May 2013
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Audio: Syria: The Next Domino to Fall? Is a Major US-NATO Military Intervention Looming?
Rick Rozoff, a long-time anti-war campaigner, puts the recent actions by Israel as well as the rhetoric form the Obama Administration into a historical and geo-political context. He identifies Syria’s strategic significance in the region, and he speculates on what regime change would mean for the region and the world. Continue reading
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Video: Criminal and Complicit Mainstream Media
Michel Chossudovsky speaks in Kuala Lumpur (2012). Reflections on the criminal mainstream mass media after the 9/11 events and “covering up” as obstruction of justice. Continue reading
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‘Witnessing’ Boston’s Mass Casualty Theatre By William Bowles
Mention the word ‘conspiracy’ and eyes roll and people head for the exit. Derision is poured with abandon on the heads of those so described as ‘conspiracy theorists’, and especially those who dare to suggest that complex events can be engineered so as to fool the onlooker or the curious. The Boston bombings appear to… Continue reading
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A minimal program by S. Artesian
It’s not often that I read the articles on the New York Times Op-Ed page. And I can’t remember ever recommending any such article to anyone for any reason. But today, May 13, 2013, I read and I recommend “How Austerity Kills” by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basau. Continue reading
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Boston Bombing Involves Clearly Staged Carnage By Sheila Casey
“Does a compelling description of a terrorist attack, replete with ‘eyewitness accounts’ of the terrifying scene, and official pronouncements, constitute an actual event?” – Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘You Say What You Like, Because They Like What You Say’ By David Cromwell
The local elections in England earlier this month saw the right-wing UK Independence Party win over 140 council seats, gaining around 25 per cent of the vote where it stood. This led to a deluge of media headlines and stories echoing UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s gleeful claim of a ‘game changer’ in domestic politics. Continue reading
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Bee Deaths: US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Slapped with Lawsuit By Dr Joseph Mercola
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to protect bees from neonicotinoid pesticides, according to a lawsuit against the agency, filed by beekeepers and environmental groups. Continue reading
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UK spyware used against Bahraini activists – court witness
UK spy technology was used against British citizen in Bahrain, new evidence filed in a UK high court has claimed. Activists are calling for a judicial review of the UK’s failure to hold firms accountable for sales of spy software to repressive regimes. Continue reading
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The other Tsarnaevs in waiting By Wayne MADSEN
Such «blow back» events, if that was the case in Boston, is to similar events where the CIA’s. «Al Qaeda» allies have turned on their masters and conducted major attacks, such as that launched against the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya last September 11. Continue reading
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Israel’s Act of War Against Syria—Madness or Cold Calculation? by F. William Engdahl
At a time when the US and Gulf proxies are losing ground to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) nationwide, this pundit ranges in on the likely motive for Israel’s recent air raids against Syria, carried out with Washington’s approbation. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: Psychopathy and the Collapse of the U.S. Empire
12 May 2013 — Global Research Malaysia: Failure of U.S. to Subvert the Elections and Install a “Proxy Regime” By Tony Cartalucci, May 9 , 2013 Continue reading
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Say No to War on the Korean Peninsula! For a Lasting Peace in the Northeast Asian Region By Dr. Kiyul Chung
On July 27, 1953, Korean War hostilities were ended only temporarily by introducing the fragile Armistice Agreement which was signed by DRPK, China and USA/UN. However, that “temporary cessation” of the deadly military conflicts has not put an end to all hostilities as it was supposed to and as was clearly stated as its intent… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 12 May 2013
12 May 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: NSA Menon apprised US about PM Singh’s frustration over Pakistan NitiCentral WikiLeaks reveal that National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon told US embassy that PM Manmohan Singh was confused and frustrated on how to deal with Pakistan. “Menon confirmed that, fundamentally, the PM was frustrated and confused about who Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 May 2013: Israel’s ethnocentric experiment
11 May 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli soldiers detain injured man from ambulance5/11/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Friday detained an injured young man from an ambulance in Ithna near Hebron, locals said. Jihad Theeb, 22, was shot by an Israeli soldier in both his thighs while working in his farm. Theeb, accompanied Continue reading
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ICH 11 May 2013: Guantánamo is Not an Anomaly – Prisoners in the US are Force-fed Every Day
11 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Explosions Kill 40 People In Turkey Video Forty people were killed and 100 injured when several explosions struck a city in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34894.htm Continue reading
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Radioactive: Abe Government Preparing for the Depopulation of Japan By Wayne Madsen
Informed Japanese sources have told WMR that Japan’s right-wing Liberal Democratic Party government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is laying plans for the forced depopulation of most of the Japanese archipelago due to the deadly radiation emanating from the crippled Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactors. Continue reading
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Syria: Nusra Front claimed responsibility for at least 600 terror acts
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations says the al-Nusra Front terrorist group has claimed responsibility for carrying out at least 600 acts of terror in the past year. Continue reading
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U.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars … And Many More Covert Wars
Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world’s largest landlord, with significant military facilities in nations around the world, and with a significant presence in Bahrain, Djibouti,Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Kyrgyzstan, in addition to long-established bases in… Continue reading
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Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo By Marjorie Cohn
More than 100 of the 166 detainees at Guantanamo are starving themselves to death. Twenty-three of them are being force-fed. “They strap you to a chair, tie up your wrists, your legs, your forehead and tightly around the waist,” Fayiz Al-Kandari told his lawyer, Lt. Col. Barry Wingard. Al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo for… Continue reading