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Yemen Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info Yemen: Political talks open as Saleh recovers in Riyadh BBC News Yemen’s ruling party has opened talks with the country’s main opposition coalition following the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. Protesters have called on the acting president, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, …www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13693731 Continue reading
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Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is reponsible say Israel, US
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 June, 2011: Israel’s plan to forcibly remove 30,000 Bedouin slammed as cruel
6 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Prepares To Approve 4100 New Units For Israeli Settlers In East Jerusalem IMEMC – Tuesday June 07, 2011 – 03:03, The Israeli Interior Ministry, and the so-called Construction and Planning Committee, are preparing to officially approve 4100 units for Jewish settlers in occupied… Continue reading
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M.K.Bhadrakumar (India) – Caveats in the Yemeni narrative
The Arab Spring has finally become beastly, marching stealthily and devouring a third dictator in the Middle East when it all but seemed that the region was lapsing back to its bad old ways of autocratic rule. Continue reading
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The Libyan (Vietnam) Syndrome by Vladimir Fedoruk
[I]t seems like the US forces have stuck in Libya for long, like it is in Afghanistan and Iraq and, if we take some glance back into history, like it was in Vietnam. It becomes increasingly clear by the day that the NATO bombings are not helping to solve the Libyan conflict…. Continue reading
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In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice By Pankaj Mishra
At a dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose centenary falls this year, wrote: “We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton”. Continue reading
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PressTV – ‘US dropped cluster bombs on Misratah’
A Human rights investigation in Libya has found that it was the US and its Western allies who cluster bombed the troubled city of Misratah back in April. Continue reading
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Al-Jazeera footage captures ‘western troops on the ground’ in Libya
Armed westerners have been filmed on the front line with rebels near Misrata in the first apparent confirmation that foreign special forces are playing an active role in the Libyan conflict. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news 29 May, 2011: U.S. To Modernize Its Nuclear Weapons In Europe
29 May, 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan Air War: Almost 8,800 NATO Sorties, Over 3,300 Combat Missions Afghan Officials: NATO Air Strike Kills At Least 12 Children, Four Women U.S. To Modernize Its Nuclear Weapons In Europe Bulgarian Defense Minister To NATO: Need U.S. Interceptor Missiles New Strategic Concept: NATO Must Back Arab “Revolutions,” Train… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 May, 2011: Israeli prisons charge Palestinian detainees for medical treatment
29 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Gaza Journalism Forum Slams Israeli Police For Attacking Journalists in Jerusalem IMEMC – Sunday May 29, 2011 – 10:21, The Palestinian Journalists Forum in Gaza issued a statement denouncing the Israeli police for attacking Palestinian journalists reporting on clashes that took place in Ras… Continue reading
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The Secret Wars of the Saudi-Israeli Alliance By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Tel Aviv, Washington and NATO are taking advantage of the upheavals in the Arab World. Not only are they fighting against the legitimate aspirations of the Arab people, they are manipulating the Arab geo-political landscape as part of their strategy to control Eurasia. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 28-29 May 2011
29 May 2011 — williambowles.info 29 May 2011 Socialist Resistance: What next for the Arab uprisings? RT: Gaddafi only obstacle to peace – Libyan transitional council head RT: ‘Victory or death for Gaddafi’ – political analyst 28 May 2011 Mathaba: An Open Appeal to the People of the United States and Great Britain CounterPunch Diary:… Continue reading
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The Anglo-American Military Axis: West Backs Holy Alliance For Control Of Arab World And Persian Gulf By Rick Rozoff
The standard-bearers of Anglo-American imperialism in the current epoch, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron, met in London on May 25 to discuss the world’s two ongoing wars of aggression, those in Afghanistan and Libya, both under the command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization dominated by Washington and London. Continue reading
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NATO Defies Africa By Intensifying Bombardment Of Libya By Tichaona Chifamba
In essence, the leaders’ demand for a ceasefire is of no consequence as the western powers have so far simply ignored it, in the same way the French helped remove former Cote d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo, despite African resistance to foreign military intervention. Continue reading
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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 27 May 2011
27 May 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Visegrad Bloc 27.05.2011 | 17:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH (Ukraine) The countries of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) on the 12th of May announced their intention to create a new military bloc, which by the year 2016 might turn into a full-fledged organization,… Continue reading
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Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey By John Pilger
When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser ‘destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt’. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven ‘into the gutter from which they… Continue reading
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Spain’s Tahrir Embracing Egypt’s Tahrir
Placa Tahrir Placa Catalonia in Barcelona. The white sign underneath says it all: “Tunisia, Egypt, Libya! One struggle, ONE fight.” Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 25-26 May 2011
26 May 2011 — williambowles.info 26 May 2011 Mathaba: Death squad attacks in Libyan “rebel” capital Stop Nato: Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: May 26, 2011 williambowles.info: NATO testing ‘Kosovo model’ in Libya and Syria By Pyotr ISKENDEROV Mathaba: Libya: CNN Loud Opiniated Mouths vs Cool CIA Counter-Terrorism Analyst williambowles.info: Gulf State Gendarmes: West Backs… Continue reading
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Video: Michel Warschawski on Netanyahu, Hamas and the Threat of War
Michel Warschawski: Calling Hamas a Palestinian al-Qaeda, and facing a new Arab world, Netanyahu’s only tool now is war Continue reading
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