February 29, 2012
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Columbia’s Quest for Peace & Justice: The International & National Contexts By Professor James Petras
Between April 21-23, thousands of activists from most of the major urban and rural social movements and trade unions, human rights groups and indigenous, afro-Colombian movements will meet to unify forces and launch, what promises to be the most significant new political movement in recent history. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 29 February 2012
29 February 2012 — williambowles.info Wikileaks publishes claim about Pakistani knowledge of Bin Laden Los Angeles Times REPORTING FROM ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published an international affairs think tank email that alleges mid-ranking Pakistani intelligence and military officials were aware of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s … http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/02/wikileaks-publishes-pakistan-osama-bin-laden.html Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 29 February 2012
29 February 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks suspect in frame for peace prize Independent Online Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the European Union and US soldier and WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning are on the list. With 188 individuals and 43 organisations, the number of candidates comes close to last year’s record of 241, when the award Continue reading
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Israel raids West Bank TV stations
Israeli troops have raided two Palestinian television stations in the West Bank, seizing transmitters and other equipment. The Palestinian PM denounced the operation, calling it “an oppressive and monstrous” move which violates “all international laws.” Continue reading
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Assad in Western eyes: From riches to rags By Dmitry Babich
The recent pronouncements by Western leaders and the monarchs of the Persian Gulf Emirates on the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his regime make one want to rub one’s eyes. Are we hearing them from the same people we have just seen shaking hands with Assad and hinting at lucrative contracts with his “regime”? Didn’t… Continue reading
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France and US arming Syrian opposition – report
A general in the opposition militia known as the Free Syria Army has told journalists that the rebels have received French and American military assistance, amid reports of worsening violence in the stricken nation. Continue reading
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EVENT: Venezuela 2012: How Social Progress & Democracy are Transforming a Nation
Following decades of US backed dictatorships and then failed IMF economic policies, recent years have seen much of Latin America transformed into a beacon for social progress. Progressive governments have matched economic growth with social inclusion and a widening of democratic participation. Continue reading
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Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Marshall- Episode 8
29 February 2012 — www.boilingfrogspost.com “Black History in the United States: Slavery, Segregation, and Social Control” In a highly critical black history of the United States, this episode examines the social construction of race (and racism) starting in the late 1600s as a means of social control, devised through the colonial legal system to separate white Continue reading
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EMERGENCY – ESCAPING METHANE GAS IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN
We appeal to you to support our call to put the imminent loss of Arctic summer sea ice and escalation of Arctic methane emissions at the top of the climate change agenda and to support emergency measures to cool the Arctic. Continue reading
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Impotence in the face of impunity? By William Bowles
A fellow writer tells me that she feels overwhelmed by events and I feel the same way. An awful sense of deja vu that we have as much chance of stopping the march to total war as they had in the 1930s. Except that this time it will not be us citizens of Empire who… Continue reading
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Video: United States vs. Manning & Assange
Michael Ratner: Army is trying to pressure Manning into implicating Julian Assange so that he too can be charged and extradited to US Continue reading
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American Unipolar Moment Has Ended, Global Multipolarity Emerges BY M Zarrar Haider
The last two decades witnessed the expression of unipolarity in terms of unilateralism with invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and the endemic Global War on Terror (GWOT). We are now in a new, fast-evolving multipolar world in which some developing countries are emerging as economic powers; others are moving towards becoming additional poles of growth;… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 29, 2012: “Nightmare For Invader”: Georgia Is NATO States’ Window To Caucasus
29 February 2012 — Stop NATO Attacks On Syria, Iran Would Overwhelm Armenia With Refugees Russian Expert: Azerbaijan’s Territory May Be Used To Strike Iran “Nightmare For Invader”: Georgia Is NATO States’ Window To Caucasus Georgian Foreign Minister In Israel To Discuss “Regional Security Issues” Saakashvili: NATO Afghan Operation Provides Training For Local Conflicts Labor Party Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 February 2012: Israeli government confirms plan for segregated settler train system
28 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed Over Olympia Food Co-op Boycott Of Israeli GoodsIMEMC – Today, (Monday) in a lawsuit brought against current and former members of the Olympia Food Co-op board of directors for their decision to boycott Israeli goods, a Washington State court dismissed the Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 February 2012: US Has Secret Charges Against Assange: Hacked Emails
28 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Blown Away: How the US Fanned the Flames in Afghanistan By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting — and the killing? Are the exits finally coming into view? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30669.htm Continue reading
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