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CIA Chiefs Face Arrest over Horrific Evidence of Bloody 'Video-Game' Sorties by Drone Pilots By David Rose
The Mail on Sunday today reveals shocking new evidence of the full horrific impact of US drone attacks in Pakistan. A damning dossier assembled from exhaustive research into the strikes’ targets sets out in heartbreaking detail the deaths of teachers, students and Pakistani policemen. It also describes how bereaved relatives are forced to gather their… Continue reading
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Video: If the "War On Drugs" has Failed, is Legalization the Answer?
Leigh Maddox and Peter Christ (members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition): The “War on Drugs” helped create a situation where from gangs, to police to lawyers to jails, there is massive amounts of money to be made in this never-ending “war” Continue reading
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ICH 15 October 2012: Blood, Oil, and “The American Dream”
15 October 2012 — Information Clearing House Blood, Oil, and “The American Dream” By William Manson In our times, in a media-saturated culture in which well-packaged and comforting lies are explicitly preferred to unsettling truths, those who reveal sordid realities are often dismissed if not reviled. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32752.htm Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 8 October 2012: You look foreign: bring your passport, it’s what the UKBA would want
8 October 2012 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Western Balkan states held back by lawlessness2. EU: Council of the European Union: Common European Asylum System – State of play3. EU: EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT: FINLAND, DENMARK & SWEDEN4. EU: Council of the European Union: Military Command and Control, JCOs and Auditors letter on Home Affairs funding Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 7 October 2012: Families Of Marmara Victims File Lawsuit Against Israel
7 October 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 10 Palestinians Injured By Army Missiles In RafahIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that ten Palestinians were injured, on Sunday evening, when the Israeli Air Force fired several missiles into Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Some of the wounded residents are in… Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 6 October 2012: Israeli soldiers prevent farmers from accessing land
6 October 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Families Of Marmara Victims File Lawsuit Against IsraelIMEMC – The Turkish Hurriyet Daily reported that 33 family members of Turkish citizens who were shot and killed by the Israeli army when Israel attacked the Mavi Marmara solidarity ship that was heading to Gaza in 2010, filed… Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 5 October 2012: Why Israel’s “refugee day” is a smokescreen to deny Palestinian rights
5 October 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Solidarity Ship Sailing to GazaIMEMC – The Helsingin Sanomat Swedish paper reported that Estelle, a Swedish-owned ship sailing under a Finnish flag, is on en route to the besieged Gaza Strip carrying tons of aid supplies to the besieged coastal region. … Continue reading
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Spanish State 25S: The Salvaging of Democracy By Esther Vivas
“They call it democracy but this isn’t one” was the cry repeated in the squares and on the demonstrations. And as time went by, this slogan took on still more meaning. The stigmatization and repression against those who struggle in the street for their rights has only intensified in recent times. The worse the crisis… Continue reading
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ICH 4 October 2012: Voting for Death
4 October 2012 — Information Clearing House Ex-defense Chief Says Attack On Iran Would Be Disastrous By Bill Sizemore Neither the United States nor Israel is capable of wiping out Iran‘s nuclear capability, he said, and “such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32644.htm Continue reading
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The BBC’s Coverage of Southern Europe by Dan Hind
Yesterday’s main news bulletin on BBC 1 somehow managed to miss another large demonstration against austerity in Lisbon, where tens of thousands gathered in the capital’s Praca de Comercio square. The bulletin also didn’t find time for yet more protests in Madrid. Continue reading
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The Summer of Muslim Discontent: It’s Not “The Amateur Film” Stupid! By James Petras
The legacy of imperial intervention in the Muslim world during the first decade of the 21st century, in terms of lives lost, in people displaced, in economies destroyed, in perpetual warfare, exceeds any previous decade, including 19th and 20th century colonial conquests. Continue reading
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ICH 19 September 2012: ‘If I Were a Fanatic I’d Let Off Nuclear Bomb in Chicago’: Romney
19 September 2012 — Information Clearing House ‘If I Were a Fanatic I’d Let Off Nuclear Bomb in Chicago’: Romney Video Romney brands Iran ‘crazy people’ in new secretly filmed outburst. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32487.htm Continue reading
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Dagestan—‘Syria comes to Russia…’ By William Engdahl
On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device. Continue reading
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ICH 11 September 2012: Attack “Imminent.” : Documents Disclose 9/11 Warnings
11 September 2012 — Information Clearing House Attack “Imminent.” Report: Documents Disclose 9/11 Warnings By Matt Vasilogambros On May 1, 2001, the CIA told the White House that there was “a group presently in the United States” that was planning an attack. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32420.htm Continue reading
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The Marikana Massacre and the South African State's Low Intensity War Against the People By Vishwas Satgar
The massacre of the Marikana/Lonmin workers has inserted itself within South Africa’s national consciousness, not so much through the analysis, commentary and reporting in its wake. Instead, it has been the power of the visual images of police armed with awesome fire power gunning down these workers, together with images of bodies lying defeated and… Continue reading
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Shocking autopsy: South African police 'shot fleeing protesters in the back'
South African police are facing accusations of mass murder after autopsies on the victims of a bloody crackdown at Marikana platinum mine, showed that miners were shot in the back. Meanwhile, new violence has broken out at the location. Continue reading
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Ronnie Kasrils: Marikana – It was like poking a hornet's nest
An order was given to deploy almost 500 police armed with automatic weapons, reinforced by armoured vehicles, horsemen and helicopters; they advanced on a desolate hill where 3000 striking miners were encamped. That denoted an order from on high with a determination to carry out a dangerous and dubious operation to clear an isolated, stony… Continue reading
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