October 6, 2011
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NEW LEGISLATION FAILS TO GIVE TZIPI LIVNI PROTECTION FROM ARREST
Today, 6 October 2011, former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni visited the United Kingdom. Ms. Livni was Foreign Minister during Israel’s 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip (Operation Cast Lead. OCL). Significant evidence was collected indicating her individual criminal responsibility for war crimes and other international crimes committed during… Continue reading
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The BBC is, and Always Has Been, Part of the Problem By Tom Mills
The neoliberal model propagated by Murdoch has been in ascendancy since the mid-1980s, whilst the public service model associated with the BBC has been progressively eclipsed. Indeed Murdoch has consciously sought to destroy, or at least marginalise, public service broadcasting, which is anathema to his politics and an obstacle to his ambitions. Continue reading
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Video: Bronx Hip-Hop Duo Rebel Diaz, Live From Occupy Wall Street March
The hip-hop brother duo Rebel Diaz attended the Occupy Wall Street march in Lower Manhattan yesterday, and stopped to tell Democracy Now! why they came down from the South Bronx to join thousands of others demanding change. As they walked along Broadway towards Zuccotti Park — the heart of the protest encampment — they performed… Continue reading
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Speculation in Agricultural Commodities: Driving up the Price of Food Worldwide and plunging Millions into Hunger By Edward Miller
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has again delayed the introduction of position limits required under the Dodd-Frank Act. These limits are intended to prevent speculation in (among other things) agricultural commodities, speculation which, many critics argue, have driven up the price of food worldwide and plunged millions into hunger. Continue reading
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Read/download 'The Occupied Wall Street Journal'
October 4, 2011 — Occupy Wall Street Media — Occupy Wall Street (#OccupyWallStreet) is the beginning of a whole new kind of democracy: a bottom-up people’s democracy led by the 99%. It is a bold vision for the future that is beginning to inspire the nation. However, to pull it off, we’re going to need… Continue reading
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#OccupyWS issues a historical document
AS WE GATHER TOGETHER IN SOLIDARITY to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 6 October 2011
6 October 2011 — williambowles.info Zimbabwe: Wikileaks Won’t Divide us – ZANU-PF AllAfrica.com ZANU-PF will not be divided by revelations by whistle blower website Wikileaks on how some of its members engaged with the “enemy” and is going for its December National People’s Conference a united party, spokesperson Cde Rugare Gumbo said yesterday. … http://allafrica.com/stories/201110060173.html Continue reading
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Video: Greek Worker: “Patriotism is to Fight Austerity with Actions”
EuroNews: In the centre of Athens youths broke up marble paving slabs and hurled them at police on Wednesday Continue reading
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Video: Greek Worker: "Patriotism is to Fight Austerity with Actions"
EuroNews: In the centre of Athens youths broke up marble paving slabs and hurled them at police on Wednesday Continue reading
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Video: 1000 Protesters Storm Wall St Barricade
Occupy Wall Street movement gains support from unions, student groups and community organizers Continue reading
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Libya: NATO Provides the Bombs; The French “Left” Provides the Ideology By Pierre Lévy
Last April, former Le Monde diplomatique director Ignacio Ramonet published (in Mémoire des Luttes) a text entitled “Libya, the Just and the Unjust.” The war had been started a few weeks earlier, inaugurated by French aircraft which had the honor of dropping the first bombs on Tripoli. On March 19, “a wave of pride swept… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 6, 2011
6 October 2011 — Stop NATO Sirte: Hospital Repeatedly Hit By NATO Bombardments Rasmussen: NATO Ready To Build Libyan Proxy Armed Forces Iraq: NATO Deal To Allow U.S. Troops To Remain Spain: U.S. Expands Missile System To Both Ends Of Mediterranean NATO Chief: Interceptor Missile System Fully Operational By 2018 Germany: Over 1,000 U.S. Paratroops… Continue reading
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Diplomatic Blowback By Craig Murray
Here is something you won’t find in any western media. Part of the actual Russian speech or ‘Explanation of Vote’ for their veto of the UN Resolution on Syria. It is worth reading. It is my own translation from the website of the Russian mission to the UN. There will be an official UN translation… Continue reading
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Greece Newslinks 3-6 October 2011
6 October 2011 — williambowles.info 6 October 2011 Greece government workers stage protest strike San Francisco Chronicle As Greece struggles to avoid a catastrophic default, demonstrators in Athens expressed outrage over their misfortune and bewilderment at a crisis that shows no signs of easing. “Nobody knows what’s going on. Every day they say something different.… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 5-6 October 2011
6 October 2011 — williambowles.info 6 October 2011 UN Veto Spurs New Syria Push Wall Street Journal Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, which borders Syria and is seen to have some economic and diplomatic leverage, said his country would move ahead with sanctions despite the failure of the UN measure, which was vetoed… Continue reading
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Israel: ANATOT POGROM VICTIMS SUFFERED SEXUAL ABUSE
anatot.jpg Image from publication, ‘The True Right’ with caption: ‘Nazileftist smashed with blows.’ If all I did in this post was tell you about the suffering of Israeli peace activists who were beaten and brutalized at a pogrom at Anatot a few days ago, I would be telling you little that was newsworthy or that… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 October, 2011: Erdogan: Israel a nuclear threat to the Middle East
5 October 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Quartet To Meet Next Sunday to Discuss Peace Process IMEMC – Wednesday October 05, 2011 – 14:28, The U.S State Department confirmed that representatives of the International Quartet will meet next Sunday in Brussels to discuss the frozen Israeli-Palestinian peace process and… Continue reading
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The Wolf Report: AWS
There’s nothing like a banker to bring out the best in somebody, and there’s nothing like an enclave of bankers, a virtual village of bankers to bring out the best in everybody. That best, of course, is the gut-hatred of the pin-headed, bb hearted, pin-striped class of bankers, who in both head and heart encapsulate… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 October, 2011: Chomsky on "Occupy Wall Street" and Israel's Collapse
5 October 2011 — Information Clearing House Global Revolution Live from Occupy Wall Street Video Stream – Chat – Twitter This channel will feature live streams from global non violent revolution spreading across the globe, with broadcasts from Wall Street Occupation in NYC. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29304.htm Continue reading
The New Dark Age 