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G4S guard bludgeoned woman to death By Clare Sambrook
Last November a 42 year-old pharmaceutical worker from Thailand took part in a conference about HIV treatment at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium. Her name was Khanokporn Satjawat. A G4S guard checked Satjawat’s ID. He didn’t like her manner. Later he followed her into the toilets and bludgeoned her to death with a fire extinguisher. Continue reading
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Got His Gun — Lost His Legs, Arms, Penis By David Swanson
Ann Jones’ new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars — The Untold Story, is devastating, and almost incomprehensibly so when one considers that virtually all of the death and destruction in U.S. wars is on the other side. Statistically, what happens to U.S. troops is almost nothing. In human terms,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 24 October 2013: U.S. Jews Battle Over Blumenthal’s 'Goliath'
24 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterKerry Asks Netanyahu To “Advance Talks”IMEMC – U.S Secretary of State, John Kerry, held on Wednesday [October 23, 2013] a seven-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Rome, and urged him to advance peace talks with the Palestinians, especially on core issues. The two also Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 23 October 2013: Palestinians Entitled to Defend Themselves
23 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Child Injured By Settlers In NablusIMEMC – Palestinian sources have reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, late on Tuesday at night, a Palestinian child after breaking into her family s home, in Burin village, south of the northern west Bank City Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 24 October 2013: NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders After US Official Handed Over Contacts
24 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Marines ‘Murdered Man Live on Camera’: By Kim Sengupta Court martial sees graphic footage of ‘execution’ of injured Taliban fighter. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36640.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 23 October 2013: Drone Victims Recount Horror of Follow-Up Strikes Launched Against People Rescuing Wounded
23 October 2013 — Information Clearing House US is Fighting in Yemen’s Civil War By Ryan Goodman The president is waging a secret war in Yemen, and it’s time for him to come clean. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36620.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Journalist Or Activist? Smearing Glenn Greenwald By David Edwards
Modern thought control is dependent on subliminal communication. Messages influencing key perceptions are delivered unseen, unnoticed, with minimal public awareness of what is happening or why. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 21 October 2013: Chris Hedges: Are We Living in a Police State?
21 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For More Wars U.S. Military Investing Heavily in Africa By Shashank Bengali The Pentagon has begun a burst of spending in Africa, investing in air facilities, flight services, telecommunications and electrical upgrades as the U.S. military deepens its footprint in a region with a rising threat of “Islamist Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 20 October 2013: Food Stamp Corporate Welfare
20 October 2013 — Information Clearing House It Took Decades for Truth to be Revealed in Algeria. How Long Will it Take Syria? By Robert Fisk The real story of the much more recent Algerian war – between the Islamists and the government in the 1990s (total deaths 250,000, a hundred thousand more than in Syria today) Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 19 October 2013: 4 Out Of 5 in USA Face Near-poverty, No Work
19 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Assassination Pushes Libya Towards Civil War Two Years after Gaddafi Murder By Chris Stephen in Tripoli Fighting rages in Benghazi as Tripoli braces for fallout from the kidnapping of prime minister Ali Zaidan. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36579.htm Continue reading
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“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East By Israel Shahak
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. Continue reading
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“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East By Israel Shahak
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 18 October 2013: Exposed: Bin Laden Killing Hoax By Pakistan TV
18 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Pakistan TV Exposes bin Laden Killing Hoax By Paul Craig Roberts This interview of an eyewitness to the entire event is powerful evidence that the Obama regime’s story of the killing of Osama bin Laden and his burial at sea is a hoax and a lie. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36573.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 17 October 2013: It’s Time to Put an End to Israel’s “Don’t ask-don’t tell” Nuclear Policy
17 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPeace Now: “Settlement Construction Rises By 70%”IMEMC – Israeli Peace Now movement issued a report on Israeli settlement construction and expansion activities, and revealed that settlement construction increased by %70 in the period between January and June 2013. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 17 October 2013: The Forgotten Story Of Iran Air Flight 655
17 October 2013 — Information Clearing House West Toxic Lie On Syria Exposed By Finian Cunningham Western propaganda lies evidently have a memory problem. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36555.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 16 October 2013: Starve the (Military) Beast
16 October 2013 — Information Clearing House US War On Iraq Claimed Half a Million Lives, Study Finds By Joseph Brownstein US Public perception of the civilian death toll from the war is in the neighborhood of 10,000. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36540.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 15 October 2013: Edward Snowden’s Brave Integrity
15 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Breaking: Iran, US Hold Direct Talks in Geneva By Al-Monitor The U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiating teams met for one on one talks for one hour this evening, Iranian and American officials confirmed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36536.htm Continue reading
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NYT's Iraq War History, Still Misleading By Peter Hart
As the story goes (and was reported at the time), Bustani had been working on getting Iraq to agree to join the Chemical Weapons Convention. This was an unwelcome development for the Bush administration, since it could complicate efforts to invade Iraq based in part on its chemical weapons stockpile. Continue reading
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NYT's OPCW "He Said, She Said" Reporting Misses Major Judgement
In 2002 José Bustani, the then head of the now Nobel prized Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, was fired because his insistence on bringing Iraq into the Chemical Weapon Treaty conflicted with the war plans of the Bush administration. Continue reading