December 17, 2011
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Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – 'Hothouse'
Charlie Parker, alto sax; Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Dick Hyman, piano; Sandy Block, bass; Charles Smith, drums. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 17, 2011
17 December 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon Commends Turkey For NATO Radar Site Turkey: U.S. NATO Ally On Missiles, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kurds Pentagon Appoints Turkey To Police Iraq, Confront Iran Turkey’s Top Military Council Prepares For War Iraq: Fallujah Celebrates U.S. Troop Exit, Honors The Slain U.S. Rallies NATO Support For Georgia’s Accession Georgia Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 17 December 2011
17 December 2011 — williambowles.info Suspected WikiLeaks source appears in court Reuters He is suspected of being the source of documents that eventually were released on the Internet by WikiLeaks — data dumps that Washington said jeopardized national security. Manning was quiet as he sat in the courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland, … http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/17/us-usa-defense-manning-idUSTRE7BF0D720111217 Continue reading
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Euro Crisis: Britain’s Financial Arsonist Returns to the Scene of the Crime By Finian Cunningham
The spectacle of bankrupt David Cameron swaggering over to Europe to ask equally bankrupt European governments for more deregulatory concessions for the City of London is about as stupefying as an arsonist returning to the scene of the crime – and asking for more gasoline. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 17 December 2011
17 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning hearing: defence lawyer turns fire on military accusers The Guardian Eighteen months after his arrest in Iraq for allegedly orchestrating the largest leak of state secrets in American history, Bradley Manning has faced his military accusers for the first time, immediately turning the guns against them. … http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/16/bradley-manning-hearing-defence-lawyer?newsfeed=true Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 December 2011: Soldiers: “West Bank Problem Is Jews, Not Palestinians”
16 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Central Gaza IMEMC – Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday at dawn, a Palestinian man in Al Boreij Refugee camp, in central Gaza, medical sources reported. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘A Death Sentence For Africa’
The UN climate summit in Durban, South Africa, ended with one of those marathon all-night cliffhanger negotiations that the media love so much. The outcome was a commitment to talk about a legally-binding deal to cut carbon emissions – by both developed and developing countries – that would be agreed by 2015 and come into… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-17 December 2011
17 December 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation European Union: From economic crisis to constitutional disaster17.12.2011 | 11:50 | Hannes HOFBAUER (Austria) The Brussels summit of December 2011 intended to solve a huge fiscal and budget (and in reality an economic) problem in the Euro-zone. It let to a political split within the EU-27 and risks Continue reading
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ICH Newsletter 16 December 2011: Obama's Hypocritical Embrace of a Criminal War
16 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama at Fort Bragg: A Hypocritical Embrace of a Criminal War By Bill Van Auken President Barack Obama used his speech to US troops at Fort Bragg, to embrace the nine-year war in Iraq that he had ostensibly opposed and to declare the destruction of the country a Continue reading