26 June 2014 19:36:45 — williambowles.info
Iraq Shiite Leaders Hold Talks on Premier, as Support for Maliki Slips
New York Times Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki dismissed the idea of a national salvation government and asked Iraq’s political blocs to close ranks in the wake of … Continue reading
25 June 2014 — FAIR Blog
Internet videos of tanks allegedly supplied by Russia to Ukrainian rebels.
Apparently the people who know best about what’s happening in Ukraine are US government officials who won’t let their names be printed in the newspaper.
A New York Times report by Andrew Roth (6/23/14) notes that while Russian President Vladimir Putin was sending supportive messages about a possible peace deal, “the United States said last week that it had evidence that Russia was preparing to send more tanks and artillery to the fighters in eastern Ukraine.”
26 June 2014 18:29:07 — williambowles.info
EU, Russia and Ukraine hold expert consultations on association deal (ITAR-TASS)
Poroshenko’s call to Putin ploy to buy time for blitzkrieg: Analyst (Veterans Today)
25 June 2014 — RT
For days now, since their dramatic June 10 taking of Mosul, Western mainstream media have been filled with horror stories of the military conquests in Iraq of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, with the curious acronym ISIS.
25 June 2014 — 4th Media
The green light for the use of ISIS brigades to carve up Iraq, widen the Syria conflict into a greater Middle East war and to throw Iran off-balance was given behind closed doors at the Atlantic Council meeting in Turkey, in November 2013, told a source close to Saudi – Lebanese billionaire Saad Hariri, adding that the U.S. Embassy in Ankara is the operation’s headquarter.
24 June 2014 — Global Research
Current events in Ukraine are guided by the evil spirit of fascism and Nazism, though it seemed to have dissipated long ago, after World War II. Seventy years after the war, the genie has escaped from the bottle once again, posing a threat not merely in the form of the insignia and rhetoric of Hitler’s henchmen, but also through an obsessive Drang nach Osten policy.
21 June 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation
21.06.2014 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM
Petro Poroshenko, the billionaire oligarch who won the Ukrainian presidential election with a dubious majority last month, seems to be relying heavily now on his skills as a confectionery magnate. The man known as the Chocolate King, owing to his past industrial dealings, presented a unilateral ceasefire plan this week in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin… The Chocolate King’s «peace plan» will appear much less a box of niceties of reform, dialogue, amnesty and ceasefire – and more of what it really is – a deadly criminal offensive with a very hard centre. Continue reading
24 June 2014 — Housmans Books
NEWS
1. Second-Hand Book Basement – new stock and Tumblr page
2. Peace News 2014 Summer Camp
3. First World War Catalogue
4. Laurence Housman Anniversary Walk
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