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A Gaze into History: Original Images of Venezuela’s 4 February 1992 Coup Attempt
The civic-military coup attempt of 4 February 1992 was a response to the growing social discontent in Venezuela against the system of controlled or “pacted” democracy known as the Punto Fijo system, which had reigned over the country since the overthrowing of the Marcos Jimenez dictatorship in 1958. Continue reading
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Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: Egypt's Constitutional Referendum – Did President Morsi Hijack Democracy?
President Morsi created a new constitution for Egypt on December 26, 2012. Prior to this, Morsi was forced by massive street protests in Egypt to rescind an executive decree that granted him sweeping presidential powers. Continue reading
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Sanctions Not Really Hurting Ordinary Iranians, Says Anonymous U.S. Official By Peter Hart
We’ve talked so often about the practice of granting anonymity to U.S. officials that it’s hard to be surprised by it. Nonetheless, I was surprised to be reassured in the Washington Post (1/20/13) that the U.S.-led sanctions on Iran aren’t really harming ordinary Iranians–based on the word of an anonymous U.S. official. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 January 2013: A Vote against Common Sense
24 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas To Invite Newly Elected Israeli MK’s To RamallahIMEMC – Israel daily, Yedioth Aharonoth, reported that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, intends to officially invite newly elected Israeli members of Knesset (MK) from leftist and centrist parties to visit him in Ramallah. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: Death Of A Hero By David Cromwell
One measure of a society’s honesty is what it says about its political and military leaders when they die. Are the deceased leader’s perceived virtues exalted, while any blemishes are airbrushed out of the picture? Recent media coverage following the death of General Norman “Stormin’ ”Schwarzkopf, the Allied military commander during the Persian Gulf War… Continue reading
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Somalia Newslinks 13 January 2013: France's failed commando raid
13 January 2013 — williambowles.info France fails to free intelligence agent held in Somalia; Paris sends more … Washington Post PARIS — As France reinforced its intervention forces in Mali with additional aircraft and soldiers, French commandos launched a failed raid on the other side of Africa in a vain attempt to rescue an intelligence officer held Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 4 December 2012: UN Votes For Inspecting Israel’s Nuclear Facilities
4 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center King Abdullah Of Jordan To Visit RamallahIMEMC – Jordanian Al-Ghad Newspaper reported that that King Abdullah of Jordan intends to visit the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday December 6, to hold an official meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. … Continue reading
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Iran: Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud And IAEA Credulity By Gareth Porter
That Associated Press story displaying a graph alleged to be part of an Iranian computer simulation of a nuclear explosion — likely leaked by Israel with the intention of reinforcing the media narrative of covert Iranian work on nuclear weapons – raises serious questions about the International Atomic Energy Association’s (IAEA) claim that it has… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 December 2012
1 December 2012 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning’s noose shown at hearing Politico FORT MEADE, Md. — Military prosecutors unveiled a dramatic exhibit Friday to illustrate why officers were legitimately concerned that accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning might commit suicide while he was in custody: a salmon-colored bedsheet that … http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/bradley-mannings-noose-shown-at-hearing-84455.html?hp=l3 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 1 December 2012
012 Guards testify about confinement at Quantico brig of suspect in WikiLeaks case Washington Post FORT MEADE, Md. — Some former guards at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., are testifying against an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling WikiLeaks website. The guards are … http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/guards-testify-about-confinement-at-quantico-brig-of-suspect-in-wikileaks-case/2012/12/01/f65724ee-3b8e-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html Continue reading
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Breaking: Western-backed Terrorists in Syria Slaughter Christians in Bombing By Tony Cartalucci
Excusing egregious acts of terrorism aimed at Syria’s civilian population by claiming those targeted were “mostly loyal to President Bashar Assad” has been a favorite tactic of AP, BBC, CNN, Fox News, and others. In reality, the vast majority of Syrians, from Christians to Druze, from Shia’a Muslims to moderate Sunnis, are targets of the… Continue reading
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FAIR: Precise Weapons Kill Civilians Too
As a general rule, it’d be better if media accounts of war did not stress the surgical precision of the weapons being used. It’s a fixture of U.S. reporting on U.S. wars, but the same rhetoric is used when U.S. allies are dropping bombs. Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 23 August 2012: Oil. Religion. Occupation: A Combustible Mix
23 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Zahhar Denies Connection To Facebook Page That Carries His NameIMEMC – Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, denied any relation to a Facebook page that carries his name and places statements allegedly made by him. … Continue reading
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HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels By Julie Lévesque
In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, people in the US, Canada and the EU, who made donations to those humanitarian organisations and NGOs did not realize that their contribution to Haiti’s reconstruction would be channeled towards the building of five star hotels to house foreign businessmen. Their expectation was that the money would… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 May 2012: Mavi Marmara indictments herald an end to Israeli impunity
31 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Calls for Intervention in Arrests of Fishermen in GazaIMEMC – The General Union of Palestinian Workers in Gaza demanded that human rights organizations intervene immediately to stop attacks on Palestinian fishermen that occur every fishing season. … Continue reading
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The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY By Washington’s Blog
The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation. The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. Continue reading
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SYRIA: Media Accuses Syrian Government of Collaborating with Al Qaeda By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Many ordinary Syrians are convinced that the latest atrocity – as with previous deadly blasts in the capital and other cities across the country – is the work of terrorist groups that are being trained and supplied by foreign states in a bid to destabilize the government of Bashar Al Assad. Continue reading
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Video:Pro-Assad rally in Damascus decries ‘one-year conspiracy’
Thousands have taken to the streets of the Syrian capital Damascus to support the country’s embattled leader Bashar al-Assad. The demonstration comes on the year anniversary of the anti-Assad uprising that has left scores dead and injured. Continue reading
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Video:Pro-Assad rally in Damascus decries ‘one-year conspiracy’
Thousands have taken to the streets of the Syrian capital Damascus to support the country’s embattled leader Bashar al-Assad. The demonstration comes on the year anniversary of the anti-Assad uprising that has left scores dead and injured. Continue reading
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HLLN 14 March 2012: UN soldiers jailed for raping Haitian boy | Cholera, United Nations: Negligence and the Rule of Law | HLLN on Haiti's cholera case against the UN in light of UN-US recent admissions
14 March 2012 — HLLN In this post Two Pakistani UN soldiers jailed for raping Haitian boy UN soldiers patrol in Port-au-Prince, March 13, 2012, BBChttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17351144 Two UN Pakistani peacekeepers convicted in Haiti ?http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-13/Haiti–UN-peacekeepers/53515134/1 Haiti, Cholera and the United Nations: Negligence and the Rule of Law http://bit.ly/ABF3ox Link Ezili Danto’s Note on: Bill Clinton – Slick Continue reading
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