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Northern Ireland 1972: A ‘model’ of sectarian ‘divide & rule’ By Tony Gosling
The secret Military Reaction Force (MRF) was tasked with conducting plainclothes ‘drive-by’ shootings of Republican IRA suspects. Revelations about the British Army’s collusion with Loyalist terrorists during the Northern Ireland ‘troubles’ went one step further this week with TV testimony from former soldiers that they had been part of a secret unit. Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 May 2013
1 May 2013 — williambowles.info Pirate Party gains three seats in Iceland’s parliament CBS News Physically isolated near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the world’s most wired countries and has been a hub for the online secret-spilling group WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir has worked with WikiLeaks in the past. In 2011 the country announced it would crowd Continue reading
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Silencing the British People: The Legacy of Thatcherism and the Iraq War By Jason Langley
February 2003 saw the largest political protest in British history. An estimated two million Britons took to the streets of London as part of a wider global movement to march against the looming Iraq war. The protest united people of all ages, ethnicities, faiths and political persuasions. The noise was deafening. A rolling forest of… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 March 2013:
17 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center EU Grants P.A €20.8 To Pay Salaries, PensionsIMEMC – The European Union (EU) has granted the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank approximately €2.8 so that it can pay pensions and salaries to nearly 82.000 retired persons, and government employees, in the West Bank and the Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 February 2013: Israeli government gives convicted murderer 1.3 million for illegal takeover of Palestinian land
14 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center HRW: “Israel Violated International Law During Gaza War”IMEMC – Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Israel’s airstrikes against the Gaza Strip in the most recent war on Gaza in November of last year violated International laws of war, as the Israeli army bombarded areas that had Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 5 December 2012: Justice, Peace and the Israeli State
5 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Indonesian Parliament Head Arrives In GazaIMEMC – Indonesian Parliament head, Ali Marzouki, arrived in the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Border Terminal on Wednesday heading a senior Indonesian delegation to observe the massive destruction caused by Israel during its recent war on Gaza, and to express Continue reading
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ICH 13 November 2012: Video: Confirmed: CIA Was Holding “Prisoners” at Benghazi Annex
13 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu: Engineering Consent For An Attack On Gaza Video Netanyahu: We’ll take whatever action is necessary to put a stop to this. This is not merely our right, it’s also our duty, and it’s something that I think is understood by any fair-minded person in any fair-minded government in the Continue reading
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Media Lens: Why Are We The Good Guys? By David Cromwell
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that ‘we’ are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that ‘the West’… Continue reading
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ColdType, September 2012: Herman / Solomon / Schecter et al
Cover story is The Internment of Marian Price, Eamonn McCann’s tale of the strange affair of Marian Price, a gravely-ill former IRA bomber, who has been detained by the British government. The story says much about the state’s denial of legal and human rights to its citizens. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 21 December 2011
21 December 2011 — williambowles.info Witness in WikiLeaks case says Manning confessed to him Los Angeles Times Other prosecution witnesses testified that messages on Manning’s personal laptop computer indicated he could have communicated with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Mark Johnson, an Army forensic analyst, testified that Manning and a person he … http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-manning-hearing-20111221,0,3065361.story Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 October, 2011: Peace process dead in the water
23 October 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center “Marrying Non-Jews Serves the Nazis”, Rabbi Tells Students IMEMC – Israeli Ynet News reported that students of the Ohel Shem High School in Ramat Gan, stated that Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, who spoke at their school, told them that “marrying gentiles plays in the Continue reading
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War on Libya leaves Africa at a crossroads By J L Samboma
The Horn of Africa is today within the stranglehold of drought and famine. Libya, a significant player in the so-called African Union under any reckoning, is currently under sustained imperialist assault by the Western powers, a mass-murdering adventure led by the first black president of the United States of America. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report 2 May 2011 By William Blum: Everything you wanted to know about 'humanitarian intervention'
If you went into surgery to correct a knee problem and the surgeon mistakenly amputated your entire leg, what would you think if someone then remarked to you how nice it was that “you actually no longer have a knee problem, thank God.” … The people of Iraq no longer have a Saddam problem. Continue reading
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‘Green slime’ invades Iraq By William Bowles
THERE’S a phrase set aside in the British army for men like Brigadier Gordon Kerr and it’s “Green Slime’’. Soldiers don’t mince words, and to regular squaddies and military brass, Kerr and his Intelligence Corps are on roughly the same level as pond life. Highly effective, immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life, but pond… Continue reading
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