Hezbollah
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Tariq Ali says Assad has to go: I’m depressed – no, I’m outraged By William Bowles
So Tariq Ali thinks it’s time for Assad to go. Once more the Western ‘left’ reveals its true colours. Who needs enemies with a friend like this? Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 5-8 December 2011
8 December 2011 — williambowles.info 8 December 2011 Attack damages Syria oil pipeline BBC News Today at 14:53 A major pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in Syria’s restive Homs province is attacked, activists and the state-run news agency say. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 5 October 2011
5 October 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks: Aoun was ready to dump Hezbollah in 2007 Ya Libnan … Michel Aoun told former US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman in 2007 that he was willing to dissolve his 2006 Memorandum of Understanding with Hezbollah if he receives a better offer, a classified US embassy cable that was leaked by… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 22-28 July 2011
28 July 2011 — williambowles.info Tough bipartisan questioning by Congress of US policy on Syria Los Angeles Times Republican and Democratic members of a House panel complain that the effort to calibrate a message on Syria has failed to make it clear the US stands with protesters against an oppressive regime. By Paul Richter, Los… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 16 July 2011
16 July 2011 — williambowles.info Syria rights group: 41 people were killed in Friday’s protests Ha’aretz By DPA Tags: Syria Bashar Assad Forty-one people were killed in Friday’s mass anti-government protests across Syria that were broken up by security forces using live ammunition, a human rights group said Saturday. The death toll was initially given… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 June, 2011: What’s Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research? Exposing Israel’s Most Dangerous Secret
26 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protesters dismantle section of wall in Bil’in village; 7 injured by Israeli troops IMEMC – Saturday June 25, 2011 – 02:42, Protesters in Bil’in village continued dismantling a section of the Israeli Wall that the Israeli army began removing earlier this week, in accordance… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks for 15 June 2011
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info Turkey Spurns Assistance as Syria’s Attack on Town Forces More to Flee Bloomberg “Maybe this stems from Syria’s special status and Turkey doesn’t want to involve the international community, but this is an international crisis.” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will visit the camps holding Syrian refugees on his country’s… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 7 June 2011
7 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: 500 Baloch and Sindhi separatists in AfghanistanThe Express Tribune PHOTO: AFP A WikiLeaks cable reveals that the Afghan government admitted to hosting about 500 Baloch and Sindhi separatists in a camp in Kandahar. According to the cable, the Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar claimed there is a refugee camp… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 March, 2011: The resurgence of Palestine
20 March, 2011 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli army kills 2 teenagers in Gaza 3/20/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The bodies of two Gaza teenagers were retrieved by Palestinian medics late Sunday morning, after being killed by Israeli fire some 12 hours earlier in the border area east of Gaza City. Medical crews… Continue reading
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Lebanon: Has Hezbollah Outmaneuvered Saad Hariri?
I must say I was also taken by surprise at the pace of events and the relative success THUS FAR of the opposition. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Hezbollah Rockets Cover All of Israel
3 December, 2010 — The Real News Network Gareth Porter: Balance of forces in Middle East has changed with Hezbollah able to “cover entire territory of Israel” with rockets http://therealnews.com/scripts/player/player.swf Follow my videos on vodpod Bio Gareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist on US foreign and military policy analyst. He writes regularly for… Continue reading
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Belén Fernández “Coffee with Hezbollah” A Review By Mary Rizzo
Before reading the wonderful book by Belén Fernández “Coffee with Hezbollah”, I never would have imagined it possible to read about the post-destruction aftermath of Lebanon and smile at the same time. The pretext alone, a hitchhiking trip from Turkey to southern Lebanon simply “feels” dramatic, especially when the memory of Brides on Tour, was… Continue reading
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Franklin Lamb – Completing the task of evicting Israel from Lebanon
Under pressure from the lame duck Bush Administration to withdraw from territory that the Lebanese Resistance (moukawamah Lubnaniyah) did not liberate during its May 2000 rout of the Israel army and its surrogate SLA militia, Israel to date remains unwilling to budge. Continue reading
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Israel – just testing the waters? By William Bowles
From the days of the Balfour Declaration (1914) through to the establishment of Israel in 1948 and then the Suez War in 1956, the Six Day War in 1967 and finally the war of 1973, Israel has proved itself to be a loyal vehicle of Western imperial objectives. That it also has objectives that to… Continue reading
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9/11: the unanswered questions By William Bowles
So the real reason for the invasion of Iraq was 9/11, at least that’s what Donald Rumsfeld, US secretary of defence is now telling us, as the mythological WMDs fade into the background. And will this now be the basis for the next round of ‘revelations’ based on Saddam’s connections to Al-Qu’eda? Wait for it,… Continue reading
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