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Information Clearing House Newsletter 9 April, 2011 – Weekend Edition: UK: Special Forces scandal as officers are held 'for trying to leak secrets'
9 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House To Libya With God On Our Side By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes Grabbing other people’s land and interfering in their affairs became as American as apple pie before the annexation of Texas, and “Manifest Destiny” as the engine of U.S. foreign policy. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27853.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 April, 2011: Israel and the Arab revolutions
9 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Eighteen Palestinians Killed By Israeli Shells Since Thursday IMEMC – Saturday April 09, 2011 – 23:04, The Israeli Air Force bombarded on Saturday evening the Al Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, killing one member of the Salah Ed Deen Brigades. Eighteen Palestinians were… Continue reading
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video: Eight arrested in Nabi Saleh demonstration: Six Palestinians and two Israeli supporters?
This Friday (8/4/11) Nabi Saleh demonstration against the settlements and occupation was joined by a group of West Bank March 15 activists and was larger than usual. Some 80 people marched through the village’s main street and then crossed into the fields to reach the spring and land being stolen and threatened by settlers. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 April, 2011: Goldstone has paved the path for a second Gaza war
8 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ten Palestinians Killed In Gaza Since Thursday IMEMC – Friday April 08, 2011 – 14:38, Medical Sources in Gaza stated that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli shells since Thursday arrived to ten. A woman and her daughter were the latest casualty until… Continue reading
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Operation Scorching Summer: Israel attacks Gaza (again)
Israeli apache helicopters open fire at Palestinian houses in the heavily populated neighbourhood of Shuja’eya east of Gaza. There are also reports of Israeli military boats firing at houses. Palestinian sources say that an ambulance was hit in one of the strikes. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 April, 2011: The Fiction of the Jewish History in Palestine
7 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Factions In Gaza Declare Ceasefire IMEMC – Friday April 08, 2011 – 01:41, Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip declared a ceasefire starting at 11 P.M on Thursday. The declaration came following a day of escalation that led to the death of five… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 April, 2011: Mystery of Goldstone’s April Fool’s Message
6 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian police charge former fighter with murder of Israeli peacemaker IMEMC – Wednesday April 06, 2011 – 20:18, The police force of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank arrested a man Tuesday who was identified by eyewitnesses as the masked man who shot… Continue reading
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Syria mostly mainstream newslinks 6 April 2011
6 April 2011 — creative-i.info Mathaba News: Are Defense Base Rights the End-Game in Syria? SCF: Syrian president meets Kurdish leaders SCF: Turkey’s Geopolitics and the US ‘Greater Middle East Initiative’ SCF: Israel reiterates concern over Russian missile supply deal with Syria Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 April, 2011: Palestinians, Israelis Mourn Murder of Artist Activist Juliano Mer Khamis
5 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed in Gaza Buffer Zone IMEMC – Tuesday April 05, 2011 – 13:45, A Palestinian man has been killed in the buffer zone of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. The Israeli military has claimed that they shot the man as he was armed,… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter: Most Say it is Time for Someone New as President
5 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House A Genuine Tragedy Unfolds Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s Rulers Goose-Step to the Brink of the Abyss By PETER LEE While we are diverted by the opera-bouffe spectacle of the civil war in Libya’s desert, a genuine tragedy-and potential geopolitical trainwreck-is unfolding in Bahrain. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27832.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 April, 2011: Israel okays 942 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
4 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Council: Will Not Retract Goldstone Report Due To Op-ed By Chief Investigator IMEMC – Tuesday April 05, 2011 – 03:32, Richard Goldstone, the Chief Investigator of the UN Human Rights Council’s investigation into war crimes and violations by Israel and Hamas during Israel’s… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 April, 2011: ‘Perpetual Hell’ Of The Palestinian Refugee Camps
2 April, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Non-violent marches attacked in at least 4 Palestinian towns IMEMC – Saturday April 02, 2011 – 14:49, Weekly non-violent anti-Wall protests in a number of towns across the West Bank on Friday, including Bil’in, Nil’in, al Ma’sara and Nabi Saleh, were attacked by Israeli… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 April, 2011: Weekend Edition: Obama Receives Transparency Award at Secret Meeting
1 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House This Is A Humanitarian War That Is What Makes It So Deadly By Brendan O’Neill No more terrible fate can befall nations like Libya than to become objects of Western liberal pity. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27807.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 April, 2011: Major London Retailer For Ahava Dead Sea Salts Forced To Close; Boycott Campaign Claims Credit
1 April, 2011 – VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Three Fighters Assassinated In Gaza IMEMC – Saturday April 02, 2011 – 03:22, The Israeli Air Force assassinated, after midnight on Friday night, three fighters of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, north of Khan Younis, in the southern… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 March, 2011: The impoverishment of Palestinian Arabs in Israel
31 March, 2011 – VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Fateh Wins Student Elections In Bir Zeit, Islamic Bloc Boycotted the Polls IMEMC – Thursday March 31, 2011 – 08:34, Dr. Mohammad Al Ahmad, the Dean of Student Affairs in Bir Zeit University, near the central West bank city of Ramallah, stated that the… Continue reading
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The Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
Following the lead of their imperial powers, most of what passes for the Left in the US and Europe, ranging from Social Democrats, Marxists, Trotskyists,Greens and other assorted progressives, claim they see and support a revolutionary mass uprising of the Libyan people, and not a few have called for military intervention by the imperial powers,… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks for 24 March 2011
24 March 2011 — williambowles.info U.S. Says Egypt Vote Shouldn’t Be Rushed Wall Street Journal By ADAM ENTOUS CAIRO—US Defense Secretary Robert Gates gently prodded Egypt’s interim leaders not to rush to new elections, saying the new political movements that helped push longtime President Hosni Mubarak from power in February need time to … india.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703362904576218872404821988.html Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 March, 2011: Knesset Passes “Nakba” and “Segregation” Laws
23 March, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Before Flying To Moscow, Netanyahu Approves Further Strikes In Gaza IMEMC – Wednesday March 23, 2011 – 23:05, Israeli sources reported Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip before he headed to Russia. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 23 March, 2011: Note To Progressives Who Back a No Fly Zone
23 March, 2011 — Information Clearing House Libya: Murder and Plunder Masquerading as “Humanitarian Intervention” By Orwellwasright A largely fabricated case for humanitarian intervention based on violence stoked by special forces troops and covert operations, with the consistent demonisation of the leader recast as a mass murdering tyrant. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27749.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 March, 2011: ‘Mossad snatched me, handcuffed me and hooded me’
22 March, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Eight Palestinians, Including Three Children, Killed By Army Fire In Gaza On Tuesday IMEMC – Wednesday March 23, 2011 – 04:22, In the most recent wave of Israeli military escalation targeting the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources reported that eight Palestinians, including… Continue reading