CIA
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The best of FAIR’s Blog 29 July 2011
29 July 2011 — Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Here’s some of the week’s best media criticism from the FAIR Blog Obama’s Right-Wing Plan to Win the Center Diallo Speaks: Are There Holes in the ‘DSK Case Crumbles’ Narrative? Tom Friedman’s Radical Center, 2012 Edition For Beck, Norway Shooter Wasn’t Right-Wing–Though His Victims Were ‘Hitler… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Arguing Libya
On July 9 I took part in a demonstration in front of the White House, the theme of which was “Stop Bombing Libya”. The last time I had taken part in a protest against US bombing of a foreign country, which the White House was selling as “humanitarian intervention”, as they are now, was in… Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 28 July 2011
28 July 2011 — williambowles.info Yemen president won’t give up power by force: minister Reuters By Samia Nakhoul LONDON (Reuters) – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who escaped an attempt on his life by opponents, will only cede power through the ballot box and the country will descend into civil war if he is forced… Continue reading
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What WaPo Won’t Tell You About CIA’s Yemen Drone Base By Peter Hart
It obviously makes senses for any White House to want to keep its secret programs under wraps–particularly when there’s a chance that laws are being broken, or civilians are being killed. (Recall that the U.S. Navy launched a cruise missile loaded with cluster bombs into Yemen in 2009, reportedly killing 41 civilians.) It does not… Continue reading
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What WaPo Won't Tell You About CIA's Yemen Drone Base By Peter Hart
It obviously makes senses for any White House to want to keep its secret programs under wraps–particularly when there’s a chance that laws are being broken, or civilians are being killed. (Recall that the U.S. Navy launched a cruise missile loaded with cluster bombs into Yemen in 2009, reportedly killing 41 civilians.) It does not… Continue reading
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The Development of “Privacy Killing Technologies”: A Link to the Murdoch Scandal? By Tom Burghardt
Following revelations earlier this year by The Tech Herald that security firms with close ties to the Pentagon ran black ops for major U.S. banks and corporations, it became clear that proprietary software developed for the military and U.S. intelligence was being used to target Americans. Continue reading
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The Development of "Privacy Killing Technologies": A Link to the Murdoch Scandal? By Tom Burghardt
Following revelations earlier this year by The Tech Herald that security firms with close ties to the Pentagon ran black ops for major U.S. banks and corporations, it became clear that proprietary software developed for the military and U.S. intelligence was being used to target Americans. Continue reading
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War on Libya leaves Africa at a crossroads By J L Samboma
The Horn of Africa is today within the stranglehold of drought and famine. Libya, a significant player in the so-called African Union under any reckoning, is currently under sustained imperialist assault by the Western powers, a mass-murdering adventure led by the first black president of the United States of America. Continue reading
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Student Questions From Tripoli By Franklin Lamb
One thing most foreigners and the local population agree on in western Libya is that there were few signs in early February that eastern Libya would erupt as it did and many are still unclear what and who caused it and why and how. But when half a dozen bright, energetic, nationalistic Libyan under and… 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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Somalia Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Horn of Africa drought: Kenya to open Ifo II camp BBC News Kenya has agreed to open a new refugee camp near its border with Somalia, as thousands are fleeing the region’s worst drought in 60 years. Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the Ifo II camp, which can fit up… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter July 13, 2011: Putin Slams US
July 13, 2011 — Information Clearing House It’s Raining Trillions Why The US Won’t Leave Afghanistan By Pepe Escobar The notion that the US government would spend $10 billion a month just to chase a few “al-Qaeda types” in the Hindu Kush is nonsense. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28565.htm Continue reading
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Ahmad Karzai: From dishwasher to drug kingpin BY Eric Walberg
Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger half-brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, was killed in Kandahar on 12 July during a gathering in his house, according to Kandahar’s Canadian Governor Tooryali Wesa. He was shot in the head and chest with a AK-47 fired by Sardar Mohammad, a former bodyguard to another Karzai brother Qayyoum. Continue reading
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Resources on CIA / Mossad involvement in the assassination of Rafiq Hariri
Came across this extremely comprehensive list of links to stories on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, that I think is worth distributing more widely. Continue reading
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Graphic Video of Libyan Rebel Beheading Gadhaffi Soldier By Susan Lindauer
NATO has been pumping propaganda out of Libya to justify its ‘humanitarian war’ against the government of Moammar Gadhaffi. Until now, NATO has succeeded in large part because ordinary citizens around the world have no access to direct intelligence on which to base their own opinions. As the former CIA Asset who covered Libya at… Continue reading
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This is what empires do By William Bowles
Surely it must be obvious that it’s the act of being there that counts? Occupation, as they say, is nine tenths of the imperial law. Wherever in the world the Empire has gone to ‘install democracy’ or whatever the excuse used to invade, it has stayed, every single time and built bases, hundreds of them… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 17 June 2011: Win a date with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange?
17 June 2011 — williambowles.info BofA says Wikileaks threat details still unknown Reuters …still doesn’t know exactly what damaging documents Wikileaks could have about it, the largest US bank’s chief information officer said on Thursday. “We don’t know what it is,” Bank of America’s Marc Gordon said during a panel discussion about … http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/17/bankofamerica-wikileaks-idUSN1625228420110617 Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks for 16-17 June 2011
16 June 2011 — williambowles.info 17 June Yemeni government says Saleh to return from Saudi Arabia soonReutersAnti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz June 16, 2011. SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, taken to Saudi Arabia for… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 16 June 2011: Obama Financial Suporters Get Top Jobs
16 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House The Revolution Will Not Be Deactualized Oct. 6th: Will Tahrir Square Come to Washington? By Ted Rall Here in the United States, corrupt politicians and their corporate overlords have raped the wealthiest nation in the history of civilization, reducing one out of five Americans to unemployment as the… Continue reading
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