9 July 2014 20:57:54 — williambowles.info
Kiev ignores international humanitarian standards during military operation – Human Rights Council (SCF)
EBRD to invest EUR 7 mln in construction of biogas plant in Ukraine (ITAR-TASS)
Ukraine Interior Ministry forecasts army operation to end within a month (ITAR-TASS)
9 July 2014 — Black Agenda Report
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonPolitcal prisoner Imam Jamil Al-Amin was one of the leading lights of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960s rural Alabama. Wrongfully accused and falsely convicted of murder in the shooting of two Atlanta deputies, he has been buried alive in the hellhole solitary supermax prison of Florence CO the last dozen years. Though his spirits remain high, he is 70 and in declining health, and urgently needs moving to a medical facility for appropriate care. Continue reading
9 July 2014 18:47:47 — williambowles.info
Israel hits 160 Gaza sites, 8 children reported dead, Hamas fires rockets (SCF)
U.S. Caving In to Israeli Intransigence (Global Research)
US closes embassy in Israel for security reasons for one day (RT)
8 July 2014 — Information Clearing House
9 July 2014 — Global Research
As Israel carries out yet another attack on Gaza jewellers worldwide continue to conceal the fact that blood diamonds are supporting one of the most abhorrent and prolonged injustices against a defenceless indigenous people. Israel’s “prominent and central position” in the global diamond industry has ensured that diamonds which fund war crimes in Palestine evade regulation. Consumers have been kept in the dark and lied to about the extent of the blood diamond problem
9 July 2014 — The Real News Network
Mr. Hever says he became politically active after the Second Intifada was repressed with extreme violence by the Israeli military and police (inc. transcript) Continue reading
9 July 2014 — Global Research
Washington can’t stop lying. Don’t be convinced by last Thursday’s job report that it is your fault if you don’t have a job. Those 288,000 jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are more fiction than reality.
9 July 2014 — Global Research
In what at first appears to be a neutral statement on the violence in Ukraine, urging “all sides to put down their arms” and condemning “strong hate speech from all sides”, United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay tacitly placed the blame on the people of Donetsk and Lugansk, who are the unspoken victims of aerial bombings and mortar shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
9 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Press Release: Ref: 77/2014
Israeli Offensive on Gaza Continues for the Second Consecutive Day:
Houses Destroyed While Residents inside; Palestinian Deaths Rise to 22, Including 6 Children 3 Women, and 255 Wounded, Including 107 Children and 64 Women; and 29 Houses Destroyed
8 July 2014 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Death Toll now 17 as Israel Targets Gaza
IMEMC – 5 killed seaside, sirens sound in Jerusalem Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza have killed six Palestinians, this evening, now bringing the total deaths to 17, throughout Israel’s latest string of assaults on the Strip. Sirens have been reported to sound in Jerusalem, following 3 explosions. …
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9 July 2014 — The Bullet Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 1006
The commons is not just a battlefield between corporate predators and those who resist them – it is also a source of hope for those willing to imagine a world beyond capitalism. It represents a space between the private market and the political state in which humanity can control and democratically root our common wealth. Both the market and the state have proved inadequate for this purpose. In different ways, they have both led to a centralization of power and decision-making. Both private monopolies and state bureaucracies have proved incapable of maintaining the ecological health of the commons or managing the fair and equitable distribution of its benefits.
8 July 2014 — The Electronic Intifada
“Cursed be he who says, ‘Avenge!‘?“
—Chaim Bialik, from “On The Slaughter”
At a right-wing protest in Jerusalem a sign reads “May God avenge their blood” and a youth wears a sticker stating “Kahane was right,” referring to the Brooklyn-born violent settler movement leader, 1 July.
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9 July 2014 — WSWS
In a June 30 interview with the Guardian, British Medical Association (BMA) chairman Mark Porter criticised the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government for its attacks on the National Health Service (NHS).
9 July 2014 11:23:15 — williambowles.info
Iraqi forces find bodies of 53 executed men south of Baghdad (RT)
Bowe Bergdahl and the Voice of War (Dissident Voice)
Tougher new anti-jihadist laws for France amid growing Middle East crisis (RT)
The New Dark Age 