November 2011
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Hip-Hop Against the World! BY Jared Ball
Propaganda agencies operate on the principle that everything can be turned to advantage, even the cultural properties of the oppressed.‘ Like jazzman Louis Armstrong’s ‘good will’ tours for the U.S. State Department in the Fifties, rappers today are dispatched on foreign missions to ‘cleanse an image that simply defies cleanliness.’ Hip Hop, the culture that… Continue reading
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Bloomberg Personifies What the Occupation Opposes BY Glen Ford
It was never in the cards for a plutocrat mayor to long tolerate a movement whose essential logic is the dissolution of his class. ‘If the Occupy Wall Street movement has been about anything, it is the absolute necessity to rid the nation – and the world – of the collective tyranny of the Bloombergs,… Continue reading
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General Strike in Portugal in 24 November
With a deeper recession, we will enter a destructive cycle of austerity policies, added recession and higher debt, repeating what is already happening, namely in Greece, with disastrous outcomes for the workers, people and country, which are very visible today.” Continue reading
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Land Research Center: Increasing Attacks on Jerusalemites and their Properties in October 2011
October, 2011, has witnessed radical escalations and a brutal assault against Palestinians and their properties all around the West Bank especially the Occupied City of Jerusalem. Continue reading
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November 30 Strike: student planning meeting tonight, plus demo details
As you’re probably aware, on Wednesday 30 November millions of public sector workers will be taking strike action across the country. A full list of unions taking action on the day is available here, but what’s clear is that N30 it set to see a major stepping up of resistance to austerity in the UK. Continue reading
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WMD deja-vu: Iran replaces Iraq — RT
America’s whipping up hysteria over the Iranian nuclear program, with the same figures that used to accuse Iraq of possessing chemical and nuclear weapons now repeating themselves with frenetic conviction. Continue reading
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Video: IAEA Iran Report Spins Intelligence BY grtv
Gareth Porter: Dubious intelligence used as pretext for tougher sanctions Continue reading
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If the West Attacks Iran, It Could Lead to World War III BY Devon DB
It was reported a week ago that the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report that argued that Iran may have been attempting to build nuclear weapons based on the fact that it had computer models of a nuclear warhead, in addition with other information. On the matter, the report itself states Iran… Continue reading
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Diamonds or Bombs? WaPo Is Only Skeptical on One Side
Joby Warrick’s Washington Post article (11/14/11) on the new International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran goes wrong from the first sentence Continue reading
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The IAEA Report on Iran is based on Fake Intelligence. IAEA "Soviet Nuclear Scientist" Never Worked on Weapons BY Gareth Porter
The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by a Washington think tank Tuesday repeated the sensational claim previously reported by news media all over the world that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist had helped Iran construct a detonation system that could be used for a nuclear weapon Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: November 16, 2011
16 November 2011 — Stop NATO Iran Strikes: U.S. Air Force Gets Super-Heavy Bunker-Buster Bombs Persian Gulf Arms, Missile Build-Up Boon To U.S. Weapons Companies Nuclear Madness: Iran, Kuwait Or The IAEA? Clinton, Obama Visits Shore Up Asian NATO Against China Australia Could Be Caught In U.S.-China Crossfire Pentagon To Test Hypersonic Prompt Global Strike Continue reading
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Nuclear Madness: Iran, Kuwait Or The IAEA? By Felicity Arbuthnot
As the sabre rattling against Iran becomes more deafening, week on week, with threats of the nuclear insanity of potentially, deliberately, creating a few Chernobyls or a Fukushima, by bombing working nuclear power plants, another potential nuclear madness is planned, geographically ‘next door.’ Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 16 November 2011
16 November 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks’ Assange seeks appeal to UK Supreme Court Wired.co.uk By Kim Zetter WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seeking to appeal his extradition ruling to the UK’s Supreme Court, arguing that he has not been charged with any crime and that the request for his extradition to Sweden was made by Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Evicted in Late Night Raid; Lawyers Secure Injunction to Reopen Zuccotti Park
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. Continue reading
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Palestinian Freedom Riders On Their Way to Jerusalem Violently Arrested on Israeli Settler Bus
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 Continue reading
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Sonny Rollins 'Jazz Casual'
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. 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… Continue reading
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Video: Former IAEA Inspector: Misleading Iran Report Proves Nothing
Robert Kelly: Latest IAEA report recycles old intelligence and is meant to bolster hard liners Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 13-15 November 2011
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. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street then the World Newslinks 11-15 November 2011
15 November 2011 — williambowles.info 15 November 2011NY police remove Occupy protesters Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 11:48 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 15 November 2011
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 Continue reading
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