July 2014
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Gaza News Links 8-9 July 2014
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) Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 8 July 2014: Israeli Lawmaker’s Call for Genocide of Palestinians Gets Thousands of Facebook Likes
8 July 2014 — Information Clearing House GRAPHIC: Bloody Aftermath of Israeli Airstrikes, Khan Younis, Gaza Video Continue http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39029.htm Continue reading
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Israel’s “Blood Diamonds” Boost Jeweller Profits as Gaza Bleeds By Sean Clinton
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… Continue reading
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Video: Growing Up Privileged in Apartheid, Colonial Israel – Shir Hever on Reality Asserts Itself (1/5)
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
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Virtual Economy’s Phantom Job Gains Are Based on Statistical Fraud. And More Fraud Is in the Works By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
In his analysis of the June Labor Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, John Williams (www.ShadowStats.com) wrote that the 288,000 June jobs and 6.1% unemployment rate are “far removed from common experience and underlying reality.” Payrolls were overstated by “massive, hidden shifts in seasonal adjustments,” and the Birth-Death model added the usual phantom jobs. Continue reading
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The United Nations is Complicit in the Massacre of Civilians in Ukraine By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Julie Lévesque
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… Continue reading
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Gaza: 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
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 Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 8 July 2014
8 July 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Death Toll now 17 as Israel Targets GazaIMEMC – 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… Continue reading
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Netanyahu government knew teens were dead as it whipped up racist frenzy By Max Blumenthal
From the moment three Israeli teens were reported missing last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s military-intelligence apparatus suppressed the flow of information to the general public. Through a toxic blend of propaganda, subterfuge and incitement, they inflamed a precarious situation, manipulating Israelis into supporting their agenda until they made an utterly… Continue reading
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Britain’s National Health Service “fraying at the edges” By Paul Mitchell
In 2012-2013, one in four A&E visits (nearly 6 million) took place after patients had been unable to get an appointment with a GP. Previous research has shown that the reasons include the change to GP contracts in 2004 allowing them to opt out of providing night and weekend cover, leaving it to other agencies… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 8-9 July 2014
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) Continue reading
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DPR and LPR Militia Briefings, July 6, 2014 By Gleb Bazov
Military situation reports from Eastern Ukraine 5-6 July 2014. Continue reading
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Gaza Under Attack! News Links 8 July 2014
8 July 2014 — williambowles.info Israel ‘ready for Gaza escalation’ (BBC) Israel launches further air strikes on Gaza and warns of ground attack (The Independent) A Call from Gaza: Support our right to life! (Mondoweiss) Continue reading
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Gaza in Crisis: Israel launches wave after wave of bombings and artillery attacks
Last night and while Israeli army forces launched military attacks all over Gaza, by sea, air and artillery shelling, hundreds of thousands of children were unable to sleep inside their roof tinned homes, clinging to their parents, crying, terrified. The shelling of last night was so strong and went through the tiny strip from north… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 7-8 July 2014
8 July 2014 19:11:02 — williambowles.info Viral: Anti-ISIS Syria rebel commander delivers speech with ‘Hello Kitty’ notebook (RT) China’s ‘Deep Panda’ crew targets Middle East policy wonks – report (The Register) Analyzing The Finances Of Al Qaeda In Iraq Interview With RAND’s Patrick Johnston (Musings on Iraq) Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 7-8 July 2014
8 July 2014 17:12:59 — williambowles.info Donetsk People’s Republic brings criminal charges against Ukraine’s National Guard, Right Sector (SCF) Ukraine airports remain closed (Blog Private Fly) Donetsk, Lugansk fear humanitarian crisis as Kiev tightens grip on eastern Ukraine (RT) Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Failure Of The Left By David Edwards
Consider the entrenchment of Orwellian ‘Perpetual War’ – the state-corporate determination to bomb someone, somewhere, every couple of years for reasons that have everything to do with realpolitik and nothing to do with reason or righteousness, or ‘the responsibility to protect’. Despite self-evident crimes resulting in mass death on a scale that almost defies imagination,… Continue reading
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Open letter to Russian People, July 7, 2014
This letter must stand on its own. It was written by the collective of publishers of Vineyardsaker.fr and Vineyardsaker.ru and published on the respective websites, as well as by the Vineyard Saker on his original blog The Vineyard of the Saker. I support The Vineyard Saker implicitly in his initiatives and collaborate with him in… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 7 July 2014
7 July 2014 — Information Clearing House “Civilians are Dying Here and Something Needs to Happen to Stop It” By Vera Graziadei Some of the people feel abandoned by Vladimir Putin and some of them think that he’s being a hypocrite at this point. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39019.htm Continue reading