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Wikileaks Newslinks 23 December 2011
23 December 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks founder helped Army private get data, prosecutors say Los Angeles Times During closing arguments in the pretrial hearing of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, prosecutors flashed excerpts of chat logs to the courtroom that they alleged showed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange coaching Manning on how to decode computer passwords to… Continue reading
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CBS, Panetta and (Hypothetical) Iranian Nukes
Now without knowing what was actually said in the full interview, it’s hard to know whether Panetta’s office is trying to walk back his careless, inaccurate rhetoric, or whether the CBS interviewer was pushing a hard line on Iran and nuclear weapons, treating the allegations being made about that country’s nuclear program as if they… Continue reading
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BA Report 21 December 2011: Failing Our Imprisoned Youth / Black Tolerance of Obama / Passing of a Racist
21 December 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Georgia Prison Strike, One Year Later: Activists Outside the Walls Have Failed Those Inside the Walls by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In December 2010 inmates in up to a dozen Georgia prisons either refused to leave their… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 19-20 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowless.info 19 December 2011 US: Iran a year away from nukes, strike ‘not off the table’ Russiatoday.ru Today at 17:36 Washington is not ruling out a military operation against Tehran if it gets wind of an Iranian nuke program, declared US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The US believes Iran could develop… Continue reading
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IRAN-DRONEGATE: Empires Don't Apologize: Iran in the Imperial Crosshairs By Tom Burghardt
In Washington’s bizarro world where war is peace the United States, which has Iran surrounded with a string of military bases and where nuclear-armed aircraft carrier battle groups and submarines ply the waters of the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, the aggressor is magically transformed into the aggrieved party. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 20, 2011
20 December 2011 — Stop NATO Military Chief: U.S. To Train ‘For All Potential Forms Of Warfare’ U.S., India, Japan To Hold First Trilateral Meeting: China Targeted Japan: Lockheed Wins Order For 42 F-35 Stealth Fighters NATO Defiant On Afghan Night Raids NATO Duty: 2,500 Polish Troops Spend Christmas In Afghanistan Big Shoulders In Chicago… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 December 2011: The Jews Go To War (With Themselves)
17 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlement Guard Mildly Injured In Stabbing Attack IMEMC – Israeli sources reported Saturday that a settlement guard, working at the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement, east of occupied East Jerusalem, suffered mild injuries after being stabbed. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 December 2011: How Maliki and Iran Outsmarted the U.S.
17 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama’s “Mission Accomplished” Troops and Prisons Move, Wars and Torture Never Ends By Ted Rall War is an addiction. If we wanted to, we could quit any time. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30023.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 December 2011: Soldiers: “West Bank Problem Is Jews, Not Palestinians”
16 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed By Army Fire In Central Gaza IMEMC – Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Saturday at dawn, a Palestinian man in Al Boreij Refugee camp, in central Gaza, medical sources reported. … Continue reading
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ICH Newsletter 16 December 2011: Obama's Hypocritical Embrace of a Criminal War
16 December 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama at Fort Bragg: A Hypocritical Embrace of a Criminal War By Bill Van Auken President Barack Obama used his speech to US troops at Fort Bragg, to embrace the nine-year war in Iraq that he had ostensibly opposed and to declare the destruction of the country a… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 12-16 December 2011
16 December 2011 — williambowles.info 16 December 2011 Iran denies construction of new nuclear plant in Isfahan Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 02:41 Continue reading
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IRAN-DRONEGATE: Washington’s Acrimony over the Downed Top Secret Spy Drone By Dr. Ismail Salami
The downing of the spy drone is a sign that Iran is militarily powerful and efficient. However, the secret mission of the drone, which is purported to have been the collection of secret data on the Iranian nuclear sites, consolidates the idea that Washington is more than ever bent on carrying out secret black operations inside… Continue reading
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IRAN-DRONEGATE: Washington's Acrimony over the Downed Top Secret Spy Drone By Dr. Ismail Salami
The downing of the spy drone is a sign that Iran is militarily powerful and efficient. However, the secret mission of the drone, which is purported to have been the collection of secret data on the Iranian nuclear sites, consolidates the idea that Washington is more than ever bent on carrying out secret black operations inside… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 15 December 2011: Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq
15 December 2011 — Information Clearing House “Yankee Go Home” Iraq Celebrates US Army Withdrawal By Reuters Iraqis burned American flags, brandished banners and thronged the streets of the western city of Falluja to celebrate the withdrawal of US troops. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29999.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 14 December 2011: Obama & GOP Clowns / Fascist America? /Dominican Rep Hates Blacks
14 December 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama and the GOP Circus Show by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Having shown his hand over the last three years as an eager – although often spurned – partner in Republican austerity politics, and a war-maker who could… Continue reading
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The Constitution Is Dead: The Gradual Transition towards an Orwellian Police State By Devon DB
Many in America still believe that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and that politicians, both Republican and Democrat alike, still hold that view and ensure that any and all legislation passed does not violate it. However, in today’s America, the Constitution is effectively a null and void document, nothing more than… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 5 December 2011
5 December 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning Wants Obama, Clinton as Witnesses Newser By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff (Newser) – Bradley Manning’s preliminary hearing is set to begin Dec. 16, and if the US Army private has his way, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be among the witnesses. The president and the secretary of… Continue reading
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‘West’s policy on Syria could ignite WWIII’ — RT
The situation in Syria is just a warm-up before a real confrontation, which will draw Russia and China into action, believes Lawrence Freeman from the Executive Intelligence Review magazine. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 26 November – 2 December 2011
3 December 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Iran and the Strategic Encirclement of Syria and Lebanon02.12.2011 | 10:26 | Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA (Canada) The encirclement of Syria and Lebanon has long been in the works. Since 2001, Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria… While Washington is engaged in… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 2 December 2011
2 December 2011 — williambowles.info Syria, Egypt and Middle East unrest – live updates The Guardian 12.25pm GMT / 7.25am EST: Egyptian state TV is saying the results of the first round of elections will be released at 8pm local time (6pm GMT, 1pm EST). Meanwhile, numbers at the march to honour those killed since… Continue reading