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Syria Newslinks 5 August 2011
5 August 2011 — williambowles.info Syrian unrest charges Lebanese tinderbox Asia Times Online Today at Noon The protests and violent counter-protests in Syria are echoed in Tripoli, the second-largest city in Lebanon and a microcosm of the treacherous field of Lebanese politics. Recent clashes in the city show that sectarianism remains a tinderbox, with the Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 3 August 2011
3 August 2011 — williambowles.info Death Toll Mounts in Syria as UN Debates Resolution Voice of America August 03, 2011 Death Toll Mounts in Syria as UN Debates Resolution VOA News Syrian security forces have intensified their bloody siege against anti-government protesters, sending the three-day death toll above 130 as President Bashar al-Assad’s … http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Death-Toll-Mounts-in-Syria-as-UN-Debates-Resolution-126653473.html Continue reading
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ColdType, August 2011
27 July 2011 — www.coldtype.net In this month’s 64-page COLDTYPE MAGAZINECover story this month is Jonathan Cook’s article about Israeli government actions that are stripping away freedoms of expression from its increasingly-polarised citizens. You won’t want to miss Trevor Grundy’s account of four elderly Kenyans who are causing severe embarrassment to the British government with Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 26 July 2011
26 July 2011 — williambowles.info 12 suspected Qaeda militants killed in south Yemen DAWN.com File Photo by AP ADEN: Twelve suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in overnight bombings and clashes near Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province in south Yemen, a military officer and a local official said on Tuesday. “The Yemeni air force Continue reading
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Pakistan vs the US: Moving on By Eric Walberg
The latest Mumbai bombings were not obviously the work of Pakistani extremists, but reflect the unrest thanks to America’s continued reckless policies of escalation in the region, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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New a Strategic Culture Foundation 7-15 July 2011: Afghanistan / Syria / India / USA / Tunisia /
16 July 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Wali Karzai Assassination and Its Consequences 15.07.2011 | 12:00 | Najmuddin A. SHAIKH What is not contested is that Ahmad Wali’s untimely death will add another layer of high uncertainty to the political and administrative turbulence that now prevails in Afghanistan. Ahmad Wali was indisputably, from the Continue reading
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Pakistan, the Army and the Conflict Within By Pervez Hoodhboy, Zia Mian
The single most important change needed is that the army must stop seeing everything through the prism of competition and war with India. Six decades of this policy has left Pakistan exhausted and indifferent to its own suffering. Continue reading
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SCO vs Bilderberg: Where are the real decisions being made? By Eric Walberg
As the Western elite gathered in picturesque St Moritz to grapple with pressing world crises, the outsiders met in the bleak steppes of Central Asia, writes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nic Robertson By Jay Janson
Nic Robertson and Anderson Cooper are surely aware of their achievement in promoting the human carnage of civil war and the destruction of a beautifully well-kept and prosperous nation, the 53rd highest developed country in the world with free health care and education. A standard of living that was higher than nine European nations, including… Continue reading
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Wikileaks 20 June 2011
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks critical of NYT, Guardian Business Spectator WikiLeaks believes it is changing the fundamental nature of journalism, spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson has said, according to a report on Technology Spectator. Speaking at an event hosted by the University of Sydney and Sydney Ideas on Friday, … http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Wikileaks-critical-of-NYT-Guardian-pd20110620-HYVE7?OpenDocument&src=hp9 Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-18 June 2011: Afghanistan | SCO | USA | Pakistan | Iran | India | Russia
18 June 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Will Pay-for-Peace Work in Afghanistan? 18.06.2011 | 00:34 | Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India) …Can international community play a meaning role in the post-NATO Taliban? It will depend on how the regional and international powers formulate their policies while respecting mutual differences. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has taken a positive Continue reading
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Low-End High Design and the Butterfly Effect By Greg Lindsay
In 2004, MediaTek sold 3 million of its chips [3]; six years later, its sales had soared to 500 million, more than a third of the worldwide market. Nearly half of those went to shanzhai. The sudden ability to design, manufacture, and ship millions of dirt-cheap handsets in total secrecy led to an explosion in… Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info NATO: Time to plan for post-Gadhafi Libya CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: “We will keep up the pressure for as long as it takes.” (CNN) — It is time to start planning for what to do in Libya after leader Moammar Gadhafi’s Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: India told US to beware of Pakistan’s ‘game’ in Afghanistan The Express Tribune A WikiLeaks cable filed by US Political Counselor Uzra Zeya in New Delhi in February last year contains details of his meeting with YK Sinha, India’s A/S equivalent for Afghanistan. The US diplomat wrote: Sinha told Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 7, 2011
7 June 2011 — Stop NATO 81-Day War Against Libya: Over 10,000 NATO Sorties Video And Text: NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli Eurasian Heartland: U.S. Breathes Life Into New Cold War Strait Of Malacca: U.S. To Establish New Base In Singapore U.S. To Expand Military Presence In Asia: Gates Largest-Ever U.S.-India Military Deal Indian Ocean: Continue reading
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M.K.Bhadrakumar (India) – Caveats in the Yemeni narrative
The Arab Spring has finally become beastly, marching stealthily and devouring a third dictator in the Middle East when it all but seemed that the region was lapsing back to its bad old ways of autocratic rule. Continue reading
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In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice By Pankaj Mishra
At a dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose centenary falls this year, wrote: “We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton”. Continue reading
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Pakistan in Pieces, Part 1: Imperial Eye on Pakistan by Andrew Gavin Marshall
As the purported assassination of Osama bin Laden has placed the focus on Pakistan, it is vital to assess the changing role of Pakistan in broad geostrategic terms, and in particular, of the changing American strategy toward Pakistan. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 25 May 2011
25 May 2011 — williambowles.info India’s political prince battles criticism The Associated Press But a series of electoral setbacks, an embarrassing Wikileaks revelation and his accusation, without proof, that police killed and raped protesting farmers in an opposition-led state has left some questioning whether Gandhi has the skill, experience or … www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gH2qSjjuKQfi4TAGVxPrc40jUs3g?docId=cfc298d0e4064664994e0e6582e5ee15 Continue reading
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Stop NATO News March 31, 2011
31 March 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: March 31 NATO Troops Kill Three Afghan Civilians, Wound Four More Top Military Commander: NATO Commands 50-Nation Army For Afghan War, NATO Members Need To Spend More On Military Afghan War Leaves 103 NATO Soldiers Dead In Three Months Pentagon’s Strategic Priorities: Cyberwarfare, Missile Shield, Continue reading
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