January 24, 2013
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NATO in Syria: The Cost of a “New Libya” by grtv
The NATO mission in Libya back in 2011 was very popular. But is everyone convinced with a democratic Libya? The Political Bouillon asks Dr. Maximilian C. Forte what he thinks about this “new Libya”. Continue reading
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Mali: France’s New Afghanistan By He Wenping
Since France launched military strikes against Mali rebels on January 11, the little-known West African country, which has been mired in a crisis for over a year, suddenly came under the media spotlight and made headlines around the world. Continue reading
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The Wolf Report: Mucho Frio By S. Artesian
When it gets cold like this—(‘How cold is it?’ the disembodied voice of Ed McMahon asks in my very much embodied brain)—like well below thirty degrees (Fahrenheit), and twenty nine is well below thirty when we get down in this range, I know what to do. Continue reading
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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran? Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale” BY Dr. Ismail Salami
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction… Continue reading
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Building a Pretext to Wage War on Iran? Washington Cooks Up a “Nuclear Fairy Tale” BY Dr. Ismail Salami
Co-authored by Mark Dubowitz, who runs Zionist-controlled Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and David Albright, a physicist who heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and who is responsible for concocting lies and myths about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and drawing the country into an abysmal vortex of destruction… Continue reading
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GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans By F. William Engdahl
One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 January 2013: Obama / Aaron Swartz / Arab World / Housing / Mali / Slavery / MLK /
23 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report New this week at www.blackagendareport.com The White House Un-Reality Show by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Despite the fact that “it was Barack Obama who began the current austerity offensive in the weeks before delivering his first inaugural address,” the president was allowed to pose as a champion of Continue reading
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Qatar, Sponsor of Islamist Political Movements, Major Ally of America By Nicola Nasser
In view of the level of “coordination” and “cooperation” since bilateral diplomatic relations were established in 1972 between the U.S. and Qatar , and the concentration of U.S. military power on this tiny peninsula, it seems impossible that Qatar could move independently apart, in parallel with, away or on a collision course with the U.S.… Continue reading
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ICH 23 January 2013: Hagel Apologizes, Reassures Jewish Leaders on Iran Position
23 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Mali: the Fastest Blowback Yet in this Disastrous “War on Terror” By Seumas Milne The idea that jihadists in Mali, or Somalia for that matter, pose an existential threat to Britain, France, the US or the wider world is utter nonsense. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33701.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 January 2013: A surrounded city; Nablus and its settlers
23 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Including Two Children; Six Palestinians Kidnapped In West BankIMEMC – Wednesday January 23; Israeli soldiers invaded different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped six Palestinians, including two children, before taking them to a number of military interrogation Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 January 2013: On Israeli elections, the PA and disappearing Palestinians
22 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Former Detainee Dies Due To Medical Neglect While In PrisonIMEMC – The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported, Monday evening, that a former Palestinian political prisoner from Hebron, died at a hospital in Jerusalem after falling into a coma 50 days ago due to a serious Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 January 2013: Israeli Authorities Change Route Of Wall To Fully Annex Jerusalem For Israel
21 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Demolishes Six Residential Structures Near HebronIMEMC – Monday – January 21, Israeli soldiers invaded the Ath-Thaheriyya town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished six Palestinian homes and structures. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: Eyes Like Blank Discs – The Guardian’s Steven Poole On George Orwell’s Politics And The English Language By David Edwards
January 21, ‘Orwell Day’, marked the 63rd anniversary of George Orwell’s death, Steven Poole notes in the Guardian. To commemorate 110 years since Orwell was born (June 25), BBC radio will broadcast a series about his life while Penguin will publish a new edition of his essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’. This essay, Poole… Continue reading
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