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Black Agenda Report 5 September 2012: What Obama Has Wrought / Dem's True Colors / Dubois: Why I Won't Vote
5 September 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left What Obama Has Wrought by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The meticulously scripted spectacles of the two corporate party conventions are very poor backdrops for clear thinking – but luckily, the ordeals are almost over. What remains after the tents… Continue reading
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NAM Summit: Ban Ki-Moon in disgraceful show of US puppetry By Finian Cunningham
In the weeks leading up to the 16th summit of the NAM, Washington had been calling on the UN top official to decline attending the conference in Tehran. When Ban announced last week that he was going ahead, the US government was evidently peeved, calling his decision “a bit strange”. Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 29 August 2012: Jewish settlers burn a car and write racist slogans
29 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Condemns Continued Israeli Violations against Palestinian Fishermen in the Gaza StripIMEMC – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns Israel’s continued violations against Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip, and expresses concern about the escalation of these violations. On Tuesday morning, 28 August 2012,… Continue reading
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ICH 28 August 2012: Britain and US Plan Syrian “Revolution” From Istanbul
28 August 2012 — Information Clearing House US Intelligence Community Report America Planning for a Post-Israel Middle East? Franklin Lamb An 82 page analysis concludes that the American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32304.htm Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 28 August 2012: Continuing Impunity for the Death of Rachel Corrie
28 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center France To Investigate Arafat’s DeathIMEMC – The French Prosecution decided to open an official investigation into the death of the late Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004 after becoming sick while surrounded by the Israeli military in his Ramallah headquarters. … Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 27 August 2012: Arrigoni’s Murder Trial in Gaza: Answers Not Just a Verdict
27 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel To Close Bribery Case Against Sharon, His SonsIMEMC – Israeli sources reported Monday that the Israeli prosecution is weighing the possibility of dropping bribery and corruption charges against former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, and his two sons, Omri and Gilad, due to the lack… Continue reading
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ICH 27 August 2012: US “Fifty Wealthiest Lawmakers” list
27 August 2012 — Information Clearing House Inventing an Iranian Threat By Stephen Lendman Washington and Israel target the Islamic Republic relentlessly. Longstanding war plans await implementation. Media scoundrels and right-wing think tanks support it. They’re paid to endorse ravaging one country after another. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32291.htm Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 26 August 2012: Testimonies by Israeli soldiers detail abuse of Palestinian children
26 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel denies entry to Welcome to Palestine visitorsIMEMC – In a precedented measure, Israel denied entry to nearly 85 international visitors who were planning to enter Palestine through the King Hussein bridge via Jordan. … Continue reading
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Can the War Israel Wants With Iran Be Averted? By Danny Schechter
For more than a year now, the drums of war emanating from Israel have become louder and louder with weekly news leaks, and threats including the disclosure of alleged attack plans. The whole exercise seems designed to create a sense of alarm and inevitability. Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 25 August 2012: PA considers legal action against Israeli officials, settlers
25 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Swiss Forensic Experts To Examine Arafat’s RemainsIMEMC – Experts working for the Swiss Radiophysics Institute stated Friday that they will be arriving in the West Bank to examine the remains of the late president, Yasser Arafat, after receiving the approval of his widow, Soha Arafat. … Continue reading
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ICH 25 August 2012: America’s Descent into Poverty
25 August 2012 — Information Clearing House The Human Cost of War on Iran By Elizabeth Murray The subject of human suffering is almost taboo among these elites, and is generally raised only when negative media publicity, or the prospect thereof, forces them to take action. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32276.htm Continue reading
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The British Siege of the Ecuadorian Embassy: Déjà Vu: Anglo-American disregard for International Law by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The United States and Soviet Union never violated the diplomatic sanctity and extraterritoriality of one another’s diplomatic missions by storming them with their state security forces, even during the tensest periods of the Cold War. Embassies were consistently and securely used to relocate spies, defectors, and dissidents around the world. Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 24 August 2012: Israeli lies unchecked, Palestinian perspectives censored on BBC
24 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Police Repeatedly Taser Palestinian Vacationing With His FamilyIMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Friday that a Palestinian man from Jerusalem was shocked by an Israeli Policeman with an electric gun five times; the incident took place at a park in Tel Aviv last Tuesday. The man… Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 23 August 2012: Oil. Religion. Occupation: A Combustible Mix
23 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Zahhar Denies Connection To Facebook Page That Carries His NameIMEMC – Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, denied any relation to a Facebook page that carries his name and places statements allegedly made by him. … Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 22 August 2012: Report: Israel to evict Jericho farmers
22 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 8 Detainees Wounded In Ramon PrisonIMEMC – Palestinians Minister of Detainee, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that eight Palestinian detainees, imprisoned at the Ramon Israeli prison, were injured after Israeli soldiers broke into their rooms and searched them. … Continue reading
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ICH 22 August 2012: Why Are Americans So Confused?
22 August 2012 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu is Preparing his Nation for War. Israel war talk fails to ignite U.S. debate USA Today Editorial Netanyahu’s timing – speculative but logical – is that he sees the American political campaign as a moment of maximum leverage. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32254.htm Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 21 August 2012: Israel and Iran’s Nuclear Program
21 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Wants Egypt To Withdraw Its Tanks From SinaiIMEMC – Israeli Paper, Maariv, reported Tuesday that the Israeli government demanded Egypt to withdraw its tanks from the Sinai Peninsula after Cairo deployed them to counter extremist groups operating in the area. … Continue reading
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ICH 21 August 2012: Criticism of “Free Syrian Army” tactics is building
21 August 2012 — Information Clearing House Netanyahu ‘Determined to Attack Iran’ Before US Elections By Times of Israel The report added that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak believe Obama would have no choice but to give backing for an Israeli attack before the US presidential elections in November. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32244.htm Continue reading
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Netanyahu's Secret War Plan: Leaked Document Outlines Israel's "Shock and Awe" Plan to Attack Iran By Richard Silverstein
In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel’s war plans against Iran. The document was passed to me by a high-level Israeli source who received it from an IDF officer. Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 8/20/2012: From ‘Crippling Sanctions’ to Total War
20 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers destroy Palestinian Car in HebronIMEMC – Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers smashed, Sunday, the windshield of a Palestinian car that was parked in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, and used a metal barrier to smash its… Continue reading
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