Iraq
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Iraq War Crimes: Haditha: Another Small Massacre – No One Guilty By Felicity Arbuthnot
General Mark Kimmit, questioned on the liquidation of the party goers – the dead womens’ gold also torn from their necks by the troops, according to consistent survivors accounts – simply replied: “Bad people have parties too.” Asked about the near countless other acts of carnage, he responded: “Change the channel.” Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 27 January 2012: Michael Parenti: Free-Market Medicine: A Personal Account
27 January 2012 — Information Clearing House Masked Gunmen Rule in Damascus: Video By RT In many parts of the county it is not clear who is actually in control. The situation is certainly very dangerous for civilians. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30365.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 January 2012: "Pro-Gaddafi" fighters retake Bani Walid
25 January 2012 — Information Clearing House US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes By Ray McGovern America’s newspaper of record won’t even report accurately what Israel (or the CIA) thinks on this important issue, if that goes against the alarmist conventional wisdom that the neocons favor. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30358.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Silence Of The Lambs
One of the original aims of Media Lens, when we began in 2001, was to engage in honest, open and rational debate with journalists working for major news organisations. It wasn’t about ‘bashing’ them or trying to make them look bad. We wanted to examine media assumptions, challenge journalists’ arguments and find out more about… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 January 2012: Witnesses: In Palestine, to Exist Is to Resist
24 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Residents Detained in Hebron IMEMC – On Tuesday Morning, the Israeli army kidnapped two Hebron residents near Ibrahim Mosque, and moved them to undisclosed location, the Palestinian news agency, Ma’an, reported. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 24 January 2012: Stop the Madness
24 January 2012 — Information Clearing House Stop the Madness BY YOUSAF BUTT Despite all the hype, Iran‘s nuclear program has yet to violate international law. It’s time to calm down, think, and above all halt the rush to war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30344.htm Continue reading
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British Regulators Pull Press TV: Another Blow To Media Freedom By Danny Schechter
The British media regulator OFCOM has pulled Press TV’s license to be seen in the United Kingdom. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 January 2012: US newspaper owner writes op-ed proposing Israel assassinate Obama
21 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US newspaper owner writes op-ed proposing Israel assassinate Obama IMEMC – The editor and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has come under fire, and on Friday issued an apology, for an op-ed in which he surmised that the Israeli Prime Minister… Continue reading
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Post-War Constitutions: Privatization and Empire-Building By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The following is a 2011 article by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya for the Italian journal Eurasia about the manipulation of national constitutions as a neo-colonial means of modern empire-building. The article presents an important overview of the U.S. empire-building process. Continue reading
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Attack Iran? Nuclear Insanity: "We have the Capability to Take the World Down with Us" by Felicity Arbuthnot
Iran: We have been here before. The year before the assault on and near destruction of unarmed neighbouring Iraq, George W. Bush, of course declared the ‘Axis of Evil’, Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Continue reading
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IRAQ: Tariq Aziz “They Killed our Country. We are all Victims of Britain and America By Felicity Arbuthnot
On 5th December, the first day of the solemn, predominantly Shi’a Muslim marking of Ashura – the martyrdom of Hussein, the Prophet’s Grand son in 680 AD – in a statement few of the main stream media thought worthy of mention, Saad Al Muttalibi, a Minister, ironically, at the Iraqi Ministry of National Dialogue and… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 January 2012: Israeli Photo For al-Aqsa Mosque Without The Dome Of The Rock
5 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online IMEMC – The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms. … Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 4-6 January 2012
6 January 2012 — williambowles.info 6 January 2012 THE ROVING EYE : The US-Iran economic war Asia Times Online Today at 11:00 With the stroke of a pen, United States President Barack Obama instituted legislation aimed at taking Iran’s 2.5 million barrels of oil a day in exports off the global market. In reality it… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 January 2012: Former "Dumbest Member of Congress" Scorches Romney
3 January 2012 — Information Clearing House Marching Towards War EU Reaches Agreement to Ban Imports of Iranian Oil By Reuters “The US talks about sanctioning our oil but they should know that if Iran’s oil exports from the Persian Gulf are sanctioned, then no one will have the right to export oil through the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 January 2012: Israeli authorities give ‘legal’ status to illegal settlement outpost
2 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Former Detainee Dies Of Health Condition Suffered While In prison IMEMC – Zakariyya Daoud, a former Palestinian political prisoner, who got seriously ill while in Israeli prisons, and was only released on August 22, 2011, died of cancer on Monday, he was diagnosed in… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 3 January 2012:
3 January 2012 — Information Clearing House Debacle! How Wars Revealed the Weakness of the Global Superpower By Tom Engelhardt Now, at a nadir moment in the Greater Middle East, perhaps it’s finally time to put an American face on America’s wars, to see them clearly for the imperial debacles they have been — and… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 3-4 January 2012
4 January 2012 — williambowles.info 4 January 2012Iran/Iraq ‘Defectors’ and Disinformation GlobalResearch.ca Today at 22:45 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget
3 January 2012 — www.killinghope.org Iraq. Began with big lies. Ending with big lies. Never forget. “Most people don’t understand what they have been part of here,” said Command Sgt. Major Ron Kelley as he and other American troops prepared to leave Iraq in mid-December. “We have done a great thing as a nation. We… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 January 2012: Americans Greatest Catastrophic Fear
2 January 2012– Information Clearing House UK’s Secret Plots For Syria By Deborah Sherwood “MI6 and the CIA are in Syria to infiltrate and get at the truth,” said the well-placed source. “We have SAS and SBS not far away who want to know what is happening and are finding out what kit dissident soldiers… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 31 December 2011 – 2 January 2011
2 January 2012 — williambowles.info 2 January 2012 ‘Iran opposes US hegemony’ Russiatoday.ru Today at 17:54 The US has slapped sanctions on Iran, targeting its financial sector while the EU is considering an embargo on Iranian oil. But if the West suffocates Iran, it will have no option but to respond in a severe manner Continue reading
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