16 August 2011
Day: August 17, 2011
Broken Britain: Broken record By Ann Czernik
16 August 2011 — Morning Star
If riots are the voices of the unheard, they’ve come over loud and clear. But nothing we’ve heard from government [that] will bring an end to the causes of unrest.
The state unleashes the Dogs of Media By William Bowles
17 August 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
“At 9.22 the Brixton shopping centre appeared almost calm by comparison to Railton Road. Rubbish was strewn across the main A23 Brixton Road; burglar alarms rang vainly from looted shops; and knots of youths, black and white, drifted along in the almost complete absence of police.” — ‘Eyewitness: Looters moved in as the flames spread’
Wikileaks Newslinks 15-16 August 2011
16 August 2011 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks: US and Brazil Vie for Power in Peru
Huffington Post
That, at least, is the unmistakable impression that one is left with by reading US cables recently disclosed by whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks, and it’s a topic about which I have written widely in recent months. Yet, with President Hugo Chávez’s …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nikolas-kozloff/wikileaks-us-and-brazil-v_b_925933.html
Information Clearing House Newsletter August 16, 2011: Riots Will Rage in 2012
16 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
Libyan Forces Liberate Misratah
Clearing up the latest media rubbish on Libya
By Lizzie Phelan
While the journalists suffering from cabin fever in Tripoli’s Rixos hotel, publish their dreams that imperialism’s lackies (the rebels/rats) have taken Zawiya, Ghuriyan and Sorman, they are ignoring a decisive moment in the crisis.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28850.htm
Jean Bricmont / Diana Johnstone: Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?
16 August 2011 — Counterpunch
Not the Left
Last March, a coalition of Western powers and Arab autocracies banded together to sponsor what was billed as a short little military operation to ‘protect Libyan civilians’.
Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 17, 2011
17 August 2011 — Stop NATO
- Lockheed, MEADS Unveil European Interceptor Missile Battle Manager
- South Korea Builds Supersonic Cruise Missiles To Strike Aircraft Carriers
- South Korea To Deploy Powerful Anti-Submarine Missiles On Aegis Class Destroyers
- Warfighting Capabilities: U.S. Applies Afghan, Iraqi Combat Experience In Massive South Korean War Games
- Raytheon, Rafael Market U.S.-Compatible Israeli Missile Shield
- U.S. Shelling Injures Nine Afghan Civilians, Including Seven Girls
- Obama Dispatches AFRICOM Commander To Nigeria For Gulf Of Guinea Counterinsurgency
- Italy: U.S. Army Africa Commander Meets With Angolan Counterpart
- Czech Soldiers Decorated For NATO Missions In Afghanistan, Kosovo
- Romania: Israeli Air Force Resumes Joint Training
- Saudi Arabia, Israel: Germany Multiplies Weapons Sales In Middle East
- Looking More Like Mussolini Every Day
The New Dark Age 