August 21, 2012
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ICH 21 August 2012: Criticism of “Free Syrian Army” tactics is building
21 August 2012 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu ‘Determined to Attack Iran’ Before US Elections By Times of Israel The report added that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak believe Obama would have no choice but to give backing for an Israeli attack before the US presidential elections in November. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32244.htm Continue reading
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My Visit to a London Embassy Under Threat By Jeff Cohen
On Friday, I visited Ecuador’s embassy here in the capital of the former British empire and saw a building surrounded by a phalanx of cops, with several of them at the front door. The embassy is in an upscale neighborhood near Harrods department store. The intimidating police presence was ordered by a Conservative government that… Continue reading
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Netanyahu's Secret War Plan: Leaked Document Outlines Israel's "Shock and Awe" Plan to Attack Iran By Richard Silverstein
In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level Israeli source who received it from an IDF officer. Continue reading
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Echoes of the Past: Marikana, Cheap Labour and the 1946 Miners Strike Chris Webb
On August 4, 1946 over one thousand miners assembled in Market Square in Johannesburg, South Africa. No hall in the town was big enough to hold them, and no one would have rented one to them anyway. The miners were members of the African Mine Worker’s Union (AMWU), a non-European union which was formed five… Continue reading
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Video: Police Attack Protestors at Assange Ecuadorian Embassy
Pro-active journalism in action. A US journalist engages, kindof, with the forces of ‘law and order’ outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in Knightsbridge, London. Continue reading
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‘Do some research!’ Christine Assange steamrolls Western journalism
Julian Assange’s mother slammed Western media’s lack of research and grasp of basic facts in an interview with Australian television, as the host tried to get her to “address the allegations” of free speech suppression in Ecuador. Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 8/20/2012: From ‘Crippling Sanctions’ to Total War
20 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers destroy Palestinian Car in HebronIMEMC – Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers smashed, Sunday, the windshield of a Palestinian car that was parked in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, and used a metal barrier to smash its Continue reading