Africa
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South African media watchdog says Israel can be called an apartheid state
This afternoon, in a bold ruling defending the right to freedom of expression and political speech, the South African media watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), unequivocally dismissed all complaints relating to a radio advert that calls for the boycott of Israel and compares Israel to Apartheid South Africa. Continue reading
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Moeletsi Mbeki: On Wealth creation in South Africa
I CAN predict when SA’s ‘Tunisia Day’ will arrive. Tunisia Day is when the masses rise against the powers that be, as happened recently in Tunisia. The year will be 2020, give or take a couple of years. The year 2020 is when China estimates that its current minerals-intensive industrialisation phase will be concluded. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO News: July 4, 2011
4 July 2011 — Stop NATO Why Allow NATO Thugs To Destroy Africa Mercilessly? Turkmenistan: NATO Troops Can Join Caspian Energy War Against Russia Azerbaijan: Faithful NATO Partner On The Caspian NATO International School Of Azerbaijan Holds Session On Middle East NATO Soldier Missing In Southern Afghanistan Armed Confrontation In The Arctic? Continue reading
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The invasion of Australia – official at last By John Pilger
The City of Sydney has voted to replace the words ‘European arrival’ in the official record with ‘invasion’. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word in describing how Aboriginal Australia was dispossessed by the British. Continue reading
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Russian, S. African presidents to meet, discuss Libyan peace efforts
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a telephone conversation on Saturday with South African President Jacob Zuma agreed to meet to discuss peace efforts in Libya, the Kremlin press service said. Continue reading
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Libya And Millennium Of War By Rick Rozoff
Daily tallies are posted on NATO’s Allied Command Operations (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) website as though they are public service announcements. The practice is rather bellicose braggadocio, rank rodomontade; boasting of the Alliance’s ability to control the airspace of and pummel at will a now all but defenseless nation of six and a half… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 July, 2011: Africa will not execute Gaddafi warrant: African Union summit
2 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House Should Libya Retaliate Against NATO Nations? Libya Can Sting Europe Like ‘Swarm of Bees’: Kadhafi By Hassen Jouini “The Libyan people are capable, one day, of taking the battle to Europe and the Mediterranean” region, Kadhafi said in the message, as thousands of supporters massed in the landmark Continue reading
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HAITI: THE NEXT ROUND by Robert Roth
On March 18th, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family returned home from a 7-year forced exile in South Africa – an exile brought about by the violent U.S.-orchestrated coup in 2004. Up until the last minute, the U.S. government tried to stop the return, with President Obama going so far as to place a last-minute… Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 28, 2011
28 June 2011 — Stop NATO Reports Of U.S. Military Plans Against Libya, Syria Cause Concern U.S. Aircraft Supercarrier Enters Mediterranean For ‘NATO Missions’ Libya: International Criminal Court Cover For NATO Operations All Freedom-Loving People Must Condemn NATO Action In Libya Germany To Supply NATO With Arms For Assault On Libya UN: U.S. Gets 4,200 Continue reading
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Sarkozy’s Libyan War By Robert Harneis
The history of Khadafy’s relationship with the West, and the United States in particular, is the stuff of pulp fiction. In 1969 the CIA under the newly elected President Nixon helped him overthrow the British puppet King Idris in the newly oil rich kingdom. They picked the wrong guy. Continue reading
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There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nic Robertson By Jay Janson
Nic Robertson and Anderson Cooper are surely aware of their achievement in promoting the human carnage of civil war and the destruction of a beautifully well-kept and prosperous nation, the 53rd highest developed country in the world with free health care and education. A standard of living that was higher than nine European nations, including… Continue reading
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Why Regime Change in Libya? By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
There is undeniable evidence that contrary to the spontaneous, unarmed and peaceful protest demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, therebellion in Libya has been nurtured, armed and orchestrated largely from abroad, in collaboration with expat opposition groups and their local allies at home. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 19, 2011
19 June 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Strike In Libyan Capital Kills Entire Family Angolan Parliament Speaker: West’s Intervention In Africa Targets Energy Resources The Libyan Crisis: The Point Of No Return Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Southern Afghanistan Georgia: Second U.S. Guided Missile Cruiser Visit In Less Than Two Weeks Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 15 June Part 2
16 June 2011 — williambowles.info RT: No evidence that half of Libya is controlled by rebels – former governor Mathaba: NATO attacks ordinary Libyans at petrol pump Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 June 2011: Charters Divide Blacks / McKinney in Libya / Lupe Fiasco and Obama
15 June 2011 — Black Agenda Report How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Charter school supporters are denouncing the NAACP for filing suit, along with the teachers union, against preferential – separate but unequal – treatment of charter schools in New York City. Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks for 15 June 2011: South Africa condemns NATO attacks on Libya
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info Who Needs NATO? New York Times Americans have been grumbling about the failure of the European partners in NATO to pull their weight almost since the organization was founded in 1949. “Because we had our troops there, the Europeans had not done their share,” President Eisenhower … http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/opinion/16iht-edwheatcroft16.html Continue reading
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The War in Libya: The African Union's Mistake of Policy and Principle By Dr. Kwame Akonor
Africa’s handling of the Libyan crisis at the United Nations has been timorous and confusing, but it presents an opportunity as well as a challenge for the continental body on how it defines its future strategic interests. Continue reading
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The War in Libya: The African Union’s Mistake of Policy and Principle By Dr. Kwame Akonor
Africa’s handling of the Libyan crisis at the United Nations has been timorous and confusing, but it presents an opportunity as well as a challenge for the continental body on how it defines its future strategic interests. Continue reading
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