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Syria Newslinks 3-4 November 2011
4 November 2011 — williambowles.info 4 November 2011 Exit NATO, Enter Libyan War GlobalResearch.ca Today at 13:48 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 7-8 September 2011
8 September 2011 — williambowles.info 8 September 2011 Russia’s Middle East dilemma Eric Walberg William Bowles.info Today at 10:30 Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of Continue reading
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The rape of Libya By Bill Van Auken
The pretense that the US and its European NATO allies were intervening in Libya to ‘protect civilians and civilian populated areas from threat of attack,’ as stated in the United Nations Security Council resolution, has effectively been abandoned. Behind the fig leaf of this resolution the naked imperialist and colonial character of the war has… Continue reading
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Libya — Lather, Rinse, Repeat — Syria: Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn By Maximilian C. Forte
One detects a strong tendency among liberal imperialists and assorted self-designated “progressives” to think of their actions and thoughts as being above history, as if residing in some altostratus of unimpeachable rectitude. If they pretend to act and think as if they were gods, it is not an historical accident. At the end of their… Continue reading
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Patrick Cockburn: Don’t believe everything you see and read about Gaddafi
Ever since the Libyan uprising started on 15 February, the foreign media have regurgitated stories of atrocities carried out by Gaddafi’s forces. It is now becoming clear that reputable human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been unable to find evidence for the worst of these. Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 25 January, 2011: No link between Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, say military sources
25 January, 2011 — creative-i.info No link between Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, say military sources The Guardian (blog) US investigators have been unable to find evidence directly linking WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, the army private suspected of … www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/jan/25/bradley-manning-julian-assange-wikileaks Continue reading
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Media Lens: BBC News Website Editor Responds On Amnesty Coverage
25 April 2006 — Media Lens On April 21, we published a Rapid Response Media Alert: ‘Demonising Iran – BBC Distorts Amnesty International Press Release,’ (www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060421_demonising_iran.php). Yesterday, we received this response from Steve Herrmann, editor of the BBC News website: Continue reading
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