December 2012
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UK Waging Endless Wars: At Home and Abroad by Finian Cunningham
Austerity is here to stay in the United Kingdom, lasting until at least 2018 and more likely beyond that year. It is a shocking peremptory order when you think about it. The people are being told, “Poverty is your miserable lot and don’t even question it.” Continue reading
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Video: Venezuela's Housing Revolution
“Great Housing Mission” seeks to address soaring housing deficit, democratize city space Continue reading
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Media Lens: Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat' By: David Edwards
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives?… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Won’t Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria’s WMD ‘Threat’ By: David Edwards
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives?… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 11 December 2012: The Civilian Toll of Israel’s Bombs
11 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas Threatens To Head To ICC Should Israel Implement E1 ProjectIMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, threatened to head to the International Criminal Court (ICC) should Israel insist on implementing its decision to build more than 3000 homes for Jewish settlers as part of its E1 Continue reading
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ICH 11 December 2012: I Am A Soldier. I Am Dirt. I Kill
11 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Road Map Drawn Up by Syrian Traitors to Serve Imperialists, Gulf Monarchies By Noureddine Merdaci In reality, the “revolt” in Syria, totally managed by foreign countries and their intelligence services, was a proxy war against the Syrian national state, a war which needed “Syrians at their service” only to Continue reading
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Secret Meeting in London: Plotting to Wage War on Syria without UN Authorization By Felicity Arbuthnot
Remember Libya was “not going to be another Iraq” disaster, “lessons have been learned”? Libya’s ruined towns and social structure of course, chillingly resemble Iraq. Now, it is Syria’s turn, but Syria will “not be another Libya”, yes mistaks were made, but lessons have yet again been learned. Continue reading
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Video: Eurozone Austerity Policies Will Spark New Crisis in 2013
Costas Lapavitsas: There is an impression that the crisis has been handled by ECB but economies are deteriorating quickly Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report December #111 11th, 2012 By William Blum: Death by Stupidity
The hurricanes, the typhoons, the heat waves … the droughts, the heavy rains, the floods … ever more powerful, ever new records being set. Something must be done of course. Except if you don’t believe at all that it’s man-made. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 10 December 2012: Shattered Lives in Gaza
10 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into School Near Bethlehem, Attack Students, TeachersIMEMC – Palestinian sources in Taqoua’ village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, reported that Israeli soldiers broke, Monday, into the village’s High School for Boys, attacked several teachers and students, and left the school later Continue reading
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ICH 10 December 2012: U.S. Militarism Threatening World War III
10 December 2012 — Information Clearing House US Seen as ‘First Among Equals’ in 2030: Intel Report By Shaun Tandon The study predicted that Asia’s economy, military spending and technological investment would surpass those of North America and Europe combined by 2030, but warned of major uncertainty over an emerging China. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33279.htm Continue reading
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“Military Voyeurism” or Invasion of Syria? French Special Forces Team Up with Foreign Backed Terrorists By Dr. Ismail Salami
As part of the sinister plan for Syria at work, French military agents have recently held face-to-face meetings with the foreign-backed militants inside the country in a bid to “assess the situation on the ground.” Continue reading
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“Military Voyeurism” or Invasion of Syria? French Special Forces Team Up with Foreign Backed Terrorists By Dr. Ismail Salami
As part of the sinister plan for Syria at work, French military agents have recently held face-to-face meetings with the foreign-backed militants inside the country in a bid to “assess the situation on the ground.” Continue reading
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Obama Plans African Wars By Stephen Lendman
Obama’s war-making appetite exceeds all his predecessors and then some. He’s already waging multiple direct and proxy wars. Continue reading
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Potential Military Confrontation: Russia Arms Syria with Powerful Ballistic Missiles
We bring to the attention of Global Research readers the following news excerpt from hamsayeh.net regarding the delivery of Russian Iskander missiles to Syria in response to the deployment of US Patriot missiles in Turkey. Continue reading
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Friends of Syria’s goal is to ‘destroy the country by force and use its strategic geographical location for their own purposes’ – interview By Fahim al-Sourani
The Friends of Syria nations that support regime change meet in Morocco on Wednesday for the first time since the creation of a new opposition coalition seeking wider international recognition. Voice of Russia spoke to the Director of the Damascus Research Centre Bassam Abu Abdullah about this upcoming event. He called this meeting the meeting… Continue reading
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PCHR_e: PCHR launches campaign ‘Palestine to the ICC’
On 10 December, 2012, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, PCHR is launching its ‘Palestine to the ICC’ campaign. The campaign aims to encourage the relevant stakeholders, namely the State of Palestine, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the international community, to fulfil their responsibilities in ensuring justice and redress for Palestinian… Continue reading
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PCHR_e: End impunity in Palestine: calling for investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court
In January 2009, in the wake of the 2008-2009 Israeli offensive ‘Operation Cast Lead’, the Palestinian National Authority lodged a declaration accepting the exercise of jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, pursuant to Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 9 December 2012: Netanyahu reveals the true face of Israel
9 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 18 Seriously Sick Detainees Facing Medical Neglect In Israeli PrisonsIMEMC – The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights issued a press release revealing that 18 seriously ill detainee, permanently at the Al-Ramla Prison Clinic are facing life-threatening conditions due to the lack of adequate and specialized Continue reading
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ICH 9 December 2012: Prison Labor Booms in US – Chinese-style inmate labor
9 December 2012 — Information Clearing House NATO Intervention in Syria Imminent By Stephen Lendman Possible regional or global war looms. Disastrous consequences could follow. Obama may head humanity into the abyss. Perhaps there’s no way to stop him. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33267.htm Continue reading