September 2011
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Crusader Blair’s Vision: Eternal War By Felicity Arbuthnot
Combing through Tony Blair’s statements over the years, this week of the tenth anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, I had a feeling of deja vu. Continue reading
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Crusader Blair’s Vision: Eternal War By Felicity Arbuthnot
Combing through Tony Blair’s statements over the years, this week of the tenth anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, I had a feeling of deja vu. Continue reading
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ADC Calls For Immediate Internal Investigation of FBI Training
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) expresses deep concern over the FBI’s apparent dismissal of repeated calls from civil rights advocates to cease using any offensive, inaccurate, and inflammatory material as part of its counterterrorism training. Despite past reassurances, the FBI has persisted in its practice of vilifying Islam and Muslim-Americans in its training material. Continue reading
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Military whistleblower tells of ‘indiscriminate’ Israeli attacks By Donald Macintyre
Israeli troops fired tear gas indiscriminately and sometimes dangerously to enforce a daytime curfew inside a West Bank village to stop Palestinians holding a peaceful demonstration on their own land, a military whistleblower has told The Independent. Continue reading
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VIDEO: Libya, Syria… Algeria? "Humanitarian" Wars, Colonialism and Africom
Julie Tiel examines in-depth the background, context and disinformation around the political situations in Libya and Syria in light of US/NATO intervention and crimes against humanity being committed in these regions, as well as the potential implications for Algeria. Continue reading
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VIDEO: Libya, Syria… Algeria? “Humanitarian” Wars, Colonialism and Africom
Julie Tiel examines in-depth the background, context and disinformation around the political situations in Libya and Syria in light of US/NATO intervention and crimes against humanity being committed in these regions, as well as the potential implications for Algeria. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 16, 2011: NATO’s Top Military Chief Awarded For ‘Contributions To Global Peace’
16 September 2011 — Stop NATO Libya: AFRICOM Draws Lessons From Its First War White House, NATO Forge Ahead With European Missile Shield U.S.-NATO Interceptor Missile Anaconda Coils Around Russia U.S. Marine Black Sea Force Integrates 13 Regional Armies For NATO Video: NATO ‘Humanitarian’ Wars: Libya, Syria… Algeria? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 September, 2011: Weddings without a groom; only in Gaza
14 September 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Elizabeth Of England Signs Amendment Preventing Arrest of Israeli Officials IMEMC – Thursday September 15, 2011 – 22:38, Elizabeth, the Queen of England, signed an amendment that would prevent the issuing of arrest warrants against Israeli officials accused of committing war crimes. Continue reading
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Israeli Impunity: The Queen has lost her royal marbles
Britain has amended a law that allowed for issuing arrest warrants against Israeli politicians who visit the country, British Ambassador Matthew Gould announced Thursday. Gould called opposition leader Tzipi Livni, against whom an arrest warrant was issued in 2009, and told her the Queen has signed the amendment ‘to ensure that the UK’s justice system… Continue reading
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Silence and fear return to the streets of Tripoli — RT
With Gaddafi effectively gone, the new authorities have settled down here in the capital, Tripoli. People are chanting that Libya is now a new free country. But it seems there is at least one thing that still remains – fear. Continue reading
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Silence and fear return to the streets of Tripoli — RT
With Gaddafi effectively gone, the new authorities have settled down here in the capital, Tripoli. People are chanting that Libya is now a new free country. But it seems there is at least one thing that still remains – fear. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter September 15, 2011: Americans Need The Truth About 9/11
15 September 2011 — Information Clearing House Israel Does Not Want a Palestinian State. Period. By Gideon Levy Next week will be Israel’s moment of truth, or more precisely the moment in which its deception will be revealed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29132.htm Continue reading
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Telesur Journalists Speak Truth on Libya
This week Telesur welcomed home a news team just back from covering NATO’s war on Libya from that nation’s capital, Tripoli. On arrival at Venezuela’s Maiquetia International Airport, the journalists denounced the ongoing ‘fabrication of lies’ by mainstream media outlets and accused the international press of ‘producing the arguments needed for a continuation of the… Continue reading
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Media: The Leveson Inquiry: Should We Care? By Des Freedman
The aftermath of the phone hacking scandal and the establishment of the Leveson Inquiry, ‘is a hugely significant moment both for the British media and for British democracy’ and that ‘the spell of media power is facing its most serious challenge to date’. Given that official inquiries rarely generate genuinely radical proposals and we have… Continue reading
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Interrogating Contemporary News: Asking the Right Questions By Natalie Fenton
The Leveson inquiry has been launched to investigate phone hacking and the culture, practices and ethics of the press; there is a Lords Select Committee on the future of investigative journalism; a joint Select Committee on privacy and injunctions; all of which will feed into a Communications Review leading up to the New Communications Act… Continue reading
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NATO’s client regime in Libya confronts divisions as military offensives stall By Peter Symonds
The military push by Libya’s NATO-backed National Transitional Council (NTC) to take control of the remaining pro-Gaddafi strongholds appears to have stalled. NTC militias have encountered strong resistance in their advances on Bani Walid, about 150 kilometres south-east of Tripoli, and coastal city of Sirte, the birthplace of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Continue reading
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Video: UK Cuts to Public Sector Not Leading to Private Sector Growth
Ch4: Government austerity in UK leading to higher unemployment not growth Continue reading
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The New Scramble for Africa By Conn Hallinan
Is current U.S. foreign policy in Africa following a blueprint drawn up almost eight years ago by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, one of the most conservative think tanks in the world? Although it seems odd that a Democratic administration would have anything in common with the extremists at Heritage, the convergence in policy and practice… Continue reading
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Dmitri Sedov – In and Around Libya
The sliding of the civil war in Libya into a new phase tilted considerably the balance of forces in the country. Some of Gadhafi’s supporters continue to mount stiff resistance in Bani Walid, Siret, and Sabha and at least so far manage to keep attackers out of the strongholds. A few days ago they even… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 