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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 December 2011: Israel city braces for thousands of protesters against exclusion of women
26 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Hamas Expresses Support For Syrian Regime IMEMC – Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Khaled Mashal, stated that the Hamas movement supports the Syrian President, Bashar Assad, “as he supported the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian people in every possible way”,… Continue reading
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Information Clearing house Newsletter 26 December 2011: Manning Prosecution Lays Basis for Terror Charge Against Assange
26 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria. The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30077.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 December 2011: Israel’s new house rules – deepening authoritarianism
25 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Boycott campaigners claim credit for denial of London contract to company invested in settlements IMEMC – A French transportation company, Veolia, that has been the target of a campaign by human rights groups around the world for its investment in Israeli settlements, has been… Continue reading
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Israel Cannot Wage a War against Iran without a “Green Light” from the US By Michel Chossudovsky
In late December 2008, coinciding with the onslaught of Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” directed against Gaza, the Pentagon dispatched some 100 military personnel to Israel from US European Command (EUCOM) to assist Israel in setting up a new sophisticated X-band early warning radar system as part of a new and integrated air defense system. Continue reading
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Israel Cannot Wage a War against Iran without a "Green Light" from the US By Michel Chossudovsky
In late December 2008, coinciding with the onslaught of Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” directed against Gaza, the Pentagon dispatched some 100 military personnel to Israel from US European Command (EUCOM) to assist Israel in setting up a new sophisticated X-band early warning radar system as part of a new and integrated air defense system. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 23 December 2011: 6 Questions For Noam Chomsky
23 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Thud of the Jackboot By Alexander Cockburn At least the DPRK doesn’t trumpet its status as the last best sanctuary of liberty. American politicians, starting with the president, do little else. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30064.htm Continue reading
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U.S. THREAT TO ATTACK IRAN WITH NUKES IS “CRIMINAL” By Sherwood Ross
The U.S. today is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon, a distinguished American international legal authority says. Continue reading
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'US call for Iran war classic deception'
A Harvard professor of international affairs says the warmongering calls for a military strike on Iran follow a classic model of deception that involves fabricating a threat and downplaying the repercussions of an attack. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 December 2011: Are We Living in a Fool's Paradise?
22 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Pakistan Needs to Declare Its Independence By Yasmeen Ali Pakistan lies ravaged, with her economy destroyed, thanks to the country’s deep involvement in the “War on Terror.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30055.htm Continue reading
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CBS, Panetta and (Hypothetical) Iranian Nukes
Now without knowing what was actually said in the full interview, it’s hard to know whether Panetta’s office is trying to walk back his careless, inaccurate rhetoric, or whether the CBS interviewer was pushing a hard line on Iran and nuclear weapons, treating the allegations being made about that country’s nuclear program as if they… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 21 December 2011: A Better World's In Birth (Maybe)
21 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For Attack On Iran Iran Could Get Nuclear Bomb Within a Year By Haaretz Panetta said, “There are no options off the table,” and added that a nuclear Iran is “unacceptable”. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30041.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 December 2011: 182 Counties Vote For Palestinian Right TO Self-Determination
20 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center New Government Will Not be Formed Before Dec. 26 IMEMC – Member of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Izzat Al-Rishiq, stated that the Palestinian factions met on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of the Unity Agreement, and decided that general elections will… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 20-21 December 2011
21 December 2011 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 21 December 2011 US and Iran: From enemies to partners Asia Times Online Today at 11:00 The United States and Iran are closer to the brink of a dangerous confrontation, as a result of which it is fair to describe the situation as… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 19-20 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowless.info 19 December 2011 US: Iran a year away from nukes, strike ‘not off the table’ Russiatoday.ru Today at 17:36 Washington is not ruling out a military operation against Tehran if it gets wind of an Iranian nuke program, declared US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The US believes Iran could develop… Continue reading
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IRAN-DRONEGATE: Empires Don't Apologize: Iran in the Imperial Crosshairs By Tom Burghardt
In Washington’s bizarro world where war is peace the United States, which has Iran surrounded with a string of military bases and where nuclear-armed aircraft carrier battle groups and submarines ply the waters of the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, the aggressor is magically transformed into the aggrieved party. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 20, 2011
20 December 2011 — Stop NATO Military Chief: U.S. To Train ‘For All Potential Forms Of Warfare’ U.S., India, Japan To Hold First Trilateral Meeting: China Targeted Japan: Lockheed Wins Order For 42 F-35 Stealth Fighters NATO Defiant On Afghan Night Raids NATO Duty: 2,500 Polish Troops Spend Christmas In Afghanistan Big Shoulders In Chicago… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 December 2011:
19 December 2011 — Information Clearing House New Pictures of Iraq Atrocity, With Documents and Video By David Swanson The Iraqi was detained and questioned then with his hands tied behind his back, SGT Rogers skinned his face. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30034.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 December 2011: How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the U.S.
17 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” Troops and Prisons Move, Wars and Torture Never Ends By Ted Rall War is an addiction. If we wanted to, we could quit any time. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30023.htm Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 17, 2011
17 December 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon Commends Turkey For NATO Radar Site Turkey: U.S. NATO Ally On Missiles, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Kurds Pentagon Appoints Turkey To Police Iraq, Confront Iran Turkey’s Top Military Council Prepares For War Iraq: Fallujah Celebrates U.S. Troop Exit, Honors The Slain U.S. Rallies NATO Support For Georgia’s Accession Georgia… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 December 2011: Soldiers: “West Bank Problem Is Jews, Not Palestinians”
16 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Central Gaza IMEMC – Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday at dawn, a Palestinian man in Al Boreij Refugee camp, in central Gaza, medical sources reported. … Continue reading
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