May 2012
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Media Lens: The Houla Massacre
What kind of evidence would the media need before finding Barack Obama (and even Michelle Obama) personally responsible for this or any other massacre? Clearly, the involvement of US forces would need to be confirmed beyond doubt. They would need to have been acting under orders. Presumably Obama would need to have signed these orders,… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks under threat: Assange extradition judgement tomorrow
WikiLeaks is under attack. The United States is seeking to charge Julian Assange – a journalist and publisher – with espionage Continue reading
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Anatoly S. Chernayev Diary, 1972
Today the National Security Archive publishes excerpts from Anatoly S. Chernyaev’s diary of 1972 for the first time in English translation with edits and postscript by the author. Continue reading
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The Greek affair: Symbol of the crisis of the European Union or paradigm of Europe’s salvation By Gaither Stewart
It is an ironic twist of history that Greece, the cradle of Western culture, today, 2500 years after the acme of Hellenic glory, appears on the stage of history in the best of cases as victim, and in the worst, as the symbol of the threat to the collapse of the West European society. Continue reading
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Media Lens: A Private Conversation – The Leveson Inquiry, Corporate Journalism And Elite Collusion
Advertising revenue is almost the life-blood of the press. Although the figure has fallen in recent years, today it constitutes around 60 per cent of newspapers’ total income, including ‘quality’ titles like the Guardian and the Independent. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Good Rockets, Bad Rockets – BBC Bias On India And North Korea
Like Israel and Pakistan, also nuclear powers, India has never signed the NPT. Despite this, the US has supported the development of nuclear weapons in all three countries – India receiving particular support from George W. Bush and Obama. Continue reading
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Not Letting The Facts Get In The Way of A Vicious Attack Against Candidates and Whistle Blowers By Danny Schechter
The parties and their factions live not only in parallel universes but worlds of information that are driven mostly but what they think will work in pandering to their bases and the public. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 16 May 2012: War on Islam, Bush Guilty of War Crimes and the Missing Terrorists
16 May, 2012 — Global Research URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30872 The Globalization of War: The “Military Roadmap” to World War III ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER – by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham – 2012-07-14 The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US–NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 16 May 2012: Black Agenda Report – Obama's Gay Gambit / Death By Wall St. / Phantom Issues
16 May 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama’s No-Risk Drive-By On Gay Marriage by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The president’s announcement favoring the right of same sex couples to marry is long overdue and better than nothing. But it doesn’t make him a fearless warrior Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 May 2012
12 May 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Was Industrial Sabotage at Play with Super Jet crash in Indonesia?12.05.2012 | 07:26 | Wayne MADSEN Based on past aggressive competitive commercial tactics employed by the alliance of American corporations, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and the Pentagon, aviation experts in Asia are wondering aloud whether the recent crash of Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 May 2012: Nuclear Israel: Image of Apocalyptic Horror
11 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center New UNRWA Upgrade Plan To Improve Dheisheh Refugee CampIMEMC – Dheisheh, the oldest refugee camp in the West Bank, is set to receive a facelift under a new UNWRA upgrade plan. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), is launching a new program Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 May 2012: Nuke Mecca: US Military Teaches Officers
11 May 2012 — Information Clearing House “U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam,” By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman “The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a ‘total war’ against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31290.htm Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online11 May 2012 (10/12)
11 May 2012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Presidency criticised: Even worse than the Commission2. EU: Visits campaign : Obstacles to the right to know: Migrant Camps in Europe3. EU-EAW: Council: practical operation of the European arrest warrant – Year 20114. EU: AI and ECRE Letter on behalf on 166 NGOs:Appeal to EU Continue reading
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Statewatch 11 May 2012: Support the “Call for an Open Europe”
“Access to documents in the EU is not a “gift” from on high to be packaged, sanitised and manipulated. It is a “right” which is fundamental in a democracy”: Tony Bunyan, Deirdre Curtin and Aidan White in Essays for an Open Europe Continue reading
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CIA ALLOWED TO SUSTAIN COVER-UP OF BAY OF PIGS HISTORY
CIA Officials Defy Obama Directive on FOIA which states that “the Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.” Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 May 2012: Israeli government announces plan to forcibly remove 2300 Bedouins
10 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court Injunction Delays Demolitions of Jerusalem Area Bedouin HomesIMEMC – The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center obtained on Wednesday an injunction order for Khan al-Ahmar Kurshan community. This temporary injunction prevents the demolition of homes of the eight families that received 24-hour eviction notices Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: Police States, Failures of Capitalism and Global Warfare
9 May 2012 — Global Research URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30775 Police States:“After reporting this week on a Pentagon-created plan for interning activists at re-education camps, questions were asked about the US Army manual that allegedly outlines the resettling of US citizens. Can Americans be sent to propaganda prisons?” (POLICE STATE: Army manual for re-education Continue reading
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First Madeleine Albright, now Prince Harry: The Strange World of Humanitarian Awards By Felicity Arbuthnot
Humanitarian Awards are surely taking on a whole new meaning. The end of April brought the obscenity of the announcement that Madeleine Albright, a woman prepared to sacrifice children by proxy(i) was to be awarded America’s highest honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her role as a long time champion of democracy and human… Continue reading
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Video: Woody Shaw plays Monk's 'Bemsha Swing
The great Woody Shaw playing the Thelonious Monk composition “Bemsha Swing,” was recorded on Aug. 21,1985 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA. with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Stanley Cowell piano, David WIlliams bass, and Terri-Lyne Carrington on drums. Continue reading
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