July 2013
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 11 July 2013: Settlers cut down 1,150 olive trees in Nablus
11 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFive-year-old Palestinian boy detained in HebronIMEMC – Despite being below the age of criminal responsibility, 5-year-old Wadi’ Maswadeh was detained for two hours by Israeli soldiers July 9th near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron after he allegedly threw a stone at a settler’s car. Continue reading
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ICH 11 July 2013: Arab Oil Cash to Kill Democracy in Egypt
11 July 2013 — Information Clearing House How Egypt’s ‘Revolution’ Betrayed Itself By Ramzy Baroud These very forces were openly involved in toppling the democratically-elected president and his party, as they happily celebrated the return to oppression as a glorious day of freedom. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35518.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 10 July 2013
10 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterActivists to launch flotilla from Gaza to Europe in defiance of Israeli-imposed blockageIMEMC – Canadian, European, and Palestinian activists plan to launch a flotilla – dubbed “Gaza’s Ark” – from Gaza to Europe carrying produce and textiles, with the goal of raising awareness of the Continue reading
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Egypt: Staging a “Democratic” Military Coup By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
During the 2011 Egyptian uprisings, the military was jeered for cracking down on protestors and for the infamous virginity tests they conducted on detained female protestors. In June 2012, when Mohamed Morsi won the presidential race with 51% of the votes, crowds gathered in Tahrir Square to celebrate his victory, chanting : “God is great”… Continue reading
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Mandela's greatness may be secured, but not his legacy By John Pilger
When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister’s residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at the gates, it was as if the guards had not changed. White Afrikaners checked my ID with the confidence of men in secure work. One carried… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 11 July 2013
11 July 2013 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning defence rests after calling just 10 witnesses The Guardian The defence has rested its case in the trial of the WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, rounding off its portrayal of the US soldier as a young man who accepted that he was wrong to have leaked a vast trove of state secrets but Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 July 2013: Obama As Drone Ranger, Tim Wise Stamps Anti-Racist Ghetto Passes for TFA, If Zimmerman Goes Free
10 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The U.S. War Against the World by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The DNA of finance capitalism has foreordained its death – and soon. To forestall that inevitability, the U.S. war machine is prepared to turn out the lights on much of Continue reading
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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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