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Libya Newslinks 24 August 2011
24 August 2011 — williambowles.info Pro-Gadhafi forces try to halt rebels’ momentum CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Libyan rebels weathered resistance from pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces in several volatile pockets across Tripoli on Wednesday, and a few dozen journalists kept hostage for days by the strongman’s armed … http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/24/libya.war/ Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 23 August 2011
23 August 2011 — williambowles.info Where’s Kadafi? Rumors of his whereabouts preoccupy Libya Los Angeles Times By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times He has exasperated the world for decades and, now, amid gun battles and artillery smoke, Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi’s whereabouts are a mystery. The fight for the Libyan capital,Tripoli, seems far from over… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 23 August 2011
23 August 2011 — williambowles.info Syria’s Death Told Reaches Over 2200 People NPR by Michele Kelemen A top UN Human Rights official says the death toll in Syria has climbed to over 2200 people, 350 of whom have been killed since the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. High Commissioner Navi Pillay repeated… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 22 August 2011
22 August 2011 — williambowles.info Libya Revolution Puts Obama Administration on Alert for Pitfalls of Transition Fox News AP People celebrate the capture in Tripoli of Muammar al-Qaddafi’s son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Aug. 22. With another Arab country on the cusp of deposing its leader,… Continue reading
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Tanks shell rebels in Gaddafi compound assault — RT
Early on Monday morning, tanks rolled out of Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli residence and began shelling the rebels who had gathered near the compound as sustained heavy gunfire was heard in the Libyan capital. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20-21 August 2011
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info 21 August 2011Libya rebels seek to avoid Tripoli battleReutersBy Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – Libyan rebel forces ill-equipped to fight their way into a city the size of Tripoli may look to locally brokered deals or a burgeoning popular uprising to break the will of Muammar …http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/21/us-libya-tripoli-battle-idUSTRE77K1O320110821 Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 18-20 August 2011
20 August 2011 — williambowles.info 20 August 2011 Jay Rothermel, “Who Defends Syria’s Sovereignty?” MRZine.org Today at 15:43 Continue reading
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Syria: Obama Threatens U.S. Military Intervention By Sara Flounders
President Barack Obama on Aug. 18 demanded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, saying that the Syrian leader’s days are numbered. The governments of Britain, France and Germany joined in this demand. This statement is a blatant imperialist interference in Syria’s internal affairs. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 August 2011: Save Yourselves, Not Obama / Black Libya City Falls / Prez Bachmann
17 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left It’s Too Late To Save The Obama Administration. Can We Still Save Ourselves? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Two and half years into the Obama presidency, some of us spend more time mooning over pretty pictures of… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 August, 2011: Did Tenet Hide Key 9/11 Info?
17 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Donors Help Keep Palestinians In Cages By Charlotte Silver “Israel besieges us, puts us in cantons – in cages – and the international community is feeding us in these cages. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28858.htm Continue reading
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Video: U.S. Marines fighting with rebels in Misurata
A U.S. Marine talking on what they are going to do & how they are going to aid the rebels! oops I thought Obama said that no U.S. Army/Marine would put foot on the ground of Libya. Here is the proof that American Troops are on the ground of the Libyan soil Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 17, 2011
17 August 2011 — Stop NATO Lockheed, MEADS Unveil European Interceptor Missile Battle Manager South Korea Builds Supersonic Cruise Missiles To Strike Aircraft Carriers South Korea To Deploy Powerful Anti-Submarine Missiles On Aegis Class Destroyers Warfighting Capabilities: U.S. Applies Afghan, Iraqi Combat Experience In Massive South Korean War Games Raytheon, Rafael Market U.S.-Compatible Israeli Missile… 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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As Economy Crumbles, Media Goes into Ritual Politics Mode: What is Michelle Bachmann wearing? By Danny Schechter
And so it came to pass, as predicted, projected, and warned about, that the economy is about to tank again. No less an authority than Nouriel Roubini, once dismissed as “Dr. Doom” for his accurate predictions of the financial crisis in 2007 and 20088, is shaking his head and pointing his finger again. Continue reading
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NATO’s Puppet Regime in Libya Falls Apart By Peter Symonds
What emerges is a devastating indictment of the Obama administration and its European allies along with all the pseudo left organisations and liberals such as American professor Juan Cole, who have acted as cheerleaders for the NATO bombing campaign in Libya. A TNC regime imposed on Libya by NATO would be at least as corrupt… Continue reading