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GR: “Progressive” War Propaganda: Deception with a Human Face Selected Articles
Is the Western “progressive” alternative media being duped by classic war propaganda cloaked in a humanitarian narrative or is it trying to lure the public into supporting military intervention? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 July 2012: The Zionist-Nazi Collaboration
8 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers and soldiers attack village near Nablus, injuring 5IMEMC – On Saturday 7 July, 2012, the village of Yanoun, located 12km southeast of Nablus, was attacked by illegal settlers from the illegal Itamar settlement. Five Palestinians were injured in the attack and large sections of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 July 2012: Palestinian Recognition Set Back by Israeli-American Roadblock
2 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Uproot 41 Olive Trees Near NablusIMEMC – A group of extremist Israeli settlers uprooted, on Wednesday morning, 41 Olive trees that belong to a resident of Tal village, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 2-3 July 2012
3 July 2012 — williambowles.info 012 Assad ready to resign if crisis endedVoice of Russia, News Today at 11:02 Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad says that he would be prepared to resign without delay if his resignation guaranteed the end of the crisis in Syria, the Turkish Cumhuriyet reports. Continue reading
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Video: Lifta – film-in-progress (must watch)
Lifta is the only remaining Arab village depopulated in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence that has not been completely destroyed or re-populated by Jews. Lifta’s Arab heritage, architecture and history are about to be erased by Jerusalem’s municipality that plans to build over 250 luxury villas, shops and a hotel on this site. An international… Continue reading
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Scenarios for Syria: War and Stabilization By Nile Bowie
Diplomatic attempts to solve the Syrian crisis have been rejected by both members of the Syrian government and the opposition. As Ankara laments bold rhetoric and militarizes its border with Syria, this article attempts to foresee three possible outcomes to the ongoing crisis. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 July 2012: Time to abandon never-ending futile talks with Israel
1 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center P.A. Security Forces Assault & Detain Protestors, JournalistsIMEMC – For consecutive days protests by Palestinians in Ramallah have been broken up with violence by Palestinian Authority security forces. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June 2012: Israel, US blast UN vote on Palestinian heritage sites
29 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 22 Elected Legislators Still Imprisoned By IsraelIMEMC – Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, reported that the current number of elected Palestinian legislators imprisoned by Israel dropped to 22 after Israel released, on Thursday afternoon, two legislators, the… Continue reading
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NATO Proxies Turkey and Saudi Arabia Move to War Footing on Eve of Syrian ‘Peace Summit’ By Finian Cunningham
The NATO-backed covert aggression against Syria could be reaching a tipping point for all-out war involving state forces. That should be no surprise. For the past 16 months, NATO and its regional proxies have been steadily increasing the violence and turmoil inside and outside Syria, while the Western corporate-controlled media maintain the ridiculous fiction that… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 June 2012: The American People Are Angry?
28 June 2012 — Information Clearing House Obama Stalling His Way To War With IranBy Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann LeverettObama is locking America into a path that is increasingly likely to result in yet another U.S.-initiated war in the Middle East during the first years of the next presidential term. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31714.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 June 2012: Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study
28 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Army Asks For Extensive Deployment On Egyptian BorderIMEMC – Israeli paper, Maariv, reported Thursday that senior leaders of the Israeli army are demanding the government to grant the army $15 billion over the coming five years, in order to deploy the military in full… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 June 2012: Israel: promised land for Jews … as long as they’re not black?
24 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Clashes Reported In Hebron After Soldiers Kidnapped A ChildIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, the town of Beit Ummar, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnaped one child after invading his home and searching it; clashes were reported after… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 24 June 2012: 53 Cents of Your Tax $ Goes to War, Killing and Destruction
24 June 2012 — Information Clearing House War, Killing and Destruction Your Tax Dollars at War3 Minute Video “People have to realize that 53 cents of every dollar that they are paying into taxes is going to the military to an astonishing figure there is an enormous, enormous amount of money being blown on war an… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 June 2012: Pro-Israel Activists Break New Ground: An Anti-Arab Hate Video
23 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 16 Palestinians, Including 4 Children, Killed In One WeekIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one resident was killed, and ten others were wounded, when the Israeli army bombarded, on Saturday evening, an area West of Gaza City. The latest attack brings… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 May 2012: Ads Warn Jewish Parents – Keep Daughters Away from Arabs
9 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Negev Prison Refuses To Admit Jailed MP Due To Health ConditionIMEMC – Detained elected Palestinian Legislator, Mohammad Abu Jheisha, was moved from the Ofer Israeli prison to the Negev detention camp, in the Negev desert, but the administration there refused to admit him due to his… Continue reading
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World On The Brink Of Third World War By Nadir Mir*
US geostrategy has been embroiled in Afghanistan and Iraq; now it seeks to extend the war to Iran-Pakistan. Of course, the real war is against Russia and China, the opposing alliance. Washington sees China rising, Russia resurgent, the Islamic world defiant (with the Arab Spring likely to turn anti-Western) and Israel endangered, besides Western economic… Continue reading
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Syrian Victims: When Truth Is the First Casualty of War By Ross Ruthenberg
The Western mainstream media continuously beat the war drums for Libya-like treatment of Syria, using body count statistics to attempt to paint the year-old Syrian conflict as a humanitarian disaster crying out for NATO and its allies to bomb the government’s military forces into submission. Ironically, under the guise of “responsibility to protect”, the NATO… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 March 2012: Germany Brings Cold War to Middle East
27 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli border patrol kill two men along Egypt borderIMEMC – Just after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu toured the route of a border fence under construction between Israel and Egypt Tuesday, Israeli border patrol agents shot and killed two men on the border. … Continue reading
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Video: Bifront Saudi Arabia: Mediaeval freedoms for export
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is bound for Riyadh this week to mull over the Syrian crisis with Saudi King Abdullah. But while the Arab Kingdom rules with an iron fist at home, double standards abound in every way imaginable abroad. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 March 2012: Hospital ‘may consider force-feeding’ Shalabi
26 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ashrawi Condemns Israeli Threats of Cutting Tax RevenueIMEMC – On Monday Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO executive committee, slammed the Israeli government threats to cut tax revenue as part of Israeli response to the last week UN council for Human Rights decision to investigate… Continue reading