June 5, 2013
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Assad’s army retakes control of strategic Lebanon-bordering Qusayr
Syrian regime forces seize control of the strategically important town of Qusayr on the Lebanon border after a long battle with rebel fighters. Victory is being hailed as a turning point in the civil war, rebels blame defeat on the exiled Council. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 5 June 2013
5 JUne 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Court Martial Underway Voice of America FORT MEADE, MARYLAND — The court martial of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning, who gave hundreds of thousands of secret government files to the WikiLeaks website, began this week in a courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland. Some analysts say … http://www.voanews.com/content/wikileaks-court-martial-underway/1675346.html Continue reading
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Syria has the right to peace and to self-defense, despite western claims By John Robles
There can be little doubt that the lifting of the arms embargo to the armed insurgents and terrorist groups operating in Syria is one of the most egregiously callous, self-serving, reckless and irresponsible moves made by the international community since the beginning of the internal conflict in the country. Continue reading
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The Choice for the Working Class Will Certainly Be Created By the Communist Party of Turkey
For days now Turkey has been witnessing a genuine popular movement. The actions and protests, which have started in Istanbul and spread all over Turkey, have a massive, legitimate, and historic character. The most important of all is the striking change in the mood of people. The fear and apathy has been overcome and people… Continue reading
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Hizbullah: Qusayr’s Achievement a Severe Blow to American-Israeli-Takfiri Scheme
Hizbullah stated on Wednesday that the party’s “achievement” in the Syrian border town of al-Qusayr dealt a “severe blow to the American-Israeli-Takfiri scheme.” 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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Bradley Manning: Prisoner of Conscience By Francis A. Boyle
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the peoples of the world have witnessed successive governments in the United States that have demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution itself. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning (not) on TV Network News By Peter Hart
If you care at all about war and peace, press freedom, whistleblowers’ rights and the public’s right to know what the government is doing, the trial is of enormous consequence. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #117 By William Blum: What our presidents tell our young people
4 June, 2013 — Anti-Empire Report What our presidents tell our young people In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s beloved scholar, George W. Bush, speaking in Florida in 2007 at the commencement exercises of Miami Dade College: “In Havana and other Cuban cities, there are Continue reading
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Studies in Intelligence: New Articles from The CIA’s In-House Journal
The Presidential ban against CIA assassinations of foreign leaders, first enacted in 1976, reflected both moral and practical reasons — including concerns about retaliation against U.S. leaders — according to an article in the CIA’s in-house journal posted today by the National Security Archive. However, the U.S. government never spelled out the exact scope of… Continue reading
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London Declaration on Anti-Semitism: Seeking to Criminalize Criticism of Israel By Stuart Littlewood
Australian federal and state MPs have been indulging in an orgy of anti-anti-Semitism by signing en masse the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. About 300 other lawmakers from some 60 countries have also signed, according to a spokesperson from the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism. Fifty of these are Canadians, 18 are British, six are… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 June 2013: London Declaration on Anti-Semitism: Seeking to Criminalize Criticism of Israel
3 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Demolishes Four Homes, Four Sheds Near JerichoIMEMC – Tuesday June 4 2013, eyewitnesses have reported that dozens of Israeli military jeeps, accompanied by an armored D9 bulldozers, invaded the An- Nuwei’ma area, north of the West Bank city of Jericho, and demolished four homes, and four Continue reading
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ICH 4 June 2013: NATO Data: 70% Support Assad
4 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria and the Sham of “Humanitarian Intervention” By Ajamu Baraka I continue to be amazed with the ease with which the dividing line is blurred between what is real and what is fiction in the reporting on Syria by the Western media. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35180.htm Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 5 June 2013
5 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Looks Downright Ghostly San Francisco Chronicle *In response to Manning’s confinement, more than 250 of the most eminent U.S. legal scholars sent a letter to President Obama in protest of Manning’s treatment; UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez called it “cruel, inhuman and … http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Bradley-Manning-Looks-Downright-Ghostly-4577722.php Continue reading
The New Dark Age 