21 august 2011 — Global Research – waterput.yolasite.com
If we were to believe the main stream media Tripoli is about to fall and the Rebels are closing in from all sides with their NATO airforce bombing everything that resists their infantry on the ground.
21 August 2011 — Al-Awda
21 August 2011 – 12:00 GMT — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – Press Release
Ref: 88/2011
In conjunction with the current escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched in the early morning of Sunday, 21 August 2011, a large-scale military campaign against many neighbors and streets and dozens of houses in Hebron. During this campaign, IOF arrested at least 50 Palestinians, mostly members and activists of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), a journalist, some academics and members of charitable associations.
21 August 2011 — Pravda.Ru
The mother of all lies was sent to the world through a twitter message by Al Arabiya, February 23th. A message which makes Qadafi out to be a Hitler, and even more outrageous and cruel: Continue reading
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info
The curious case of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Wikileaks and Julian Assange #DBB
100gf | Politics and Computers
There’s trouble brewing in the leakosphere (if we can call it that), with Julian Assange and Wikileaks on one side and German technology activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg on the other. At issue is a new leaks site, OpenLeaks, and the fate of a possible …
http://100gf.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/the-curious-case-of-daniel-domscheit-berg-wikileaks-and-julian-assange-dbb/
21 August 2011 — Global Research
TRIPOLI, Global Research August 19, 2011 – The mainstream media is reporting that Tripoli is surrounded. Bernard-Henri Lévy, author and adviser to France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy has even declared that the regime in Tripoli has collapsed. This is fiction.
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info
21 August 2011
Syrian townspeople welcome army to rout “gangs”
Russiatoday.ru Today at 07:33
This week pressure has been mounting again on the Syrian leader Bashar Assad. The US and European leaders called on him to step down, but Russia refused to support the demand, saying Assad should be given time to…
Official: UN team in Syria to assess government crackdown
CNN International
By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — A UN humanitarian team arrived in Syria over the weekend to examine the effects of President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown against anti-government protesters. The team is meeting with humanitarian and government officials …
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/21/syria.unrest/
Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest – live updates
The Guardian
Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, is to appear on state TV later today for an interview in which he’s due to address demands from the US and EU that he stand down. The country’s state-run news agency said Assad would speak about his “future vision” …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/middle-east-live/2011/aug/21/libya-syria-israel-middle-east-unrest
PH prepares repatriation of 190 OFWs from Syria
ABS CBN News
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Embassy said it is already preparing the repatriation of 190 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) because of the ongoing strife in Syria. Consul Marlon Miranda told dzMM on Sunday they are even ready to pay the …
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/08/21/11/ph-prepares-repatriation-190-ofws-syria
UK backs further Syria sanctions
BBC News
The UK will back further sanctions against Syria over alleged killings of anti-government protesters, Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt has said. Syrian activists say 40 people were killed by security forces on Friday, despite official assurances …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14601293
Pressures in Syria affect Alawites in Lebanon
The National
“If everything was normal in Syria then I don’t care, but not under these circumstances.” Yousef, a 34-year-old from Jebel Mohsen, who works in downtown Tripoli, and did not want to give his surname, called the situation in the community tense. …
http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/pressures-in-syria-affect-alawites-in-lebanon
Syria: FIFA ban was Politically motivated
Day Press News
A statement by FIFA said that its Disciplinary Committee on 17 August declared the first-leg match of the Second Round (Syria-Tajikistan of 23 July 2011) to be lost by Syria by forfeit (0:3) due to an ineligible player in the Syrian team taking part in …
http://www.dp-news.com/en/detail.aspx?articleid=93816
Syria diverting attention from internal unrest
The National
Provoking Israel is one way to distract public attention from what’s going on in Syria. In fact, Bashar Al Assad’s regime has previously tried but failed to ignite conflict with Israel to achieve the same purpose. In one instance, soon after the …
