Libya
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"Freedom Fighters": The Foot Soldiers of the American Empire By Julie Lévesque
Since the end of World War II, the Anglo-American Empire has covertly supported the deployment of foreign and domestic “foot soldiers”, including terrorists and paramilitary brigades to bring about regime change and further its agenda of World domination. Continue reading
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The US-NATO War on Syria: Western Naval Forces Confront Russia Off the Syrian Coastline? By Michel Chossudovsky
While confrontation between Russia and the West was, until recently, confined to the polite ambit of international diplomacy, within the confines of the UN Nations Security Council, an uncertain and perilous situation is now unfolding in the Eastern Mediterranean. Continue reading
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GR: “Progressive” War Propaganda: Deception with a Human Face Selected Articles
Is the Western “progressive” alternative media being duped by classic war propaganda cloaked in a humanitarian narrative or is it trying to lure the public into supporting military intervention? Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 July 2012: Does the NSA Have a File On You? Probably
26 July 2012 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria Western Troops ‘Increasingly Likely’ to Intervene By Nick Hopkins “It is highly likely that some western special forces and intelligence resources have been in Syria for a considerable time,” says Colonel Richard Kemp. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31990.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Libyan Elections – Burying The Amnesty Report By David Edwards
And indeed everyone, of course, knew that ‘democracy’ in Iraq had to be ‘sensitive’ to American concerns, not least in regard to ‘guys with turbans’ (which sounded like a euphemism for ‘towelheads’). It was obvious what ‘acceptable to the Americans’ meant for the claim that the elections were in any real sense ‘free’. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Blocked By The BBC on Twitter By David Cromwell
Has the internet made journalists more accountable to the public? Only if media professionals are actually willing to engage with those who consume their output. In the case of the publicly-funded BBC, the onus on editors and journalists is surely all the greater. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 July 2012: Pilot Sings As He Kills Afghan – Video
6 July 2012 — Information Clearing House U.S. Helicopter Blasts Afghan Man to Pieces… As The Pilot Sings ‘Bye, Bye Miss American Pie’ Video It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31780.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 July 2012: “Collaborator Confesses To Poisoning Arafat”, Al-Mayadeen Reports
5 July 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center General Assembly of US Presbyterian Church Narrowly Votes Against DivestmentIMEMC – The General Assembly of the US Presbyterian Church narrowly voted against divestment in three companies doing business with the Israeli military. The extremely close vote on Thursday, 333-331 against the resolution, came after the Continue reading
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RT: Washington's road to Iran goes through Syria By Veronika Krasheninnikova
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists that the principle of “mutual consent” on which a “transitional government”in Syria would be based, means President Assad has to go. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the contrary, insists the formation of a “transitional government” will be made on inclusive basis. Continue reading
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Video: Ed Herman on "Humanitarian Imperialism" Pt. 2
Edward Herman Pt2: The development of humanitarian intervention as a concept is essentially an overthrow of international law (includes transcript) Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 26 June 2012: History of the US-Israel Relationship
26 June 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria and Turkey’s Phantom War By Pepe Escobar Imagine if this was a Syrian jet flying over Turkish or Israeli territory. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31713.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 June 2012: “Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November”
25 June 2012 — Information Clearing House “Netanyahu has Decided to Attack Iran Before the U.S. Elections in November”By Michael CarmichaelNetanyahu‘s agenda is much broader than knocking out Iranian nuclear installations for his aim is to reshape the political landscape in the USA and Israel shifting everything to the far, far right in order to Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 May 2012: Nuke Mecca: US Military Teaches Officers
11 May 2012 — Information Clearing House “U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam,” By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman “The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a ‘total war’ against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31290.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 May 2012: ‘Dad, They Are Killing Me’ : Video – Police Brutality
8 May 2012 — Information Clearing House US Kills 5 Afghan Kids By Glenn Greenwald The way in which the U.S. media ignores such events speaks volumes about how we perceive them. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31275.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 May 2012: No closure in killing of 21 Gaza family members
8 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Supreme Court Decides to Remove Palestinians Their Homes In JerusalemIMEMC – The Palestinian News Network, PNN, reported that the Israeli Supreme Court has decided to remove the families of Ghazi Zalloum and Ismail Wazwaz from their homes in the neighborhood of Alqurma in the occupied Old Continue reading
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From the Cold War to NATO's "Humanitarian Wars" – The Complicity of the United Nations By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Humanitarian wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” are a modern form of imperialism. The standard pattern that the United States and its allies use to execute them is one where genocide and ethnic cleansing are vociferously alleged by a coalition of governments, media organizations, and non-governmental front organizations. The allegations… Continue reading
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World On The Brink Of Third World War By Nadir Mir*
US geostrategy has been embroiled in Afghanistan and Iraq; now it seeks to extend the war to Iran-Pakistan. Of course, the real war is against Russia and China, the opposing alliance. Washington sees China rising, Russia resurgent, the Islamic world defiant (with the Arab Spring likely to turn anti-Western) and Israel endangered, besides Western economic… Continue reading
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Syrian Victims: When Truth Is the First Casualty of War By Ross Ruthenberg
The Western mainstream media continuously beat the war drums for Libya-like treatment of Syria, using body count statistics to attempt to paint the year-old Syrian conflict as a humanitarian disaster crying out for NATO and its allies to bomb the government’s military forces into submission. Ironically, under the guise of “responsibility to protect”, the NATO… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-24 March 2012: Internet / Egypt / Azerbaijan / Latin America-Cuba / Afghanistan / Libya / UK
24 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Cyber security: new threats, new opportunities 24.03.2012 | 00:00 | Andrey NOVATSKY Speaking about the stronger cyber threats the US government mentions a new symbolic “Axis of Evil”: China – Russia – North Korea. The US claims that most of the cyber attacks on informational infrastructure of the US Continue reading
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Syria: China And Russia Slow Down West’s Global Military Juggernaut
The West has dominated the evolution of the Arab Spring. The change of tone is good for China and Russia. If this trend continues, it may break the tradition of the West dominating Middle Eastern affairs. Continue reading
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