12 August 2013 — RT
Saudi Arabia policies are enormously hypocritical. They discriminate against 10 percent of their own population, the Shiites, while saying they are intervening in Syria for more democracy, journalist Pepe Escobar told RT.
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Turkish police round up young protesters for use of social media By Bill Van Auken
6 June 2013 — WSWS
Turkish police have rounded up dozens of young protesters in the western port city of Izmir on charges of “encouraging rebellion,” “inciting public hatred” and spreading “misleading and libelous information” for their use of Twitter and other social media during the mass demonstrations that have swept the country over the past week.
NYT: FBI Hatches Terror Plots
21 April 2013 — Land Destroyer
NYT reports in 2012 FBI’s habit of fabricating terror attacks to make high-profile arrests – now Boston suspects’ family claims sons were led every step of the way by the FBI. Continue reading
FBI Casting Set Stage for Boston Marathon Bombing, Shootout, Charade
20 April 2013 — Land Destroyer
Update: CBS reveals in their report, “CBS News: FBI Interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 Years Ago,” that the FBI initially attempted to deny any contact prior to the Boston bombings with slain suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It was only after Russia’s RT publicly pursued the story that the FBI finally admitted officially it had.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 April 2013: Israel destroys West Bank community center, arrests 20
15 April 2013 — VTJP
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For The First Time Since 1990, Palestinian Embassy Opens in Kuwait
IMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, conducts his first visit to Kuwait for the first time since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and officially participates in the official ceremony to open a new Palestinian embassy in the country. …
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 April 2013: Israel destroys West Bank community center, arrests 20
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Israel offers to exile Issawi abroad
4/13/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel on Friday offered long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi a deal to exile him to a UN member country, Israeli spokesman said. Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office,said that an offer was presented to exile Issawi for health reasons. He added that “the EU….
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 27 March 2013: Israel To Build Settlement Units On Palestinian Lands In Bethlehem
27 March 2013 — VTJP
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Mada: 238 Violations Of Media Freedoms In 2012
IMEMC – The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms” MADA” held a press conference on Wednesday which reviewed the Annual Report on the violations against Media freedom in Palestine during 2012. The conference was held at MADA’s headquarter in Ramallah. …
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 19 March 2013: ‘It’s Not Your Homeland’: An Interview with Shlomo Sand
19 March 2013 — VTJP
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Sheikh Jarrah family fears eviction
3/19/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — An 82-year-old grandfather and his family are awaiting an Israeli Supreme Court decision that could evict them from an East Jerusalem home they have lived in since 1964. Ayyoub Shamasnah, 82, lives with his wife, children and grandchildren in a two-room 65-square-meter house in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood targeted….
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 February 2013
4 February 2013 — VTJP
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“Arabic Not Allowed Here” Says Haifa University Employee
IMEMC – An Arab student studying at the Haifa University was prevented from speaking his mother tongue while at the Academic Counseling Center, and was explicitly told that “Arabic is not allowed in here”. …
US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement By Dave Lindorff
28 December 2012 — Dissident Voice
FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
New documents obtained from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security by the Partnership for Civil Justice and released this past week show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 25 December 2012: Live ammunition and child arrests: Israel’s military response to protests
25 December 2012 — VTJP
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Israel Claims Arresting A Cell That Planned To Abduct A Soldier
IMEMC – A gag order was lifted Tuesday on the arrest of what Israel claims to be a Palestinian cell that planned the abduction of an Israeli soldier to negotiate his release in exchange for the release of PFLP secretary-general, Ahmad Sa’adat. …
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 22 December 2012: Israel’s colonial strangling of Bethlehem
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IMEMC – The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children comparing to 700 kidnapped last year. …
VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 22 November 2012: The deadly electoral cycle in Israel
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After Ceasefire Was Implemented; Palestinian Injured By Army Fire In Gaza
IMEMC – In what seems to be the first Israeli violation of the truce that came into effect Thursday, Israeli soldiers shot and injured a young Palestinian man near the border fence, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. …
‘Civil disobedience is the only way to go’ — RT
18 November 2011 — ‘Civil disobedience is the only way to go’ — RT
Violent arrests have taken place in New York during a huge anti-Wall Street rally. RT correspondents as well as independent commentators bring the latest from the scene.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has marked its two month anniversary with coast to coast protests. Activists flooded US cities in what they called ‘A Day of Action’, all this as part of the protest against economic inequality.
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 November, 2011: Jerusalem: Explosions, arrests and violence as Israel clears way for settlement activity
14 November 2011 — VTJP
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French Consul and Family wounded in Israeli Attack on Gaza
IMEMC – On Monday, 14 November 2011, the French Consul in the Gaza Strip, Majdi Jameel Yaseen Shaqqoura, 44, his wife and his two children were wounded in an Israeli attack on the Palestinian Navy site in the southwest of Beit Lahia, located in northern Gaza.
Video: Police beat Occupy protesters at Berkeley — RT
10 November — Police beat Occupy protesters at Berkeley (VIDEO) — RT
Demonstrators at the University of California Berkeley were assaulted by police on Wednesday night for failing to leave a peaceful encampment they attempted to establish in solidarity with the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement.
In conjunction with the Occupy protests, demonstrators in Berkeley rallied yesterday against corporate greed and corrupt financial institutions on the historic campus, which was instrumental in the free speech movement of the 1960s. Amanda Armstrong, an organizer of yesterday’s protests, told the school’s Daily Cal paper that the occupation of the campus was also to oppose the increased privatization of the school.
Occupy Wall Street and then the World Newslinks 7-10 November 2011
10 November 2011 — williambowles.info
10 November 2011
Introducing the Robin Hood tax
Links – International journal of socialist renewal Today at 13:09
Notes from a talk at Occupy Wellington on October 29, 2011, to coincide with the #RobinHood global march By Grant Brookes, Tax Justice Campaign (New Zealand)
The campaign for a Robin Hood tax began a little over 18 months ago with a little-noticed launch in London. Supporters from a handful of British charities, faith groups and trade unions projected images onto the Bank of England, in an effort to lobby the British government to introduce a new tax on banks to tackle poverty and climate change. Today, it has become a global movement.
Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 24-25 October 2011
25 October 2011 — williambowles.info
25 October 2011
Brutal arrests at Occupy Oakland
Russiatoday.ruToday at 16:31
Police officers in Oakland, California arrested upwards of 75 protesters early this morning as they launched a crackdown on participants in the local Occupy Wall Street offshoot.
Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 7-8 October 2011
8 October 2011 — williambowles.info
8 October 2011
Occupy Wall Street and the Democratic Party
World Socialist Web Site Today at 10:43
As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its fourth week, the movement confronts increasingly sharp political pressures and choices that center on what its relationship will be to the Democratic Party.
Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 2-4 October 2011
4 October 2011 — williambowles.info
4 October 2011
Obama Machine Prepares To Hijack ‘Occupy Wall Street’
GlobalResearch.ca Today at 22:51
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