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Covering the Somali famine- of news By William Bowles
Far from being a ‘natural disaster’ events in Somalia can be traced directly to Western intervention, an intervention carried out in at least one hundred indebted economies the world over in the name of ‘structural adjustment’. Continue reading
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World Food Program in Somalia: Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death? By Thomas C. Mountain
To hear the corporate media tell it, the Shabab resistance in Somalia is to blame for the drought and famine. But ten million people are threatened in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia, largely populated by ethnic Somalis, many of whom are at war with the Ethiopian dictatorship. Ethiopia restricts the movements of foreigners in… 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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The Endgame in Libya: Political Settlement or Boots on the Ground
While air war alone cannot win a conflict, NATO has undoubtedly had an impact. The Libyan army’s arsenal of tanks, armored vehicles, rocket launchers and anti-aircraft missiles have been significantly downgraded. Government forces have adapted their tactics to defend themselves against the relentless pounding from the air. The Libyan military is no longer operating out… Continue reading
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Bombs Disguised as “Humanitarian” Gifts: NATO’s Mission
NATO continues to claim that Gaddafi poses a threat to civilians and by intervening they have thwarted another genocide on the scale of Rwanda or the holocaust. Gaddafi’s history belies this claim. 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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NATO War Crimes: Red Cross alarmed by Libya situation, fears worse By Stephanie Nebehay
Health care and food supplies are deteriorating in Libya, but the Gaddafi government has managed to keep paying wages and subsidies in areas under its control, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Continue reading
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Getting Used to Life Without Food: Wall Street, BP, Bio-ethanol and the Death of Millions By F. William Engdahl
Our planet has everything we need to produce nutritious natural food to feed the entire world population many times over. This is the case, despite the ravages of industrialized agriculture over the past half century or more. Then, how can it be that our world faces, according to some predictions, the prospect of a decade… Continue reading
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US looks on Libya as McDonald’s – Gaddafi’s son
USA looks upon Libya as fast food expecting a fast war and a quick victory, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader wanted by the ICC, told RT. But the West will never get what they want, he added. Continue reading
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Media Invited to Inspect U.S. Boat to Gaza Before it Sails
Passengers on the U.S. Boat to Gaza, The Audacity of Hope, invite Greek and international media to inspect The Audacity of Hope at 3 pm Athens time on Thursday, June 30, in the town of Perama (next to Piraeus), 42 Democratis. Continue reading
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Spain: Indignant and Organized: from 15-M to 19-J By David Marty
On May 15th, thousands of people answered a call to “take the streets” against neoliberal economic measures that were being implemented in Spain in the aftermath of the financial crisis. To everyone’s surprise, including organizers and participants[i], 125,000 people “took the streets” filling popular city squares across Spain. Continue reading
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Fukushima is the greatest nuclear and environmental disaster in human history By Steven C. Jones
By way of comparison, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occured in 1986 in the Ukraine, Russia- heretofore the worst nuclear disaster on record- burned for 10 days and cumulatively killed an estimated 1 million people worldwide. The Fukushima, Japan nuclear disaster has 5 nuclear reactors burning, 2 in partial meltdown and 3 in full meltdown-… Continue reading
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Cuba Update, Friday 17 June 2011
17 June 2011 — Cuba Solidarity 50 YEARS OF SOLIDARITY CELEBRATED – REPORT AGM PLANS YEAR AHEAD AND BIDS FAREWELL TO LUIS MARRON USAID REQUESTS PROPOSAL FOR CUBA PROGRAMMES JOSE PERTIERRA TALKS TO RT ABOUT THE MIAMI 5 AND POSADA CARRILES RMT GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER FORTHCOMIng EVENTS NEAR YOU Continue reading
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Media: The Spreading of False Ideologies into our Culture By Steven J. M. Jones
By its own definition it is media’s job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to enable us to make informed decisions in a democratic society. That’s the theory. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables. Continue reading
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Regime Change at the IMF: The Frame-Up of Dominique Strauss-Kahn? By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
The arrest of IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has all the appearances of a frame-up ordered by powerful members of the financial establishment, in liaison with France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, whose presidency has served the interests of the US at the expense of those of France and the European Union. While there is for the moment… Continue reading
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Perspective By Dr. Helen Caldicott
Japan is by orders of magnitude many times worse than Chernobyl. Never in my life did I think that six nuclear reactors would be at risk. I knew that three GE engineers who helped design these Mark I GE reactors, resigned because they knew they were dangerous. Continue reading
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Qaddafi Unplugged and Uncensored: Recollections Of My Life – Mu’ummar Qaddafi
In the West, some have called me “mad,” “crazy,” but they know the truth but continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath… Continue reading
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4.5 Million Orphans in Iraq: Protests Over Food and Shelter
Orphans join Iraq protests over food, shelter. Orphans join protests in Iraq to call for a better standard of living. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Continue reading
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