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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 September 2011: Imagine
11 September 2011 — Information Clearing House New American Ally in Somalia: ‘Butcher’ Warlord By David Axe If you thought it was bad that Washington is paying a shady French mercenary to do its dirty work in Somalia, you ain’t seen nothing yet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29097.htm Continue reading
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Gowans: Libya: Imperialism and the Left By Stephen Gowans
The relevant consideration in explaining why interventions occur is not the political orientation of the government under siege, nor its relations with its citizens, but whether it accommodates the profit-making interests of the dominant class in the intervening countries. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 9-11 September 2011
11 September 2011 — williambowles.info 11 September 2011 Germany Participated in Libya War without Parliamentary Approval GlobalResearch.ca Today at 18:03 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 September, 2011: Let's Cancel 9/11 – The tolling of bells, the honoring of first responders etc etc
8 September, 2011 — Information Clearing House September May Bring The Death of the Two-state Solution – and the Jewish State By Carlo Strenger What happens when the Palestinians realize come September that UN recognition doesn’t change their lives, that the settlements continue to expand, and the occupation continues? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29075.htm Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 7-8 September 2011
8 September 2011 — williambowles.info 8 September 2011 Russia’s Middle East dilemma Eric Walberg William Bowles.info Today at 10:30 Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of… Continue reading
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Russia’s Middle East dilemma Eric Walberg
Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of Western-backed regime change in Libya was not just Quixotic but downright stupid. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 7 September, 2011: How Scared of Terrorism Should You Be?
7 September, 2011 — Information Clearing House Israel Better Think Twice By Gilad Atzmon As the rift between Israel and Turkey deepens, the Israeli media is preparing its crowd for another possible exciting bloody conflict. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29058.htm Continue reading
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Video: The Shape of Things to Come in Libya: Interview with Michael Parenti By Sean Thomas
Michael Parenti: Expect the same thing as you saw happened in Yugoslavia and in Eastern Europe. There will be a massive privatization taking place. The public economy that the Gaddafi government had built over 40 years, which included public subsidies for housing, for education, for healthcare — all those things will be privatized. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6-7 September 2011
7 September 2011 — williambowles.info 7 September 2011Lauren Ploch, “Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa” MRZine.org Today at 08:17 As envisioned by the Department of Defense (DOD), AFRICOM aims to promote U.S. strategic objectives and protect U.S. interests in the region by working with African states and… Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 2
On August 23 and 24, the media once again abandoned all pretence of objectivity in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Tripoli, as they had in celebrating the ‘fall’ of Kabul and Baghdad. This, again, was a moment of national triumph, of vindication – the famed concern with ‘balance’ was brushed aside as mean-spirited, even nasty (the… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6 September 2011
6 September 2011 — williambowles.info THE ROVING EYE: Libya: The real war starts now: Asia Times Online Today at NoonAs the Libyan Transitional National Council already behaves like a lame duck and as the militias will simply not vanish, it’s not hard to picture Libya as a new Lebanon, with regions carved up between numerous… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 5 September 2011: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War
5 September 2011 — williambowles.info Libya: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Yesterday at 23:01 Some more updates in spite of the news censorship and communications black out by NATO on Libya Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 1 September 2011: Libya and the world we live in by William Blum
The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”. Continue reading
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Media Lens: To Avert A Bloodbath – Libya And The Press – Part 1
Naturally it is the role of the enlightened West to steer Libya towards democracy. Editors working for the media conglomerate at the heart of the phone hacking police/political corruption scandal – a major attack on democracy and civil rights – presumably perceived no irony in their preaching of ‘democracy, and legal freedoms’. Words that should… Continue reading
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What is going on in Libya? By William Bowles
The BBC is reporting the ‘fall of Tripoli/Gaddafi’ except for ‘mopping up’ “pockets” of resistance. On the other hand, here is a report, including audio that says the opposite Continue reading
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MSM’s Keep Relentlessly Pounding on Gaddafi’s Libya
NATO’s conquest of Libya has taught me the enormous strength of those who control the main stream media. Once you have established a certain ‘paradigm’ or perspective on a particular situation, it is easy to let people stick to that by fueling them with exactly those kinds of words that will prolong the existence of… Continue reading
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The British left spreads misinformation about Libya By Cailean Bochanan
NATO doesn’t look for love letters since the fact that they are psychopaths is fairly well known. The Milne article is addressing a readership which is only too aware of NATO criminal tendencies. But NATO would be delighted that the opposition had concede two fundamental pillars of its propaganda on Libya. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 28, 2011: Al-Qaeda asset leading rebels in Tripoli
28 August 2011 — Information Clearing House How Libya Was Won, by NATO and Special Forces By Stephen Morgan More and more information is now coming to light on the decisive role played by NATO in the fall of Tripoli. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28971.htm Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 28 August 2011
28 August 2011 — williambowles.info Libya’s interim government strengthens grip, says Khamis Qaddafi may be dead Christian Science Monitor The military spokesman for Libya’s interim government said a son of Muammar Qaddafi may have been killed trying to flee Tripoli as the new Libya’s forces extend their grip over the country. By Kristen Chick, Correspondent… Continue reading
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Video: Exiled Libyan monarchy's Role in Fomenting Libyan War
The Libyan monarchy of King Idris, which was based in Benghazi, was installed by the United States and Britain in the 1950’s to oversee their economic and military interests in North Africa. Libya in 1952, under the leadership of King Idris, had among the lowest standard of living in the world. The Idris monarchy was… Continue reading
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