4 October 2011 — MRZine
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 her: Continue reading
7 October, 2011 — Global Research – Algeria isp
An Urgent Call for Humanitarian Intervention in Sirt and Bani Walid
The disastrous situation of the Libyan cities of Sirte and Bani Walid, which are facing genocide as well as the widespread devastation of their infrastructures.
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7 October 2011 — 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.
Reports say the interim government’s troops have now largely taken Sirte, but are still meeting pockets of heavy resistance.
Hundreds of vehicles are pouring into the outskirts as the city is pounded with heavy shelling.
Though thousands of civilians have left the city, many more are thought to have remained.
The assault comes after Colonel Gaddafi, in an audio message, urged Libyans to resist the interim leaders.
‘The battle is far from over,’ says activist and journalist Sukant Chandan.
It is now clear to the world that civilians are being targeted in Sirte, he says quoting the AFP reports on civilian casualties. ‘Nevertheless Sirte is still resisting.’
He points out that the media have stopped talking about another Gaddafi stronghold, Bani Walid. ‘Basically the pro-NATO rebels in Libya have given up taking Bani Walid,’ he believes.
There are no signs whatsoever that NATO is going to leave, Chandan says. ‘NATO just said that it will intervene even further if relationship among the rebels continues to worsen.’
By vetoing UN resolution on Syria, ‘China and Russia have admitted that they were fooled over Resolution 1973 on Libya and they are not going to be fooled again,’ the journalist states.
According to Chandan, Syrian President Bashar Assad is doing the right thing for any leader of the ‘Global South.’ He explains that if NATO attacks Syria, Assad will start bombing Israel, get Hezbollah bombing Israel, and Iran will target Western interest in the Gulf.
‘This is the only way to face the world bullies which is NATO,’ he claims.
7 October 2011 — 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.
Reports say the interim government’s troops have now largely taken Sirte, but are still meeting pockets of heavy resistance.
Hundreds of vehicles are pouring into the outskirts as the city is pounded with heavy shelling.
Though thousands of civilians have left the city, many more are thought to have remained.
The assault comes after Colonel Gaddafi, in an audio message, urged Libyans to resist the interim leaders.
‘The battle is far from over,’ says activist and journalist Sukant Chandan.
It is now clear to the world that civilians are being targeted in Sirte, he says quoting the AFP reports on civilian casualties. ‘Nevertheless Sirte is still resisting.’
He points out that the media have stopped talking about another Gaddafi stronghold, Bani Walid. ‘Basically the pro-NATO rebels in Libya have given up taking Bani Walid,’ he believes.
There are no signs whatsoever that NATO is going to leave, Chandan says. ‘NATO just said that it will intervene even further if relationship among the rebels continues to worsen.’
By vetoing UN resolution on Syria, ‘China and Russia have admitted that they were fooled over Resolution 1973 on Libya and they are not going to be fooled again,’ the journalist states.
According to Chandan, Syrian President Bashar Assad is doing the right thing for any leader of the ‘Global South.’ He explains that if NATO attacks Syria, Assad will start bombing Israel, get Hezbollah bombing Israel, and Iran will target Western interest in the Gulf.
‘This is the only way to face the world bullies which is NATO,’ he claims.
7 October 2011 — Amped Status
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 growing increasingly concerned about divide and conquer attempts being made to co-opt the movement. In the following message, we are issuing our first proposed statement. … Read More >>
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/
3 October 2011 — Indian Punchline
…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 boys. She clarified, inter alia, that she is not condoning still the “serious, grievous, strategic error” by Pakistan in supporting the Haqqanis, who are like a “wild animal in the backyard.” Interestingly, Clinton doesn’t spell out what precisely the US now expects Pakistan to do vis-a-vis Haqqanis — except to say Islamabad should “prevent any attacks against us [US troops] emanating from Pakistan.” Read the rest here…
7 October 2011
Gamila Zahran, the author, puts out these occasional newsletters but only via email, sorry, no website. This one caught my eye and worth giving a wider audience. It catches the flavour of events perfectly. Revolution? We’ll see…
7 October 2011 — Moon of Alabama
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 up the mess the three stooges, Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron, created. Continue reading
5 October 2011 — MRZine
Alexander Ramírez-Mallis and Lily Henderson are filmmakers based in Brooklyn, New York. For more information about Occupy Wall Street, visit http://occupywallst.org.
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
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 soldier accused …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/oct/06/bradley-manning-reader-poll-nobel-peace-prize?newsfeed=true
7 October 2011 — The Real News Network
Michael Hudson: A public option in banking will be a structural answer to the power of finance
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7 October 2011 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 552
O No, wait! You’re supposed to arrest the bankers!When he ran for president in 1948, Harry Truman complained of the “blood-suckers of Wall Street,” an unkind characterization of the upstanding bankers and financiers who manage America’s money so brilliantly. Over sixty years later we now find a large number of Americans out on the Streets of Finance repeating Harry’s commentary, rather less politely. Why choose the titans of finance on Wall Street to trash?
Might it be because in addition to committing the crime of the century by causing the Great Financial Crisis (we have almost ninety years to go, so they have ample opportunity to do even worse), they are, as Harry pointed out, social and economic vampires. A few simple and easily accessible, yet largely unnoticed, statistics demonstrate the blood-sucking. In 1950 the U.S. finance and insurance business generated (i.e., siphoned off) 2.4 per cent of national product, rather slim and meager pickings. After reaching three per cent in 1953, the titans of finance required fifteen years to achieve four per cent (1968), and another thirteen to hit five (1981).
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/
5 October 2011 — Global Research – Al Jazeera – 2011-10-03
As oil, sickness and contamination persist, Gulf residents and lawyers file thousands of lawsuits against the oil giant.
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‘If you got caught humping another woman – [if] you’re both naked and caught in the act – you’d want BP to explain to your wife how it didn’t happen.’
This colorful analogy was proposed by Dean Blanchard, a seafood distributor on Grand Isle, Louisiana, to explain oil giant BP’s continuing machinations to evade liability in the aftermath of the April 2010 disaster.
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.
May 2011 — Joe Bageant
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.
7 October 2011 — Stop NATO
6 October 2011 , 2011 — VTJP
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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 Israel halts all of its settlement activities.
The New Dark Age 
