February 2012
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Top Social Media Websites Caught Censoring Controversial Content By Washington’s Blog
Facebook pays low-wage foreign workers to delete certain content based upon a censorship list. For example, Facebook deletes accounts created by Palestinian resistance groups. Continue reading
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Information Clearing house Newsletter 24 February 2012: U.S. Knows Iran Not Building Nuclear Bomb
24 February, 2014 — Information Clearing House U.S. Does NOT Not Believe Iran is Trying to Build Nuclear Bomb By Ken Dilanian Iran continues to enrich uranium at low levels, U.S. officials say they have not seen evidence that has caused them to significantly revise that judgment. Senior U.S. officials say Israel does not Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 February 2012: How Khader Adnan Exposed the Irrationality of Administrative Detention
25 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Detainee Shalabi Enters Her Eighth Day Of Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Female detainee, Hana Ash-Shalabi, entered her eighth day of open-ended hunger strike at her cell at the Ha-Sharon Israeli prison, protesting her illegal detention and the administrative detention order served against her without charges. … Continue reading
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Syria: Rogue Elements Rampant By Felicity Arbuthnot
For anyone who has forgotten the details, the (1990-1991) Iraq model went like this: vast US government employed PR agency, Hill and Knowlton (“we create value by shaping conversations: we start them, we amplify them, we change them. We can connect seamlessly with all of your audiences…”) produced a fifteen year old girl called “Nayirah”,… Continue reading
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Ethnic Cleansing of “Invented” People By MIKO PELED
Mostafa Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, Bahjat Zaalan and his son Ramdan from Gaza died on my 50th birthday and just a few days after Newt Gingrich declared them an “invented” people. They were murdered by the Israeli terrorist organization, the IDF, an organization that is supported and funded by the United States. Continue reading
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Progressives Embrace Humanitarian Imperialism – Again! By John V. Walsh
“Foreign Intervention in Syria? A Debate with Joshua Landis and Karam Nachar” promised the headline on DemocracyNow! on 22 February. Eagerly I tuned in, hoping to hear a thorough exposé of the machinations of the US Empire in Syria on its march to Iran. Continue reading
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Video: 'Iranian oil – not nukes – bothers the West'
Conn Hallinan, a columnist at the Foreign Policy in Focus magazine, says the West’s concern over Iran’s nuclear program is merely a pretext to take control of its vast energy resources Continue reading
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Memo To POTUS–Eyes Only: From The Department of Pre-War Planning And Threat Exaggeration By Danny Schechter
This is a digest of the multi-dimensional and multi-track strategy that is in place, and is being pursued simultaneously in a coordinated manner, by The Executive Branch, Defense Department, State Department, and all intelligence agencies. (And despite reports from our spy agencies that Iran is right to insist it is not making nuclear bombs. Why… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 25, 2012: Syria: Clinton Calls China, Russia “Despicable,” Demands Regime Change
25 February 2012 — Stop NATO News Syria: Clinton Calls China, Russia “Despicable,” Demands Regime Change Two NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghan Capital U.S. Increases Military Presence In Strait Of Hormuz Kyrgyz President: U.S. Air Base Should Not Be Used Against Iran U.S. Leads Airborne Exercise In Mali Saakashvili: Georgia Finds Safety In European Family, NATO Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 February 2012: When it is illegal to use your front door: Freedom of movement in Al Khalil
24 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center New Video Showing Israeli Soldiers Abusing A Cuffed, Blindfolded PalestinianIMEMC – A new video showing Israeli soldiers abusing a cuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee was released after being shot by a hidden camera in Ni’lin village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. … Continue reading
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“Friends of Syria” plan war, regime change at Washington’s behest
The “Friends of Syria” are a gang of political criminals, gathered in Tunisia to plan the latest in a series of destabilization campaigns that have all ended in colonial wars of aggression. Continue reading
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The Real News Network: This Week February 20 – February 24
25 February, 2012 — The Real News Network February 24 Greeks Look to the Left for SolutionsCostas Lapavitsas: The left is gaining in popular support but have so far failed to present a coherent programGo to story | Go to homepage Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 19-25 February 2012: Kosovo / Syria / UN / Arab League / Russia / China /Venezuela / Afghanistan
25 February 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Kosovo Serbs Caught in Crossfire from Three Points 25.02.2012 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV The debates over Serbia’s bid for the status of a EU candidate, which are due to open in Brussels in March, will likely provoke a new round of destabilization in the Serbian districts of the Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2012
24 February 2012 — NEWS 1. Housmans Virtual Book Club2. Competition to win a pair of tickets to Camus’ ‘Caligula’ IN-STORE EVENTS3. Women’s History Month presents: ‘Women’s history: half the future half the past’ with Jessica Metheringham-Owlett4. Coalition of Resistance presents: ‘Eurozone in crisis: what is to be done?’5. Bent Bars presents: ‘Gender and the prison Continue reading
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NYT Lets Unnamed Officials Smear Critics as ‘Terrorists’
In two stories this month, New York Times journalists allowed anonymous government officials to smear critics as terrorists and terrorist sympathizers–a shocking violation of the paper’s explicit rules against allowing anonymity to be a cover for attacks. Continue reading
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Video: Greeks Look to the Left for Solutions
Costas Lapavitsas: The left is gaining in popular support but have so far failed to present a coherent program Continue reading
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Video: Don't Get Fooled Again on Iran By grtv
The Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, has stated twice already this year that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. So why are so many voices clamouring for war? Continue reading
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Video: Don’t Get Fooled Again on Iran By grtv
The Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, has stated twice already this year that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. So why are so many voices clamouring for war? Continue reading
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'SWIFT Boating' Iran: Economic War a Prelude to Military Attack By Tom Burghardt
Despite, though likely because, Iran is ready to restart negotiations with the so-called P5+1 group (the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) over its civilian nuclear program, belligerent rhetoric and sharply-worded political attacks from Israel and the United States have escalated. Continue reading
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