said. …
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2011/0803/UN-Security-Council-rebuke-of-Syria-hailed-as-potential-turning-point
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info
To Party Hack Rep. Nydia Velázquez, War and Liberties Are Political Weapons
Antiwar.com (blog)
Many times as editor of my local newspaper, The Bushwick News, I have tried to get our local representative in the House, Nydia Velázquez, to give her opinions on WikiLeaks and whistleblower Bradley Manning. It didn’t seem a reach to try to elicit some …
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/03/to-party-hack-rep-nydia-velazquez-war-and-liberties-are-political-weapons/
4 August 2011
“Nato has attacked a Libyan state broadcaster in the capital, bombing three satellite dishes in Tripoli, saying the channel instils hatred.” — ‘Libya unrest: Nato bombs state broadcaster‘, BBC News 30 July 2011
At first when I heard this I couldn’t believe my ears. What a pathetic excuse for killing people but then desperate times demand desperate measures. The Empire is in disarray!
3 August 2011 — Global Research – Countercurrents
Tripoli : On July 30, the day before this 97.5 per cent Muslim country began the holy month of Ramadan, NATO spokesperson Roland Lavoie has been lamely attempting to explain to the press at the Rixos Hotel and internationally, why NATO was forced to bomb three Tripoli TV towers at the Libyan Broadcasting Authority, killing three journalists/technicians and wounding 15 others.
4 August 2011 — Stop NATO
3 August 2011 — IFJ
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the NATO air strikes against Libyan state television which took place last Saturday in Tripoli, killing three journalists and injured fifteen staff members according to its director of the English service, Khalid Basilia.
3 August , 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
PLO Report: “Six Palestinians Killed in July, 230 Kidnapped, 32 Structures Demolished”
IMEMC – Thursday August 04, 2011 – 03:16, The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) reported that, in July, Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians, kidnapped 230 others, and demolished 32 homes and structures in the occupied territories. Israel is also planning a new settlement in occupied East Jerusalem.
3 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
Meet the Right-Wing Hatemongers Who Inspired the Norway Killer
By Max Blumenthal
Why were America’s Islamophobes able to avoid accountability for so long?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28738.htm
3 August 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Over the past days BBC news coverage of the famine in Somalia has been saturating the airwaves and it’s always like this whenever ‘natural disasters’ strike. Fundamentally it’s little more than a fund-raising promo paid for with our taxes as endlessly repeated shots of emaciated babies and dying people serves no informative purpose except to tug covetously at our purse strings. And of course it has the added benefit of distracting us from our own condition – until the next crisis comes our way. Continue reading
3 August 2011 — Spacewar
U.S. security firm Regulatory DataCorp says it has more than 1 million people and groups on its anti-terror database that it wants to market to government and private-sector clients worldwide.
3 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left
Ruin-Nation: The Obama Catastrophe
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
After two and a half years of waging war against the Left half of his own party, while seeking a “Grand Consensus” with the GOP, President Obama has finally set “in motion a rolling implosion of Roosevelt’s New Deal and Johnson’s Great Society.” The final vote on the debt ceiling measure – actually a ruse to impose savage cuts in social spending – saw a substantial portion of the Congressional Black Caucus put the president’s prestige above their constituents’ vital interests. Ninety-five House Democrats, including 15 Black Caucus members, “voted for the certainty of losing trillions of dollars for tens of millions of needy citizens, rather than risk the possibility of unknown financial dislocations.”
3 August 2011 — Joe Bageant
Kingdom of Survival, a documentary film in which Joe Bageant is a focal point, will premier at the World Film Festival (Festival des Films du Monde) in Montreal, August 18 through August 28. The segments of the film with Joe were made more than a year ago. Before he died last March, Joe had seen an unfinished version of the documentary and told director M. A. Littler that he was pleased to be a part of the film. In addition to Joe, the documentary has interviews with Noam Chomsky and Mark Mirabello — plus a reclusive cabin builder, an anarchist book publisher, and a folk musician.
Here is a trailer for Kingdom of Survival. For those who don’t know Joe Bageant, he is the second speaker in this clip. Continue reading
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