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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 July 2012: WikiLeaks Releasing Syria Documents
5 July 2012 — Information Clearing House Straight Talking: The Syrian Cauldron By Jeremy Salt The government in Damascus has been deliberately locked into a cycle of violence fed from the outside by the self-styled ‘Friends of Syria‘. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31766.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 July 2012: Palestinian Recognition Set Back by Israeli-American Roadblock
2 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Uproot 41 Olive Trees Near NablusIMEMC – A group of extremist Israeli settlers uprooted, on Wednesday morning, 41 Olive trees that belong to a resident of Tal village, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 July 2012: Caught on video: Israeli policeman kicking Palestinian boy
2 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Committee of US Presbyterian Church votes to divest from IsraelIMEMC – At its annual assembly in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, the Middle East Committee of the Presbyterian Church USA voted to divest from three companies involved in business with the Israeli military, citing human rights abuses… Continue reading
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Her Majesty’s BBC’s Syria Coverage: “Sorry for the Lies”… by Felicity Arbuthnot
As the sabre rattling towards Iran and the ongoing tragedy in Syria become increasingly hard to unravel, “media errors” or perhaps even “obfuscation” create their own navigational complexities. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 July 2012: Israel Continues To Pound Gaza, Injure Civilians
2 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Planning A Military College In Mount OliveIMEMC – The Israeli Regional Planning and Construction Committee in Jerusalem approved, Monday, a plan to build a Military College near the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Mount Olive, in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 July 2012: Son Of Liberty: Born and raised in America
2 July 2012 — Information Clearing House An Act Of War? Iran Sanctions Will Halve Oil Sales But May Still Not Succeed By Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan Embargo has led to huge increases in price of staple foods, while currency has lost half its value since 2010. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31741.htm Continue reading
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The Obama Defection: Former Supporters Lambaste The President By Danny Schechter
Roberto Unger’s argument boils down to a damning indictment spelling out charges that the President has betrayed the progressive cause and those who militated for his election. The alleged betrayal is all the more painful, Professor Unger says, because it reveals a man who never was what he claimed to be. Continue reading
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RT: Washington's road to Iran goes through Syria By Veronika Krasheninnikova
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists that the principle of “mutual consent” on which a “transitional government”in Syria would be based, means President Assad has to go. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the contrary, insists the formation of a “transitional government” will be made on inclusive basis. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 July 2012: Time to abandon never-ending futile talks with Israel
1 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center P.A. Security Forces Assault & Detain Protestors, JournalistsIMEMC – For consecutive days protests by Palestinians in Ramallah have been broken up with violence by Palestinian Authority security forces. … Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 29 June 2012: Mafia-Style Banking, Africa’s Spy Infestation and NATO Proxies in Syria
29 June 2012 — Global Research SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War? ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK – by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-07-15 ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the “Libya Model”: it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 June 2012: Simulating an Iranian attack on Israel – why?
30 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Bethlehem church designated as Endangered World Heritage siteIMEMC – The United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization voted Friday to designate the Bethlehem Nativity church and pilgrimage route as a World Heritage site, which will provide the Palestinian Authority with funding to maintain and restore… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June 2012: Israel, US blast UN vote on Palestinian heritage sites
29 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 22 Elected Legislators Still Imprisoned By IsraelIMEMC – Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, reported that the current number of elected Palestinian legislators imprisoned by Israel dropped to 22 after Israel released, on Thursday afternoon, two legislators, the… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 June 2012: The American People Are Angry?
28 June 2012 — Information Clearing House Obama Stalling His Way To War With IranBy Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann LeverettObama is locking America into a path that is increasingly likely to result in yet another U.S.-initiated war in the Middle East during the first years of the next presidential term. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31714.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 June 2012: Israel treats every Palestinian child as “potential terrorist”: government-backed UK study
28 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Army Asks For Extensive Deployment On Egyptian BorderIMEMC – Israeli paper, Maariv, reported Thursday that senior leaders of the Israeli army are demanding the government to grant the army $15 billion over the coming five years, in order to deploy the military in full… Continue reading
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The US-NATO Military Crusade against Syria and Iran: Selected Articles Edited By Michel Chossudovsky
American-led imperialism has evolved from bloody bouts of episodic militarism over several decades to the present day state of permanent belligerence, with wars or war-making stretching from North and East Africa into the Middle East and Central Asia and beyond to Eurasia, the Far East and the Arctic. Of most immediate concern are the ongoing… Continue reading