June 2013
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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 June 2013
9 June 2013 — williambowles.info Where ‘We Steal Secrets,’ The Wikileaks Film, Falls Short ReadWrite The film traces the creation of the Wikileaks site, focusing primarily on Assange’s troubled past and conflicted present. It then quickly touches on several of Wikileaks’ greatest hits – the so-called “collateral murder” video from Iraq, the release of …… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 9 June 2013
9 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning: Martyr To Freedom Of Expression Or Traitor? Sunday Leader Will the 25-year-old Bradley Manning, former First Class Private of the US Marines, now being tried for leaking the biggest ever trove of diplomatic and military secrets of America to the web site Wikileaks, in the future be considered a 21st… Continue reading
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Humanitarian Crisis in Syria: “The West should Pay War Reparations to Syria”. Interview with Michel Chossudovsky
Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Center for Research on Globalization, Montreal, on the back of UN concern for the Syrian war spilling over into other countries. Continue reading
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U.S. Successful With Cyber Defense Protection Racket
Based on such scaremongering the U.S. will now – generously – sell software, hardware and training to Gulf monarchies to protect from Iranian “threats” that likely do not exist at all. Those countries will have to pay hundreds of millions dollars for those “services” to “defend” against “threats” that mysteriously came up from unknown sources… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 June 2013: Israel Is Losing Its Battle in Syria
8 June 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces destroy Palestinian protest village6/8/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces destroyed the Palestinian protest village of Canaan on Saturday for the third time, a local committee said. Yousef Abu Maria, spokesman for Beit Ummar’s committee against the wall, told Ma’an that Palestinian and international activists rebuilt… Continue reading
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ICH 8 June 2013: How Israel Killed Thirty-four US Sailors
8 June 2013 — Information Clearing House At Special UNSC Session Israel Threatened to Attack Syrian Forces, UN Peacekeeping Chief Says By Barak Ravid Ladsous said that the Israel Defence Forces and Syrian military were on the verge of the most direct military clash between the neighboring countries on the Golan Heights front in the past 40… Continue reading
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Alter Summit: A People’s Manifesto
The European oligarchy employs ever more authoritarian methods to prop up a failed neoliberal system – all this despite widespread protest and resistance. Democracy and peace are under threat. Discrimination, based on religion, racism, homophobia or sexism and nationalism are on the rise and the crisis is deepening daily. Continue reading
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Video: Obama Defends “Big Brother” Powers
Larry Wilkerson: The NSA’s illegal gathering of almost all means of communication sacrifices privacy without improving national security Continue reading
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Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh
Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading
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Subversive Nun’s Sophisticated Plot to Incite Peace By Peter Rugh
Tears welled up in my eyes when I heard that 83-year-old Catholic nun Megan Rice is facing 20 years in prison — a sentence that, if delivered to the fullest extent this September, would essentially condemn her to spend the rest of her life behind bars. Unlike me, however, she reportedly smiled when the jury… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 8 June 2013
8 June 2013 — williambowles.info Assange: US rule of law suffering ‘calamitous collapse’ Economic Times US soldier Bradley Manning is being court-martialled for leaking the huge cache of government files to WikiLeaks, while there has been an outcry in the US media after the government seized the phone records of journalists at the Associated Press and …… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 8 June 2013
8 June 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning’s WikiLeaks trial: Book parts delivered as it happens Los Angeles Times Leftie publisher O/R Books is covering the Bradley Manning trial for a book slated to appear in October, “The United States vs. PFC Bradley Manning: A Graphic Account From Inside the Courtroom.” The chronicler is Clark… Continue reading
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‘How little rights you have:’ Anonymous leaks more PRISM-related NSA docs
Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous collective have leaked a US Department of Defense memo relating to the PRISM program, revealing that the National Security Agency has secretly gathered intelligence on millions of Americans for years. Continue reading
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'How little rights you have:' Anonymous leaks more PRISM-related NSA docs
Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous collective have leaked a US Department of Defense memo relating to the PRISM program, revealing that the National Security Agency has secretly gathered intelligence on millions of Americans for years. Continue reading
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Repressing “Un-American Activities”: The Historical Roots of Today’s Homeland Surveillance State By Greg Guma
Political rights are so easily taken for granted – until they’re threatened or curtailed by repressive laws. In the United States, they are usually most vulnerable when people are anxious about some outside threat. Continue reading
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Syria: the Opposition Is in Retreat By Petr Lvov
With financial assistance from Qatar and Saudi Arabia drying up and the flow of weapons from Turkey and Lebanon slowing, what had to happen now has: The rebels have begun retreating in panic under the Syrian Army’s onslaught. This is occurring against the backdrop of bad things happening for the rebels: Continue reading