ICH 14 November 2012: Mayhem in Gaza – Live Updates

14 November 2012 Information Clearing House

 

Israeli Attack Kills Hamas Military Chief And 8 Other People In Gaza

Israeli assassination of Jabari has ‘opened the gates of hell’

By BBC

Hamas spokesman Taher Anunu told BBC Arabic: “This was a heinous crime that will have repercussions.

 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33028.htm

 

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London: Media and War Conference with John Pilger on Saturday 17 November 2012

14 November 2012

John PilgerPeter Oborne (Daily Telegraph), Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ General Secretary), and Seumas Milne (The Guardian) are among the many keynote speakers at the important conference this Saturday: Media and War – Challenging the Consensus.

Topics include: 

  • Serving the military or the public? Media coverage of the war on terror
  • The media and the anti-war movement: how do we change the agenda?
  • Islamophobia, terrorism and war
  • Humanitarian Intervention: reframing the war on terror

Full conference details are here: http://bit.ly/OVxrBO

Entrance is £5. Free for students with ID. If you want to attend, reserving your place by email of telephone is highly advisable, as interest is very high.  Telephone 0207 561 9311 email office@stopwar.org.uk

ColdType, November 2012: Arun Gupta / Edward S. Herman / Dave Lindorff…

14 November 2012 — http://coldtype.net 

In the November issue of COLDTYPE MAGAZINE – download your free copy today

Cover story this month is Arun Gupta’s journey back to Niles, Ohio, where steelworkers are striking to protect their community as it falls deeper into a post-industrial abyss. Other top stories include Edward S. Herman’s indictment of  the double standards and hypocrisy  that mark the West’s flawed concepts of ‘war on terrorism’ and ‘humanitarian intervention’; Dave Lindorff’s observations of the United States as a society that is ‘armed to the teeth, but living in fear’; while Jim d’Eugenio finds error and omission in Bill O’Reilly’s new book on the Kennedy assassination. And much more . . .

PLUS: Our second freebie this month is a 24-page e-book, Anatomy Of a ‘Terrorism’ Prosecution, a report by Katherine Hughes on the disturbing case of an American doctor who is now serving 22 years in jail for helping to feed sick and starving Iraqi children

In addition, we have six more must-reads from our archives, on the theme of EXPOSING THE LIES

Any thoughts and comments to editor@coldtype.net

“Sandy”: Obama’s “Good Storm” By Felicity Arbuthnot

12 November, 2012Global Research

“The abomination of desolation.” (St. Matthew, 24:15.)

Cathy Breen from Voices for Non Violence was late to hear of Hurricane Sandy and of its impact on the Manhatten community where she lives. She was in Najav, in southern Iraq, where, as the rest of the country, the electricity is intermittent to non-existent, nearly ten years after the invasion which wrought its final near extinction.

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Ezili Danto: Assassination attempt on human rights attorney Evel Fanfan and other Haiti Lawyers under attack under Martelly government under US occupied Haiti | History of the Brandt family in Haiti

14 November 2012 — Ezili Danto

 

Recommended HLLN Link: Bilan voyage d avocat contre la Famille Martelly Haiti Lawyers under attack under Martelly government under US occupied Haiti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9t1L8_ka2w

 

Haiti: Brandt Busted as Clintons with Hollywood celebrate sweatshop http://bit.ly/RyxPCN

Audio: Swapping Haiti lives: Interview on US Haiti Exploits http://bit.ly/Oe6V4u

 

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Attacks on first responders transform criminality of drone strikes to sadism

13 November 2012 — Scholars and RoguesForeign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points

The term “double tapping” fails to do justice to a military tactic that’s arguably sociopathic

Remember the “dead bastards” — as in “look at those” — video, which was the first of the Bradley Manning stash released by WikiLeaks? It depicted an April 2010 Apache helicopter strike that killed a dozen Iraqi civilians, including two Reuters employees. Its impact was fourfold because it featured: Continue reading

VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 13 November 2012: Press TV: ‘Israeli crimes against Palestinians have gone unpunished due to Western cover’

13 November 2012 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Army Occupies School In Jenin
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday evening, a school east of Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, and used it as a military post and monitoring tower. …

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ICH 13 November 2012: Video: Confirmed: CIA Was Holding “Prisoners” at Benghazi Annex

13 November 2012 — Information Clearing House


Netanyahu: Engineering Consent For An Attack On Gaza

Video

Netanyahu: We’ll take whatever action is necessary to put a stop to this. This is not merely our right, it’s also our duty, and it’s something that I think is understood by any fair-minded person in any fair-minded government in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33016.htm

 

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