September 2011
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 September, 2011: Israel chokes Palestinian trade, says UN study
7 September 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Vandalize An Israeli Military Base, As A “price Tag” Act IMEMC – Wednesday September 07, 2011 – 18:18, The Yesha Council of Settlements, the central body representing Israeli settlers in the West Bank, condemned the “price tag” operation carried out by Continue reading
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Russia’s Middle East dilemma Eric Walberg
Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of Western-backed regime change in Libya was not just Quixotic but downright stupid. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 7 September, 2011: How Scared of Terrorism Should You Be?
7 September, 2011 — Information Clearing House Israel Better Think Twice By Gilad Atzmon As the rift between Israel and Turkey deepens, the Israeli media is preparing its crowd for another possible exciting bloody conflict. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29058.htm Continue reading
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Video: The Shape of Things to Come in Libya: Interview with Michael Parenti By Sean Thomas
Michael Parenti: Expect the same thing as you saw happened in Yugoslavia and in Eastern Europe. There will be a massive privatization taking place. The public economy that the Gaddafi government had built over 40 years, which included public subsidies for housing, for education, for healthcare — all those things will be privatized. Continue reading
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BP Profit From Torture By Craig Murray
7 September 2011 — Craig Murray These are the ‘democrats’?! Just when you thought that nothing could be more sickening than the revelation that the mad Mahdi Blair was godfather to the baptism of Murdoch’s daughter in the River Jordan… Kudos to the Daily Mail for outing BP’s Mark Allen as the MI6 man who Continue reading
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UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: EI exclusive: Israel involvement in BDS lawsuit exposed | Holy Land 5 interview | And more …
An exclusive investigation finds that pro-Israel activists, backed by an Islamophobic pro-Israel group and with the knowledge of the Israeli government is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to boycott Israeli products. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 September, 2011: Uncovered: Israel’s role in planned US lawsuit to fight BDS
6 September 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center U.S. Concerned About Deteriorating Israeli-Turkish Relations IMEMC – Wednesday September 07, 2011 – 01:20, U.S. Department of State spokesperson, Victoria Noland, stated Tuesday that Washington is deeply concerned regarding the deteriorating relations between Israel and Turkey, the Arabs48 news website reported. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6-7 September 2011
7 September 2011 — williambowles.info 7 September 2011Lauren Ploch, “Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa” MRZine.org Today at 08:17 As envisioned by the Department of Defense (DOD), AFRICOM aims to promote U.S. strategic objectives and protect U.S. interests in the region by working with African states and Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 7, 2011
7 September 2011 — Stop NATO Indian Link To NATO ABM System Targets China, Pakistan, Iran, Russia Afghanistan: 1,645 Dead, 13,609 Wounded In America’s Longest War Afghan War: Czech Defense Minister Inspects New Special Forces Base Dutch Defense Minister: New Afghan Mission ‘Primarily Military’ U.S. Carrier Strike Group Visits Malaysia Africa Partnership Station: U.S. Guided Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 September, 2011: Robert Gates : Israel Is an Ungrateful Ally
6 September, 2011 — Information Clearing House Western Powers Have Syria in Their Sights By Jean Shaoul The threats are being taken seriously by Tehran. “Syria is the front-runner in Middle Eastern resistance (to Israel) and NATO cannot intimidate this country with an attack … If, God forbid, such a thing happened, NATO would drown Continue reading
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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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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 September, 2011: The Israeli Operation Cast Lead Massacre, Rev.14, The Israeli and American War Crimes
4 September 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Officials accuse Israeli Prime Minister of withholding information that could have prevented attack IMEMC – Sunday September 04, 2011 – 22:48, At a hearing on Sunday, the Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister were accused of ordering Israel’s top intelligence officials not Continue reading
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