August 24, 2011
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Video: Libyan rebel leader shakes hands with Sarkozy — RT
President Sarkozy has guaranteed military assistance to the new Libyan government for as long as it is needed in a meeting with rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril in Paris. In turn, Jibril asked for France’s help in unfreezing Libyan assets. Continue reading
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Video: Libyan rebel leader shakes hands with Sarkozy — RT
President Sarkozy has guaranteed military assistance to the new Libyan government for as long as it is needed in a meeting with rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril in Paris. In turn, Jibril asked for France’s help in unfreezing Libyan assets. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 24 August, 2011: FBI Organizes Almost All US Terror Plots: Report
24 August, 2011 — Information Clearing House US Outsourcing Regime Change NATO Partnership in Libya Serves as Model, Panetta Says American Forces Press Service “It is a good indication of the kind of partnership and alliances that we need to have for the future” US Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28929.htm Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 24 August 2011
24 August 2011 — williambowles.info Pro-Gadhafi forces try to halt rebels’ momentum CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Libyan rebels weathered resistance from pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces in several volatile pockets across Tripoli on Wednesday, and a few dozen journalists kept hostage for days by the strongman’s armed … http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/24/libya.war/ Continue reading
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NATO, Sleeper Cells Drove Rebels’ Tripoli Push By Hadeel Al-Shalchi and Rami Al-Shaheibi
They called it Operation Mermaid Dawn, a stealth plan coordinated by sleeper cells, Libyan rebels, and NATO to snatch the capital from the Moammar Gadhafi’s regime’s hands. Continue reading
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Tripoli Port Notes By Franklin Lamb
This observer’s tentative appraisal of Tuesdays events along the North Tripoli Port area as of late afternoon 8/23/11 is that the ‘65,000 well trained and well-armed troops’ hyped Sunday by the Gaddafi government don’t in fact exist and that the pockets of government troops here in Tripoli and across Libya that do, will continue to… Continue reading
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NATO’s Rebel Forces By Luis Rumbaut
In recent decades we have lived under the overlapping and curiously-named doctrines of neoconservatism and neoliberalism. We see now the resurgence of a third related practice: neocolonialism. War at will is the new standard for NATO. Continue reading
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Keiser Report: Bankers & Aliens (E175)
This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, notice that looking back is not an option when all the evidence is destroyed by the SEC and Max tries to explain the gold / Treasury conundrum. In the second half of the show Max talks to Catherine Austin Fitts about exponential fraud and the financial coup… Continue reading
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Wayne Shorter ' Speak No Evil' Blue Note Session
24 August 2011 — Mosaic Records 1964 was a momentous year for the indefatigably creative Wayne Shorter, culminating with the Christmas Eve recording of his classic “Speak No Evil,” a bold statement as a composer and as an improviser. Continue reading
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Francis Wolff Blue Note Photos – John Coltrane 'Blue Train'
24 August 2011 — Mosaic Records The very first Coltrane album I bought! ‘Blue Train’. It blew me away. Wore that damn album out. The changes still resonate in my head. Check out the rest of Francis Wolff’s fabulous photography for those early Blue Note Albums on the Mosaic site. Continue reading
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The Libyan Soldier: The True Heroes of NATO’s War By Glen Ford
NATO has proven it has the capacity to kill thousands of Libyan soldiers from the skies, but it cannot ‘convey honor and legitimacy’ to the rebels under its killer wings. ‘They are little more than extras for imperial theater, a mob that traveled to battle under the protective umbrella of American full spectrum dominance of… Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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NYT Points Out ‘Racist Overtones’ in Libyan Disinformation It Helped Spread By Peter Hart
So stories about African mercenaries are a racist mantra? If that’s the case, then point a finger at media outlets like the New York Times. While the warnings about mass rapes and mercenaries fueled the supporters of the NATO bombing, few reporters have detailed–mostly notably Patrick Cockburn in the Independent–that there was never solid evidence… Continue reading
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We Are The Core Of The Problem By Frank Scott
The USA is at the center of this flailing monster and its people need to take control from the minority only concerned about acquiring more and more wealth at the cost of less and less hope for the majority’s future. Continue reading
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Replay: Why is Qatar so Active in Libya?
TRNN REPLAY Adam Hanieh: Qatar and the Gulf Cooperation Council want to control the outcome of the popular Arab uprisings Continue reading
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Libya: Campaigners warn ‘hallmarks of a new Afghanistan are all there’ By Louise Nousratpour
Left campaigners in Britain demanded a halt to all British and Nato involvement in Libya today, warning that their intervention had all the hallmarks of the West’s disastrous invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 24 August 2011
24 August 2011 — williambowles.info As drilling looms, Wikileaks reveals previous tensions Cyprus Mail The last time Turkey interfered with Cyprus’ oil and gas exploration, unlikely support came from the island’s “evil demon”, the United Kingdom, revealed US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks. According to the cables, sent by the US Embassy in … http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/drilling-looms-wikileaks-reveals-previous-tensions/20110824 Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 24 August 2011
24 August 2011 — williambowles.info West pushes for Syria sanctions BBC News The US and several European nations have called for the UN to impose sanctions against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and his ruling circle. But the draft resolution circulated at UN headquarters in New York faces opposition from veto-wielding … http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-14645641 Continue reading
The New Dark Age 