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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 February 2012: Dozens of Palestinians declare Hunger Strike as Fasting prisoner Khader Adnan is on day 60
15 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Despite domestic cuts, US aid to Israel up by $25 million in proposed budget IMEMC – An examination of the proposed US budget submitted by President Barack Obama to the US Congress this week shows that although billions of dollars will be cut from… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 15 February 2012: George Galloway: Clinton Irresistible… And Not Just To Women
15 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Save Us from the Liberal Hawks By David Rieff Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of (humanitarian) war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30535.htm Continue reading
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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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Aleppo betrayed by attacks that are foreign to its nature By Charles Glass
Last week’s suicide bombings that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo are drawing Syria’s second city into a conflict that it had struggled to avoid for the past year. President Bashar Al Assad blamed Al Qaeda terrorists, while the Syrian opposition accused the regime. American officials, despite Washington’s hostility to Mr Al Assad and… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 February 2012: Take Action to Oppose Ever-Greater Amounts of Military Aid to Israel
14 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Envoy Tours Palestinian Territories To Assess Settler Violence IMEMC – After a recent increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, property and holy sites, the UN envoy Richard Falk arrived in the West Bank this weekend to begin an eleven-day tour of… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 14 February 2012: Chomsky : 'Losing' the World – Paul Craig Roberts – Is Western Democracy Real
13 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Israel and Proxy Terrorism By Robert Wright Should Israel be classified as a state sponsor of terrorism? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30532.htm Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 10-14 February 2012
14 February 2012 — williambowles.info VIDEO: Protests on Bahrain anniversary BBC News Today at 13:30 Police try to prevent people marking the anniversary of pro-democracy protests in Bahrain’s capital, after a second day of clashes in outlying villages. Continue reading
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UN’s Syria Vote: Kings And Ex-Colonial Powers Champion “Democracy” By Prabir Purkayastha
The irony of the Gulf monarchies fighting for ‘democracy’ is not lost on the people. Neither is an Iraqi- or Libyan-style military intervention for bringing democracy to the region. No wonder that the US and other Western countries rejected out of hand Russia’s amendments, one of which asked for democracy, not just in Syria but… Continue reading
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Road To Damascus…And On To Armageddon? By Diana Johnstone
The United States has decided that as sole superpower it doesn’t really need to stoop to diplomacy to get what it wants, and the United Nations has been turned into the instrument of US policy. The clearest evidence of this was the failure of the UN Security Council to block the NATO powers’ abuse of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 February 2012: Israeli Court Forbids Nablus Mosque from Using Loudspeakers
13 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court Confirms Sentencing Of Ailing Hunger-Striking Detainee IMEMC – An Israeli Military Court rejected on Monday evening the appeal that was filed by the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) against a military order confining ailing detainee, Adnan Khader, who has been on hunger-strike since 59… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 13 February 2012: A Death Sentence for Greece
13 February 2012 — Information Clearing House “The Real Opposition in Syria is Not the Syrian National Council or Free Syrian Army,” By Idaf I’m fed up with the simplified, naive views and the manipulative perception management tactics that aim to draw unrealistic picture about the conflict by conveniently framing it simply as idiot proxies and armed… Continue reading
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Video: ‘Western media indiscriminate in Syria reports’ — RT
Reports about hundreds of dead and wounded coming from Syria on a daily basis has become commonplace in Western media, while the sources of such information are highly questionable, investigative journalist Asa Winstanley told RT. Continue reading
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GR Weekend Review: Global Economic Crisis, World War and the Russia-China Veto, Drones over America, Occupy Wall Street
12 February 2012 — Global Research Latest News and Top Stories WAR PLAN IRAN: Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulf GR ONLINE NEWS READER – by Finian Cunningham, Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-02-16 GR ONLINE NEWS READER. The region is on a hair-trigger for a conflagration that would involve… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 February 2012: Syria 2011-2012, a rematch of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon
12 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Troops Detain 5 Residents At A Settlement Near Jenin IMEMC – Israeli soldiers kidnapped, On Sunday evening, five Palestinian residents from Ya’bod village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and held them for several hours at the Mabo Dothan settlement, in… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 12 February 2012: Russia Says West Arming Syrian Rebels
12 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Russia Says West Arming Syrian Rebels Accuses West of being “Accomplices” in Violence By David Blair “Western states that push the Syrian opposition into uncompromising measures, which arm them and give them advice and instructions, are accomplices in the process of inflaming the crisis,” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30500.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 February 2012: Hebron: At least 10 children arrested by Israeli military in one week
11 February 2012 — VTJP News Ma’an News Hunger-striking prisoner not backing down 2/11/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Islamic Jihad prisoner Khader Adnan, who has been on hunger strike for 56 days, asserted Saturday that he would continue with his strike because he is defending his dignity and not fasting in vain. In a letter… Continue reading
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NATO’s “Secret War” on Syria: Replicating the Libya Model By Stephen Lendman
In January, Michel Chossudovsky reported British media confirming UK/CIA/MI6 operatives in Syria training anti-Assad Western-backed insurgents. They’re also supplying them with arms, ammunition, and equipment. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 February 2012: Ethnic Cleansing in a Zionist Fairyland
10 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Injured In Beit Lahia Blast IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported, on Friday at night, that two Palestinians were wounded in an explosion that took place in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 February 2012: Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF officials
10 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Pakistan: ’11 militants killed’ near Afghanistan : Eleven Taliban militants were killed and 19 wounded in northwest Pakistan Friday during a crackdown by the Pakistani military near the border with Afghanistan, according to reports. http://bit.ly/wrtg88 Continue reading
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