December 2012
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 December 2012: Live ammunition and child arrests: Israel’s military response to protests
25 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Claims Arresting A Cell That Planned To Abduct A SoldierIMEMC – A gag order was lifted Tuesday on the arrest of what Israel claims to be a Palestinian cell that planned the abduction of an Israeli soldier to negotiate his release in exchange for the Continue reading
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ICH 25 December 2012: Happy Christmas – War Is Over
23 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Happy Christmas – War Is Over Video “War is Over, if you want it, war is over now” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33435.htm Continue reading
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The Spirit of Christmas: George W. Bush and Tony Blair banned from the Birthplace of Jesus Christ By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
War criminals George W. Bush and Tony Blair were banned for life in April 2003 from the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, widely believed to be the birth-place of Jesus Christ. The ban was announced at the height of the illegal US-allied bombing and invasion of Iraq. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 24 December 2012: Israel denies Bedouins right to elect representatives
24 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Sharawna Suspends His Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Palestinian Minister of Detainee, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that hunger striking detainee Ismail Sharawna, who started his hunger strike more than 176 days ago, and is facing serious health deterioration, decided to suspend his strike for ten days following medical advice, Continue reading
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ICH 24 December 2012: The Greatest Gift For All
24 December 2012 — Information Clearing House The Rape of Syria By Pepe Escobar That is disaster capitalism in action, phase I; the terrain is already prepared for a profitable “reconstruction” of Syria once a pliable, pro-Western turbo-capitalism government is installed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33425.htm Continue reading
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Institutionalizing Indefinite Detention By Stephen Lendman
Since taking office, Obama authorized numerous police state measures. They follow earlier ones under George Bush. They’re heading America for full-blown tyranny. It’s already a hair’s breadth away. It could arrive any time full force. It’s been wrapped in the American flag all along. Continue reading
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I want to wish all my readers a…
I want to wish all my readers a peaceful and progressive New Year. ¡A luta continua! William Bowles Continue reading
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Ruppert Murdoch’s Bid to Persuade Gen. David Petraeus to Run as Republican Candidate in the 2012 Presidential Election By Jonathan Cook
A taped conversation shows that in early 2011 Murdoch sent Roger Ailes, the boss of his most important US media outlet, Fox News, to Afghanistan to persuade Gen David Petraeus, former commander of US forces, to run against Barack Obama as the Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Murdoch promised to bankroll Petraeus’ campaign… Continue reading
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Video: Woody Shaw – 'But not for me'
24 December 2012 — Jazz on the Tube Often referred to as the “last innovator” in the jazz trumpet lineage, Shaw is credited with revolutionizing the technical and harmonic vocabulary of the instrument and is considered one of the great jazz composers and band leaders of the twentieth century. Born with a photographic memory Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 23 December 2012: Firing Zone 918 – Khirbet Al-Fakhit
23 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Cab Driver Shot In JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli sources reported, Sunday morning, that a Palestinian Taxi driver was shot by Israeli soldiers near a military base in Jabal Al-Mokabbir area in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
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ICH 23 December 2012: The Ultimate Logic of a Society Built on Mass Murder
23 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Resisting Genocide: Syria, North Korea, and Cuba By Gearóid Ó Colmáin As NATO and Gulf Co-operation Council terrorists persist in their attempt to destroy the Syrian Arab Republic with car bombs, torture, beheadings and mayhem, the Syrian state has still shown no evidence of imminent collapse. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33424.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 22 December 2012: Israel’s colonial strangling of Bethlehem
22 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 012IMEMC – The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children comparing to 700 kidnapped last year. … Continue reading
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Book Review: Reality economics By Michael Hudson
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on top, and let human nature do the rest. The acquisition of power soon leads to its abuse, to economic and social hubris. By seeking to protect its gains, perpetuate itself and make its… Continue reading
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America’s Hype over WMD: Five Invasion Plots, Three Continents, Identical Lies By Felicity Arbuthnot
As the sabre rattling against Syria gets ever louder, the allegations ever wilder and double standards, stirring, plotting and terrorist financing (sorry: “aiding the legitimate opposition”) neon lit, it is instructive to look at the justifications presented by US Administrations for a few other murderous incursions in recent history. Continue reading
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Death by neglect: Lawsuit reveals ‘normalization of cruelty’ in UK health system
A UK hospital has apologized and paid a settlement following a lawsuit that revealed years of grave malpractice. The accounts of negligence included letting a patient starve to death and reports of nurses mocking patients. Continue reading
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ICH 22 December 2012: I Quit Murdering People on November 17, 2012
22 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Fact Or Fiction? US and Russia Back Bid to Find End to Syrian War By Alex Spillius, Damien McElroy The United States and Russia have backed a final bid to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war, as Moscow said it was prepared to accept President Bashar al-Assad’s Continue reading
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Wired’s Most Dangerous: Russia’s cyber-security mogul behind Flame virus downfall hits top 15
“If all he did in the last year was intercede in America’s efforts to short-circuit Iran’s nuclear ambitions – definitively unmasking a cyber-weapon for the first time – Kaspersky would’ve earned himself a spot on our list of the most dangerous people in the world.” Continue reading
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Cancer of Corruption, Seeds of Destruction: The Monsanto GMO Whitewash By F. William Engdahl
This revolving door of corrupt ties between powerful private industry lobby groups and the EU Commission was in full view recently with the ruling of the European Food Safety Administration (EFSA) trying to discredit serious scientific tests about the deadly effects of a variety of Monsanto GMO corn. Continue reading
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