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The Powers of Manipulation: Islam as a Geopolitical Tool to Control the Middle East By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
As Washington and its cohorts march towards the Eurasian Heartland, they have tried to manipulate Islam as a geo-political tool. They have created political and social chaos in the process. Along the way they have tried to redefine Islam and to subordinate it to the interests of global capital by ushering in a new generation of so-called Islamists,… Continue reading
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Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy By Michael Parenti
Why has the United States government supported counterinsurgency in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and many other places around the world, at such a loss of human life to the populations of those nations? Why did it invade tiny Grenada and then Panama? Why did it support mercenary wars against progressive governments in Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola,… Continue reading
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Punishing Pakistan and Challenging China By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Following along the same lines as the dismantling of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the destabilization of Pakistan is aimed at wider strategic objectives for the Western imperial powers: namely, the isolation of China. Continue reading
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The War Against Libya By Cynthia McKinney
At a time when the American people have been asked to tighten their belts, teachers are receiving pink slips, the vital statistics of the American people reveal a health care crisis in the making, and the U.S. government is in serious threat of default, our President and Congress have decided that a new war, this… Continue reading
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Journalism as a Weapon of War in Libya By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The truth has been turned on its head in Libya. NATO and the Libyan government are saying contradictory things. NATO says that the Libyan regime will fall in a matter of days, while the Libyan government says that the fighting in Misrata will end in about two weeks. Continue reading
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Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
According to The Journal’s article, the ‘rebels’ refer to themselves as ‘the brigade for purging slaves, black skin.’ The Journal quotes a rebel commander Ibrahim al-Halbous saying, of Black Libyans, ‘They should pack up,’ and that ‘Tawergha no longer exists, only Mistrata.’ Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 26-27 June 2011
27 June 2011 17:48:59 — williambowles.info 27 June 2011 Mathaba: Libya: An Uncertain Future: “Libya: An Uncertain Future Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Today at 17:00 Libya: An Uncertain Future Report of a Fact Finding Mission to assess both sides of the Libyan conflict more… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 24-25 June 2011
25 June 2011 — williambowles.info 25 June 2011 SCF: 15 killed in NATO air raid in Brega: Libya TV Mathaba: The Libyan Crisis: Italy Humiliates NATO Global Research: 15 killed in NATO air raid in Brega: Libya TV williambowles.info: Graphic Video of Libyan Rebel Beheading Gadhaffi Soldier By Susan Lindauer SCF: House Votes Not to… Continue reading
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The Plan to Destabilize Syria By Thierry Meyssan
The project to break up these two States simultaneously was initially brought up by John Bolton on 6 May 2002 when he was serving as Undersecretary of State in the Bush administration. It’s implementation by the Obama administration nine years down the line – in the context of the Arab Awakening – is not without… Continue reading
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Nebraska Nuclear Threat: As Predictable as Fukushima By Washington’s Blog
Nuclear accidents – like oil spills and financial meltdowns – happen because big companies push to make more money by cutting every safety measure in the books. The accident at Fukushima was predictable. 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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Radiation and Nuclear Powers Stations Japan is dangerously contaminated by radioactivity By Washington’s Blog
“With Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and now with Fukushima, you can pinpoint the exact day and time they started,” he said, “But they never end.” Continue reading
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Fukushima and the Mass Media Meltdown: The Repercussions of a Pro-Nuclear Corporate Press By Keith Harmon Snow
A sociological and technological discussion — in the wake of the out-of-control nuclear apocalypse in Japan — addressing the compromise of public health and security created by the failure of the western corporate mass media to equitably report on, mildly investigate, or even moderately challenge, the nuclear power industry. Continue reading
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Escalated War in Libya; New War in Syria? Selected Articles
21 June 2011 — Global Research Towards a World War III Scenario. New E-Book from Global Research Publishers – by Michel Chossudovsky – 2011-06-30 A fourth war theater has opened up in North Africa, which raises the issue of escalation over a vast geographical area. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20-21 June 2011
21 June 2011 17:21:06 — williambowles.info 21 June 2011 Global Research: Foreign Policy Experts Urge House Republicans to Support U.S. Operations in Libya BBC: VIDEO: Libyan TV shows helicopter wreckage Stop Nato: Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 21, 2011 Mathaba: Report of Events in Libya from February 2011 which led to the War BBC: PM… Continue reading
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9/11 and the Orwellian Redefinition of "Conspiracy Theory" By Paul Craig Roberts
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps. Continue reading
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Economic and Social Catastrophe: Spain’s “Indignados” Wherever you focus in Europe you hear the same cries of indignation By Pablo Ouziel
While “Europe’s slow-motion financial collapse” – as Mother Jones magazine described it in a June 6th article – continues to unravel, Spain, like other European states continues to implement anti-social-neo-liberal policies with strong opposition from the citizenry. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 15 June Part 2
16 June 2011 — williambowles.info RT: No evidence that half of Libya is controlled by rebels – former governor Mathaba: NATO attacks ordinary Libyans at petrol pump Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 16 June 2011
17 June 2011 — williambowles.info 17 June 2011 Morning Star: West blocks Libya peace resolution Morning Star: Politicians sue Obama over war Global Research: The War on Libya: Canada’s Parliament Endorses Military Escalation Continue reading