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Wikileaks Newslinks 14 June 2011
14 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks cables show worry about Saudi oil security MiamiHerald.com Secret US State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks and shared with McClatchy Newspapers and other news organizations show otherwise. Even though 70 percent of Saudi Arabia’s oil exports flow through the Abqaiq facility, Saudi security forces were … http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/13/2264843/wikileaks-cables-show-worry-about.html Continue reading
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Reporting From Tripoli: What is Really Happening in Libya By Cynthia McKinney
As my time in Libya winds down, I am rushing to see as much as I can. Continue reading
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U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 10 June 2011
10 June 2011 — williambowles.info Rowan Joffe Is Writing the Wikileaks Movie for HBO and BBC New York Magazine Remember Wikileaks? Rowan Joffe, who wrote both The American and 28 Weeks Later has signed on to write a new Wikileaks movie for HBO and BBC. The film will reportedly focus on creation myth of Wikileaks… Continue reading
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NATO’s “Alternate Universe” in Libya By Wayne Madsen
The Pentagon and its NATO partners are engaged in one of the most obvious and intensive propaganda ploys in their military operations against Libya since the days leading up to the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ attack on Iraq. Suggestions that the government of Muammar Qaddafi is on its last legs and that life in Tripoli… Continue reading
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Corporate Media’s Capital Crimes Against Libya – and Humanity By Glen Ford
Western reporters in Tripoli dismiss the casualties inflicted by their own countries’ bombs on Libyan civilians, but are careful to alert NATO when they themselves venture outside their hotels. The war criminals and their corporate media are morally – and probably legally – indistinguishable. Continue reading
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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 – What’s behind the protests? By Joyce Chediac
Protests against Western client regimes, such as those in Egypt and Tunisia that have so severely squeezed the workers, have the potential to liberate the people from crushing poverty and repression. However, the situations in Libya and Syria are somewhat different. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Miles – ‘So What’ with John Coltrane
Miles Dewey Davis III was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois. Miles’ mother was a blues pianist though she kept this hidden from him and his father a dentist. Davis began studying trumpet at the age of thirteen with local musician Elwood Buchanan and Buchanan would always stress to Miles to play without… Continue reading
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Protecting Us from Our Freedoms: Congress Set to Renew Patriot Act Spy Provisions By Tom Burghardt
As night follows day, you can count on Congress to serve as loyal servants and willing accomplices of our out-of-control National Security State. Last week, in another shameless demonstration of congressional “bipartisanship,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) forged a filthy backroom deal… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 May, 2011: Protester Who Heckled Netanyahu Beaten
25 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House Dispatch From Tripoli NATO’s Feast of Blood By Cynthia McKinney NATO only attacks (as does the US and its allies) the poor and underprivileged of the 3rd world. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28182.htm Continue reading
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Why are we banking on banks to a promote economic recovery? By Danny Schecter
This week the financial crisis finally went prime time in the form of a big budget HBO docudrama called “Too Big To Fail.” Continue reading
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The serious questions raised by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair By David North and David Walsh
The arrest of French financier and politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York City on sexual assault charges and his continued imprisonment is a disturbing event with far-reaching implications. Continue reading
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Call for Attacks on Libyan Infrastructure Provides Glimpse of NATO’s Real Motives By Conn Hallinan
‘The General suggested that NATO should be freed from restraints that precluded attacking infrastructure targets.’ Let us be clear what ‘infrastructure’ means: ‘The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants and schools’ (Random House Dictionary, Second Edition). Continue reading
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TO GAZA WITH LOVE – THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
The U.S. Boat to Gaza Campaign is collecting thousands of personal letters to the people of Gaza from people like you in the U.S., in an act of friendship and solidarity. These letters will be carried as our cargo on the U.S. Boat to Gaza when it sets sail in June 2011 in the next… Continue reading
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NATO’s Secret Ground War in Libya By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
From the outset, the conflict in North Africa was intended to lead into an all out NATO war. The Pentagon and NATO are not only arming the Transitional Council in violation of international law, they also had forces on the ground from the start. Continue reading
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Egypt's Christians Blame Army after Sectarian Violence By Simon Hanna
Coptic anger turns on the army after bloody sectarian violence gripped Cairo. The clashes between Muslims and Christians in Imbaba left at least 12 dead. Two churches were torched. It’s the latest in a string of sectarian incidents since Egypt’s revolution, which left the army in interim charge of the country. Continue reading
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America’s Libyans By Vijay Prashad
In December 23, 2010, before the Tunisian uprising, Boukhris, Charrani and Mansouri went to Paris to meet with Qaddafi’s old aide-de-camp, Nuri Mesmari, who had defected to the Concorde-Lafayette hotel. Mesmari was singing to the DGSE and Sarkozy about the weaknesses in the Libyan state. His man in Benghazi was Colonel Abdallah Gehani of the… Continue reading
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Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants: The No BS Info on Japan’s Disastrous Nuclear Operators by Greg Palast
I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report March 1st, 2011 by William Blum
Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name “Marshall Plan” keeps being repeated by political figures and media around the world as the key to rebuilding the economies of those societies to complement the political advances, which hopefully will be somewhat progressive. But caveat emptor. Let the buyer… Continue reading
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