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.
London — 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 waxes eloquent about the need to respect (British) embassies overseas.
16 August, 2012 — Global Research – Tikun Olam 2012-08-15
21 August 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin #684
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 years earlier in order to address the 12 to 1 pay differential between white and black mineworkers. Continue reading
20 August 2012 — The Real News Network
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
21 August, 2012 — RT
Christine Assange (Reuters / Gary Granja)
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.
Following the profound question “Why did your son choose to make that speech last night?”, Christine Assange was asked if Julian plans to fight for freedom of speech in Ecuador, which is “known for its restrictions on the press.”
20 August 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Soldiers destroy Palestinian Car in Hebron
IMEMC – 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 doors. …
The New Dark Age 