July 10, 2013
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ICH 10 July 2013: Russian Inquiry to UN: Rebels, not Army, Behind Syria Aleppo Sarin Attack
10 July 2013 — Information Clearing House NSA Blackmailing Obama? Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice Video Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how he saw spying orders for including former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35505.htm Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 10 July 2013
10 July 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks – a journalism high point: US court-martial witness Reuters FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) – WikiLeaks and its model of decentralised leaking of secrets is a high point in journalism history, a Harvard professor testified on Wednesday at the court-martial of a U.S. soldier charged with passing secret documents … http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/10/us-usa-wikileaks-manning-idUSBRE9690NZ20130710 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 10 July 2013
10 July 2013 — williambowles.info Key witness in Bradley Manning trial: Guantánamo files just ‘baseball cards’ The Guardian A key defence witness at the trial of Bradley Manning has told the court that in his expert opinion as a former chief prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay, the assessment files on detainees passed by the young soldier to WikiLeaks would have Continue reading
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Monk Live in Poland, April 1966
The Thelonious Monk Quartet plays an unusual live performance in Poland featuring “Epistrophy,” “Round Midnight,” and “Lulu’s Back In Town.” Continue reading
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Class Warfare in Egypt By By SEAN F. McMAHON
Egypt is at war. More accurately, Egypt is experiencing yet another battle in its ongoing class war. The battle is so fierce because the primary combatants are the two most powerful social forces in Egypt, both factions of the capitalist class – the military as the state capitalist class and the Ikhwan (the Muslim Brotherhood)… Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 9 July 2013: Echoes of South Africa’s ’District Six’ in the Negev
9 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Invades Al-QararaIMEMC – Palestinian sources have reported that a number of Israeli military vehicles advanced on Tuesday at dawn [July 9 2013] hundreds of meters into the Al-Qarara town, north east of Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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Pentagon Orders Purge of Osama Bin Laden’s Death Files from Data Bank By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
A new wave of camouflage is underway at the Pentagon and the CIA. The bin Laden “death files” contained in the Pentagon’s data bank have become the object of controversy. Continue reading
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Lord Ramsbotham attacks ‘perverse’ decision not to prosecute G4S over Mubenga death By Clare Sambrook
JULY 2012: Ramsbotham, former chief inspector of prisons, condemns original CPS decision not to prosecute. Peers describe UK Border Agency culture of disbelief, its abuse of torture victims, denial of legal representation, dawn raids on pregnant mothers, the perils of outsourcing, ‘loutish and aggressive’ behaviour, and that’s not all . . . Continue reading
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Farmers falling back on chemical pesticides as GMO seeds falter
Though biotech companies like Monsanto spent many millions creating and inserting genes that would make corn plants poisonous to the corn rootworm but harmless to other creatures, the pest has begun to develop an immunity. Continue reading
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The infrastructure of a police state emerges in Europe By Peter Schwarz
The right to privacy—a basic human right enshrined in the American and every European Constitution—and the associated guarantee of the confidentiality of the post and telecommunications are being ripped to shreds. The wiretaps are so obviously illegal that intelligence agencies in one country often delegate their activities to foreign partners in order to avoid overly… Continue reading
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Defense begins case in trial of Bradley Manning By Thomas Gaist
The defense began its case this week, but it has been hamstrung in advance by military judge Colonel Denise Lind’s ruling that Manning’s political motives were irrelevant to case, which effectively denies the defendant any ability to mount a whistleblower defense. Continue reading
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Treatment of Palestinians is Apartheid by Any Other Name By Franklin Lamb
Were it not for the razor wire, giant concrete blocks, steel gates, watchtower and standard-issue surly teenage soldier, it would be impossible to tell at what point the barren uplands of Israel’s eastern Negev give way to the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Continue reading
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Video: Israeli Colonists Dump Sewage on Palestinian land
Villagers in Wadi Fukin near Bethlehem were attacked by Israeli colonists/settlers from a nearby colony/settlement, when they intentionally poured thousands of tons of sewage into the only natural water spring and onto the land. Continue reading
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Syrian war hits Beirut By Franklin Lamb
DAHIYEH, Beirut – This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut near the Shatila and Burj el Barajeh Palestinian refugee camps. And now it has… Continue reading
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Video: Syria: Nobel Peace Laureate Tells Her Account of What She Witnessed
Nobel Peace Prize laurete, Mairead Maguire tells her account of her visit to Syria. While Maguire was in Syria she discovered that the people the U.S. are funding are violent groups and do not want peace in Syria. Her her view is that Syria is being used as a proxy war by the U.S., Great… Continue reading
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