October 2011
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Video: NATO Crimes and Mainstream Media Lies in Libya Exposed By grtv
NATO’s presence in Libya little resembles a humanitarian mission with houses, hospitals and schools being hit. But Libya prospered prior to NATO’s intrusion, Yvonne Di Vito, an activist from Libyanfriends.com told RT. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 19, 2011
19 October 2011 — Stop NATO NATO: ‘Premature To Set Timetable’ For End Of Libyan War History Repeating Itself: U.S. Hawks Hover Over Iran U.S. In Search Of The Absolute Weapon U.S. Army Micro-Drones To Bomb ‘Human Targets’ Kosovo: NATO Forced To Back Down For Now Continue reading
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Video: Cornel West at Freedom Plaza – Washington DC on Corporate Greed & the Military Industrial Complex
17 October 2011 — The Real News Network Continue reading
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Capitalism: what a load of rubbish! By William Bowles
The controversy over climate change illustrates the fundamental dilemma that capitalism has when it comes to facing up to the end-product of production purely for the sake of profit. Small-time it’s toxic but tolerable. Global it spells almost certain disaster for us as a species along with countless thousands of others. Continue reading
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War Crime Alert: Sirte destroyed by NTC-NATO offensive in Libya By Chris Marsden
Once considered to be a showpiece of urban development in Libya, Sirte has been the target of NATO bombing and NTC attacks since shortly after the fall of Tripoli in late August. In the last ten days, it has been the object of an intensified offensive. The Post states that ‘the damage wreaked in Sirte… Continue reading
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Video: Senate Bill Threatens Currency War with China
Michael Hudson: Senate proposal based on junk economics and is illegal under international law Continue reading
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Occupy Wall St. Turns Global
NYC Occupy movement enters second month and gains momentum Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 17-18 October 2011
18 October 2011 — williambowles.info 18 October 2011 Assange calls WikiLeaks defection reports false CTV.ca AP LIMA, Peru — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday described as nonsense reports of defections from his organization and said his group helped inspire the Occupy Wall Street movement. Addressing a meeting of the Inter American Press … http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20111018/julian-assange-denies-wikileaks-defection-reports-111018/ Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 18, 2011
18 October 2011 — Stop NATO Libya War: Need To Strengthen War Powers Resolution NYT: U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare In Attack Plan On Libya NATO-Iraq Partnership: Italian Military Trains 11,000 Federal And Oil Police Video And Text: NATO Plans Final Solution For Kosovo Serbs Thousands Of Serbs Prepare For NATO Assault U.S. Warship Arrives In Georgia Continue reading
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Media Lens: Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Part 1 Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan
In a shameful editorial, the Guardian burnished its credentials as a hand-wringing liberal supporter of the war. Readers were told that the war that had been ‘unavoidable’ and that ‘we’ had then stayed in the country ‘through all the twists and turns imposed by events’, struggling with ‘the incoherence of our own changing policies, for… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 October, 2011: Barghouti: Prisoners were not consulted over swap deal
17 October 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Toner: “Quartet Envoys Will Separately Meet Palestinian, Israeli Officials” IMEMC – Tuesday October 18, 2011 – 02:25, Envoys of the Quartet Committee for the Middle East will be holding separate meetings with Palestinian and Israeli officials, in Jerusalem on October 26, in an attempt Continue reading
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#OWS, Times Square, and the Global Labor Movement By Mark Nowak
Trade unionists I’ve spoken with around the world have related, over and again, how participating in the occupy movements have transformed their opinions. Continue reading
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America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time By Nick Turse
DRONES – THEY INCREASINGLY DOT THE PLANET. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where ‘pilots’ work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a… Continue reading
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Hundreds of Worldwide Occupy Protests Occupy One Inch of Front Page By Peter Hart
In case you’re having trouble finding it, it’s in the lower right-hand corner: a blurb approximately one column inch long, directing people to page A20 to find news about protests in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in ‘more than 900 cities in Europe, Africa and Asia.’ Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter October 17, 2011: Who Are The One Percent in America?
17 October 2011 — Information Clearing House U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot By Gareth Porter The information about two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29434.htm Continue reading
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Da Nang International Airport – Agent Orange and the Removal of Dioxin
Between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed 20,000,000 US gallons (80,000,000 L) of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand. Continue reading
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Occupy The City
17 October 2011 — williambowles.info My take on Occupy The City – 17 October 2011 Continue reading
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Global Research: Occupy Wall Street, Selected Articles 1-16 October 2011
17 October 2011 — Global Research Statement of Solidarity, Occupy Wall Street, Zucotti Park – by NYC General Assembly, Occupy Wall Street – 2011-10-16 Continue reading
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The march of the neoliberals By Stuart Hall
We are living through an extraordinary political situation: the end of the debt-fuelled boom, the banking crisis of 2007-10, the defeat of New Labour and the rise to power of a Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition. What sort of crisis is this? Is it a serious wobble in the trickle-down, win-win, end-of-boom-and-bust economic model that has dominated… Continue reading
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The $600 Trillion Time Bomb That's Set to Explode By Keith Fitz-Gerald
The world’s gross domestic product (GDP) is only about $65 trillion, or roughly 10.83% of the worldwide value of the global derivatives market, according to The Economist. So there is literally not enough money on the planet to backstop the banks trading these things if they run into trouble. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 