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WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil
Kevin Hall of McClatchy Newspapers reports that on April 20 the big Italian oil company Eni put off its deal with Gazprom, the big Russian oil company, connected to its president, Vladimir Putin, put off a deal that would have given Gazprom a big stake in Libyan oil. That’s been an objective of US foreign… Continue reading
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Franklin Lamb: Israelis Rush for Second Passports
Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepared to exercise their… Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news 29 May, 2011: U.S. To Modernize Its Nuclear Weapons In Europe
29 May, 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan Air War: Almost 8,800 NATO Sorties, Over 3,300 Combat Missions Afghan Officials: NATO Air Strike Kills At Least 12 Children, Four Women U.S. To Modernize Its Nuclear Weapons In Europe Bulgarian Defense Minister To NATO: Need U.S. Interceptor Missiles New Strategic Concept: NATO Must Back Arab “Revolutions,” Train Continue reading
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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 27 May 2011
27 May 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Visegrad Bloc 27.05.2011 | 17:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH (Ukraine) The countries of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) on the 12th of May announced their intention to create a new military bloc, which by the year 2016 might turn into a full-fledged organization, Continue reading
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Spain’s Tahrir Embracing Egypt’s Tahrir
Placa Tahrir Placa Catalonia in Barcelona. The white sign underneath says it all: “Tunisia, Egypt, Libya! One struggle, ONE fight.” Continue reading
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Obama, hands off our spring By Soumaya Ghannoushi
The first wave of Arab revolutions is entering its second phase: dismantling the structures of political despotism, and embarking on the arduous journey towards genuine change and democratisation. The US, at first confused by the loss of key allies, is now determined to dictate the course and outcome of this ongoing revolution. Continue reading
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Obama Claims To Reset The Imperial Clock By Glen Ford
Since when does the leader of an empire voluntarily “reset” to become a non-interfering power? Never. President Obama’s speech, last week, was mainly geared to maintaining U.S. supremacy in the Mideast and North Africa following the shock of the Arab Reawakening. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 23 May, 2011: The U.S.: Where Europe Comes to Slum
23 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House Killing Our Way To Defeat Obama’s Private Killing Machine By Frontline – PBS They’re known as “JSOC” — Joint Special Operations Command. They report directly to the president and, “operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directive.” John Nagl, a former counterinsurgency adviser Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: 23 May, 2011: NATO To Deploy Attack Helicopters For Libyan War
23 May 2011 — Stop NATO Libya: Nearly 8,000 NATO Air Missions, Over 3,000 Combat Flights NATO To Deploy Attack Helicopters For Libyan War U.S. Missiles In Europe Can Fuel New Arms Race: Russian Military Chief Four NATO Soldiers Killed In Eastern Afghanistan U.S. Drone Attack Kills At Least Four In Pakistan United Arab Emirates Continue reading
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Spain Newslinks 19-22 May 2011
22 May 2011 — williambowles.info 22 May 2011 BBC: Spanish polls open amid protests Spain is voting in regional elections overshadowed by mass protest rallies in cities across the country.” Elections in Spain underway after massive protests His government has been squeezed by Spain’s 21% unemployment rate, the highest in Western Europe, and a financial Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: 20 May, 2011
20 May 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: May 20 Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts U.S. Missile System In Europe Real Threat To Russia: Generals Russian Chief Of Staff: Nuclear Parity With U.S. Could Be Disrupted Missile Shield: Security Sphere Can Be Rolled Back To Reagan Era – Russian President Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: 17 May, 2011
17 May 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: May 17, 2011 Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts NATO Helicopter Attack Wounds Two Pakistani Soldiers U.S. Drone Strikes Kill 238 Pakistani Civilians So Far This Year Two NATO Oil Tankers Destroyed In Pakistan Afghanistan: NATO Loses Two More Soldiers Interceptor Missiles In Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: 10 April, 2011
10 April, 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: April 10 United Arab Emirates: NATO’s Outpost In Persian Gulf Pakistan: Mass Protest Against NATO Threat To Libya, World Peace Ivory Coast: French Helicopters Attack Presidential Residence Peru: Humala Wins First Round Of Presidential Elections Afghanistan: NATO’s Yearly Death Toll Rises To 121 Pacific Command Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: 10 April, 2011
10 April, 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: April 10 United Arab Emirates: NATO’s Outpost In Persian Gulf Pakistan: Mass Protest Against NATO Threat To Libya, World Peace Ivory Coast: French Helicopters Attack Presidential Residence Peru: Humala Wins First Round Of Presidential Elections Afghanistan: NATO’s Yearly Death Toll Rises To 121 Pacific Command Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 9 April 2011
9 April 2011 — Stop NATO NATO, Recolonization Of Africa, BRICS And Silent Lambs Post-Cold War NATO Expansion: No Neutrals Left In Europe U.S. Considers Sending Ground Troops To Libya Libya, AFRICOM And The U.S. Scramble For Africa After Libya And Ivory Coast, Obama Condemns Syria Western Nations Must Abandon Illusion Of World Domination Libyan Continue reading
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Towards the Conquest of Africa: The Pentagon's AFRICOM and the War against Libya By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
AFRICOM’s main objective is to secure the African continent for the U.S. and its allies. Its mission is to help secure a new colonial order in Africa that the U.S. and its allies are working to establish. In many ways this is what the military intervention in Libya is all about. The recent London Conference… Continue reading
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Libya Conflict Highlights NATO’s Imperialist Mission By Joseph Gerson
Having launched its Libyan regime change war to oust the Qaddafi dictatorship from the United States’ German-based Africa Command, the Obama administration this week arranged to continue its air war under cover of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance. Continue reading
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Europeans against austerity cuts: thousands clash with police in Brussels — RT
A new threat to the euro overshadowed Libya and other issues at an EU summit in Brussels. A possible international bail-out for Portugal dominated talks, while nearby, police used water cannons to disperse crowds protesting against austerity cuts. Continue reading
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