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VTJP News & Articles 8/18/2012: Three Palestinian youth hospitalized after attack by Israeli lynch mob
18 August 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Report: “4550 Palestinians, Including 220 Children, Imprisoned By Israel”IMEMC – Palestinian researcher and former political prisoners, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, reported that Israel is currently holding captive 4550 Palestinians, held in 17 prisons, detention and interrogation centers, and added that 220 Palestinian children are still imprisoned by Israel.… Continue reading
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ICH 18 August 2012: Pussy Riot vs Julian Assange
18 August 2012 — Information Clearing House Why the World Can’t Tolerate a Preemptive Israeli Attack on Iran By L. Michael Hager It is time for President Obama to say “No” to the Israelis – no more military aid (now amounting to more than $3 billion a year) if they launch a military strike on Iran.… Continue reading
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ICH 17 August 2012: New Evidence Reveals US Cover-Up of Murdered Civilians
17 August 2012 — Information Clearing House New Evidence Shows: US Cover-Up of Murdered Civilians By Gareth Porter The majority of the deaths in the drone war in Pakistan have been civilian noncombatants – not “militants,” as the Obama administration has claimed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32211.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Return Of The King – Tony Blair And The Magically Disappearing Blood By David Cromwell
How many war crimes does a western leader have to commit before he is deemed persona non grata by the corporate media and the establishment? Apparently there is no limit, if we are to judge by the prevailing reaction to Tony Blair’s return to the political stage. Continue reading
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Russia in the Middle East: Return of a superpower? By Eric Walberg
The US “withdrawal” from Iraq last year and the planned “withdrawal” from Afghanistan in 2014 cannot help but change the face of Central Asia and the Middle East. But how does Russia fit in, asks Eric Walberg Continue reading
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ICH 16 August 2012: US Punched Bibi, Barak in the Face
16 August 2012 — Information Clearing House Bibi’s Secret War Plan By Richard Silverstein In the past few days, I received an Israeli briefing document outlining Israel‘s war plans against Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32201.htm Continue reading
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The US-NATO War on Syria: Western Naval Forces Confront Russia Off the Syrian Coastline? By Michel Chossudovsky
While confrontation between Russia and the West was, until recently, confined to the polite ambit of international diplomacy, within the confines of the UN Nations Security Council, an uncertain and perilous situation is now unfolding in the Eastern Mediterranean. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 July 2012: Does the NSA Have a File On You? Probably
26 July 2012 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria Western Troops ‘Increasingly Likely’ to Intervene By Nick Hopkins “It is highly likely that some western special forces and intelligence resources have been in Syria for a considerable time,” says Colonel Richard Kemp. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31990.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Libyan Elections – Burying The Amnesty Report By David Edwards
And indeed everyone, of course, knew that ‘democracy’ in Iraq had to be ‘sensitive’ to American concerns, not least in regard to ‘guys with turbans’ (which sounded like a euphemism for ‘towelheads’). It was obvious what ‘acceptable to the Americans’ meant for the claim that the elections were in any real sense ‘free’. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 9 July 2012: Iran Can Sue US And Israel Over Threats
9 July 2012 — Information Clearing House Manufactured Realities The Truth About The Arab Spring, Occupy Movement And Anonymous By Bill Noxid Once set in motion this elaborate plan to gain the support of people worldwide was intended to grow organically through appealing to and manipulating the genuine and humanitarian desires and instincts of the people,… Continue reading
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Criminals for Peace By William T. Hathaway
A new group of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists from the USA, Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan offers a variety of answers to these conundrum questions. In opposing militarism we’ve moved beyond demonstrations and petitions into direct action, flouting the government’s laws and impeding its ability to kill our fellow human beings. As criminals for… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 July 2012: Pilot Sings As He Kills Afghan – Video
6 July 2012 — Information Clearing House U.S. Helicopter Blasts Afghan Man to Pieces… As The Pilot Sings ‘Bye, Bye Miss American Pie’ Video It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31780.htm Continue reading
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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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HRW Report on “Syrian Torture” Nonsensical, Hypocritical by Tony Cartalucci
Careless readers might think report covers Western atrocities committed in Afghanistan and Iraq 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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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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NATO War Council To Target Syria By Rick Rozoff
On Tuesday, June 26 Belgium time the North Atlantic Council, the highest governing body of the U.S.-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization military bloc, will take up the issue of Syria under provisions of its founding document that in the past ten and a half years have resulted in military deployments preparatory to and the subsequent… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 June 2012: History of the US-Israel Relationship
26 June 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria and Turkey’s Phantom War By Pepe Escobar Imagine if this was a Syrian jet flying over Turkish or Israeli territory. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31713.htm Continue reading
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