15 November, 2011 — Democracy Now! Daily News Digest
Nearly two months into Occupy Wall Street, New York City police have carried out a major crackdown on the protesters’ Lower Manhattan encampment, dismantling tents, confiscating belongings, and arresting more than 70 people.
15 November 2011 — PALESTINIAN FREEDOM RIDERS
For Immediate Release
Palestinians who boarded a segregated Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem were arrested for taking action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides
15 November 2011
From the late 1950’s tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and guitarist Jim Hall play on the television show “Jazz Casual” with Bob Cranshaw on bass and Ben Riley drums. This is the quartet that recorded the amazing ‘The Bridge’, Rollins’ first album after several years meditating and practicing in the dead of night on Manhattan Bridge (cf. ‘The Simpsons’). Continue reading
15 November 2011 — The Real News Network
Robert Kelly: Latest IAEA report recycles old intelligence and is meant to bolster hard liners Continue reading
15 November 2011 — williambowles.info
15 November 2011
Syria: The West’s Strategic Gateway For Global Military Supremacy
GlobalResearch.ca Tomorrow at 03:46
For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
15 November 2011 — williambowles.info
15 November 2011
NY police remove Occupy protesters
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 11:48
15 November 2011 — williambowles.info
Court Decision Forcing Twitter To Give Up Info On Wikileaks Associates …
Techdirt
You may recall that the US government has been seeking all sorts of info on some folks who were somehow connected to Wikileaks as a part of its grand jury investigation, using the obscure 2703(d) process, rather than a standard subpoena (the 2703(d) …
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111113/01194816754/court-decision-forcing-twitter-to-give-up-info-wikileaks-associates-challenged-europe.shtml
14 November 2011 — Global Research – F. William Engdahl – Oil Politics
Nord Stream, the huge Russian-German pipeline project, began delivering gas to the EU
On November 7 the first of two pipelines for Nord Stream, the huge Russian-German gas pipeline project, began delivery of gas. The event was no minor affair. German Chancellor Merkel and Russian President Medvedev along with the prime ministers of France and the Netherlands and the EU Energy Commissioner formally opened the first of two 1224-kilometre pipelines at Lubmin in northern Germany, beginning delivery of the first gas direct from Russia’s Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field in Siberia to Germany.
15 November 2011 — Stop NATO
14 November 2011 — CommonDreams.org
Why I wanted to Challenge the Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza
15 November 2011 — williambowles.info
15 November 2011
Syria uprising falls victim to power plays
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
The Arab League’s machinations on Syria underline how greater powers – after seeing the protests had failed – have hijacked the bloody uprising to further their geopolitical objectives. As the West takes a harder line and as the Russian camp solidifies opposition to a Libyan scenario, neither the Syrian opposition nor its government has the country’s fate in their hands. – Ramzy Baroud (Nov 15, ’11)
15 November 2011 — STOP Nato
The League of Arab States (Arab League) suspended the membership of Syria in the organization on November 12 as it had with Libya on February 22 of this year. In the case of Libya, whose membership was reinstated after NATO bombed proxy forces into power in late August, reports at the time indicated that member states Algeria and Syria had been opposed to the action but folded under pressure for a consensus from the eight Arab states governed by royal families – Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which to all intents and purposes now are the Arab League, with the other formal members either victims of recent regime change of one sort or another or likely targets for such a fate.
14 November 2011 — Information Clearing House
Op-Ed Articles
Beating Babies For Jesus?
The Shady World of Right-Wing ‘Discipline’ Guides
By Frank Schaeffer
There is a brutal movement in America that legitimizes child abuse in the name of God.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29698.htm
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14 November 2011 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
French Consul and Family wounded in Israeli Attack on Gaza
IMEMC – On Monday, 14 November 2011, the French Consul in the Gaza Strip, Majdi Jameel Yaseen Shaqqoura, 44, his wife and his two children were wounded in an Israeli attack on the Palestinian Navy site in the southwest of Beit Lahia, located in northern Gaza.
The New Dark Age 