Iraq
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Media Lens: UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 2
Ironically, like other media that dismissed highly credible scientific analyses of the death toll in Iraq – published in one of the world’s most respected medical journals, the Lancet – the BBC has been reporting hundreds of deaths in Homs based on anecdotal evidence and highly questionable sources. Continue reading
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IRAQ UNDER US MILITARY OCCUPATION: Maliki Proxy Government orders Execution of former PM Tariq Aziz
Iraq has been illegally invaded, occupied and decimated. Surely the UN cannot sit by as these terrible executions – pogroms – go ahead. Death sentences for no other reason than that Mr Aziz and his colleagues were part of the legitimate, sovereign government of Iraq – a ‘sovereignty and territorial integrity’ which was guaranteed by… 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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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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Media Lens: UN ‘Travesty’: Resolutions Of Mass Destruction – Part 1
It has been said that compassion is ‘the only beauty that truly pleases’ While beauty ordinarily provokes the fiery itch of desire or the sullen shadow of envy, compassion is cooling, blissful, inspiring awe and wonder. It implies an ability to stand outside our own needs as observers, to perceive the suffering of others as… 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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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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Syria: Preventing War By Prof. Igor Panarin
NATO’s ultimate objective is most likely turning Syria into another Iraq: a quagmire of ethnic and sectarian violence, locked in endless terrorist warfare among feuding communities. Similarly to Iraq, Syria is also a patchwork nation with its own Sunni, Shia and Christian communities. The chaos that is very likely to follow an illegitimate deposition of… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Newslinks 9-10 February 2012
10 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 WikiLeaks cables: Philippine bank secrecy laws under fire ABS CBN News … The US government had criticized Philippine laws and local court rulings that block investigation and prosecution of suspected corrupt government officials, according to several US embassy cables published by anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/02/09/12/wikileaks-cables-philippine-bank–secrecy-laws-under-fire Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 February 2012: The 'Water Occupation' of Palestine
9 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu Refuses EU Demands To Release Detainees IMEMC – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected demands presented by representatives of the European Union (EU) to release a number of Palestinian political prisoners under a confidence-building measure that would also increase popular support to president… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 February 2012: US Will Continue to Arm Anti-government Rebels in Syria
8 February, 2012 — Information Clearing House Intervention in Syria will Escalate Not Stop the KillingBy Seumas MilneFor the US, Britain and their allies to indulge in moral posturing over Syria or pose as friends of its people is preposterous. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30472.htm Continue reading
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TARGETTING IRAN: The Dogs of War are off the Leash By Tom Burghardt
Currently, Iran is ringed with military bases. American, British and Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles keep silent watch. Aircraft carrier battle groups carry out provocative maneuvers. U.S. and Israeli drones routinely overfly Iranian territory. Scientists are murdered in orchestrated terror attacks. Defense installations are bombed. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 February 2012: AIPAC Obtained Missile Secrets
7 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center “Death To Christians” Graffiti Found On Jerusalem Monastery IMEMC – Israeli Police spokesperson, Micky Rosenfeld, stated Tuesday that Israeli extremists settlers, carried out another “price tag” attack, this time targeting a Christian Monastery in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross” Monastery. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 7 February 2012: Obama Declares "Threat" From Iran a National Emergency
7 February 2012 — Information Clearing House US Iran Policy in ‘Lockstep’ with Israel? By Dave Lindorff The most appalling thing of all was hearing the US president say on national TV that he is operating US policy towards Iran in “lockstep” with the pipsqueak nation of Israel–an apartheid country currently being run by a… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 February 2012: CIA Targeting Rescuers and Funerals
6 February 2012 — Information Clearing House U.S. Wrongly Demonizes Iran By Karl Lindemann As with any country that is attempting to develop its nuclear technology, Iran should be monitored. But the current U.S. policies are completely unwarranted. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30448.htm Continue reading
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Imperialism, despotism, and democracy in Syria By Joseph Massad
In the context of the US invasion of the Gulf in 1991, British academic Fred Halliday announced his new right-wing affiliations in the British newspaper the New Statesman by declaring: “If I have to choose between imperialism and fascism, I choose imperialism.” It never occurred to Halliday that he could have opposed both and supported… Continue reading
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US, UK: Targeting Syria: Looking back at: “frighteningly frank” plans By Felicity Arbuthnot
For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot, to whose people a US-led posse of nations, must deliver “freedom”, with weapons of mass, home, people, nation and livlihood destruction, here is… Continue reading
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US, UK: Targeting Syria: Looking back at: “frighteningly frank” plans By Felicity Arbuthnot
For anyone in two minds about what is really going on in Syria, and whether President Assad, hailed a decade ago as “A Modern Day Attaturk”, has become the latest megalomaniacal despot, to whose people a US-led posse of nations, must deliver “freedom”, with weapons of mass, home, people, nation and livlihood destruction, here is… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 February 2012: Day of Mass Action to Stop War on Iran
4 February, 2012 — Information Clearing House NO war – NO sanctions – NO intervention – NO assassinationshttp://bit.ly/zd95Tq An Attack on Iran Must be Stopped By Andrew Murray As the US and UK gear up for another senseless war in the Middle East, one thing is certain – it will end in disaster. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30438.htm Continue reading
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Anonymous Leaks Huge Cache of Emails From Iraq War Crimes Case
Anonymous is on a rampage today. Just hours after leaking a confidential phone call between the FBI and Scotland yard, members have released a huge archive of emails and documents related to the 2005 Haditha Massacre, which left 24 Iraqi civilians dead. Continue reading
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