March 2012
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The Battle for the Moral High Ground By Reuven Kaminer
The US and Israel are threatening Iran with aggression. With no basis in international law, and in complete violation of the principles of national sovereignty and basing themselves on a flagrant disregard for the truth of the matter, the US and Israel are pushing the region into dangerous, mounting tension. Continue reading
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Syria: China Blocked New War, Global Bloodshed, Western Middle East Takeover
Sovereignty, independence and noninterference in internal affairs are the legal basis by which small and medium-sized countries survive within contemporary international relations. Ignoring that, the world will fall into turmoil, beleaguered by endless bloodshed and conflict. Continue reading
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NATO behaving like a law unto itself By M. D. Nalapat*
The impunity with which NATO personnel have killed and injured civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya has resulted in a sense among its personnel that they are “superior” to the people of these countries, all three of which are outside the charmed circle of those countries NATO considers “civilized” Continue reading
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Stratfor leaks: NATO commandos in illegal special ops in Syria
The information comes from a hacked email from leading private US intelligence agency Stratfor, whose correspondence has been released by Wikileaks since February 27. The email appears to be written from the address of Reva Bhalla (bhalla@stratfor.com), the company’s director of analysis, for internal use, and details a confidential Pentagon meeting in December. The consultation… Continue reading
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Fall of Syrian Government, Prelude to an Attack on Iran. British and Qatari troops preparing military incursion through Turkey By Global Research News
A collapse of the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could provide enough chaos to shield a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran. Otherwise, Syria would provide early warning. (David Fulghum, Syria Key To Iranian Defenses Against West, March 6, 2012) Continue reading
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No Free Happy Meals for NYPD ‘Stop and Frisk’ Victims
According to its own data, the New York Police Department made over 684,000 street stops in 2011, a 603% increase over 2002, when Mayor Bloomberg first took office, and a 14% increase over 2010. Nearly 90% of “Stop and Frisk” victims are African American and Latino, though they make up only 50% of the city’s… Continue reading
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Responsibility to Protect or Justifying the Right to Project Power? By William Bowles
Whether we like it or not, the issue is not the Assad regime no matter what we think of it, but of course this is entirely the point of the massive propaganda campaign that has been unleashed on the Western public. As long as we are led to focus on a “medieval” Syria and its… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 March 2012: Israeli settlement waste ‘poisoning Palestinians’
6 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Military Court Extends Administrative Detention Order Against PLC MemberIMEMC – The Israeli “Ofer” Military Court ruled, Monday, for extending the Administrative Detention order, for the second time, against elected Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member, Mohammad Abu Teir, for additional six months. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 March 2012: Stratfor Leaks: NATO Commandos in Illegal Special Ops in Syria
6 March 2012 — Information Clearing House 13 French Army Officers Captured in Syria By Lauren Williams Around 13 French officers are being held by Syrian authorities in Syria, sources have confirmed to The Daily Star. Sources said the group is being held in a field hospital in the city. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30722.htm Continue reading
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Iraq: Twenty One Years of Crimes Against Humanity By Felicity Arbuthnot
With current US-led plans to remodel (read annihilate) the remaining Middle East, the 1991, twenty eight country attack on Iraq’s just 27 million people, where, arguably it all started, has largely dropped from Western consciousness, though certainly not that of Iraqis. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bombing Osirak, Burying UN Resolution 487 – An Exchange With The BBC’s Jonathan Marcus
On June 7, 1981, eight Israeli aircraft bombed the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor ten miles southeast of Baghdad. Ten Iraqis and one French civilian were killed. In response to the attack, UN Security Council Resolution 487 was passed 15-0, on June 19, 1981, with no-one opposing and no-one abstaining – not even the United States. Continue reading
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Video: Duke Ellington Orchestra at Newport: 'Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue'
6 March 2012 I suppose I must have been around fourteen years old when I first heard this and later when I bought the album I wore out this track that had Paul Gonsalves 27 choruses nearly causing a riot. But for me, it was hearing the rap of a rolled-up newspaper on the stage Continue reading
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‘Rebels killed Western journalists in Syria, not Assad army’
According to a source working for the office of the medical examiner in Syria, a nail was found in the skull of US journalist Marie Colvin, which proves she was killed by a handmade bomb. Continue reading
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Video: Monsanto / GM: The Hidden Email the White House Hopes to Keep Under Wraps By Dr. Mercola
The White House has refused to release certain portions of a January 11 email sent from a Monsanto-linked lobbyist to top Obama administration policy analyst Peter Schmeissner. The email was requested by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Based on other emails they have already obtained,… Continue reading
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SWEET HOME CHICAGO: G8 MTG MOVED BUT PROTESTS WILL CONTINUE By Danny Schechter
Did the Obama alumni Association in Chicago—David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Bill Daley—get nervous and call the White House, or was it Barack himself, having disposed/co-opted one threat by the name of Netanyahu, who recognized he had a more serious problem the horizon. Continue reading
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Why / Who Died? By David Grossman
All said and done it is merely a minor story about an illegal alien who stole a car, was injured in an accident, then released from hospital to have cops dump him, still injured to die the by the roadside. What are the building blocks that lead to such an atrocity? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 March 2012: Report: “Army Kidnaps Palestinians For Training Purposes”
5 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center WAFA: Israeli Forces Commit 25 Violations Against Journalists in February IMEMC – The Palestinian News and Information Agency, WAFA, issued a report on Monday documenting the violations committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian journalists during February 2012. … Continue reading
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The October Surprise File December 22, 1988
[The following time line of 1980 Reagan Campaign Deal With Iran was mailed to me along with a packet of newspaper clippings that support the “October Surprise” theory that I had previously posted. Reading all the clippings (from everything from the Huntsville Times to the San Francisco Examiner) makes me feel better about the mainstream… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 March 2012: Putin Not Part of NWO, Labelled Evil by Elites
5 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Wikileaks Bin Laden’s Body Taken To US: Stratfor By The Journal Secret emails sent by American based intelligence company Stratfor, give rise to growing speculation the US military did not dispose of Osama Bin Laden’s body at sea. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30718.htm Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 5 March 2012 By William Blum: Bradley Manning as patsy
It’s unfortunate and disturbing that Bradley Manning’s attorneys have chosen to consistently base his legal defense upon the premise that personal problems and shortcomings are what motivated the young man to turn over hundreds of thousands of classified government files to Wikileaks. They should not be presenting him that way any more than Bradley should… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 