9 August 2011
Foreign journalists have been taken to see several destroyed buildings in a village near the town of Zlitan which Libyan officials said were hit by NATO airstrikes. They claim at least 85 civilians were killed in the worst non-combatant death toll since NATO began its campaign.
10 August 2011
It’s fashionable to call them the ‘underclass’ that the state has buried away, out of sight–out of mind on ‘sink estates’ or trapped and invisible in the poorest neighborhoods of our cities. Demonized and/or sentimentalized by the state/corporate media (‘Shameless’ and ‘East Enders’ come to mind), exactly as in Victorian times, an entire section of the working class have been reduced to some inferior, sub-human species by the political class and its media partners-in-crime. Continue reading
10 August 2011 — Via New Left Project
The ‘I told you so’ of the week:
In the run up to the 2010 General Election Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg warned of riots if the Tories were elected, stating that, ‘There is danger that having any government of any composition led by a party which doesn’t have a popular mandate across the country trying to push through really difficult decisions. I think a lot of people will react badly to them.’
9 August 2011 — grtv
On August 5, 2011, NATO air missiles targeted a children’s hospital in Zlitan, Libya, killing 50 children. This event clearly reveals NATO war crimes and shows that civilians are being targeted during the bombing campaigns.
9 August 2011 — Global Research – The Australian
Western governments have helped prepare a blueprint for a post-Gaddafi Libya that would retain much of the regime’s security infrastructure to avoid an Iraq-style collapse into anarchy.
9 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
U.S. Debt Crisis Sidelines an Emergency Attack on Iran
By Amir Oren
The American trigger finger is itchy. Itchy, but flinching – the wallet is emptier than the magazine.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28801.htm
9 August , 2011 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Israeli Army Re-opens Road from Nablus
IMEMC – Tuesday August 09, 2011 – 17:34, Israeli soldiers opened a Nablus thoroughfare for the first time in 9 years according to Maan News Agency.
9 August 2011 — The Wolf Report
Back in the day, blast from the past, a golden oldie, with respect and appreciation to the youth of Britain back in that day and here in this day. Here’s what was said 30 years ago.
6 August 2011 — The Wolf at the Door
Can’t trust that day, sang some group whose name escapes me– the advantage of growing older I guess. Anyway, now that Standard and Poor’s has pointed out that the standard for credit-worthiness is making almost everybody poorer, Monday should be a very interesting day.
10 August 2011 — Stop NATO
9 August 2011 — New Left Project
Kate Belgrave describes her experiences of the riots in Peckham on Monday night. Cross-posted from her blog Hangbitch
9 August 2011 — New Left Project
I spent last night amongst the crowds in Hackney, the smell of burnt rubber and metal wafting through the air. As I did so, I heard parts of their stories:
8 August 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Exactly thirty years ago Brixton exploded with rage against the de facto occupation of Brixton by the Met police. And, as I write this, all kinds of madness is going down in various parts of London and elsewhere. Continue reading
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