June 2012
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 June 2012: History of the US-Israel Relationship
26 June 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria and Turkey’s Phantom War By Pepe Escobar Imagine if this was a Syrian jet flying over Turkish or Israeli territory. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31713.htm Continue reading
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The EyeOpener- The Future of the Web (and what you can do about it)
In mid-2012, in the wake of the ratification of ACTA and the proposal in the US of bills like SOPA and PIPA, in an age where the war on terror is gradually morphing into a cyberwar and database hacks, password leaks and identity thefts are reported on breathlessly, it is difficult to imagine the promise… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Newsletter July 2012
26 June 2012 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. London’s Burning / Radical London walks COMPETITION 2. One day sale: 30% off all books on June 30th! 3. British Library ‘Writing Britain’ ticket giveaway Continue reading
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South Africa's Political Wars Begin To Resemble Our Own By Danny Schechter
The Mail & Guardian reports political scientist Achille Mbembe saying in a debate in Johannesburg, “after 18 years of relative complacency and self-congratulatory gestures” the ANC was realizing South Africa was an ordinary country and not a miracle. Continue reading
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War At Any Cost: Another Manufactured Pretext for War with Syria By Eric Draitser
The downing of a Turkish jet by the Syrian military last week was not merely a military incident making the possibility of an intervention and regional war much more likely. This episode was the most recent in a long and storied history of “international incidents” or provocations used by imperial powers as pretexts for military… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 June 2012 (12/12)
26 June 2012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. TURKEY: Readmission: Council of the European Union rushes through agreement2. EU: DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: Council of the European Union position3. SLOVAKIA::ECHR rules against deportation of convicted terrorist because of risk of torture4. EU: Statewatch Analysis: The revised ‘Dublin’ rules on responsibility for asylum-seekers: a missed opportunity Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 June 2012: Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 39th time
25 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Demolishes Sheds, Confiscates Water Tanks, In Wadi Al-MalehIMEMC – Israeli soldiers demolished, on Monday afternoon, several sheds used by Bedouins in Wadi Al-Maleh area, in the northern plains of the West Bank, and confiscated several water tanks used by the residents, in an attempt Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 June 2012: “Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November”
25 June 2012 — Information Clearing House “Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November”By Michael CarmichaelNetanyahu‘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 Continue reading
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Coup in Paraguay: Will U.S. Join Latin America in Condemning Ouster of President Fernando Lugo?
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has been ousted in what he has described as a parliamentary coup. On Friday, the Paraguayan Senate voted 39-to-4 to impeach Lugo, saying he had failed in his duty to maintain social order following a recent land dispute which resulted in the deaths of six police officers and 11 peasant farmers. Continue reading
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RUSSIA’S MOTIVES IN SYRIA: Another Side to the Story
25 June 2012 — Boiling Frogs Moscow’s 30-year struggle against encroachment into its sphere of influence by militant Islam By Joe Lauria Russia’s unyielding support for Damascus throughout the 16 months of Syria’s escalating crisis has earned Moscow strong condemnation from Washington and other Western governments, but the reasons for Russia’s implacable position have never Continue reading
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CONFIRMED: US CIA Arming Terrorists in Syria By Tony Cartalucci
The New York Times in their article, “C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” confirms what many have already long known – that the West, led by the US and its Gulf State proxies, have been arming terrorists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, while berating the Syrian government for “violating” a UN mandated… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 June 2012: Israel: promised land for Jews … as long as they’re not black?
24 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Clashes Reported In Hebron After Soldiers Kidnapped A ChildIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the town of Beit Ummar, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnaped one child after invading his home and searching it; clashes were reported after Continue reading
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Media Lens: Game Over For The Climate?
Last week, the Independent marked the half-century with a well-meaning but frankly insipid ‘landmark series’ titled ‘The Green Movement at 50’. But there’s a glaring hole in such coverage; and, indeed, in the ‘green movement’ itself: the insidious role of the corporate media, a key component of corporate globalisation, in driving humanity and ecosystems towards… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 24 June 2012: 53 Cents of Your Tax $ Goes to War, Killing and Destruction
24 June 2012 — Information Clearing House War, Killing and Destruction Your Tax Dollars at War3 Minute Video “People have to realize that 53 cents of every dollar that they are paying into taxes is going to the military to an astonishing figure there is an enormous, enormous amount of money being blown on war an Continue reading
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Kony 2012 and America's Conquest of Africa's Mineral Wealth By Nile Bowie
Although the Lord’s Resistance Army has been accused of recruiting child soldiers and conducting crimes against humanity throughout its two-decade campaign for greater autonomy against the Ugandan government, the group is presently comprised of less than four hundred soldiers [3] and remains a questionable threat. Meanwhile, China’s deepening economic engagement in Africa and its crucial… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 June 2012: Pro-Israel Activists Break New Ground: An Anti-Arab Hate Video
23 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 16 Palestinians, Including 4 Children, Killed In One WeekIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one resident was killed, and ten others were wounded, when the Israeli army bombarded, on Saturday evening, an area West of Gaza City. The latest attack brings Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 22 June 2012: UN Monitors Spying for Washington in Syria, Covert Derivatives and Food Politics
Global Research, June 22, 2012 URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31551 SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War? ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK – by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-07-15 Continue reading
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Coup in Paraguay: Lugo ousted – reports
Leading British figures with an interest in Latin America have joined the governments of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic in condemning what has been widely termed a “political coup” in Paraguay, where the elected President Lugo has been removed from office by an illegitimate “impeachment” process. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-22 June 2012: Iran / Asia / Greece /nEgypt / Ecuador / CIA / Media
23 June 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation US shopping for «lily pads» in Central Asia22.06.2012 | 10:24 | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR The hidden agenda of the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 lay enveloped by the fog of the war for most of the past ten-year period… Even now, when the topic of discussion is the Continue reading
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Stuxnet and the Bomb By Kennette Benedict
The cyber shot heard around the world this month marked America’s first known foray into a new, unpredictable, and potentially society-threatening cyber battlefield. And yet it’s all so familiar: Parallels with the start of the nuclear age and the Cold War haunt every aspect of this development. Continue reading