August 2011
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 August, 2011: Video survey: Racism rampant among Israeli youth
18 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Bombards Rafah Killing Six Palestinians; Child Killed In Gaza City IMEMC – Thursday August 18, 2011 – 20:51, Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday evening that six Palestinians, including a senior resistance leader, and a child, were killed Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Libyan Deaths, Media Silence – Were Dozens Killed in Majer NATO Airstrikes?
Allegations of Libyan civilian deaths as a result of NATO bombing have often been covered in the corporate media as an opportunity to scoff at the Gadhafi regime’s unconvincing propaganda (FAIR Blog, 6/9/11). But dramatic new allegations that dozens of civilians were killed in Majer after NATO airstrikes on August 8 have been met with… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 19, 2011
19 August 2011 — Stop NATO FAIR: NATO Air Strikes, Libyan Deaths And Media Silence U.S. NATO Quad Partners Demand Regime Change In Syria Israeli Missile Chief Briefs U.S. Space/Interceptor Missile Conference War Training In Eastern Europe: U.S. National Guard ‘Partners’ With 65 Nations U.S. Army Plans $1 Billion 100 Unmanned Helicopter Fleet Canada Restores Continue reading
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British Jealous of America’s Savage Police By Glen Ford
Given the extreme violence of American life, when compared to other rich nations, why would the Brits consider for even an instant emulating the U.S. criminal justice system? What could American cops teach them? Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 August, 2011: Debt Crisis is Just a 'Prelude to War'
18 August, 2011 — Information Clearing House Shadow Warriors: Movin’ On Up By Conn Hallinan The U.S. is embarking on a military sea change that will replace massive deployments, like Iraq and Afghanistan, with stealthy night raids, secret assassinations, and death-dealing drones. Its implications for civilian control of foreign policy promises to be profound. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28877.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 August 2011: Save Yourselves, Not Obama / Black Libya City Falls / Prez Bachmann
17 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left It’s Too Late To Save The Obama Administration. Can We Still Save Ourselves? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Two and half years into the Obama presidency, some of us spend more time mooning over pretty pictures of Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 18 August 2011: J14 / Leahy Law / Beating Palestinians and more…
18 August 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive * Lia Tarachansky: The fight for equality in Israel’s J14 movement * Josh Ruebner: Hold Israel accountable with Leahy law * IDF officer who defended beating Palestinians to take over infantry Continue reading
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PA, Israel host fake peace rally | Palestine as neoliberal laboratory | UK bans settler rabbi | And more …
15 August 2011 — UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA RECENT BLOG POSTS ON THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 August, 2011: Israel to Recruit 70 Countries to Vote against Recognizing Palestine, Says Israeli Official
17 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestine UN Observer: “Settlements Jeopardize Peace Efforts” IMEMC – Thursday August 18, 2011 – 02:19, Palestinian Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, stated Wednesday that Israel’s insistence on constructing and expanding its illegal settlements in the occupied territories jeopardize all efforts Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 August, 2011: Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info?
17 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Donors Help Keep Palestinians In Cages By Charlotte Silver “Israel besieges us, puts us in cantons – in cages – and the international community is feeding us in these cages. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28858.htm Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 18, 2011
18 August 2011 — Stop NATO U.S. Deploys Two More Predator Drones For NATO’s Libyan War NATO To Test European Interceptor Missile Initial Operational Capability 246,000 U.S. Troops Abroad: ‘Space Has Revolutionized How We Fight’ 1.2 Million Combat Hours: Robots To Give Pentagon Casualty-Free Wars U.S. Navy On Arctic: Facing New Ocean For First Time Continue reading
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Video: U.S. Marines fighting with rebels in Misurata
A U.S. Marine talking on what they are going to do & how they are going to aid the rebels! oops I thought Obama said that no U.S. Army/Marine would put foot on the ground of Libya. Here is the proof that American Troops are on the ground of the Libyan soil Continue reading
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Video: Tripoli celebrates the liberation of Misratah
Tripoli celebrates the liberation of Misratah Continue reading
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Broken Britain: Broken record By Ann Czernik
The interpretation and response to mass expressions of anger, frustration and despair from the media, politicians or the public is like a broken record. Over and over again, we hear the same phrases and the same message. Continue reading
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The state unleashes the Dogs of Media By William Bowles
What a depressing state of affairs. The media, like some slavering pack of wolves, eager for blood has descended on our dispossessed and demonized them some more. It’s like something out of the worst of the Victorian period, where to be poor was literally regarded as a crime and treated as such. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Jean Bricmont / Diana Johnstone: Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?
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’. Five months later, all the assumptions on which the war was based have proved to be more or less false. Human rights organizations have failed to find evidence… Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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