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Stop NATO news: November 28, 2011: U.S. Drone Strike Kills At Least 39 In Somalia
28 November 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Attack: Pakistan On The Boil Pakistan Buries Soldiers; U.S., NATO Flags, Obama Effigy Burned Pakistan To Completely Review Relations With U.S., NATO Pakistan: Several Thousand Protesters Surround U.S. Consulate In Karachi Hundreds Of NATO Containers Blocked At Crossing Points NATO Supply Line Has Been Cut Permanently: Interior Minister Continue reading
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Narratives under siege: Not feeling safe in your own home
Israeli Occupation Forces often use airstrikes to target fighters in the densely populated Gaza Strip. However, on many occasions such attacks also injure and kill civilians who are in the vicinity of the target. Since the beginning of this year 18 civilians have been killed and 16 have been injured in airstrikes that targeted fighters… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 30 October 2011
30 October 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks & Free Speech MWC News On 28 October 2011 The Age On–line National Times published an article by Julian Assange (editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks) and Jennifer Robinson (a London media and human rights lawyer) about the recent case in which the Australian Federal Court found … http://mwcnews.net/focus/editorial/14470-wikileaks-free-speech.html Continue reading
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America’s Death Pornography Culture: Celebrating brutal deaths of Qaddafi and Saddam By Wayne MADSEN
The United States government and military revels in death and pornographic intimidation. The videos and photographs of howling Iraqis celebrating the hanging of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein after his U.S.-administered kangaroo court trial in Iraq and the physical abuse, alleged sodomizing, and execution of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi by NATO-armed and directed rebels after his convoy… Continue reading
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America’s Death Pornography Culture: Celebrating brutal deaths of Qaddafi and Saddam By Wayne MADSEN
The United States government and military revels in death and pornographic intimidation. The videos and photographs of howling Iraqis celebrating the hanging of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein after his U.S.-administered kangaroo court trial in Iraq and the physical abuse, alleged sodomizing, and execution of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi by NATO-armed and directed rebels after his convoy… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 20 October, 2011: 'One Super-corporation Runs the Global Economy'
20 October, 2011 — Information Clearing House Video: Muammar Gaddafi Killed in Gun Battle NTC military chief says toppled leader died of wounds following capture near his hometown of Sirte. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29465.htm Continue reading
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Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as U.S. Tightens Military Grip on Continent
Africa, under President Obama, is an expanding theater of war for the United States. There are few points on the African map where the U.S. military does not operate, independently, through proxies, or by agreement with local governments and militaries. AFRICOM has penetrated the armed forces of the continent to a degree no single European… Continue reading
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The imperialist rape of Libya By John Pilger
The Observer, which has yet to apologise for its catastrophic promotion of Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, is in thrall to the ‘honourable intervention’ of Sarkozy and Cameron and their ‘humanitarian and emotional’ motives. Continue reading
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The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War By Greg Lindsay
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect: Predator drones are just the start of unmanned, autonomous warfare technology. But as the tech becomes more democratized and more deadly, what happens when anyone can assemble an army of killing machines? Continue reading
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Murder By Video Game And ‘Bug Splats’: CIA Drone War In Pakistan By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
They call it ‘bug splat’, the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike. To those manning the consoles in Nevada, it signifies ‘suspected militants’ who have just been ‘neutralised’; to those on the ground, in most cases, it represents a family that has been shattered, a home… 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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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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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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World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia: So U.S. Sends in the Marines and Drones
A U.S. Marine task force is about to be deployed in the war against Somalia, where American drones are stepping up their predations. For the second time in four years, U.S. aggression threatens the lives of multitudes in the Horn of Africa. ‘A United Nations spokesman describes the food and refugee emergency in Somalia as… Continue reading
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Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare By Rick Rozoff
Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia. Continue reading
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Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare By Rick Rozoff
Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 July, 2011: Africa will not execute Gaddafi warrant: African Union summit
2 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House Should Libya Retaliate Against NATO Nations? Libya Can Sting Europe Like ‘Swarm of Bees’: Kadhafi By Hassen Jouini “The Libyan people are capable, one day, of taking the battle to Europe and the Mediterranean” region, Kadhafi said in the message, as thousands of supporters massed in the landmark Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 29-30 June 2011
30 June 2011 — williambowles.info Yemeni VP unsure about Saleh’s return. CNN Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) — The Yemeni government has lost control over five provinces, and security in the country is deteriorating, the nation’s acting president told CNN in an exclusive interview Wednesday. In his first interview with a Western TV network … http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/29/yemen.vice.president/ Continue reading
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