August 2011
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Syria Newslinks 3 August 2011
3 August 2011 — williambowles.info Death Toll Mounts in Syria as UN Debates Resolution Voice of America August 03, 2011 Death Toll Mounts in Syria as UN Debates Resolution VOA News Syrian security forces have intensified their bloody siege against anti-government protesters, sending the three-day death toll above 130 as President Bashar al-Assad’s … http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Death-Toll-Mounts-in-Syria-as-UN-Debates-Resolution-126653473.html Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 1 August 2011: UK: Report your local anarchist
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org UK: Report your local anarchist EU: Small steps to big brother: the development of the Visa Information System and SIS II EU-COSI: Council: Standing Committee on operational cooperation on internal security for the period January 2010 – June 2011 EU: TURKEY: UK Home Affairs Select Committee: Implications for the Justice Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 2 August 2011
2 August 2011 — williambowles.info Libyan Rebels Wage ‘Mad Max’ War In The Mountains NPR by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro The sleepy towns in the Western Mountains of Libya come to life right before the country’s rebels engage in a fight with the forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The mostly deserted roads suddenly fill with Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Libyan Transitional Council Rebels in Total Disarray By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Following the assassination of General Abdel Fattah Al-Younes, the commander of the Transitional Council’s armed forces, further divisions within the rebellion have unfolded; the tide has changed dramatically in Benghazi. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 3, 2011
3 August 2011 — Stop NATO NATO, U.S. Troops Block Delivery Of Food, Medicine To Kosovo Serbs Lithuania: U.S. Conducts Three-Month-Long Special Forces Drills In Baltic U.S. Airmen Join Canadian Allies In Arctic Exercise U.S. Drone Strike Kills At Least Four In Northwestern Pakistan Talisman Sabre 2011: 60-Year-Old Australian Woman Casualty Of U.S. War Games Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 August, 2011: Report: Israel’s new Mossad chief behind assassination of Iran nuclear scientist
2 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Awarta Youth Convicted Of Itamar Stabbing Attack IMEMC – Wednesday August 03, 2011 – 03:39, An Israeli military court convicted on Tuesday a Palestinian youth from Awarta village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, of stabbing to death five family members Continue reading
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When the revolution comes By Gaither Stewart
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina where I started out my life, I ran into the story of the Asheville-based self-professed Communist writer, Olive Tilford Dargan, of whom I had never heard before. Visiting then her gravesite in the little known Green Hills Cemetery in West Asheville and researching her and her… Continue reading
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Video: Israelis Chant: "Mubarak, Assad, Bibi Netanyahu"
Tens of thousands of Israelis in nine cities pour onto the streets, demanding Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu resign Continue reading
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Video: Israelis Chant: “Mubarak, Assad, Bibi Netanyahu”
Tens of thousands of Israelis in nine cities pour onto the streets, demanding Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu resign Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 02, 2011: Putin says U.S. is "Parasite"
2 August 2011 — Information Clearing House How the CIA is Trying to Pave Over Yemen’s Revolution Evicting Yemen’s Drone Base By James GundunMost Yemenis and some observers firmly believe that Saleh and Washington are using each other to create chaos, a vain attempt to justify their illegitimate authority. Coolly rational, yet utterly deranged. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28729.htm Continue reading
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Lies and Media Manipulations regarding the Protest Movement in Syria By Pierre Piccinin
The following article focusses on the Protest movement in Syria in mid-July. it does not cover recent events. It nonetheless suggests that mainstream media sources are systematically manipulating the relevant numbers Continue reading
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Silenced Evidence in Assassination of Rafik Hariri By Eslam al-Rihani
“Once the billionaire PM Rafik Hariri moves inside Beirut, everybody takes note of it. His limousine is equipped with a device able to foil any assassination attempt via booby-trapped car. Mobile phones are disrupted in the area near the convoy, … Whenever he leaves his house, his guards carry out car patrols in the streets… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 2 August 2011
2 August 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in Sydney for Dangerous assignment Cumberland Courier Newspapers They will join others and the audience in negotiating a range of dangerous ideas including, that: Wikileaks has not gone far enough; Footballers are Barbarians not role models; Psychopaths Make the World Go Around; Ecstasy is No More Continue reading
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Media Lens: A ‘Malign Intellectual Subculture’ – George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens
In a piece that recalled the iconic scene from The Usual Suspects, Monbiot lined up Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, David Peterson, John Pilger, and Media Lens, as political commentators who ‘take the unwarranted step of belittling the acts of genocide committed by opponents of the western powers’. Continue reading
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The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War By Greg Lindsay
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: Predator drones are just the start of unmanned, autonomous warfare technology. But as the tech becomes more democratized and more deadly, what happens when anyone can assemble an army of killing machines? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 August, 2011: PA: ‘Alarming’ rise in Israel’s attacks on Palestinian children
1 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Municipalities Go on Strike as Israel Continues to Face Widespread Housing Protests IMEMC – Monday August 01, 2011 – 14:10, Most municipal authorities in Israel carried out a one day strike on Monday, as an act of solidarity with the popular protests Continue reading
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Аnatoly Tsyganok – Four months of war in Libya
NATO’s military operation against Libya, conducted mainly by the armed forces of the US, France and Britain, is speeding up the formation of a new system of international relations. At the same time the war serves as a firing ground for testing the strategy of the United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) in real combat situation… Continue reading
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The Left has lost its way over Libya By William Bowles
I think it’s time to take a look at the timeline of the latest barbarian attack on the defenceless of the world. I think it reveals far more about how the left in the West operates, what are its motivations, than it does about the aims of the Empire (which should surely by now be… Continue reading
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