13 January 2013 — Mareeg
BuloMarer (Mareeg) — Reliable sources in and around BuloMarer town in South Somalia where French commandos raided late last night, say that the French commandos first landed at a village called Daaydoog which is located at the seas side and three kilometers away from BulMarur where the French intelligence officer held by Al Shabab militants.
15 January 2013 — Global Research
Wall Street Journal headlined “An Internet Activist Commits Suicide.”
New York’s medical examiner announced death by “hang(ing) himself in his Brooklyn apartment.”
Lingering suspicions remain. Why would someone with so much to give end it all this way? He was one of the Internet generation’s best and brightest.
15 January 2013 — GRtv
This documentary studies the suspicious death of Dr. David Christopher Kelly, an internationally recognized British authority on biological weapons, after his claims before the Iraq war. Continue reading
15 January 2013 — Morning Star Online (Comment, no byline)
The situation in Mali is directly linked to the Nato mobilisation in 2011 to overthrow the Gadaffi regime in Libya.
15 January 2013 — Morning Star Online
Western powers are once again using anti-Islamist rhetoric to justify colonial interventions, anti-war campaigners Stop the War Coalition claimed today.
15 January 2013 — Information Clearing House
Mali and the Scramble for Africa:A New Wave of Barbarism
By Ben Schreiner
The notion that the West’s renewed interest in Africa is derived from an altruistic desire to help African states combat terrorism and establish democracy is rather absurd.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33622.htm
15 January 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Telesur, the news channel for Latin American countries, established with enthusiastic support from Hugo Chavez, reported live and non-stop from the streets of the Venezuelan capital. Tens of thousands of supporters of the Bolivarian leader, who is undergoing treatment in Cuba, gathered around the Miraflores presidential palace to express their support for Chavez. The President’s persistent struggle against his illness has, without exaggeration, become a rallying point for all people of free will.
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1. EU Council of the European Union: Informal Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council in Dublin on 17-18 January 2013
2. EU: European Investigation Order
3. EU: Commission makes €50 million available for the development of “big brother” PNR databases – before legislation has even been agreed
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14 January 2013 — OpEdNews
Critics of President Obama’s 2011 aerial intervention in Libya may recall one of that conflict’s most striking features: the administration’s failure to invoke the 1973 War Powers Resolution (WPR). The War Powers Resolution is that tasteless congressional fruit of the late Vietnam War era. Continue reading
15 January 2013 — WSWS
The World Socialist Web Site denounces <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>France’s war in Mali as an act of imperialist piracy. After mass bombings of cities in northern Mali that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians, French tank columns crossed into Mali yesterday from the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Ivory Coast.
15 January, 2013 — The Real News Network
Two colleagues and friends of Aaron Swartz talk about his activism and vision of technology in the service of a more democratic and just society Continue reading
14 January, 2013 — Global Research
When the Palestinian leadership won their upgrade to non-member observer status at the United Nations in November, plenty of sceptics on both sides of the divide questioned what practical benefits would accrue to the Palestinians. The doubters have not been silenced yet.
14 January 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Farmer Killed By Israeli Fire In Beit Lahia
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian farmer died, on Monday evening, of serious injuries he suffered at noon after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him as he worked on his land in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. …
14 January 2013 — Information Clearing House
The Bombing of Mali Highlights all the Lessons of Western Intervention
By Glenn Greenwald
The west African nation becomes the eighth country in the last four years alone where Muslims are killed by the west.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33611.htm
The New Dark Age 