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Libya Mostly Mainstream Newslinks 6 June 2011
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info Libyan Rebels Retake Town in West New York Times By JOHN F. BURNS TRIPOLI, Libya — Following a series of NATO airstrikes, rebel forces retook the western mountain town of Yafran on Monday, breaking a month-long siege by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, news agencies reported. … Continue reading
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The Libyan (Vietnam) Syndrome by Vladimir Fedoruk
[I]t seems like the US forces have stuck in Libya for long, like it is in Afghanistan and Iraq and, if we take some glance back into history, like it was in Vietnam. It becomes increasingly clear by the day that the NATO bombings are not helping to solve the Libyan conflict…. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6 June 2011
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info SCF: NATO to take its time in Libya Stop Nato: Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 6, 2011 Global Research: The Libyan (Vietnam) Syndrome Global Research: LIBYA: NATO IS ONE STEP FROM A GROUND WAR RT: Medvedev discusses Libya with African Union chairman Continue reading
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Empire or Republic. How the Empire Destroys its Own People By Prof. James Petras
On May 29, 2011, President Obama visited Joplin, Missouri , the site of a devastating tornado that killed 140 and pronounced it a terrible “tragedy”. But were the deaths the inevitable result of ‘natural events’ beyond the human intervention? Coincidentally the same week Afghan President Karzai condemned the killing of a family of 14 by… Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 4-6 June 2011
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info 6 June 2011 SCF: Saudi TV: Saleh to return to Yemen after surgeries, recovery SCF: Yemeni government troops retreat from cease-fire area in Sanaa: official BBC: Yemeni president is ‘recovering’ 5 June 2011 Greanville Post: Obama the Minimalist SCF: Yemen opposition to work with U.S., Gulf to prevent president’s return… Continue reading
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In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice By Pankaj Mishra
At a dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose centenary falls this year, wrote: “We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton”. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 5 June 2011
5 June 2011 — williambowles.info British Foreign Secretary Visits Libyan Rebels Voice of America Photo: AP British Foreign Secretary William Hague has arrived in Libya for talks with opposition leaders in the rebel stronghold, Benghazi. Hague is one of the highest-ranking foreign officials to visit the rebel-held territory. … www.voanews.com/english/news/British-Foreign-Secretary-Visits-Libyan-Rebels-123157523.html Continue reading
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"No Shred of Evidence", Iran Building Nukes, Ex Head of IAEA Says By Sherwood Ross
The former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a new published report that he had not seen “a shred of evidence” that Iran was “building nuclear-weapons facilities and using enriched materials.” Continue reading
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ARISTIDE STANDS, THE PEOPLE STAND By Nia Imara
With President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s return to Haiti this past March, President Obama once again landed his administration on the wrong side of history. After seven years of forced exile in South Africa—an exile orchestrated and imposed by the United States—Aristide and his family returned home to the rejoicing of millions of their fellow citizens. Continue reading
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Western Libya Portrait is not What is being Painted by Mainstream Media By Wayne Madsen
Western media reports continue to indicate that Libyan rebels trying to oust Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi from power, backed by daily NATO air strikes, are gaining ground in western Libya but during a six-hour drive from the Tunisian border to Tripoli, the Libyan capital, this reporter saw no signs of Libyan rebel successes in western… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 2-4 June 2011
4 June 2011 — williambowles.info 4 June 2011 BBC: UK helicopters in Libya attacks RT: NATO deploys attack helicopters in Libya Mathaba: Libyan Terrorists Reject Ceasefire Proposal SCF: NATO launches helicopter strikes in Libya SCF: U.S. House adopts resolution rebuking Obama on Libya MRZine: Robert Naiman, “At Long Last, House Debates and Votes on Libya… Continue reading
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Every President and Congress Are Complicit in Israel’s “War Crimes” by Mohamed Khodr
Under International Law and America’s War Crimes Act, all U.S. Presidents and the 535 members of the U.S. Congress are “complicitors” in Israel’s long history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; and as such are “war criminals” themselves. Continue reading
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Every President and Congress Are Complicit in Israel’s “War Crimes” by Mohamed Khodr
Under International Law and America’s War Crimes Act, all U.S. Presidents and the 535 members of the U.S. Congress are “complicitors” in Israel’s long history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity; and as such are “war criminals” themselves. Continue reading
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The Anglo-American Military Axis: West Backs Holy Alliance For Control Of Arab World And Persian Gulf By Rick Rozoff
The standard-bearers of Anglo-American imperialism in the current epoch, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron, met in London on May 25 to discuss the world’s two ongoing wars of aggression, those in Afghanistan and Libya, both under the command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization dominated by Washington and London. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 May, 2011:
27 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers To March In Sheikh Jarrah Next Wednesday IMEMC – Saturday May 28, 2011 – 02:56, Extremist Israeli settlers intend to hold a provocative procession starting from Sheikh Jarrah Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem to mark 44 years since Israel occupied the city. Continue reading
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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 27 May 2011
27 May 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Visegrad Bloc 27.05.2011 | 17:00 | Vladislav GULEVICH (Ukraine) The countries of the Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) on the 12th of May announced their intention to create a new military bloc, which by the year 2016 might turn into a full-fledged organization,… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter May 27, 2011: Nato Rejects Libya Truce Offer
May 27, 2011 — Information Clearing House The New Face Of War “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges” By Conn Hallinan The assassination of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden did more than knock off America’s Public Enemy Number One, it formalized a new kind of warfare, where sovereignty is irrelevant, armies tangential, and decisions are… Continue reading
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Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey By John Pilger
When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser ‘destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt’. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven ‘into the gutter from which they… Continue reading
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Syria, Libya, and Russia’s Retreat from “Reset” By M K Bhadrakumar
The last thing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did before departing for France to attend this week’s Group of Eight summit meeting in Deauville was place a call to Damascus. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 May, 2011: CCR Launches Lawsuit In Connection With Last Year’s Raid of Flotilla Bound to Gaza
26 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Vice-PM Shalom Against Opening Gaza Crossing IMEMC – Thursday May 26, 2011 – 17:08, Israeli Vice-Premier Silvan Shalom has spoken out against the easing of the blockade on Gaza through relaxed restrictions at the Egypt-Gaza crossing at Rafah, according to the Jerusalem Post. Continue reading
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