Video: EMERGENCY ALERT: Latest Syrian Chemical Attack Follows History of False Flag Provocations

21 August 2013 — The Corbett Report

In this exclusive clip from the forthcoming edition of the Jack Blood Podcast, James Corbett and Jack Blood dissect the latest reports of a chemical weapons attack in Syria, occurring just two days after a UN chemical weapons team arrived in the country. James goes over the history of false flag chemical provocations in the country and the reasons why we should doubt the quickly-forming official narrative that this attack was perpetrated by Assad’s military. Listen to the Jack Blood podcast at DeadlineLive.info

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Guardian editor says newspaper forced to destroy hard drives By Thomas Gaist

21 August 2013 — WSWS

In a comment published Monday, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger wrote that he and other Guardian journalists were faced with unofficial threats of legal action by the British government, and therefore were forced to destroy hard drives containing material from whistle blower Edward Snowden.

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Fracking – Britain’s Next Revolution? By Lesley Docksey

21 August 2013 — Global Research

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‘Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.’ — Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

At long last Britain is discussing and objecting to fracking – or we would be if the general public had access to accurate information. As it is, Prime Minister David Cameron is going all out to promote a country-wide embrace of shale gas.

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State of Israel Charged for “Crime of Genocide and War Crimes”, Kuala Lumpur Tribunal

21 August 2013 — Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC)

WHY is it that the murder of one man is considered a criminal act whereas the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people committed in wars, is not considered so? -Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, 19 August 2013 – The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) will be hearing war crimes and genocide charges against Amos Yaron, a retired Israeli army general and the State of Israel from 21 to 24 August in Kuala Lumpur.

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Detention of Glenn Greenwald’s partner approved at highest levels of US and UK governments By Thomas Gaist and Joseph Kishore

21 August 2013 — WSWS

The UK government is aggressively defending its decision to detain David Miranda, the partner of Glenn Greenwald, for nearly nine hours at Heathrow Airport, seizing his laptop, camera, cell phone and other personal items. Miranda was detained under a UK terrorism law while traveling from Berlin to his home in Rio de Janeiro.

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ICH 201 August 2013: The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’

20 August 2013 — Information Clearing House

How Some Ordinary Egyptians Became ‘Malicious Terrorists’

By Robert Fisk

It is true that gunmen have fired from Brotherhood crowds. A handful at most – and it does not justify the Egyptian press calling tens of thousands of people “terrorists”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35922.htm

 

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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 20 August 2013: Erasing Palestine From the Map

20 August 2013 — VTJP

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Settlers Install Mobile Homes On Palestinian Lands In Al-Khader
IMEMC – Ahmad Salah, an activist against Israel s illegal settlements and its apartheid wall in Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, stated Tuesday [August 20, 2013] that a number of settlers installed mobile homes on lands that belong to residents of the town. …
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