August 2013
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Snowden ‘not the source’ of Middle East surveillance leak – Guardian
The Guardian insists that the latest leaks published by the Independent revealing a UK-backed internet-monitoring station in the Middle East were not from Snowden. “I have never provided any journalistic materials to the Independent,” the paper cites him. He speculated that the UK government intentionally leaked the materials to create the impression that the release… Continue reading
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Deaths on the Nile: Is Egypt’s revolution following the course of Iran’s? BY SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
Now that the Egyptian Army has decided to break the stalemate and cleanse the public space of Islamist protesters, and the result is hundreds of deaths, one should first just imagine what an uproar this would have caused if the same bloodbath were to happen, say, in Iran. However, it is more urgent to take… Continue reading
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Bait-and-Switch on Stop-and-Frisk By Jim Naureckas
There’s a lot of misinformation coming from the media on the unconstitutional police strategy known as stop-and-frisk. There’s a powerful urge to believe, it seems, that abusing the Fourth Amendment rights of young men of color somehow makes the rest of us safer. Continue reading
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Syria chemical weapons claim: The BBC just doesn’t give up By William Bowles
Evidently, the BBC was not satisfied with its pathetic propaganda pieces I referred to in yesterday’s article, so it’s come out with another, equally audacious piece of fiction that reiterates, again without any proof, the same drivel it peddled to us yesterday (and the day before). But what ‘UN’s Angela Kane in Syria urges chemical… Continue reading
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Video: Syrian army finds chemical agents in rebel tunnels near Damascus
Syrian army soldiers have found chemical agents when they entered rebel tunnels in Damascus suburb of Jobar, Syrian TV reports, adding that some of them started suffocating. The US Navy’s expanding its presence in the Mediterranean with a 4th cruise-missile armed warship. The move’s a response to the escalating conflict in Syria. For more on… Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Snowden the 'Spy,' Stop-and-Frisk Factcheck, Student Loan Rates By Peter Hart
23 August 2013 — FAIR Blog On FAIR TV this week: CBS tries to call Edward Snowden a “spy,” and Bill Kristol makes his ABC comeback with a bogus defense of New York’s stop-and-frisk police searches. Plus: Student loan rates are slashed, say the TV reports. But are they actually…going up? Watch it all this on this week’s episode: Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-24 August 2013: Syria / Iran / Eurasia /Egypt / Lebanon / Europe / Greece
24 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Chemicals Seep Through the Cracks in Western-led Axis Against Syria 24.08.2013 | 09:31 | Finian CUNNINGHAM A recurring pattern throughout the Syrian crisis is the coincidence of massacres suspiciously at times when there is a shift in the political backdrop. This is important to bear in mind when assessing Continue reading
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Experts Doubt Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims
CBS News reports that the U.S. is finalizing plans for war against Syria – and positioning ships to launch cruise missiles against the Syrian government – based on the claim that the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its people. Continue reading
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On pretext of chemical attack US prepares military assault on Syria By Barry Grey
US officials have outlined a series of options that are being considered for a direct assault by American and allied military forces against Syria, using Wednesday’s alleged chemical weapons attack as the pretext. The stepped-up military preparations make clear that the events on Wednesday are part of a provocation to justify yet another neo-colonial war… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 23 August 2013: Authorities threaten displaced community’s return to village
23 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFrench FM To Meet Abbas, NetanyahuIMEMC – The French Foreign Ministry has reported that Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, will be visiting the Israel and the Palestinian territories to encourage the recently resumes peace talks between Ramallah and Tel Aviv. … Continue reading
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ICH 23 August 2013: Growing Calls For Attack On Syria Follow Chemical Weapons Claims
23 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Chemical Attack: ‘Rough Work’ of Syrian Opposition By Andrey Fedyashin Russia has declared that according to its information, chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus had been used (on August 21) by opposition militants, and not the regime of President Bashar al- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35945.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 22 August 2013: Why won’t BBC let Nigel Kennedy denounce Israeli apartheid?
22 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAbbas: “We Will Not Demand To Return To Akka, Safad and Jaffa”IMEMC – During a meeting with members of the Israeli Meretz opposition Party, who visited him Thursday in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that the Palestinian Authority will not Continue reading
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David Miranda’s detention and the raid on Britain’s Guardian newspaper By Judy Hyland
Events of the last week provide chilling confirmation of the police state apparatus built up by successive British governments on the pretext of the “war on terror.” They demonstrate how invocations of “national security” are used to justify anti-democratic conspiracies against working people and intimidate and punish anyone who dares to reveal the truth. Continue reading
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The BBC’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Coverage: An exercise in Imperial deception By William Bowles
Over the past three days, since the story first broke, the BBC’s news Website (I use the word news advisedly) has carried twelve stories on the alleged chemical weapons attack that took place in a suburb of Damascus. Today’s offerings include, Hague believes Assad behind attack (23/8/13), without a shred of proof that the Assad… Continue reading
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Space Alert! Autumn 2013
Our latest edition of our Global Network newsletter, Space Alert, is now finished and is at the printers. There is extensive reporting in this issue about anti-drone campaigning all over the world. Continue reading
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ICH 22 August 2013: Gangster State US/UK
22 August 2013 — Information Clearing House Egypt is Becoming a Proxy Conflict By Max Fisher It’s not an all-out proxy conflict as in Syria, but it’s hard to miss the pattern. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35933.htm Continue reading
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‘Chemical Weapons’ media propaganda in US, UK is designed to hide the truth in Syria
Yesterday’s report of an alleged ‘chemical weapon’ attack near Damascus has prompted the US and UK media machines to spin into overdrive in the push for a military intervention and regime change in Syria. Continue reading
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Materials implicating Syrian govt in chemical attack prepared in advance – Russia
Materials implicating the forces of Syrian president Bashar Assad in chemical weapons use near Damascus were prepared prior to the alleged incident on August 21, the Russian foreign ministry said. Continue reading
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Sarin Gas : a new propaganda campaign against Syria
This propaganda operation is grotesque: as everyone can observe on YouTube, the video evidence of the massacre of August 21st having been posted by the “Majles Rif” account … the day before, on August 20th . On these videos, shocking at first, one quickly detects a setup: the wounded children appear haggard or drugged, do… Continue reading
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