Middle East
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Palestine Self-Determination: UN Bid Heralds Death of Palestine’s Old Guard By Jonathan Cook
Amid the enthusiastic applause in New York and the celebrations in Ramallah, it was easy to believe — if only a for minute — that, after decades of obstruction by Israel and the United States, a Palestinian state might finally be pulled out of the United Nations hat. Will the world’s conscience be midwife to… 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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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9 September 2011: Russia / USA / Middle East / WWII / 9/11 / Taliban / Korea / Israel
9 September 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation 9/11: The Ultimate Triumph of the Strategy of Tension (II) 10.09.2011 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN (USA) Few media outlets reported on Bin Laden’s longstanding ties to the U.S. intelligence community, links that were maintained after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center… Bin Laden’s past ties Continue reading
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Russia’s Middle East dilemma Eric Walberg
Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of Western-backed regime change in Libya was not just Quixotic but downright stupid. Continue reading
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M.K. Bhadrakumar (India) – It is going to be Syria’s turn next
The narrative from Tripoli bears uncanny resemblance to Baghdad: A brutal, megalomaniacal dictator, who seemed omnipotent, gets overthrown by the people, and a wave of euphoria sweeps over an exhausted land. As the celebrations erupt, the western benefactor-cum-liberator walks on to the centre stage, duly taking stance on the ‘right side of history’. In the… Continue reading
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After Libya, Syria is Next in Line for a NATO Sponsored “Regime Change” By Patrick Henningsen
With globalist restructuring plans for the Middle East and North Africa looking to be nearly complete, one major hurdle remains. After a relatively easy path to victory in Tunisia and Egypt, and with the project to dismantle and re-privatise the Libyan state nearly complete, only Syria remains as the last serious contender for resistance against… 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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Global Research: “Humanitarian” Wars Without Borders: Selected Articles
“There are at present four distinct war theaters: Afghanistan-Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine and Libya. 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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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 15, 2011
15 August 2011 Stop NATO Gaddafi Calls On Libyans To Take Up Arms Against NATO Libyan War: U.S. Global Hawk Drone ‘Reaches Critical Milestone’ Iran Blasts NATO’s Meddling In Region As ‘Big Mistake’ Israel Plants New Mines, Deploys More Troops Along Syrian Border NATO’s Arm, The Neo-Ottomans State Department: U.S. Shifts Geostrategic, Military Focus From 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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Syria Newslinks 3 August 2011
3 August 2011 — williambowles.info Death Toll Mounts in Syria as UN Debates Resolution Voice of America August 03, 2011 Death Toll Mounts in Syria as UN Debates Resolution VOA News Syrian security forces have intensified their bloody siege against anti-government protesters, sending the three-day death toll above 130 as President Bashar al-Assad’s … http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Death-Toll-Mounts-in-Syria-as-UN-Debates-Resolution-126653473.html Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 1 August 2011
1 August 2011 — williambowles.info EU adds to sanctions on Assad No end in sight to Syrian clashes Russiatoday.ru Today at 16:51 Reports of heavy casualties during clashes between the Syrian army and opposition supporters have whipped up a wave of disapproval around the globe. While there are small signs that violence may be receding, Continue reading
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As In Serbia And Elsewhere, U.S. And NATO Target Media In Libya
This is not the first time that NATO and the U.S. have targeted journalists and media outlets. Other incidents included the deliberate targeting of journalists in occupied territories in the Middle East, the NATO bombardment of Radio Television Serbia (RTS) in Belgrade in 1999 and the American army bombing in Kabul and Baghdad of Al… Continue reading
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Arab Awakening By Joel Beinin
The ‘Palestine Papers’ published by the pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera in early January confirm that, under US pressure, PA negotiators offered concessions to the government of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert well beyond the Palestinian national consensus. Nonetheless, these offers were insufficient to reach an agreement. 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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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 26, 2011
26 July 2011 — Stop NATO Libya Accuses NATO Of Bombing Hospital, Killing Seven People NATO-ASEAN Partnership Against China? U.S. Central Command Gets Own Spy Satellite For Greater Middle East War Zones Georgia: U.S. Marines Lead Counterinsurgency Training NATO Blackmails Turkey Over Chinese, Russian Air Defense Systems British Attack Helicopter Injures Five Afghan Children Afghanistan: Continue reading
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A kinder Middle East hegemon By Eric Walberg
Unless Turkey’s NATO allies wake up and follow its lead, it could well abandon this 21st c white elephant. Whereas in 2004, 67 per cent in Turkey saw NATO membership as essential for national security, only 41 per cent did in 2011. And if Erdogan’s “new order” comes to fruition, with the region’s countries looking… 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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