May 2013
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 8 May 2013
8 May 2013 — williambowles.info SF Pride’s Bradley Manning Imbroglio Could End Up in Court SF Weekly (blog) If Bay Area peaceniks had their druthers, the whole SF Pride Manning-gate imbroglio would end tonight. Pride board members are scheduled to have a meeting at 7 p.m., at which point they’ll probably discuss the issue Continue reading
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The ARB London Radical Bookfair 2013 – this Saturday!
Over 50 bookstalls, 20 guest authors, 2 book prizes, 1 real ale bar, 1 vegan food stall, and hopefully you! Come and support radical bookselling and publishing in all its traditions, this Saturday at the inaugural London Radical Bookfair. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘This Madman Must Be Stopped’ – Syrian Chemical Weapons By David Edwards
This really is astonishing, in the strange world of media propaganda, news reports contradict editorials and headlines contradict content. The guiding ethic: ‘I want to believe!’ It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that media performance is shaped by state-corporate forces that are deeply invested in decades of war and the spoils that go with… Continue reading
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ICH 7 May 2013: In Pictures: Inside Americas Gulag
7 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Robert Fisk: The Syrian Government Is Winning Americans are Living In A Fantasy World Must Watch – Video Fisk discusses his reaction to what he calls President Obama’s “pitiful” backing of the recent Israeli missile strikes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34854.htm Continue reading
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Statewatch: Austerity, democracy and civil liberties
The Journal has been redesigned and each issue will now have a thematic focus. This issue focuses on the nexus between austerity, civil liberties and democracy. Continue reading
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Video: Psychopathy in Politics and Finance By Stefan Verstappen and James Corbett
As more and more studies demonstrating the corrosive effect of psychopathy on government, finance, and business emerge, researchers have begun to explore how our society itself has been molded in the psychopaths’ image. Continue reading
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The Syria Chemical Weapons Saga: The Staging of a US-NATO Sponsored Humanitarian Disaster? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The following article first published in December 2012 [scroll down] documents how the Pentagon not only provided chemical weapons to Al Nusra, an affiliated Al Qaeda terrorist organization, but also provided training to the rebels in the use of these weapons. Continue reading
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West's WMD Lies Fray as Syrian Army Overruns Terrorist Proxies
Absurd “chemical weapons” claims begin to fall apart amidst NATO’s desperate bid to save its collapsing terror front in Syria. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 7 May 2013
7 May 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Pretrial Hearing Reaching New Level Of Secrecy Huffington Post FORT MEADE, Md. — Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website. A military judge, Col. Denise Continue reading
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9/11 in Context: The Importance of the Growing Contradictory Evidence By Elizabeth Woodworth
Nearly 12 years after the event, the official account of 9/11 continues to be actively studied by academics around the world. The idea of 9/11 as a false-flag operation to build support for an aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East is steadily gaining ground, suggesting that a policy change is overdue. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 5 May 2013
6 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Kidnaps 13 Palestinians In Bethlehem, 2 In JeninIMEMC – Monday at dawn, May 6 2013, Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar, Al-Khader and Beit Sahour, in the West Bank district of Bethlehem, and kidnapped 13 Palestinians. Army also invaded Jenin and kidnapped two residents. … Continue reading
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ICH 6 May 2013: Chris Hedges : The Death of Truth
6 May 2013 — Information Clearing House UN Investigator ‘Stupefied by Syrian Opposition Sarin Use’ Video It’s the rebels, not President Bashar Assad’s forces, who have used chemical weapons. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34842.htm Continue reading
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Queen of the Skies By Joe Bageant
As I drove through the decaying neighborhood in Winchester, Virginia the pain of growing up there came back — the stabbing kind that only lasts a second but makes you flinch as you remember some small but stupid and brutal moment of adolescence. I have never known if everyone has them, but I’ve always suspected… Continue reading
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Drum Battle: Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones
Filmed sometime in the 1960s, and in the tradition started with Jazz at the Philharmonic back in the 1940s, the three premier artists of their time bash it out. Continue reading
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Reporting 'Says' Rather Than 'Says It Believes' Could Make a War of Difference By Jim Naureckas
White House Says Syria Has Used Chemical Arms. Well, that’s pretty definitive, isn’t it? But then if you read the first line of the story, you get a different picture Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Syria Skepticism – Chemical claims should be investigated, not used as pretext for war
U.S. suggestions that the Syrian government could have used chemical weapons have been treated as fact by some media outlets, and are helping to fuel the case for greater U.S. military involvement. But subsequent reporting has called into question these early, credulous reports–and highlighted the continuing media failure to treat WMD claims with the skepticism… Continue reading
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Syria: The Feckless Left by Malooga
One must not forget the disgraceful petition put out by what calls itself the “Left” in the name of “dignity and freedom” last week, the so-called “Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution”. The geo-political analysis of the screed would not pass the muster of a child, and the empty verbiage comes straight out… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 6 May 2013
6 May 2013 — williambowles.info Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian AssangeTruthdigIn these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning. For much more, including an in-depth …http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/listen_chris_hedges_interviews_julian_assange_20130505/ Continue reading
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Arturo O'Farrill Concert in the Park
6 May 2013 — Great Latin Music The Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra performs a free concert in the park and shows off the deep Latin Jazz talent pool the Big Apple is home to. Continue reading
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ICH 5 May 2013: Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Gas: UN Has Testimony
5 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Did Syrian “Rebels” Cross Red Line? UN Has Testimony That Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Gas – Investigator By Reuters U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria’s civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the Continue reading
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