30 January 2013 – RT
January 30, 2013 — PressTV
Two site workers have been killed and five others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a military research center in Jamraya, northwest of the capital Damascus, the Syrian military says.
30 January 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
On January 22 a telling leak cropped up in the Internet. British defense contractor’s BRITAM server was hacked and megabytes of classified internal files of the firm were released to the public. Now the case is acquiring a Britamgate scale due to the publication on Prison Planet. What is the story behind the leakage? Why this scandal is likely to turn around the situation in Syria?
30 January 2013 — JohnPilger.com
A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media.
28 January 2013 — Explore Freedom
In testimony before Senate and House committees, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enthusiastically endorsed increased U.S. intervention in Africa. When government officials seem incapable of learning obvious lessons from the recent past, maybe their incentive is not to learn but to keep doing the same destructive things.
For much of the last decade, the left participated in activism and protests condemning the Bush administration’s wars of aggression, and calling for the President’s impeachment. Now that it is a Democrat in the White House, however, these self-same activists are suddenly shying away from impeachment as a way to stop the American war machine. Continue reading
30 January, 2013 — Craig Murray
The Guardian hit a new low in Amelia Hill’s report on Julian Assange’s appearance at the Oxford Union. Hill moved beyond propaganda to downright lies.
30 January 2013 — Global Research
The French military operation in Mali has brought to the fore the blatant double standards in the approach of certain Western nations to the whole question of terrorism. In the case of Mali, France, with the support of Britain, Germany and the United States, has committed itself to combating diehard militants who are determined to use violence to establish their power and authority. Yet in Libya, these countries and their allies in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) had no compunctions about colluding with militant groups to oust Muammar Gaddafi in a bloody and brutal campaign which killed tens of thousands of people in 2011.
30 January 2013 — finalcall.com
There is still confusion in UN corridors concerning France’s military intervention in Northern Mali, which began on Jan. 11 with air strikes against the so-called Islamist camps moving closer to the capital city of Bamako.
30 January 2013 — Global Research
A new report written for the European Commission recommends regulation of internet news, modifying search engines to control access to “conspiracy sites”, the creation of European government news agencies and the training of new “cadres of professional journalists… for… science, technology, finance or medicine”.
23 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
“Although the NATO powers account for about 70 percent of total worldwide arms spending, they are by no means fully in charge of their own offensive in North Africa and the Middle East.”
29 January 2013 — FAIR Blog
On ABC‘s This Week (1/27/13), substitute host Martha Raddatz made a pretty remarkable claim about Syrian chemical weapons. During an interview with Sen. John McCain (hey, it’s a Sunday show, he <a style="color: #596d9f; text-decoration: underline;" title="FAIR Blog: John McCain: TV Talk’s Indispensable Man” href=”http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/01/24/john-mccain-tv-talks-indispensable-man/”>has to be a guest), she played a clip of an interview she did with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: Continue reading
30 January 2013 — Global Research
“Mainstream media is nothing more than the propaganda organ of the powers that be” Belgian MP denounces the crimes of NATO’s neo-colonial wars.
30 January, 2013 — Socialist Worker (UK)
Since its national conference in January, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain, the country’s largest revolutionary organization, has been shaken by the most severe crisis in its history, stemming from the failure of its leadership to properly respond to rape and sexual harassment allegations made against a leading member, and, in turn, from attempts to stifle discussion of this failure and its consequences.
29 January 2013 — Information Clearing House
Mali: Here We Go Again
What’s going on in Mali that requires U.S. meddling?
Sheldon Richman
Obama‘s inauguration speech drops hints at further overseas involvement.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33765.htm
29 January 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Palestinian Man Shot In Beit Hanoun
IMEMC – Tuesday January 29; Palestinian medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and injured by Israeli military fire in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. …
The New Dark Age 