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Video: Eyewitnesses dismiss rebel advances on Tripoli as misinformation — RT
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumours of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it turns out the shots were fired in celebration at a victory for Gaddafi loyalists. Continue reading
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Leaked Plan of Western Governments for “Post-Gaddafi Libya” By Tom Coghlan
Western governments have helped prepare a blueprint for a post-Gaddafi Libya that would retain much of the regime’s security infrastructure to avoid an Iraq-style collapse into anarchy. Continue reading
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Monday, Monday By S. Artesian
Anyway, now that Standard and Poor’s has pointed out that the standard for credit-worthiness is making almost everybody poorer, Monday should be a very interesting day. Continue reading
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Major police clampdown as riots spread across London and other UK cities By Julie Hyland
As evidence mounts of a police provocation, a concerted campaign is underway by the media and the major political parties to blame the disturbances on ‘copy-cat criminals’ and ‘looters’ with the aim of justifying further state repression. Continue reading
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Britain’s Riots: A Society In Denial Of The Burning Issues By Finian Cunningham
Although the arson attacks on commercial and residential premises do have an element of criminal spontaneity by disparate groups of youths, it is simply delusional for Britain’s political leaders, police forces and the media to claim that it is all a matter of law and order. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 4 August 2011
4 August 2011 — williambowles.info A field commander says Libyan rebels regrouping for major new push toward Tripoli Washington Post (Sergey Ponomarev/Associated Press) – Libyan men eat food after breaking the fast on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with a portrait of Omar Mukhtar, the symbol of the anti-Gadhafi campaign Continue reading
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Report your local anarchist: Network for Police Monitoring
For the time being, holding anarchist sympathies is not a crime – although presumably any gossip, however dubious and ill-informed, will be passed on by borough-level SO15 Counter Terrorism Liaison Officers to the feverish data collectors at the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit. Are the Metropolitan Police simply starting to run low on ‘Islamists’ to… Continue reading
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US-backed forces launch military offensive in Somalia as aid is used as a weapon of war By Susan Garth
African Union forces have launched a military offensive against the al-Shabab militia in Somalia. The African Union is propping up the Transitional Federal Government that was installed by the US-backed Ethiopian invasion of December 2006. Continue reading
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When the revolution comes By Gaither Stewart
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina where I started out my life, I ran into the story of the Asheville-based self-professed Communist writer, Olive Tilford Dargan, of whom I had never heard before. Visiting then her gravesite in the little known Green Hills Cemetery in West Asheville and researching her and her… Continue reading
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The Industrial Revolution: A New History By Pat Hudson
For 200 years the British industrial revolution has been seen largely as a story of the triumph of British science, inventiveness and entrepreneurship, promoted by a progressive liberalisation of markets and the political economy of free trade. Continue reading
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Mothballed Playboy Dictator Recalled to Service By Kim Ives
So we have come full circle. For the first time in 20 years, the bourgeois-grandon alliance, along with the U.S. and France, have a chance to install one of their preferred puppets through an election, however patently bogus, rather than a coup. This is likely why Duvalier is now in Haiti. Continue reading
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The Powers of Manipulation: Islam as a Geopolitical Tool to Control the Middle East By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
As Washington and its cohorts march towards the Eurasian Heartland, they have tried to manipulate Islam as a geo-political tool. They have created political and social chaos in the process. Along the way they have tried to redefine Islam and to subordinate it to the interests of global capital by ushering in a new generation of so-called Islamists,… Continue reading
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Fukushima city: officially safe thanks to new ‘creative’ safety standards — RT
‘What the government did was change the radioactivity control level, the standard levels from 1 millisieverts per year to 20 millisieverts per year. That is, 20 times looser [than] the standards before the accident and now they raised the standards so they can say it was as safe as before, but actually the standards have… Continue reading
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European Spring: The Gradual demise of Capitalism By Gaither Stewart
Rome: It’s an accumulative kind of thing, the demise of capitalism worldwide: at first the waning and the dwindling, now the rapid corkscrew-like downwards spiraling, of greedy, vicious, cannibalistic capitalism busily devouring itself. Today, one can only conclude the imminence of its just demise. Continue reading
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The War on Libya is at a Dangerous Crossroads By Boris Volkhonsky
As the war in Libya is intensifying and NATO is still far from achieving its declared aims, the Alliance is looking for new tricks in order to widen the scope of operations and attract new fresh forces. Continue reading
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KILL BILL 2011: THE ONGOING SABOTAGE OF FINANCIAL REFORM By Danny Schechter
Some years back Thomas Franck nailed it in his book, “The Wrecking Crew.” It was subtitled “How Conservatives Rule” and showed how narrow self-interest and well practiced cynicism in the service of partisan warfare has crippled our political system resulting in a deep paralysis despite the threat of a collapse. Continue reading
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Special Report: Foreign Military Intervention in Libya
NATO has resumed operations over Tripoli, as aircraft launched strikes on the heart of the capital. The renewed bombardment comes after a brief respite that followed the heaviest day of bombing since the campaign began. Continue reading
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