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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 November, 2011: Jerusalem: Explosions, arrests and violence as Israel clears way for settlement activity
14 November 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center French Consul and Family wounded in Israeli Attack on Gaza IMEMC – On Monday, 14 November 2011, the French Consul in the Gaza Strip, Majdi Jameel Yaseen Shaqqoura, 44, his wife and his two children were wounded in an Israeli attack on the Palestinian… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 12 November 2011
12 November 2011 — williambowles.info Twitter ordered to give WikiLeaks probe info Times of India A US judge has ordered Twitter to disclose information about three account holders to US officials conducting a probe into WikiLeaks. SAN FRANCISCO: A US judge has ordered Twitter to disclose information about three account holders to US officials …… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 November 2011
11 November 2011 — williambowles.info Wikileaks Backers Lose Appeal of Order on Twitter Records BusinessWeek 10 (Bloomberg) — Three Wikileaks backers lost their appeal of a federal magistrate judge’s order allowing US prosecutors to examine information on them collected from their Twitter Inc. accounts. US District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria, Virginia, … http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-10/wikileaks-backers-lose-appeal-of-order-on-twitter-records.html Continue reading
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Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution By John Bellamy Foster
5 November 2011 — MRZine This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: US Might is Right
1 November 1st, 2011 — www.killinghope.org It doesn’t matter to them if it’s untrue. It’s a higher truth. “We came, we saw, he died.” — US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, giggling, as she spoke of the depraved murder of Moammar Gaddafi Imagine Osama bin Laden or some other Islamic leader speaking of 9-11: “We… Continue reading
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You Say You Want A Revolution. What Will Happen To Occupy Wall Street If It Loses Its Park? By Danny Schechter
The hard real-world contradictions of urban life have bumped up against the idyllic hopes of the occupiers as all the urban crises that our society has ignored and neglected surface in that half acre of hope. Continue reading
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Video: 'Build a future which reflects our dreams' — Angela Davis addresses Occupy Wall Street
Author, activist and member of the Committees of Correspondence (former Communist Party USA) Angela Davis spoke at Occupy Wall Street in Washington Square Park, New York City, on Sunday, October 30, 2011. Continue reading
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Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe By John Bellamy Foster
30 October 2011 — MRZine John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff at Occupy Wall Street. Photo by Carrie Ann Naumoff This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza),… Continue reading
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The execution of Gaddafi and the attempted humiliation of Africa By Horace Campbell
Horace Campbell reconstructs ‘the decision at the highest levels’ to execute Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi and considers ‘the urgency for organising to oppose the remilitarisation of Africa.’ Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street & the World Newslinks 25-27 October 2011
27 October 2011 — williambowles.info 27 October 2011Amidst police crackdown, widespread public support for Occupy movementWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 16:22Recent polls show widespread popular support for the Occupy Wall Street movement and its basic aims, centered on opposition to inequality and corporate domination of politics. The growth of support comes as local governments,… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 October 2011
27 October 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks suspends operations due to cash crunch Times of India (WikiLeaks will have to stop publishing secret cables and devote itself to fund-raising if it is unable to end a financial “blockade” by US firms.) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/WikiLeaks-suspends-operations-due-to-cash-crunch/articleshow/10485787.cms Continue reading
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ColdType, November 2011: OWS / Guantanamo / UK / South Africa / Libya…
Cover story this month is an 11-page section on the War on Wall Street with words by Tom Engelhardt and Richard Pithouse, accompanied by David Shankbone’s photo essay on the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City and a full-page cartoon from Mark Hurwitt. Continue reading
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Have Corporate Media Warmed to Occupy Wall Street?
Media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests started out exactly as one might expect. There was little coverage at first (FAIR Action Alert, 9/23/11), and as it expanded, much of it consisted of snide dismissals of demonstrators’ ignorance, hygiene and so on. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 19 October 2011
19 October 2011 — williambowles.info Kirby backs WikiLeaks Ninemsn WikiLeaks has found a champion in former High Court judge Michael Kirby, who believes the cyber whistleblower has brought more openness and justice to the world. Mr Kirby said his first reaction to WikiLeaks was that its founder, Julian Assange, … http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8362634 Continue reading
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America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time By Nick Turse
DRONES – THEY INCREASINGLY DOT THE PLANET. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where ‘pilots’ work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a… Continue reading
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Hundreds of Worldwide Occupy Protests Occupy One Inch of Front Page By Peter Hart
In case you’re having trouble finding it, it’s in the lower right-hand corner: a blurb approximately one column inch long, directing people to page A20 to find news about protests in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in ‘more than 900 cities in Europe, Africa and Asia.’ Continue reading
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The Iranian “Plot” by ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Even by the forgiving standards of American credulity, the supposed Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the US is spectacularly ludicrous. Why would Iran want to kill the Saudi envoy – the mild-mannered functionary, Adel al-Jubeir? Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street (and elsewhere) Newslinks 14-15 October 2011
15 October 2011 — williambowles.info 15 October 2011 Occupy Australia takes off — thousands in Melbourne and around the countryAt 11.30am on October 15, about 750 people converged on City Square in Swanston Street in Melboune’s CBD as part of the global Occupy Together movement. It is a movement inspired by the Occupy Wall Street… Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 10-11 October 2011
11 October 2011 — williambowles.info 11 October 2011 Student march backs Occupy BostonWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 12:55On Monday afternoon, several thousand students from the Boston area came out to back the Occupy Boston movement. Continue reading
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Occupy Wall Street Newslinks 7-8 October 2011
8 October 2011 — williambowles.info 8 October 2011 Occupy Wall Street and the Democratic Party World Socialist Web Site Today at 10:43 As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its fourth week, the movement confronts increasingly sharp political pressures and choices that center on what its relationship will be to the Democratic Party. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 