February 15, 2012
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Syria’s ‘Arab Spring’: failed or hijacked? By Fiona Hill
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is ‘disgusted’ at the stance taken by Russia and China against foreign military intervention in Syria. But clearly ‘Madame Clinton’, as many Syrians enjoy calling her, has not made time to read the report by the Head of the Arab League (AL) Observer Mission that was deployed throughout Syria’s… Continue reading
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The Right-Wing Id Unzipped By Mike Lofgren
Right-wingers have occasioned much recent comment. Their behavior in the Republican debates has caused even jaded observers to react like an Oxford don stumbling upon a tribe of headhunting cannibals. In those debates where the moderators did not enforce decorum, these right-wingers, the Republican base, behaved with a single lack of dignity. For a group… Continue reading
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Gaza Is on the Brink of Health and Environmental Catastrophe Due to Power Outages and Lack of Fuel
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over the current power crisis in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza power plant stopped working yesterday as the fuel required for it operation ran out completely, which has caused long periods of outages throughout the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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IRAQ UNDER US MILITARY OCCUPATION: Maliki Proxy Government orders Execution of former PM Tariq Aziz
Iraq has been illegally invaded, occupied and decimated. Surely the UN cannot sit by as these terrible executions – pogroms – go ahead. Death sentences for no other reason than that Mr Aziz and his colleagues were part of the legitimate, sovereign government of Iraq – a ‘sovereignty and territorial integrity’ which was guaranteed by… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 15, 2012: Russia To Counter U.S. Interceptor Missile Ships Off Coasts
15 February 2012 — 012 Russia To Counter U.S. Interceptor Missile Ships Off Coasts U.S. Aircraft Carrier Passes Through Strait Of Hormuz NATO Holds High Level Consultations With Four Gulf Countries Russian Foreign Minister: West Preparing Replay Of Libyan Model In Syria NATO Representative: Georgia’s Full Membership Is Decided Issue Germany Supports Macedonia’s Full NATO… Continue reading
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Tariq Ali says Assad has to go: I’m depressed – no, I’m outraged By William Bowles
So Tariq Ali thinks it’s time for Assad to go. Once more the Western ‘left’ reveals its true colours. Who needs enemies with a friend like this? Continue reading
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PCHR Holds Urgent Consultative Meeting Addressing the Case of Palestinian Detainee in Israeli Jails, Khader Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike
Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike In the context of its efforts to follow up the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and its interest in the their detention conditions, on Tuesday afternoon, 14 February 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) held an urgent consultative meeting in its Head Office in Gaza… Continue reading
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Video: The Greek Experiment By Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson: Greek crisis used to find out how far finance can drive down wages and privatize Continue reading
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Aleppo betrayed by attacks that are foreign to its nature By Charles Glass
Last week’s suicide bombings that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo are drawing Syria’s second city into a conflict that it had struggled to avoid for the past year. President Bashar Al Assad blamed Al Qaeda terrorists, while the Syrian opposition accused the regime. American officials, despite Washington’s hostility to Mr Al Assad and… Continue reading
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Video: Bahrain crackdown: Tactics & weapons imported from UK — RT
Pictures of a crackdown by heavily armed police on protesters in Bahrain appear to be similar to many others during the Arab Spring. This time the weapons, as well as the tactics, have been imported from the UK. Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 14-15 February 2012
15 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 US-Backed Regime Replays State of Emergency to Crush Pro-Democracy Movement by Finian CunninghamDandelion Salad Today at 07:12 by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 14 February 2012 Bahrain’s first anniversary of its pro-democracy protests has been met with massive police and army violence, with many civilians injured from… Continue reading
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Greece in flames: Cassandra strikes again By Eric Walberg
In a scene worthy of “Battle of the Damned” gas-mask clad protesters left 40 buildings in Athens in flames as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets, wounding hundreds. Greece’s 99 per cent have little or nothing to lose in a “structurally readjusted” country, leaving them at the forefront in the growing battle in the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 February 2012: Take Action to Oppose Ever-Greater Amounts of Military Aid to Israel
14 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Envoy Tours Palestinian Territories To Assess Settler Violence IMEMC – After a recent increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, property and holy sites, the UN envoy Richard Falk arrived in the West Bank this weekend to begin an eleven-day tour of… Continue reading
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Book Review By Eric Walberg: Guided missives
15 February 2012 — Eric Walberg Ard ard (Surface-to-surface): The story of a graffiti revolution Sheif Abdel-Megid Egyptian Association for Books 2011 ISBN 978-977-207-102-9 Graffiti — the art of the masses, by the masses, for the masses — has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and arguably… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 14 February 2012: Chomsky : 'Losing' the World – Paul Craig Roberts – Is Western Democracy Real
13 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel and Proxy Terrorism By Robert Wright Should Israel be classified as a state sponsor of terrorism? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30532.htm Continue reading
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Mali: U.S. Africa Command’s New War? By Rick Rozoff
As the only news agencies with global sweep and the funds and infrastructure to maintain bureaus and correspondents throughout the world are those based in leading member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, BBC News and Deutsche Presse-Agentur – the coverage of ongoing developments in Mali, like… Continue reading
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Mali: U.S. Africa Command's New War? By Rick Rozoff
As the only news agencies with global sweep and the funds and infrastructure to maintain bureaus and correspondents throughout the world are those based in leading member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, BBC News and Deutsche Presse-Agentur – the coverage of ongoing developments in Mali, like… Continue reading
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Britain’s Socialist Workers Party covers for imperialist regime change in Syria By Chris Marsden
The first response of Washington, London, and Paris to the revolutionary overturns in Tunisia and Egypt was a pre-emptive campaign for regime change in Libya, working through local proxies whose task was to prepare the way for military intervention. The pattern is being repeated in Syria. It falls to the various ex-left tendencies to conceal… Continue reading
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The New Dark Age 