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/syria-diverting-attention-from-internal-unrest
SYRIA: Troops caught on camera behaving very badly [Video]
Los Angeles Times
“Syria, God, Bashar and that’s it,” the soldiers shout as the bus continues along the road. Similar scenes were caught on video, probabaly also by government enforcers. In the clip below, uploaded to YouTube on June 12 and said to have been shot in the …
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/08/my-entry.html
60 Filipinos want to leave Syria
Sun.Star
NO SCHEDULE has been set yet for Filipinos who wanted to return to the Philippines in light of the worsening political situation in Syria, a government official said Saturday. Raul Hernandez, spokesperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), …
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2011/08/20/60-filipinos-want-leave-syria-174258
James Zogby: Support Syria’s People
By James Zogby
The Arab League should make it clear that the Assad regime has lost whatever legitimacy it once claimed in the Arab World and promptly suspend its membership in the organization, declaring that the regime has forfeited the right to play …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/support-syrias-people_b_932047.html
Syria: Troops Shoot At Protesters, Two Dead
By The Huffington Post News Editors
BEIRUT — Syrian security forces fired on protesters in the central province of Homs on Saturday, killing two people and wounding at least eight, as President Bashar Assad pushed ahead with a brutal crackdown despite assurances to the …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/20/syria-troops-shoot-at-protesters_n_932119.html
Syria Under Fire Part-2 | Opinion Maker
By Raja Mujtaba
Sheikh Adnan is based in Saudi Arabia and is receiving an obscene amount of press from the House of Saud’s propaganda giant, Al-Arabiya, which is touting him as a ‘symbol of the Syrian Revolution.’
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/08/syria-under-fire-part/
Syria condemns U.S. call for Assad to step down – Army News | News …
By The Associated Press
BEIRUT — A government owned Syrian newspaper on Saturday rejected U.S. and European calls for President Bashar Assad to step down, saying they revealed the “face of the conspiracy” against Damascus.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/08/ap-syria-condemns-calls-for-step-down-082011/
Harry’s Place » Boots stamping on human faces in Syria
By Gene
Harry’s Place – Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.
http://hurryupharry.org/2011/08/20/boots-stamping-on-human-faces-in-syria/
20 August 2011
20 August 2011
21 August 2011 — RT
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumours of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it turns out the shots were fired in celebration at a victory for Gaddafi loyalists.
On Saturday evening, rounds were fired close to a hotel hosting foreign journalists. Explosions were also heard in the area as NATO aircraft carried out heavy bombing runs after nightfall, the Associated Press reported.
21 August 2011 — RT
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumours of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it turns out the shots were fired in celebration at a victory for Gaddafi loyalists.
On Saturday evening, rounds were fired close to a hotel hosting foreign journalists. Explosions were also heard in the area as NATO aircraft carried out heavy bombing runs after nightfall, the Associated Press reported.
20 August 2011 — Information Clearing House
Getting Away with Torture: Obama Bans War Criminals, Except Our Own
By Nat Hentoff
You, President Obama, are obligated to bring the foregoing list of war criminals during the Bush presidency into our courts or, before that, be subject to an independent criminal investigation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28897.htm
20 August , 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Israel Apologizes To Egypt For Killing Three Of Its Soldiers
IMEMC – Sunday August 21, 2011 – 03:04, Israel submitted on Saturday an apology to Egypt over the death of three Egyptian soldiers who were killed by the Israeli army on Thursday following the Eilat attack carried out by gunmen who infiltrated into Israel and killing eight Israeli soldiers and wounding 30 others.
20 August 2011
An activists group against war demonstrated from within the social protest march in Tel Aviv, against continuation of the warfare in Gaza and to immediate ceasefire, 20 8 2011
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info
21 August 2011
Libya rebels seek to avoid Tripoli battle
Reuters
By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – Libyan rebel forces ill-equipped to fight their way into a city the size of Tripoli may look to locally brokered deals or a burgeoning popular uprising to break the will of Muammar …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/21/us-libya-tripoli-battle-idUSTRE77K1O320110821
The New Dark Age 
