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Information Clearing House Newsletter 21 February 2012: Crisis with Iran? The Real Story Versus the Cover Story
21 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel to Release Khader Adnan Palestinian Prisoner Ends 66-day Hunger Strike By Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem The agreement was reached less than an hour before the supreme court hearing was scheduled to begin. It had been brought forward by 48 hours amid fears that Adnan might die… Continue reading
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Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
This press conference concludes a 10 day visit to the region, carried out within the framework of my mandate as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. I have had meetings with representatives of Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society actors, as well as with… Continue reading
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Julie Lévesque: SOCIAL MEDIA “TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION” – Spying and Propaganda using Facebook, Twitter
A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”. What the study fails to mention, however, is the use of social media by intelligence agencies for other purposes. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 February 2012:
20 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court To Look Into Adnan’s Appeal Tuesday IMEMC – Lawyer of detainee, Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike since 65 days, stated that the Israeli Supreme Court decided to hold a session to look into Adnan’s case on Tuesday. The court also… Continue reading
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UK in anti-Syrian conspiracy – Press TV
Britain has been openly calling for intervention in Syria based on allegations that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is suppressing the “people” whom Prime Minister David Cameron wishes to see as the absolute majority calling for Assad’s ouster. Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 17-19 February 2012: Iranian Ships Dock in Syria Port
19 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 U.N. inspectors to press Iran over nuclear concerns Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 20:41 Continue reading
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Syria Crisis, Arab Spring Revive Cold War Alignment By Marwan Kabalan
The Russian-Chinese co-ordination on many world issues, including in the UN Security Council, makes it almost certain that the West will, from now on, face tougher resistance to its polices from underprivileged powers in the international system. Continue reading
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Wrongheaded UN Vote on Syria: US-NATO "Arm Twisting" at the General Assembly By Stephen Lendman
Under international law, no nation or combination thereof, may interfere in the internal affairs of others, except in self-defense if attacked. Continue reading
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GEOPOLITICAL DESTABILIZATION AND REGIONAL WAR: The Road To Tehran Goes Through Damascus By Nile Bowie
Between the chaos and artillery fire unfolding in Homs and Damascus, the current siege against the Baíathist State of Bashar al-Assad parallels events of nearly a century ago. In efforts to maintain its protectorate, the French government employed the use of foreign soldiers to smother those seeking to abolish the French mandated, FÈdÈration Syrienne. Continue reading
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Blindness On The Road To Damascus By Fiona Hill
As the calls for President Assad to step down get louder, including from Australia, evidence on the ground suggests that Syrians want elections, not international intervention, writes Fiona Hill Continue reading
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YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE: THE NEED FOR “COLLAPSE WITH AGENCY” IN PALESTINE By Jeff Halper
Even as I write this, the bulldozers have been busy throughout that one indivisible country known by the bifurcated term Israel/Palestine. Palestinian homes, community centers, livestock pens and other “structures” (as the Israel authorities dispassionately call them) have been demolished in the Old City, Silwan and various parts of “Area C” in the West Bank,… Continue reading
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Syria: China, Russia Won’t Allow Further Transformation Of UN Into West’s Bludgeon
Western powers are privileged to interpret interests and ethics at their own will due to their obvious dominance of public opinion. They label the 12 countries who voted differently to them at the UN as being ‘unethical.’ China should never be fooled by this hypocrisy. Continue reading
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China Steps Up in Syria
The conventional picture of US policy in the Middle East is of a hellbound train rushing toward war with Iran, pulling burning coaches filled with European passengers howling praise of Western values out the windows at horrified bystanders. Continue reading
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Video: US double standards: Indirectly arming Syrian rebels? — RT
The conflict in Syria is intensifying and the UN is unable to agree on a solution to end the bloodshed. Meanwhile, US politicians are calling to arm opposition forces, amid suspicions the US may already be supplying weapons through its Arab allies. Continue reading
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Who Arms the Gang Called «Free Syrian Army» By Leonid Savin
Militant terrorist groups are the main force of those who apply efforts to destroy Syria after doing the same thing in Libya. The Report of the League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria (11) made public in January 2012 and ignored by the West, says there is no government organized repression against peaceful protesters… Continue reading
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Lies, Revolutions and Wars: A House of Sand and Fog By Nebojsa Malic
Last summer, as the Sandstorm mistakenly dubbed the “Arab Spring” swept across North Africa, a cadre of professional revolutionaries the Empire created in Serbia bragged about their role in the revolts to some European videographers. Sure, the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt may have begun spontaneously, but Empire-trained activists soon took control and channeled the… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 16 February 2012: Bipartisan Support for World War III
16 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Graham Doesn’t Believe Clapper: ‘I’m Very Convinced’ Iran Is Building Nuclear Weapons By Eli Clifton Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, repeated his position that Iran has not yet decided whether to develop a nuclear weapon. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30556.htm Continue reading
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Video: Arab League Calls for Arming Syrian Opposition
Christian Henderson: Great hypocrisy of Saudis, crushing opposition in Bahrain and and supporting it in Syria Continue reading
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Syria’s ‘Arab Spring’: failed or hijacked? By Fiona Hill
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is ‘disgusted’ at the stance taken by Russia and China against foreign military intervention in Syria. But clearly ‘Madame Clinton’, as many Syrians enjoy calling her, has not made time to read the report by the Head of the Arab League (AL) Observer Mission that was deployed throughout Syria’s… Continue reading
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PCHR Holds Urgent Consultative Meeting Addressing the Case of Palestinian Detainee in Israeli Jails, Khader Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike
Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike In the context of its efforts to follow up the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and its interest in the their detention conditions, on Tuesday afternoon, 14 February 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) held an urgent consultative meeting in its Head Office in Gaza… Continue reading
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