October 7, 2011
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Video: Zainab al-Hosni, the "Flower of Syria," Alive and on TV: Will Human Rights Organizations and Mass Media Issue Corrections? By Yoshie Furuhashi
Zainab al-Hosni, dubbed the “Flower of Syria,” who the Syrian opposition claimed was tortured and murdered, burned and decapitated, by the Syrian government, has just appeared on Syrian TV, very much alive. Here is the video of the TV interview with Zainab, who says she fled from her family home because her brothers were beating… Continue reading
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NATO Responsible for Crimes against Humanity in Libya
The situation is deteriorating badly with every day and every hour that passes in Sirte and Bani Walid as these two major cities have been held under siege for months and their citizens are suffering critically from a lack of basic necessities. NATO and the Rebels are bombing civilian areas, killing innocent people and families,… Continue reading
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Battle for Libya ‘far from over’ — RT
As the latest assault on Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, is underway and there are no signs that NATO is going to leave Libya anytime soon, the conflict in North Africa seems to be far from its end. Continue reading
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Battle for Libya ‘far from over’ — RT
As the latest assault on Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, is underway and there are no signs that NATO is going to leave Libya anytime soon, the conflict in North Africa seems to be far from its end. Continue reading
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Welcome to the #OWS 99% Movement “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group
This is not an official statement from the #OWS 99% Movement. As a decentralized leaderless movement, in our opinion, there is no one group, organization, website or individual who can speak for the movement as a whole. We, a working group of people currently occupying Liberty Park and many other locations throughout the US, are… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Libyan Fighters Assault Main Qaddafi Base in Sirte Fox News AP Libyan revolutionary fighters exchange RPG firing positions, while attacking pro-Qaddafi forces inside the Ouagadougou conference center of Sirte, Libya, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. SIRTE, Libya — Revolutionary fighters on Friday assaulted a convention … http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/07/libyan-fighters-assault-main-qaddafi-base-in-sirte/ Continue reading
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Haqqanis don’t divide US and Pakistan By M K Bhadrakumar
Equally intriguing was Clinton’s admission that US is as much responsible for the Haqqani network’s existence today as Pakistan could be. She sensitises the American opinion by even produced a YouTube to underscore the legitimacy of the Pakistani allegation that the US did encourage it to hobnob with the Haqqanis, who were once America’s blue-eyed… Continue reading
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Arabian Sights… (Re)occupy America
A roundup of occupations. Continue reading
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M of A – NATO To Intervene In Libya’s Multi-sided Civil War
It was utterly predictable that the war in Libya would not be over even if Gaddhafi would be pushed away. The various fractions of the rebels could always be expected to start fighting over the loot. Frankly – why shouldn’t they? This is happening now and NATO is preparing to go into Libya to clean… Continue reading
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Video: Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St.) By Alex Mallis and Lily Henderson
Alexander Ramírez-Mallis and Lily Henderson are filmmakers based in Brooklyn, New York Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 4-7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Women’s rights trio wins Nobel Peace Prize CBS News (CBS/AP) OSLO, Norway – Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian peace activist and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s authoritarian regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to secure women’s rights, … http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/07/501364/main20117103.shtml Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Nobel peace prize: Bradley Manning tops reader poll The Guardian (blog) Bradley Manning, the US intelligence analyst accused of leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, has been found competent to stand trial. Photograph: AP Following a poll in which we asked readers to vote from a selection of main contenders, the US Continue reading
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Video: Occupy Wall St. to a Bank in the Public Interest By MIchael Hudson
Michael Hudson: A public option in banking will be a structural answer to the power of finance Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Arab Spring galvanizers, WikiLeaks among Nobel contenders CNN Of those, 53 are organizations, including WikiLeaks — the website founded by Julian Assange that facilitates the publication of classified information and made headlines for leaking documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. … http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/06/world/norway-nobel-peace-prize/ Continue reading
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Dahr Jamail: Environmental Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico – The Escalation of BP's Liability
During a recent discussion in his office, Blanchard told Al Jazeera that the fishing waters off Louisiana are only producing one per cent of the shrimp they formerly produced. ‘Half of the local fishermen have shut down,’ he stated. ‘They are dying. And [as] for the fishing, every day they are hauling dead porpoises in… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 6-7 October 2011
7 October 2011 — williambowles.info Todos contra Wall Street Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Tomorrow at 02:20 Lee Sustar El apoyo sindical a Ocupa Wall Street puede dar al movimiento un nuevo poder social. Continue reading
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A tribute to Joe Bageant: Now the World is a Sadder, Sillier Place By Michael Tallon
This tribute to Joe Bageant originally appeared last May in La Cuadra, a print magazine published in Guatemala. The magazine recently posted the following to the web, and here it is. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 7, 2011
7 October 2011 — Stop NATO Panetta Praises NATO ‘Success’ In Afghanistan And Libya, Pushes Missile Shield U.S. Army In Europe Pre-Deployed For Wars In Africa, Asia, Balkans Pentagon Chief Applauds Stationing Of Interceptor Missiles Warships In Spain India Studies NATO Offer To Join Global Missile Shield Program U.S.-NATO Missile System Can Threaten Russia’s Strategic Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 October, 2011: Revealed: UK government plotted with Israel lobby to ban Salah
6 October 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abed-Rabbo: “No Talks Unless Israel Halts Settlement Activities” IMEMC – Friday October 07, 2011 – 02:26, Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Abed-Rabbo, stated that the Palestinian leadership will not return to the negotiations table before Continue reading
The New Dark Age 