6 July 2013 — The Scotsman
The Scotsman has just released an important article on the the Lockerbie bombing. According to the authors, quoting William C Chasey’s autobiography, Truth Never Dies
Day: July 6, 2013
Can the NYT Call a Coup a Coup? By Peter Hart
6 July 2013 — FAIR Blog
“A Coup? Or Something Else?” is the question a New York Times headline is posing today (7/5/13) about the U.S. government’s response to the military’s removal of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. It’s not just a question of semantics; U.S. law seems to require suspending aid to Egypt in case of a coup. That’s why the government might not want to call it one.
America’s Plan B in Egypt: Bring Back the Old Regime By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
6 July 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The road that has been taken in Egypt is a dangerous one. A military coup has taken place in Egypt while millions of Egyptians have cheered it on with little thought about what is replacing the Muslim Brotherhood and the ramifications it will have for their society. Many people in cheering crowds have treated the Egyptian military’s coup like it was some sort of democratic act. Continue reading
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6 July 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The Gas Summit in Moscow: What Has Been Left Unsaid?
06.07.2013 | 00:00 | Igor TOMBERG
…The leaders of 13 states – Algeria, Bolivia, Venezuela, Egypt, Iran, Qatar, Libya, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Trinidad and Tobago, Equatorial Guinea, Oman and Russia, which together control more than 70 percent of natural gas reserves, 45 percent of its exports and a third of all the world’s gas pipelines, along with Kazakhstan, Norway, the Netherlands and Iraq as observers – gathered together in Moscow… And the most important thing which is most relevant right now, but which unfortunately did not get much coverage at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, is the scramble for Asia’s gas markets that is already underway… Continue reading
The Hero’s Reward and the Judgment of History By Andrew Levine
6 July 2013 — The Greanville Post
A political class transparently and unapologetically at the service of the superrich
Governments abhor transparency, and governments lie. To keep them (comparatively) honest, an engaged and informed citizenry is indispensable. That requires media that are aggressive and probing, and that are not afraid to speak the truth. We have precious little of that in the United States today.
The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe By Diana Johnstone
6 July 2013 — The Greanville Post
The Snowden affair has revealed even more about Europe than about the United States.
Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The refusal of France, Italy and Portugal to allow the private aircraft of the President of Bolivia to cross their airspace on the mere suspicion that Edward Snowden might be aboard is rather more astonishing.
‘Free from imperial persecution’: Venezuela offers Snowden asylum
6 July 2013 — RT
On Friday Nicaragua also said that it would “gladly receive” Snowden, who is still holed up in a transit section of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport since fleeing Hong Kong twelve days ago, and give him asylum, “if circumstances permit.”
The New Dark Age 