America Invades Africa: The Resource War and the Conquest of Mali By Timothy Alexander Guzman

13 December, 2012Global Research

The United States African Command (AFRICOM) was created in 2007 under then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush Administration as a Military Command center that covers the entire continent of Africa. They wanted to create a permanent footprint in Africa to maintain the peace and security it desires that is deemed beneficial for US interests.

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 December 2012: Israel approves 1,500 more settler homes in East Jerusalem

17 December 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In Nablus
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different parts of the of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped five Palestinians including a school headmaster, and a Palestinian security officer. …

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Media Lens: The Illusion Of Democracy By David Cromwell

18 December, 2012Media Lens

Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions

In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices? We are awash in state and <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>corporate propaganda, with the ‘liberal’ media a key cog in the apparatus. Continue reading

Speak2Tweet: Google & Twitter Partner Up with US State Dept. to Monopolise Information Flow Out of Syria By Martin Iqbal

1 December  2012Empire Strikes Black

Amid Internet and telephone network outages in Syria, US-trained opposition activists use US-supplied satellite phones to contact Google & Twitter’s ‘Speak2Tweet‘ service. Despite these efforts, the service seems so far to be a resounding failure.

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