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Syria Newslinks 5-6 October 2011
6 October 2011 — williambowles.info 6 October 2011 UN Veto Spurs New Syria Push Wall Street Journal Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, which borders Syria and is seen to have some economic and diplomatic leverage, said his country would move ahead with sanctions despite the failure of the UN measure, which was vetoed Continue reading
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Turkey redraws Sykes-Picot By Eric Walberg
A new Bermuda Triangle has been spotted, but this one is in the eastern Mediterranean — between Turkey, Cyprus and Israel, observes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 23, 2011
23 September 2011 — Stop NATO Washington And The Middle East: Almost All Small Nations Challenging U.S. Hit By Strikes, Sanctions American Military Delegation Visits Lebanon-Israel Border Rasmussen: Chicago NATO Summit To Focus On Missile System, Afghan War Russia To Counter NATO ABM With Sea-Based Missile Defense FYI: Coming EU Collapse To Re-energize NATO Chinese Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 23 August 2011
23 August 2011 — williambowles.info Syria’s Death Told Reaches Over 2200 People NPR by Michele Kelemen A top UN Human Rights official says the death toll in Syria has climbed to over 2200 people, 350 of whom have been killed since the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. High Commissioner Navi Pillay repeated Continue reading
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Notice regarding the shooting of Franklin Lamb in Libya
The Palestine Civil Rights Campaign-Lebanon confirms reports that FranklinLamb was shot at approximately 11:45 a.m. on Sunday August 21 in Tripoli,Libya outside of the Corinthia Hotel where he has been staying. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 21 August 2011
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info 21 August 2011Syrian townspeople welcome army to rout “gangs” Russiatoday.ru Today at 07:33 This week pressure has been mounting again on the Syrian leader Bashar Assad. The US and European leaders called on him to step down, but Russia refused to support the demand, saying Assad should be given time Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 August, 2011: Ongoing Escalation Against Gaza, 7 Killed, Dozens Injured
19 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Gaza; 15 Palestinians Killed Due To Israeli Bombardment In 24 Hours IMEMC – Saturday August 20, 2011 – 03:20, As Israel continued the bombardment of the Gaza Strip since Thursday, Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the number of slain residents arrived Continue reading
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FRANKLIN LAMB: TRIPOLI ON THE CUSP
Truth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by ‘NATO rebels’ and certainly not by NATO country forces putting their boots on the ground. Continue reading
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A "Humanitarian War" on Syria? Military Escalation. Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? By Michel Chossudovsky
An attack on Syria would lead to the integration of these separate war theaters, eventually leading towards a broader Middle East-Central Asian war, engulfing an entire region from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
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A “Humanitarian War” on Syria? Military Escalation. Towards a Broader Middle East-Central Asian War? By Michel Chossudovsky
An attack on Syria would lead to the integration of these separate war theaters, eventually leading towards a broader Middle East-Central Asian war, engulfing an entire region from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 August, 2011: Senior Israeli archaeologist casts doubt on Jewish heritage of Jerusalem
9 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Army Re-opens Road from Nablus IMEMC – Tuesday August 09, 2011 – 17:34, Israeli soldiers opened a Nablus thoroughfare for the first time in 9 years according to Maan News Agency. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 August, 2011: Israeli Knesset considers bill to end ‘democratic’ element of Israeli state
4 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Committee enters Gaza for first time in 43 years IMEMC – Friday August 05, 2011 – 01:00, For the first time in forty-three years, an investigative committee of the United Nations General Assembly has managed to enter the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Silenced Evidence in Assassination of Rafik Hariri By Eslam al-Rihani
“Once the billionaire PM Rafik Hariri moves inside Beirut, everybody takes note of it. His limousine is equipped with a device able to foil any assassination attempt via booby-trapped car. Mobile phones are disrupted in the area near the convoy, … Whenever he leaves his house, his guards carry out car patrols in the streets… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 August, 2011: PA: ‘Alarming’ rise in Israel’s attacks on Palestinian children
1 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Municipalities Go on Strike as Israel Continues to Face Widespread Housing Protests IMEMC – Monday August 01, 2011 – 14:10, Most municipal authorities in Israel carried out a one day strike on Monday, as an act of solidarity with the popular protests Continue reading
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Libyan and Syrian Destabilization Campaigns Shift into Overdrive While Desperation Starts to Take Hold By Scott Creighton
While the people of this country are (rightly) preoccupied with the orchestrated debt ceiling “crisis”, aka the “austerity measures plan for America”, the globalists are using this moment to step up their convoluted destabilization efforts in Libya and Syria. They are becoming desperate and their lines of propaganda and their terrorists activities show it. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 22-28 July 2011
28 July 2011 — williambowles.info Tough bipartisan questioning by Congress of US policy on Syria Los Angeles Times Republican and Democratic members of a House panel complain that the effort to calibrate a message on Syria has failed to make it clear the US stands with protesters against an oppressive regime. By Paul Richter, Los Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 July, 2011: Undercover Forces Captured On Film Kidnapping A Palestinian Child in Jerusalem
27 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Knesset Grants Fundamentalist Settlement Groups Admin “National Gardens” Rights IMEMC – Wednesday July 27, 2011 – 23:40, On Wednesday, The Israeli Knesset approved in Preliminary Reading a law that allows “nonprofit” and nongovernmental fundamentalist Israeli settler groups, especially the El Ad group, administrative Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 16 July 2011
16 July 2011 — williambowles.info Syria rights group: 41 people were killed in Friday’s protests Ha’aretz By DPA Tags: Syria Bashar Assad Forty-one people were killed in Friday’s mass anti-government protests across Syria that were broken up by security forces using live ammunition, a human rights group said Saturday. The death toll was initially given Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 July, 2011: Israel’s Crackdown Grows with Boycott Bill
14 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Army Airstrikes Gaza; Four Residents, Including Two Children, Wounded IMEMC – Friday July 15, 2011 – 04:42, The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip leading to damages and four injuries among the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 July, 2011: Study: Israel’s wall segregates 13 percent of West Bank
11 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Last witness testifies in Rachel Corrie case; family says Israel suppressed evidence IMEMC – Monday July 11, 2011 – 21:07, The last witness testified Sunday in an Israeli court case seeking justice for slain peace activist Rachel Corrie. Col. Pinhas (Pinky) Zuaretz claimed Continue reading