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Western powers line up against Arab democracy By Tony Iltis
Standing against this democratic tide is the apartheid state of Israel and its backers, the Western powers (or ‘the international community’, as they call themselves). If their statements about the unsuccessful 2009 democratic uprising in Iran were the yardstick, ‘the international community’ would be supporting the Arab uprisings. Continue reading
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US behind the 'pro-democracy' movement in Egypt: Selected Articles and sources
MAJOR NEW SOFT POWER FRONT IN GLOBAL WAR: STATE, NGOS, SOCIAL MEDIA ORCHESTRATE ‘REGIME CHANGE’ CHAOS TO SAVE CRITICAL CLIENT REGIMES Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 25 January, 2011
25 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Egypt Braces for Anti-Government Protests New York Times The call to protest comes as Egypt and other Arab countries wrestle with the aftermath of Tunisia’s revolution. There, weeks of protests that started after … www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/world/middleeast/26egypt.html?src=twrhp Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 22 January, 2011
22 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Twitter topples Tunisia? National Post When President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on Jan. 14, Tunisians declared victory and social-networking site Twitter went berserk with traffic. … www.nationalpost.com/news/world/Twitter+topples+Tunisia/4148834/story.html Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 January, 2011: Racism In Jewish Schools; “A Dead Arab Is A Good Arab”
19 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Eyes At Demolishing Palestinian Village To Expand Settlement IMEMC – Thursday January 20, 2011 – 01:50, Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday “Khirbit At Taweel”, a small village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and handed the residents military orders to demolish… Continue reading
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Tunisia Newslinks for 19 January, 2011
19 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Moody’s Downgrades Tunisia Amid Upheaval Wall Street Journal By LEILA HATOUM DUBAI—Moody’s Investor Service Inc. downgraded Tunisia’s sovereign rating by one notch Wednesday and changed the country’s outlook to … online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704590704576091222603717338.html Continue reading
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Tunisia: A Revolution That Goes All the Way? By Dyab Abou Jahjah
The regime is playing its last card today in Tunisia. That last Card is the RCD (the party of the former dictator). After the formation of a so-called “National Unity Government ” yesterday, and after the UGTT (the largest trade union in the country) supported and even participated in it with three ministers, alongside three… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 December, 2010: Netanyahu is sowing fear and we are harvesting hatred
30 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 1,100 Palestinian Children Detained During 2010 IMEMC – 30 Dec 2010 – Thursday December 30, 2010 – 13:50, The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Detainees’ Affairs reported, on Wednesday, that Israeli forces arrested 1,100 Palestinian children in 2010, most of them in East Jerusalem and… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 88
One of the most common threads running through the Wikileaks papers is Washington’s manic obsession with Iran. In country after country the United States exerts unceasing pressure on the government to tighten the noose around Iran’s neck, to make the American sanctions as extensive and as painful as can be, to inflate the alleged Iranian… Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup 1 December, 2010
1 December, 2010 — creative-i.info Ho Hum: More Wikileaks “Chickenfeed” Interpol issues arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder American Racism on Display in Wikileaks Iran Cable Whose Core Interest Is It Anyway? VIDEO: Top Canadian Advisor Calls for Assassination of Wikileaks Director Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran? The folly of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 October, 2010: Anti-Arab Militia Latest Face of Galilee’s Judaisation
29 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Caterpillar Corporation stops shipment of armored bulldozers to Israeli military IMEMC – 29 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 30, 2010 – 03:25, Peace activists around the world are celebrating Friday’s announcement that the Illinois-based company, Caterpillar, has decided to hold off shipment of dozens… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 October, 2010: Open Letter to Cape Town Opera: Boycott Apartheid
27 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Seven Children In Silwan IMEMC – 27 Oct 2010 – Thursday October 28, 2010 – 03:57, Palestinian sources reported Wednesday that Israeli soldiers and undercover units of the Israeli army kidnapped seven children in Silwan town, south of the Al Aqsa Mosque,… Continue reading
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Tell Me Again, Who Made The Desert Bloom? By Lawrence of Cyberia
In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine, in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The results were published in the Survey of Palestine, which has been scanned and made available online by Palestine Remembered; all 1300 pages can be… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 October, 2010: Israel’s Arab Citizens Are Not a Negotiating Chip
8 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settler Leader Claims His vehicle Accidentally Rammed Into Two Palestinian Children IMEMC – 8 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 09, 2010 – 02:14, Israeli sources reported that a well-known extremist settler leader, head of the so-called City of David group, stated that his vehicle… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 September, 2010: Israel Makes Meeting Another Arab a Crime
22 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas, Settlement Resumption Doesn’t Necessarily Mean End Of Talks IMEMC – 22 Sep 2010 – Wednesday September 22, 2010 – 17:42, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signalled, on Wednesday, that renewed settlement construction would not end talks. Abbas’s comments came during a dinner with Jewish… Continue reading
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Jerusalem train company asks passengers: ‘Do you mind traveling with Arabs?’ By Nir Hasson
“The light rail includes three stations in Shoafat. Does that present a problem for you?” the questionnaire asks. In another question: “All passengers, Jewish and Arab, enter the train freely and without the driver’s inspection. Is that a problem for you?” Continue reading
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No Such Thing As Israeli Nationality
Israel refused to recognize an Israeli nationality at the country’s establishment in 1948, making an unusual distinction between “citizenship” and “nationality.” Although all Israelis qualify as “citizens of Israel,” the state is defined as belonging to the “Jewish nation,” meaning not only the 5.6 million Israeli Jews but also more than seven million Jews in… Continue reading
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The 911 Cat is Out of the Bag By Stewart Ogilby
The lid is blowing off a story broadcast by American TV on September 11, 2001. The question now is whether or not owners and managers of America’s mainline media will be able to continue burying facts, questions, controversy, speculations, and conclusions contradicting that day’s professionally crafted narrative. When will the American people be given access… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 