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Report: Ground Invasion of Libya Within Two Weeks? By Paul Joseph Watson
In a piece entitled, US and NATO prepare final assault on Qaddafi, DebkaFile cites military sources for its contention that NATO powers are finalizing plans for a “large-scale, all-out military bid to kill or oust” Colonel Gaddafi. Continue reading
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European Missile System: NATO Not Prepared To Compromise
Perhaps somebody in the Kremlin at that time had hopes that NATO would listen to reason. But I think the evidence of the Sochi NATO-Russia Council meeting suggests that NATO is not budging, it is not prepared to compromise. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: July 2, 2011
2 July 2011 — Stop NATO Video And Text: Even If Gaddafi Is Killed, NATO To Take Over North Africa Clinton, Community Of Democracies And Invasions Of Sovereign Nations Prague/Arab Springs: Clinton Targets Syria, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia Russia Slams West For Striving To Topple Middle Eastern Governments $4 Trillion For U.S. Wars; Quarter Million Killed, Continue reading
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Sabotage of M.V. Saoirse in Turkey ‘an act of international terrorism’
The Irish-owned ship, the MV Saoirse, that was meant to take part in Freedom Flotilla 2 has been sabotaged in a dangerous manner in the Turkish coastal town of Göcek, where it had been at berth for the past few weeks. Visual evidence of the undership sabotage, which was carried out by divers, will be… Continue reading
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Arresting Sheikh Raed Salah: An Israeli trap for Britain By Haneen Zoabi
In arresting Sheikh Raed Salah, the UK authorities support the persecution of Arab citizens of Israel Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 28, 2011
28 June 2011 — Stop NATO Reports Of U.S. Military Plans Against Libya, Syria Cause Concern U.S. Aircraft Supercarrier Enters Mediterranean For ‘NATO Missions’ Libya: International Criminal Court Cover For NATO Operations All Freedom-Loving People Must Condemn NATO Action In Libya Germany To Supply NATO With Arms For Assault On Libya UN: U.S. Gets 4,200 Continue reading
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BDS update: Fighting apartheid on land and sea By Eric Walberg
As the second Freedom Flotilla packs its humanitarian aid and prepares to brave the wrath of the Israeli navy, boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) activities continue on the homefront, notes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Fukushima and the Mass Media Meltdown: The Repercussions of a Pro-Nuclear Corporate Press By Keith Harmon Snow
A sociological and technological discussion — in the wake of the out-of-control nuclear apocalypse in Japan — addressing the compromise of public health and security created by the failure of the western corporate mass media to equitably report on, mildly investigate, or even moderately challenge, the nuclear power industry. Continue reading
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There Was No Libyan Peaceful Protest, Just Murderous Gangs and Nic Robertson By Jay Janson
Nic Robertson and Anderson Cooper are surely aware of their achievement in promoting the human carnage of civil war and the destruction of a beautifully well-kept and prosperous nation, the 53rd highest developed country in the world with free health care and education. A standard of living that was higher than nine European nations, including… Continue reading
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THE SPANISH MODEL By Isidro López & Emmanuel Rodríguez
Prior to the debacle of 2008, Spain’s economy had been an object of particular admiration for Western commentators. [1] To reproduce the colourful metaphors of the financial press, in the 1990s and early 2000s the Spanish bull performed much better than the moping lions of ‘Old Europe’. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 13, 2011
13 June 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon Chief Praises NATO’s Arab Monarch Allies For Libyan War Aid U.S., NATO Hold Proliferation Security Initiative Drills In Mediterranean Libya: NATO Conducts 10,822 Sorties, 4,102 Strike Missions German Foreign Minister In Benghazi Syria On The Boil, U.S. Warship In The Black Sea Poland: Permanent U.S. Air Base, NATO Continue reading
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A concerted effort from Europe against Israeli produce exporter Agrexco By Stephanie Westbrook
This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant. Continue reading
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Would A $5-A-Day Minimum Wage Make Life Better In Haiti? By Adam Davidson
8 June 2011 — National Public Radio Today, The Nation and Haiti Liberte posted a story about some Wikileaks memos that reveal that “Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the U.S. Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers.” Continue reading
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The rights of Israel By Joseph Massad
Israel’s entire basis for beginning negotiations lies in the false premise that it has a ‘right’ to exist Continue reading
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Promised Crossing Denied By Mohammed Omer
RAFAH, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) – Many hoping to find free movement between Egypt and Gaza have found the border gates at the Rafah crossing closed. Egyptian officials closed the gates on Saturday, according to Palestinian officials. Continue reading
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Franklin Lamb: Israelis Rush for Second Passports
Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepared to exercise their… Continue reading
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LIBYA: NATO IS ONE STEP FROM A GROUND WAR
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov on Sunday said he was concerned about NATO’s use of attack helicopters in Libya, warning the alliance was one step away from a land war, DPA reported. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 6 June 2011: Wikileaks: Inside story of Megrahi’s return home
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks’ Julian Assange wades into superinjunctions TechEye The Wikileaks founder, who is currently fighting extradition to Sweden, where he has faced allegations of sexual assault, has decided to ruffle feathers by claiming that the FBI tried to bribe the organisation’s staff. That’s according to the Daily … www.techeye.net/business/wikileaks-julian-assange-wades-into-superinjunctions Continue reading
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Video: Private Israeli security guard attacks protesters with live fire
Israeli private security opens live fire on unarmed Israeli and Palestinians demonstrators. Army arrives and throws tear gas on the demonstrators. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 4, 2011
4 June 2011 — Stop NATO “Big Players In NATO”: Canada Plans International Bases First German Ground Combat Since World War II: Four Soldiers Killed, 12 Injured In Afghanistan Recently Oklahoma: National Guard Units Headed To Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait And Horn Of Africa Romania: 24 U.S. F-16s Could Be Added To 24 Interceptor Missiles Romania: U.S. Marines Continue reading
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