September 6, 2011
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Zygmunt Bauman: Palestinian persecution echoes the Shoah, which began with discrimination, ghettoes and pogroms By Paul Mutter, with Eva Smagacz
Several weeks ago, the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman gave a stunning interview to the Polish journal, Polityka, on Zionism, the Holocaust, and Israel’s cult of war. In it he charges Israel’s leaders with actively discouraging peace, with seeking war instead of peace, and accuses them of manipulating the Holocaust’s lessons to justify repression. In one… Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 2
On August 23 and 24, the media once again abandoned all pretence of objectivity in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Tripoli, as they had in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Kabul and Baghdad. This, again, was a moment of national triumph, of vindication – the famed concern with ‘balance’ was brushed aside as mean-spirited, even nasty (the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 September, 2011: Turkish Officials: No More “Israeli Bullying” In Eastern Mediterranean
5 September 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center New Palestinian Strategy To Avoid U.S. Veto At The UN IMEMC – Monday September 05, 2011 – 14:01, Fatah’s leadership is re-wording the proposal for a Palestinian State to submit to the United Nations this month. The new version is designed so Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6 September 2011
6 September 2011 — williambowles.info THE ROVING EYE: Libya: The real war starts now: Asia Times Online Today at NoonAs the Libyan Transitional National Council already behaves like a lame duck and as the militias will simply not vanish, it’s not hard to picture Libya as a new Lebanon, with regions carved up between numerous Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 5 September 2011: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War
5 September 2011 — williambowles.info Libya: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Yesterday at 23:01 Some more updates in spite of the news censorship and communications black out by NATO on Libya Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 1 September 2011: Libya and the world we live in by William Blum
The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 September 2011: Chomsky – "Was War the Only Answer to 9/11?
5 September 2011 — Information Clearing House Eurozone Deathwatch By Mike Whitney There’s no way to overstate the calamity that’s unfolding across the Atlantic. The eurozone is imploding. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29039.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 1
Naturally it is the role of the enlightened West to steer Libya towards democracy. Editors working for the media conglomerate at the heart of the phone hacking police/political corruption scandal – a major attack on democracy and civil rights – presumably perceived no irony in their preaching of ‘democracy, and legal freedoms’. Words that should… Continue reading
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