Moscow threatens response after Ukraine forces shell Russian border town By Alex Lantier

14 July 2014 — WSWS

Tensions flared over the weekend as Russian officials vowed to respond to the Ukrainian shelling of a Russian border town, amid the offensive by troops of the Western-backed Ukrainian regime in Kiev against pro-Russian militias defending the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.

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Israel’s Atrocity and the West’s Ignorance. The Tide of Media Lies By Jamal Kanj

14 July 2014 — Global Research

jake-tapper-former-PLO-adviser-israel-hamas-620x421Seeing “free” Western media with headlines like “Rockets raining over Israel”, or describing the success of Israel’s Iron Dome defence system in intercepting missiles from Gaza, you would assume there was a war between equals – or even that “poor Israel” was under attack.

Many Western readers won’t know that all of the 100-plus killed since Tuesday – and practically all of the 700 injured – are Palestinians, many of them children.

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Israeli Interior Minister: “The Goal of the Operation Is to Send Gaza Back to the Middle Ages”, “Destroying All the Infrastructure Including Roads and Water”

14 July 2014 — WashingtonsBlog

Is Israel Trying to Bomb Gaza Back to the Dark Ages?

We noted Friday that Israel is bombing Gaza back to the stone age to get Hamas … But ISIS – NOT HAMAS – claims credit for attacks against Israel.

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Igor Strelkov Speaks – Two Interviews, July 12 and 13, 2014 By Gleb Bazov

14 July 2014— No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov

Preamble: The following two interviews were given by Igor Strelkov on July 12 and 13, 2014, respectively. The first interview (July 12, 2014) is currently being translated and will be made available as soon as possible. The second interview (July 13, 2014) is now available.

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PCHR_e 14 July 2014: Ongoing Israeli Offensive on Gaza: 162 Palestinians Killed, of Whom 137 Are Civilians, Including 34 Children and 28 Women, and 1,058 Others Wounded, Mostly Civilians, Including 332 Children and 212 Women

14 July 2014 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Press Releases
Ref: 83/2014
Date: 14 July 2014
Time: 07:00 GMT

Ongoing Israeli Offensive on Gaza:

162 Palestinians Killed, of Whom 137 Are Civilians, Including 34 Children and 28 Women, and 1,058 Others Wounded, Mostly Civilians, Including 332 Children and 212 Women;

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Ukraine’s Démarche Against Refugees – To Be Interned, Split and Forcibly Utilized as Soldiers By Gleb Bazov

14 July 2014 — No Limit to Our Anger (c) V. M. Molotov

Preamble: The document below was published by LifeNews as a true copy of a letter prepared by the acting Ukrainian Minister of Defence, Colonel General Mikhail Koval, and addressed to the President of Ukraine, Pyotr Poroshenko. Unless I receive a specific request, and owing to dire lack of time to devote to this, I am not going to apply my experience as a refugee lawyer (dealing with refugees in Cairo, Egypt, as well as in Canada) fully elaborate on the enormous and obvious failings of the policy herein proposed vis-à-vis the international refugee law.

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 13 July 2014: List of the 183 Palestinians, Including Whole Families, Killed Since Tuesday

13 July 2014 — VTJP

News

International Middle East Media Center

Eleven Legislators, Many Residents, Kidnapped In West Bank
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped 11 legislators, and several other Palestinians. …
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The CIA spying scandal and the disintegration of American democracy By Tom Carter

14 Julyb2014 — WSWS

Last Thursday, the US Department of Justice quietly announced that it would not launch a criminal investigation following the revelation in March that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had spied on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee. News of this decision—which concerns one of the most significant constitutional breaches in modern American history—was barely reported in the establishment media and prompted no significant response from any section of the political establishment.

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