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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 7 April 2011
7 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War Prepared For Months In Advance, Prelude To Larger War Report: NATO Air Strike Hits Major Libyan Oil Field Libyan War: Canada Adds Troops, Increases Bombing Raids NATO Steps Up Air Attacks; U.S., Italy Discuss Arming Libyan Rebels Turkey’s Role In Libyan War, NATO Missile Shield Linked: EU Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war: 7 April 2011
7 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War Prepared For Months In Advance, Prelude To Larger War Report: NATO Air Strike Hits Major Libyan Oil Field Libyan War: Canada Adds Troops, Increases Bombing Raids NATO Steps Up Air Attacks; U.S., Italy Discuss Arming Libyan Rebels Turkey’s Role In Libyan War, NATO Missile Shield Linked: EU Continue reading
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Ignoring its imperial history licences the west to repeat it By Seumas Milne
The reporters who heard David Cameron tell Pakistani students this week that Britain was responsible for ‘many of the world’s problems … in the first place’ seemed to think he was joking. But it’s a measure of how far Britain is from facing up to its own imperial legacy that his remarks were greeted with… Continue reading
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I believe I Saw Muammar Gadaffi On My Way To the Colosseum By Gaither Stewart
[berlusconi-otro-escandalo-] Silvio Berlusconi. Until yesterday a loyal pal of Gaddafi’s. Today, one of his executioners. Continue reading
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Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: 4 April 2011
4 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command Six Warships, 600 Marines: Britain Deploys Task Force To Libya Why NATO Cannot Be Trusted Mounting Alarm Over U.S. Use Of Depleted Uranium Arms In Libya Impact Of Depleted Uranium Ammunition In The War On Libya Today It Is Libya, Continue reading
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Reports suggest French intelligence encouraged anti-Gaddafi protests By Alex Lantier
Reports have emerged in European media alleging that efforts by French intelligence to destabilize or topple the Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi may have played a role in last month’s protests in Benghazi, which ultimately led to war in Libya. Continue reading
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No one seems to be in command by Gaither Stewart
Many (with ample reason) doubt claims of a spontaneous uprising of Libyan people, poorly armed and disorganized. Many suspect the usual hidden roles of foreign powers and that the Libyan crisis was created artificially, something like Iraq and Kosovo. Continue reading
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Stop Nato Daily Updates on Libyan war 21 March 2011
21 March 2011 — Stop NATO International Law Forbids “Humanitarian Bombings”: Russian MP German Foreign Minister Warns Of Protracted War In Libya Canadian Warplanes, Warship To Join Libyan Battle In 48 Hours Czech Foreign Minister Calls For NATO Takeover Of Libyan War Pentagon Chief: Hand Over Libya Military Operation To NATO Britain Wants To Shift Continue reading
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Silvio Berlusconi Underneath the Arches of Rubygate By Gaither Stewart
Bunga bunga” is a new word in the Italian vocabulary, familiar to probably 99 per cent of the nation’s sixty million inhabitants. Allegedly, Berlusconi borrowed the word from his friend, Muammar Gheddafi, the dictator of Libya known for his extravagant excesses, to describe his own private parties. Bunga bunga means sex games. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 19 February, 2011
19 February, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks: RCMP probed baby-smuggling ring Toronto Sun By Thane Burnett, QMI Agency Hidden in bureaucratic language and straight facts in newly released dispatches from overseas cables leaked by WikiLeaks is a chilling story of baby snatching that may run from Egypt to Canada. The cables point out that on … www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/02/18/17333591.html Continue reading
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Tunisia Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 15 February, 2011
15 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Upheaval Opens the Exits in Tunisia New York Times By THOMAS FULLER SEDOUIKECH, Tunisia — A dozen young men left this village of olive groves and whitewashed houses near the Mediterranean coast last week, … www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/africa/15tunisia.html Continue reading
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Tunisia mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 14 February, 2011
14 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Italy Seeks to Use Forces to Halt Illegal Immigrants From Tunisia New York Times Would-be immigrants from Tunisia were detained after arriving by boat on Lampedusa, a small Italian island closer to Tunisia than the Italian mainland. … www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/europe/14boats.html?src=twrhp Continue reading
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Greece – Ireland – Portugal – Spain – Italy – UK – Europe’s Financial Domino Effect Washington’s Blog
Iceland has the world’s 112th biggest economy, Ireland the 38th, and Portugal the 36th. In contrast, Spain has the world’s 9th biggest economy, Italy the 7th and the UK the 6th. A failure by one of the latter 3 would be devastating for the world economy. Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation online magazine latest publications 29 August – 4 September, 2010
4 September, 2010 — Strategic culture foundation 2010-08-31 Aleksandr SHUSTOV Islamization of Tajikistan “In recent years Tajikistan has been involved in the process of active Islamization. Being one of the poorest countries in the region, and still healing wounds of a bloody civil war of 1992-1997, Tajikistan turned out to be receptive to Islam. The Continue reading
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Fernando Nabais, “Umberto Digital Haiku No. 2”
An interactive cinematic experiment that reinterprets a shot from the film Umberto D by Vittorio de Sica, manipulating it in response to the attention that the viewer devotes to it. Umberto D depicts Italy in 1952 in the middle of a deep recession, a mirror of the current economic crisis. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 74 Ridding the world of the sickness of pacifism
Picture the scene: Afghanistan, two hijacked tankers filled with highly inflammable fuel, surrounded by a crowd of Afghans eager to syphon off some for free … What’s the last thing you want to do? Right — drop bombs on the tankers. That’s what a German military commander signaled an American drone airplane to do September… Continue reading
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THE ITALIAN CINEMA AND THE LEFT: On Rediscovering Roberto Rossellini-Filmmaker By Gaither Stewart
The story of Roberto Rossellini is a very Italian story, encompassing Italy in change from the Fascist period and, reaching beyond his lived life, until 2009. Though Europe is not Europe without Italy, Rossellini’s story, in the strictest sense, is a very Italian story; not an European story. For Italy, separated from the rest of… Continue reading
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Italy, Germany and Japan: Former World War II Axis Nations Repudiate Bans against “Preparing for War” By Rick Rozoff
A press report on August 10 revealed that the government of Italy is planning to modify if not dispense with its post-World War II constitutional limitations on conducting offensive military operations; that is, to reverse a 61-year ban on waging war. The news story, reminding readers that “Italy’s post-World War II constitution places stringent limits… Continue reading
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