Libya
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Human rights fact-finders show Libyan deaths, injuries not ‘propaganda’ By Deborah Dupre
In the CIA kick-started war on Libya, The New York Times report Monday by John F. Burns, calling Libyan civilian casualties “propaganda,” does not square with a series of WBAIX in-hospital interviews with civilian victim survivors of US/NATO intensifying bomb raids, both witnessed by a human rights fact-finding mission including Cynthia McKinney and former MPs… Continue reading
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Syria may become another Iraq – author — RT
France and Britain are building the diplomatic pressure against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying he has lost his legitimacy. They are calling for a special UN resolution on Syria, which Russia strongly opposes. Author Jean Bricmont says that what France and Britain are doing is ‘crazy.’ Continue reading
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Media Manipulation and the Endless Onslaught of Empire Selected Articles
7 June 2011 — Global Research Media Manipulation: The Propaganda Machine at Work VIDEO: Mladic Arrest Will Not Open EU Doors to Serbia Watch the interview on GRTV – by Boris Malagurski – 2011-06-07 Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 7 June 2011
7 June 2011 — williambowles.info Morning Star: Help for expats in war zone by Our Foreign DeskBBC: Yemen’s Saleh ‘gravely wounded’BBC: Clashes rock south Yemen citiesSCF: Iran urges Yemeni people not to allow foreign meddlingUK marines on Yemen exit standbySocialist Worker: Yemen after Saleh?SCF: EU leaders call on Yemeni people to reconcile Continue reading
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Going Rogue: NATO War Crimes in Libya By Susan Lindauer
It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels or else rape them in front of… Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 7 June 2011: Gates Says NATO Forces Ready for Decisive Blow in Afghanistan
7 June 2011 — williambowles.info Libya crisis: Tripoli hit by Nato air strikes BBC News Huge explosions have rocked the Libyan capital, Tripoli, during a series of air strikes by low-flying Nato jets. Some of the blasts appeared to strike close to the compound of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The attacks came as diplomatic… Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: June 7, 2011
7 June 2011 — Stop NATO 81-Day War Against Libya: Over 10,000 NATO Sorties Video And Text: NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli Eurasian Heartland: U.S. Breathes Life Into New Cold War Strait Of Malacca: U.S. To Establish New Base In Singapore U.S. To Expand Military Presence In Asia: Gates Largest-Ever U.S.-India Military Deal Indian Ocean:… Continue reading
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Cynthia McKinney’s truth dispatches from Libya: Days 1-3 By Wayne Madsen
During the last air sanctions against Libya, imposed by the United Nations in 1992 over alleged Libyan involvement in the bombings of PanAm 103 and UTA 772, many Libyans traveling to and from Tripoli were forced to fly through Tunisia, traveling overland to and from the Tunisian border to their homes in Libya. With European… Continue reading
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Russia’s U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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Russia's U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 June, 2011: US Unemployment Worse than During Great Depression
6 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House “Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across… Continue reading
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Libya Mostly Mainstream Newslinks 6 June 2011
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info Libyan Rebels Retake Town in West New York Times By JOHN F. BURNS TRIPOLI, Libya — Following a series of NATO airstrikes, rebel forces retook the western mountain town of Yafran on Monday, breaking a month-long siege by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, news agencies reported. … Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 6 June 2011: Pakistan: Masses to block Nato supplies: JI chief
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info 2 Are Killed in Sixth NATO Copter Crash Since Late April in Afghanistan New York Times By RAY RIVERA KABUL, Afghanistan — Two NATO service members died Sunday when their helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan. It was the latest in a string of crashes in recent weeks that were being… Continue reading
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The Libyan (Vietnam) Syndrome by Vladimir Fedoruk
[I]t seems like the US forces have stuck in Libya for long, like it is in Afghanistan and Iraq and, if we take some glance back into history, like it was in Vietnam. It becomes increasingly clear by the day that the NATO bombings are not helping to solve the Libyan conflict…. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 6, 2011: China: U.S. Waging Global Internet War
6 June 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s Air War Against Libya: 9,917 Air Missions, 3,752 Combat Flights Libya: Bishop Decries NATO Bombing Of Church, Warns Of Partition U.S. Drone Missile Strikes Kill 20 In Pakistan Pakistan: Two NATO Tankers Destroyed NATO Launches Multinational Exercises In Southern Ukraine China: U.S. Waging Global Internet War Anti-Russian Trans-Caspian… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6 June 2011
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info SCF: NATO to take its time in Libya Stop Nato: Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 6, 2011 Global Research: The Libyan (Vietnam) Syndrome Global Research: LIBYA: NATO IS ONE STEP FROM A GROUND WAR RT: Medvedev discusses Libya with African Union chairman 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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Libyan NATO rebels force captured Libyan army soldiers to eat raw dog meat
Other videos widely circulated but too graphic to display on a news agency web site, include the cold blooded murder of a surrendered soldier who said his heart is with Muammar Qaddafi, was then beheaded while handcuffed, and his heart cut out. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 June, 2011: Couple Foreclose On Bank of America: Sweet Justice
5 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” – Rosa Luxemburg The State Of The Empire: Some Reflections on the Geopolitical Situation By Ninan Koshy The Bush administration had redefined war objectives in terms of “changing the regime of an adversary state” and “occupying foreign territory… Continue reading
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Libya: NATO's War Of Aggression Against A Sovereign African State By Obi Nwakanma
The use of Western troops in Africa – particularly in the case of France – the use of its paratroopers, first in Ivory Coast, and now in Libya, represents a new strategic declaration of war against Africa, the African interest, and the African continent. In NATO’s disregard of AU, there is without doubt a remanifestation… Continue reading
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