Information Clearing House Newsletter August 15, 2011: "I Shot Down Navy Seals' Chinook"

15 August 2011 — Information Clearing House

Fact or Propaganda?
I’m So Proud. I Shot Down Navy Seals’ Chinook

By Miles Amoore
A Taliban fighter who helped inflict the allies’ worst loss of life tells The Sunday Times in Kabul how he avenged the death of Bin Laden.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28840.htm

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NATO’s Puppet Regime in Libya Falls Apart By Peter Symonds

15 August 2011 — Global ResearchWorld Socialist Web Site – 2011-08-13

The sacking of the entire Benghazi-based Libyan opposition cabinet this week has exposed the anti-democratic, faction-riven character of the regime that the US and its European allies are seeking to impose on Libya. The self-proclaimed Transitional National Council (TNC)—facing a military stalemate in efforts to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi due to its lack of popular support—is being consumed by violent internal conflicts.

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The Left’s Crisis By Leo Panitch

15 August 2011 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 536

A common response of the left to the financial crisis that broke out in the USA in 2007-08 was often a kind of Michael Moore-type populist one: Why are you bailing the banks out? Let them go under. This kind of the response was, of course, utterly irresponsible, with no thought given to what would happen to the savings of workers, let alone to the paychecks deposited into their bank accounts, or even to the fact that what was at stake was the roofs over their heads.

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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 August, 2011: All Israeli kindergarteners are required to sing the national anthem— except for ‘Arab sector’ children

14 August , 2011 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Israeli forces abduct three children in East Jerusalem
IMEMC – Sunday August 14, 2011 – 21:10, According to local sources, Israeli forces invaded the neighborhood of Silwan, in east Jerusalem, on Sunday morning and abducted two young children and a teenager, taking them to an unknown location.

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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 August, 2011: Palestinians in no hurry to join housing protests

13 August , 2011 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

81 US lawmakers in Israel on ‘tour’ sponsored by Zionist lobbying group
IMEMC – Saturday August 13, 2011 – 21:55, One-fifth of the US Congress is currently in Israel on a free trip sponsored by the American Israel Educational Foundation, an affiliate of the largest Zionist lobby in the US: the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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NATO, ICC Criminalise Stone Throwing, Legitimise Street Shooting By Bernard Anbataayela Mornah

15 August 2011 — Joy Online (Ghana)

‘This is pure criminality and must be confronted and defeated’. Just in case you were wondering where I was going with this statement, these are the words of Prime Minister David Cameron, which also represents the official position of No.10 Downing Street on the current unrest in what we use to know as the Great Britain. You know what; I will come back to that.

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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 15, 2011

15 August 2011 Stop NATO

  • Gaddafi Calls On Libyans To Take Up Arms Against NATO
  • Libyan War: U.S. Global Hawk Drone ‘Reaches Critical Milestone’
  • Iran Blasts NATO’s Meddling In Region As ‘Big Mistake’
  • Israel Plants New Mines, Deploys More Troops Along Syrian Border
  • NATO’s Arm, The Neo-Ottomans
  • State Department: U.S. Shifts Geostrategic, Military Focus From Middle East To Asia
  • Trillion Dollar War Budget: Old Days Of Entitlement In U.S. May Be Gone
  • NATO, ICC Criminalise Stone Throwing, Legitimise Street Shooting

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UK: Turkish and Kurdish Labourers and Traders Must Refuse to Be Pitted Against the Black People

14 August 2011 — MRZine

To the attention of the Press and the Public:
As it is known, last Saturday a protest took place outside Tottenham police station in order to attain answers or explanations as to how and why Mark Duggan, a father of four, was killed by the police on Thursday 4th August.  The events were unleashed as a result of the police physically attacking a 16 year old girl who on behalf of the protestors, all of whom had demanded justice, entered the police station, after waiting for around 4-5 hours outside of the station, to acquire an explanation regarding the killing.

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NATO Allows Libyan Refugees to Drown in the Mediterranean By Peter Schwarz

14 August 2011 — WSWS

According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, 1,500 Libyan refugees have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the war against Libya in March. On August 4, German newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ reported a death toll of 1,820 since the beginning of the year.

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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 14, 2011

14 August 2011 — Stop NATO

  • Turkey May Join NATO Action Against Syria
  • Egypt Launches Large-Scale Military Operation In North Sinai
  • New U.S. AFRICOM Services Battalion Joins Marine, Special Warfare Units
  • Pentagon Prepares For Prospective War With China
  • Arctic: Canada Flexes Its Military Muscle, Puts Russia On Alert
  • Fall Of The Last Superpower In A Trillion Dollar War
  • Obama And Karzai To Forge U.S.-Afghan Strategic Cooperation

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