June 2014
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Ukraine News Links 14-15 June 2014
15 June 2014 20:09:53 — williambowles.info Ukraine to close border with Russia next week – defence minister (ITAR-TASS) Third power seems to be behind Kiev’s position at gas talks with Russia – Lavrov (ITAR-TASS) About 100 killed during fighting in Lugansk region ofUkraine during last 24 hours (Voice of Russia) Continue reading
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Iraq News LInks 14-15 June 2014
15 June 2014 20:04:53 — williambowles.info US, UK create joint team to prepare for air strikes in Iraq – report (RT) How Obama Lost Iraq and the War on Terror (Global Research) Continue reading
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Internment Camps in Donbass: History Repeats Itself By Alexander Donetsky
Ukrainians have a sad date to commemorate in September 2014 – the concentration camps in Terezin and Talerhof were built to isolate the pro-Russian segment of population residing in Austria-Hungarian Galicia. Thousands of Rusyns lost their lives because they had sympathies for Russia and wanted to preserve their historic self-identification. They refused to call themselves… Continue reading
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The Middle East and the Pivot to Asia: Obama’s US Foreign Policy Bait and Switch By Jack A. Smith
President Obama chose to ignore the most important strategic aspect of U.S. foreign policy in his major address May 28 at West Point graduation ceremonies. It was perhaps thought politically wise to emphasize current events rather than military preparations for a possible major future confrontation with China. Continue reading
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The Middle East and the Pivot to Asia: Obama’s US Foreign Policy Bait and Switch By Jack A. Smith
President Obama chose to ignore the most important strategic aspect of U.S. foreign policy in his major address May 28 at West Point graduation ceremonies. It was perhaps thought politically wise to emphasize current events rather than military preparations for a possible major future confrontation with China. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 June 2014
14 June 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterQatar to Contribute $20m for Gaza SalariesIMEMC – Consul General Reiterates UK’s Support for Gaza Government spokesperson Ihab Bseiso has stated that the Qatari government is to transfer a sum of $20 million, over a three month period, in helping to pay salaries to 40,000 Continue reading
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The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq. Towards the Creation of a US Sponsored Islamist Caliphate By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The conflict is casually described as “sectarian warfare” between Radical Sunni and Shia without addressing “who is behind the various factions”. What is at stake is a carefully staged US military-intelligence agenda. Known and documented, Al Qaeda affiliated entities have been used by US-NATO in numerous conflicts as “intelligence assets” since the heyday of the… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 14 June 2014: Iraqi Sunni Scholars: Iraqi Rebels, Not ISIS, Who Faced The Iraqi Army
14 June 2014 — Information Clearing House Video Allegedly Shows ISIS Fighters Arriving in Baghdad Video – June/14, 2014 – http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38807.htm Continue reading
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Iraq Newslinks 13-14 June 2014
14 June 2014 20:08:10 — williambowles.info Washington’s Iraq “Victory” (Global Research) Pentagon deploys aircraft carrier to Persian Gulf in case of Iraq op (RT) The Debacle in Iraq (Global Research) Continue reading
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Marcus Miller at the Tbilisi Jazz Festival, 2013
Personnel: Marcus Miller, electric bass; Lee Hogans, trumpet; Alex Han, alto sax; Adam Agati, electric guitar; Brett Williams, piano; Robert “Sput” Searight, drums Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles
13 June 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAustralia’s New East Jerusalem Policy Puts Trade at RiskIMEMC – Australia is facing the possibility of trade sanctions by Arab nations over its decision to stop referring to East Jerusalem as an occupied territory. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 13 June 2014: Iraq in Hell: Blame Capitalism!
13 June 2014 — Information Clearing House Capture of Mosul Ushers in the Birth of a Sunni Caliphate By Patrick Cockburn If the Isis advance takes more towns and villages, then the territory lost to the government may become too large to reconquer. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38791.htm Continue reading
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America’s Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq By Tony Cartalucci
Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad itself. The United States was sure to prop… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 13-14 June 2014
14 June 2014 12:15:20 — williambowles.info Sikorski and Dziewulski: The Strategy and Tactics of the Neo-Commonwealth, by Andrew Korybko (Voltaire Net) Ukrainian Su-25 military aircraft shot down in Donetsk region by local militia (Voice of Russia) Gazprom-Naftogaz meeting to be held in Kiev on June 14 (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 7-14 June 2014
14 June 2014 — Strategic Culture Foundation Missing Saddam 14.06.2014 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN …America broke Iraq. It broke Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Egypt. The Middle East would be a much safer and saner region had the United States and its insidious neocons allowed Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, and Bashar al-Assad to deal with the Saudi Continue reading
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Iraq crisis threatens to ignite regional war By Bill Van Auken
After overrunning Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city with a population of roughly 2 million, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a Sunni militia that is an offshoot of Al Qaeda, has continued its offensive, taking Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and a number of other towns in the Tigris… Continue reading
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Iraq Newslinks 13 June 2014
13 June 2014 20:55:10 — williambowles.info IEIL: Iraq turns to U.S. for help (Voltaire Net) The U.S. Mainstream Media’s One-Sided View of the Iraq War: “Iraq Is a Place Where Americans Suffered” (FAIR Blog) IEIL: Samantha Power in Ankara (Voltaire Net) Continue reading
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How the US is Arming Both Sides of the Iraqi Conflict By Tyler Durden
It is unknown how many of these [weapons] have fallen into Al Qaeda/ISIS hands (we do know that at least one Iraqi Black Hawk chopper was captured during the rush for Mosul). What is known is that as PBS Frontline reported two weeks ago, while the administration has denied arming Syrian “rebels”, i.e. the same… Continue reading
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KIEV USES WHITE PHOSPHORUS BOMBS
In recent days the US-NATO puppet project in Kiev has been using white phosphorus bombs against their own citizens in the east of Ukraine. The reason? They will not submit to full corporate fascist authority. Simple as that…..and Russia is next on the list. Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 12-13 June 2014
13 June 2014 — williambowles.info America’s Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq (Global Research) Iraq cleric issues Shia call to arms (BBC) Civil war and black reaction in Iraq: a Frankenstein’s monster of imperialism raises its head (Socialist.net) Continue reading
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