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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 20, 2011
20 August 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Eyes Early Missile Interception Capability 30-Story, 50,000-Ton U.S. Interceptor Missile Radar Deployed After Repairs Joint Strike Fighters: Australia’s Largest Military Build-Up Since WW II Most Combat Deaths Since Second World War: Poland Loses 28th Soldier In NATO’s Asian War NATO’s 2011 Death Toll Reaches 400 Statue Of Liberty… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 14, 2011
14 August 2011 — Stop NATO Turkey May Join NATO Action Against Syria Egypt Launches Large-Scale Military Operation In North Sinai New U.S. AFRICOM Services Battalion Joins Marine, Special Warfare Units Pentagon Prepares For Prospective War With China Arctic: Canada Flexes Its Military Muscle, Puts Russia On Alert Fall Of The Last Superpower In A… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 6, 2011
6 August 2011 — Stop NATO Media Coalition: NATO, Israel Breached Geneva Convention, Security Council Resolution NATO ‘Protects’ Libyan Civilians By Killing Them U.S. Navy Drone Shot Down Along Libyan Coast U.S. Marines Extend Counterinsurgency Front From Black To Caspian Sea Afghanistan: Four Killed In Anti-NATO Rally Georgia: U.S. Marines And Machine Guns New Japanese… Continue reading
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South Africa Tells Exactly Why It Is Terrified Of A Walmart-Massmart Merger
The sheer scale of Walmart’s international operations made government’s intervention necessary. Walmart’s revenue is estimated to be $408 billion – larger than South Africa’s GDP. In 2004, Walmart, if it was measured as a country, would have been China’s 8th largest trade partner and would have a GDP larger than 75% of countries worldwide. In… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 2 August 2011
2 August 2011 — williambowles.info Libyan Rebels Wage ‘Mad Max’ War In The Mountains NPR by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro The sleepy towns in the Western Mountains of Libya come to life right before the country’s rebels engage in a fight with the forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The mostly deserted roads suddenly fill with… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 30, 2011
30 July 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Armored Vehicle Kills Child, Injures Seven Other Afghans Mongolia: U.S. Leads NATO, Asian NATO Allies In Military Exercise America’s Africa Partnership Station In East Africa Call To Expand American Counterinsurgency Operations In Philippines U.S. Military To Be Based In Australia To Confront China U.S. Could Upgrade Polish Warships… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks documents shed light on US-backed intervention in Libya By Robert Morgan
US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks expose some of the real reasons and diplomatic tensions behind NATO’s ongoing bombardment of Libya. Far from initiating a ‘humanitarian’ intervention to protect civilians against Muammar Gaddafi’s government, Washington backed the NATO intervention for one reason only—the installation of a regime that better serves the strategic interests of the… Continue reading
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Alexander Salitski – No Point in Discarding State Capitalism (I)
Last June, Russia’s series of investment forums presented Moscow with an opportunity to unveil plans for a serious correction of its economic policies, and what seems to be at the bottom line is a radical departure from the concept of state capitalism. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 26, 2011
26 July 2011 — Stop NATO Libya Accuses NATO Of Bombing Hospital, Killing Seven People NATO-ASEAN Partnership Against China? U.S. Central Command Gets Own Spy Satellite For Greater Middle East War Zones Georgia: U.S. Marines Lead Counterinsurgency Training NATO Blackmails Turkey Over Chinese, Russian Air Defense Systems British Attack Helicopter Injures Five Afghan Children Afghanistan:… Continue reading
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NATO War on Libya in an Impasse: Another take on Libya Hubris for China By Peter Lee
Western self-regard was on full display in a United States headline describing the Libya Contact Group confab in Istanbul over the weekend. It read: World leaders open Libya talks in Turkey. Well, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was there. Much-diminished leaders of 19th-century world powers Britain and France – and first millennium world power… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 21-23 July 2011
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info 23 July 2011 Why Murdoch is Not a Fit and Proper Person Craig Murray Today at 12:21 craigHateful lying racist propaganda. That’s the real reason. Continue reading
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Pakistan vs the US: Moving on By Eric Walberg
The latest Mumbai bombings were not obviously the work of Pakistani extremists, but reflect the unrest thanks to America’s continued reckless policies of escalation in the region, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter July 21, 2011: Banks to Pay $25 Billion Bribe For Immunity
21 July 2011 — Information Clearing House Headless Corpse, Mass Grave and Worrying Questions About Libya’s Rebel Army By Ruth Sherlock, Al-Qawalish The five corpses floated disfigured and bloating in the murky bottom of the water tank. Wearing green soldiers’ uniforms, the men lay belly down, decomposing in the putrid water. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28645.htm Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 21, 2011
21 July 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s Four-Month Bombing Campaign Has Cost Libya $50 Billion Romanian Warship Returns From NATO Libyan Blockade Mission Afghan War: At Least 1,560 U.S. Soldiers Killed, Almost 13,000 Injured Pakistan: This Year’s Death Toll From U.S. Drone Strikes Over 400 NATO Chief: Military Cuts ‘Will Leave China As World’s Policeman’… Continue reading
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How Has Murdoch Improved With Age? By Russ Baker
Here’s an old article that WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker wrote about Rupert Murdoch, the media titan whose News Corp is currently the focus of so much controversy. This ran in the Columbia Journalism Review in 1998. But it is useful for comparing the company’s (non-hacking) practices, then and now. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 15, 2011
15 July 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s Air War In Libya: 15,193 Sorties, 5,721 Strike Missions Venezuela Condemns NATO’s Military Aggression Against Libya Britain Deploys Warship For NATO Libyan Operations China, Russia Refuse To Attend Libya Contact Group Meeting In Turkey Clinton In Turkey: U.S. Missile System In Turkey – Or Caucasus? Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 12 July 2011
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info Syria beefs up security at embassies after attacks The Associated Press Mobs broke windows at both embassies Monday to protest a visit last week by the American and French ambassadors to the opposition stronghold of Hama in central Syria. The French Foreign Ministry said three embassy workers were injured. …… Continue reading
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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 July 2011: China / NATO / Nazism / Canada / Lithuania
8 July 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation No Point in Discarding State Capitalism (I) 08.07.2011 | 15:42 | Alexander SALITZKI It is common knowledge that the past three decades highlighted the fundamental advantages of modern Asia’s pattern of economic progress. The pattern can be defined as a combination of the modernization imperative and the practice… Continue reading
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Punishing Pakistan and Challenging China By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Following along the same lines as the dismantling of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the destabilization of Pakistan is aimed at wider strategic objectives for the Western imperial powers: namely, the isolation of China. Continue reading
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