November 11, 2011
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Libya Newslinks 10-11 November 2-011
11 November 2011 — williambowles.info Nato offers ‘internal review’ of Libya bombing Morning Star Today at 17:11 Nato chiefs are offering to conduct an ‘internal legal review’ of its bombing campaign in Libya after an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor pledged to ‘impartially and independently’ probe alleged war crimes committed by the military alliance. Continue reading
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NATO in Libya – UN And ICC Risk Becoming Irrelevant to Africans By Yaw Asare Adu-Otu
Repeating the falsehood that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercised its military capability in Libya to protect civilians against attack by the military of Gadahfi regime did not make the assertion truthful when reasonable people around the world examined all the facts. Additionally, repeating NATO’s false premise has not made intervention in Libya and… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: November 11, 2011
11 November 2011 — Stop NATO Africa: NATO, AFRICOM And The New White Man’s Burden Russia Should Prevent Military Strikes On Iran: Leading Parliamentarian U.S. To Replicate NATO, NATO Missile Shield In Asia-Pacific Lithuania: NATO Gathers Over 200 Energy Experts To Support Global Military Missions Afghan War: NATO Rotates Georgian Cannon Fodder Rasmussen Hails Georgian… Continue reading
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Make war, make money: UK profits from Libya mess — RT
First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will get paid to put it back together. Libya is open for business, and UK firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush. Continue reading
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Make war, make money: UK profits from Libya mess — RT
First, British bombs tore it apart. Now, British companies will get paid to put it back together. Libya is open for business, and UK firms are being encouraged to join the gold rush. Continue reading
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Why the attempted remilitarisation of Africa will fail By Horace Campbell
Kenya’s foray into Somalia, led from behind by US Africa Command (AFRICOM), ‘represents a heightened threat to peace and reconstruction in Africa, especially East Africa’, argues Horace Campbell. AFRICOM’s attempts at remilitarisation will not solve Africa’s problems, says Campbell, when ‘the root cause’ of the ‘threats to stability and security challenges’ across the continent is… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 557: WALL STREET, WARMONGERS AND NORTH AFRICA TRANSITIONS
11 November 2011 — Pambazuka Africa News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Comment & analysis, 3. Advocacy & campaigns, 4. Obituaries, 5. Books & arts, 6. Letters & Opinions, 7. Blogging Africa Continue reading
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Flexing one's muscles?
…we are wrestling with the question that arises again and again in movements for social justice-how to struggle. Do we embrace nonviolence, or a ‘diversity of tactics?’ If we are a nonviolent movement, how do we define nonviolence? Is breaking a window violent? Continue reading
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Arabian Sights 11 November 2011: NATO's criminality…The ultimate showdown…Castro, Malcolm X's insights…A Note On Occupied Wall Street
11 November 2011 The ultimate showdown, The Racist Colonial “West” against the Rest Continue reading
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Media Lens Cogitation: Falling By David Edwards
April Fool’s Day, 1999, and the heart specialist says to me, with the usual twinkle in his eye: ‘It’s not Mickey Mouse territory, but you’ll be okay.’ Continue reading
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Video: Seun Kuti and Fela’s Africa 80 ‘ Many Things’
11 November 2011 Seun Kuti and Fela’s Africa 80. His first video. I saw this band live once, here in London. Whatta jam! Building on Fela’s massive contribution to African music. Continue reading
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War Clouds Form over Iran By Wayne Madsen
Israel’s all-powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an organization composed of Israeli collaborators, infiltrators, and outright traitors to the United States, is steamrolling through the House of Representatives H.R. 1905, which would prohibit the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, members of the U.S. Foreign Service, or… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 November 2011
11 November 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks Backers Lose Appeal of Order on Twitter Records BusinessWeek 10 (Bloomberg) — Three Wikileaks backers lost their appeal of a federal magistrate judge’s order allowing US prosecutors to examine information on them collected from their Twitter Inc. accounts. US District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria, Virginia, … http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-10/wikileaks-backers-lose-appeal-of-order-on-twitter-records.html Continue reading
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How to Make Robin Hood Proud BY David Moberg
Tax Wall Street,’ read a simple, homemade placard high above the crowd of thousands of members of unions, community groups and Occupy activists protesting outside the mid-October convention of bankers and futures traders in downtown Chicago. Curtis Smith, president of the local affiliate of National People’s Action, a network of community organizations focused on the… Continue reading
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Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution By John Bellamy Foster
5 November 2011 — MRZine This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. Continue reading
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Global Research Week in Review: What’s Happening in the World This Week
10 November 2011 — Global Research Bloggers, Writers, Online Activists: Time to get in on the action! – 2011-11-14 Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 10 November 2011: Did Police Go Too Far With Clashes at Berkeley?
10 November 2011 — Information Clearing House Op-Ed Articles Did Police Go Too Far With Clashes at Berkeley? Must Watch Video By RT Video shows police attacking protesters with batons, bluntly striking them in their abdomens and elsewhere. – Police are clearly seen striking protesters, unprovoked, from behind. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29681.htm Continue reading
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Video Clip: Gaza – Where Should the Birds Fly?
The site is for a film being made by a Palestinian woman about Israel’s multiple military attacks on Gaza, esp. the 2008-2009 “operation cast lead” where Israel allowed no journalists or human rights observers into Gaza to witness the devastation (ironically Israel today is calling for UN observers to enter Syria to document the killings… Continue reading
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From Gaddafi’s unknown grave, hidden volcanoes may erupt By Bhim Singh
NATO march off Libya immediately after the barbaric assassination of Col. Gaddafi has given rise to several bitter questions about the future of the sparsely populated oil-rich nation surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the North, Egypt in the East, Tunisia and Algeria in the West and Chad, Niger and Sudan in the South. Continue reading
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