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Wikileaks Newslinks 9 July 2013
9 July 2013 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks trial opens with leaked video of US helicopter attack CTV News FORT MEADE, Md. — Lawyers for a U.S. Army soldier who gave thousands of classified documents to the secrets-spilling website WikiLeaks opened their defence at his trial Monday with leaked video of a helicopter attack in Baghdad — footage that … http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/wikileaks-trial-opens-with-leaked-video-of-u-s-helicopter-attack-1.1358287 Continue reading
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The BBC and Iraq Ten Years On By David McQueen
The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq was marked in Baghdad with a wave of deadly bombings that killed at least sixty people and injured over two hundred. In Britain the anniversary brought on a wave of retrospectives and handwringing recollections by the likes of the BBC’s John Simpson. Simpson and other media pundits… Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Iraq War, Ten Years Later: ‘In a Few Days We’re Gonna Own That Country’
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the bombing and invasion of Iraq. The war could not have proceeded as it did without the support of a compliant, servile press corps. Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Iraq War, Ten Years Later: 'In a Few Days We're Gonna Own That Country'
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the bombing and invasion of Iraq. The war could not have proceeded as it did without the support of a compliant, servile press corps. Continue reading
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Iraqi Children: Deprived Rights, Stolen Future By Bie Kentane
This report will focus on the violations by the occupying forces and the Iraqi government of the Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, (ICRC) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Continue reading
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Iraq and the Betrayal of a People – Impunity Forever? By Hans Christof Von Sponeck
Ethnic tension and sectarianism have become a major element in Iraqi politics since the US/UK invasion of 2003, a polarization of inter-group relations Iraqis had not known before. This explains much of the existing hideous crime including murder, kidnapping, property destruction and, most noteworthy, the deteriorating relationships between Baghdad and the three northern Kurdish governorates. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 February 2013: Prisoner in Israeli isolation for 2 years ‘forgets speech’
17 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center ‘Anonymous’ hacks 600,000 Israeli email accountsIMEMC – In the latest action targeting Israel, the international computer hacking network known as ‘Anonymous’ has claimed credit for publishing the personal information, including encrypted passwords, of over 600,000 Israelis as part of its ‘Operation Israel (#OpIsrael) on Friday. … Continue reading
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WikiLeaks accuses Oxford Union of “censorship” By Xin Fan
WikiLeaks has accused the Oxford Union of “censor[ing]” footage of Julian Assange’s address to the debating society in January. It alleged on Twitter that the Union had replaced the backdrop of the video, which was personally selected by Assange, with a plain still of the Oxford Union logo Continue reading
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The 2006 Mass Murder of Iraqi Civilians by US Forces. Evidence of Unspeakable War Crimes By By Mayyasa Abduljabbar & Dirk Adriaensens
We bring to the attention of our readers this study on the 2006 Al Ishaqi massacre in Iraq, where eleven innocent civilians including five children were massacred by US occupation forces. The Pentagon immediately proceeded in portraying the massacre as part of an operation directed against Al Qaeda militants. Continue reading
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Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide By Felicity Arbuthnot
Then Secretary of State James Baker’s vow to: “reduce Iraq to a pre-industrial age” was being minutely executed over what was to become a forty three day blitz, which morphed in to a thirteen year, vicious, murderous, one sided war of attrition and ultimately illegal invasion and occupation. Continue reading
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Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of America’s Death Squads By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support of terror brigades and targeted assassinations going back to the Vietnam war. Continue reading
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ICH 21 November 2012: Jimmy Carter – Israelis don’t want a Palestinian state
21 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Breaking News Gaza Ceasefire Agreed in Cairo Ceasefire takes effect By Aljazeera Israel and Hamas agree to truce after eight days of attacks in which 162 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed. http://is.gd/XP9tr1 Continue reading
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NSA 12 October 2012: New Book – U.S.-Iran: Lessons from an Earlier War
12 October 2012 — National Security Archive New Book–Becoming Enemies–Explores Roots of the Current Crisis with IranEx-Officials’ Candid Accounts & Declassified Documents Provide Fresh Details, Illuminate Ongoing HostilityEdited by Malcolm Byrne Continue reading
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9th April: Iraq, Massacre of a Country By Felicity Arbuthnot
America’s 2003 assault on Iraq, already devastated by thirteen years of sanctions, infrastructure destruction consequently unrepaired from the 1991 bombing was, in the ridiculous annals of names the US military gives to their slaughter-fests, entitled: “Shock and Awe.” Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 15 March 2012
15 March 2012 — williambowles.info UN expert criticizes Manning’s harsh detention NECN Juan Mendez said in a report to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council that the US military‘s “seriously punitive” detention of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has not been found guilty of any crime, is also “a violation of his right to physical and Continue reading
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Iraq: Twenty One Years of Crimes Against Humanity By Felicity Arbuthnot
With current US-led plans to remodel (read annihilate) the remaining Middle East, the 1991, twenty eight country attack on Iraq’s just 27 million people, where, arguably it all started, has largely dropped from Western consciousness, though certainly not that of Iraqis. Continue reading
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Attack Iran? Nuclear Insanity: "We have the Capability to Take the World Down with Us" by Felicity Arbuthnot
Iran: We have been here before. The year before the assault on and near destruction of unarmed neighbouring Iraq, George W. Bush, of course declared the ‘Axis of Evil’, Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 December 2011: Are We Living in a Fool's Paradise?
22 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Pakistan Needs to Declare Its Independence By Yasmeen Ali Pakistan lies ravaged, with her economy destroyed, thanks to the country’s deep involvement in the “War on Terror.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30055.htm Continue reading
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