June 2012
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HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels By Julie Lévesque
In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, people in the US, Canada and the EU, who made donations to those humanitarian organisations and NGOs did not realize that their contribution to Haiti’s reconstruction would be channeled towards the building of five star hotels to house foreign businessmen. Their expectation was that the money would… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June 2012: Israel, US blast UN vote on Palestinian heritage sites
29 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 22 Elected Legislators Still Imprisoned By IsraelIMEMC – Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, reported that the current number of elected Palestinian legislators imprisoned by Israel dropped to 22 after Israel released, on Thursday afternoon, two legislators, the Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 29 June 2012
29 June 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks’ Assange defiant over UK police request Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said it was almost certain he would not leave his embassy refuge on Friday to enter a British police station as part of his extradition process to be. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/28/us-wikileaks-assange-idUSBRE85R0ZG20120628 Continue reading
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NATO Proxies Turkey and Saudi Arabia Move to War Footing on Eve of Syrian ‘Peace Summit’ By Finian Cunningham
The NATO-backed covert aggression against Syria could be reaching a tipping point for all-out war involving state forces. That should be no surprise. For the past 16 months, NATO and its regional proxies have been steadily increasing the violence and turmoil inside and outside Syria, while the Western corporate-controlled media maintain the ridiculous fiction that… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 591: RIO +20, EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS, SUDAN CRISIS, AND HAITI
29 June 2012 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Advocacy & campaigns, 3. Letters & Opinions, 4. African Writers’ Corner, 5. Cartoons Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 29 June 2012
29 June 2012— williambowles.info Judge orders prosecution to explain stonewalling in Bradley Manning case World Socialist Web Site A military judge on June 25 ordered Army prosecutors to address accusations that they have withheld evidence from the defense team of accused whistleblower Bradley Manning. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/mann-j29.shtml Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 June 2012: The American People Are Angry?
28 June 2012 — Information Clearing House Obama Stalling His Way To War With IranBy Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann LeverettObama is locking America into a path that is increasingly likely to result in yet another U.S.-initiated war in the Middle East during the first years of the next presidential term. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31714.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 June 2012: Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study
28 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Army Asks For Extensive Deployment On Egyptian BorderIMEMC – Israeli paper, Maariv, reported Thursday that senior leaders of the Israeli army are demanding the government to grant the army $15 billion over the coming five years, in order to deploy the military in full Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 28 June 2012
28 June 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ordered to present himself to police Telegraph.co.uk WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been served with a letter saying he has to present himself to a London police station tomorrow, according to sources. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9361410/WikiLeaks-founder-Julian-Assange-ordered-to-present-himself-to-police.html Continue reading
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History is the enemy as ‘brilliant’ psy-ops become the news By John Pilger
In 1970, a US Senate report revealed that “the US has dumped [on South Vietnam] a quantity of toxic chemical amounting to six pounds per head of population, including woman and children”. The code-name for this weapon of mass destruction, Operation Hades, was changed to the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand. Today, an estimated 4.8 million… Continue reading
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The US-NATO Military Crusade against Syria and Iran: Selected Articles Edited By Michel Chossudovsky
American-led imperialism has evolved from bloody bouts of episodic militarism over several decades to the present day state of permanent belligerence, with wars or war-making stretching from North and East Africa into the Middle East and Central Asia and beyond to Eurasia, the Far East and the Arctic. Of most immediate concern are the ongoing… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 28 June 2012
28 June 2012— williambowles.info Bradley Manning defense claims victory on due process motion Democratic Underground “The Obama administration can’t hide from reality forever” said Jeff Paterson, a lead organizer with the Bradley Manning Support Network. “Any ruling in favor of … http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002865107 Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 June 2012: Israel Plans Demolition of Entire Palestinian Village
27 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli government fails to carry out terms of prisoner agreementIMEMC – Palestinian and international rights groups have condemned the Israeli government’s failure to live up to the agreement made one month ago in order to end the month-long hunger strike of over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Continue reading
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NATO War Council To Target Syria By Rick Rozoff
On Tuesday, June 26 Belgium time the North Atlantic Council, the highest governing body of the U.S.-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization military bloc, will take up the issue of Syria under provisions of its founding document that in the past ten and a half years have resulted in military deployments preparatory to and the subsequent… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Incinerating Assange – The Liberal Media Go To Work By: David Edwards
The media response to Assange’s asylum request tells us much about the default brutality and reflexive herdthink of elite corporate journalism. We witnessed a rush to be seen to revile Assange as a ‘turd’, ‘weirdo’, ‘narcissist’ and joke. The crucial importance of his achievements, of his cause, was deemed utterly irrelevant beside his allegedly unbearable… Continue reading
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BA_Report 27 June 2012: Re-Open Cointelpro / ATL Plantation Politics / Race Talk Taboo
26 June 2012 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Black On The Old Plantation A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Metro Atlanta is now the second largest concentration of African-descended people in North America. But with civil rights organizations firmly in corporate pockets, it’s still Continue reading
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"Netanyahu has decided to attack Iran before the U.S. Elections in November." By Michael Carmichael
Netanyahu’s agenda is much broader than knocking out Iranian nuclear installations for his aim is to reshape the political landscape in the USA and Israel shifting everything to the far, far right in order to create a new comfort zone for religious fundamentalists. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 June 2012: G4S in Israel: The Soldiers of Global Occupation
26 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Begins The Evacuation Of Ulpana SettlementIMEMC – On Tuesday Israeli officials started removing the illegal Ulpana settlement outpost, built on privately-owned Palestinian lands, close to the Beit El settlement near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel vowed to build hundreds of new Continue reading
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