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Bahrain: Crushing Pro-Democracy Protests. American and British Police Chiefs Step Up State Repression By Finian Cunningham
Two former police chiefs from the US and Britain have brought discernible Western “expertise” to the Bahraini force only weeks following their appointments – a surge in repression and state terrorism. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 30, 2011: U.S. Aircraft Carrier Crosses Strait Of Hormuz Toward Iran
30 December 2011 — Stop NATO U.S. Aircraft Carrier Crosses Strait Of Hormuz Toward Iran 154 Warplanes: U.S. Signs $29 Billion Deal With Saudis For F-15s United Arab Emirates: First Overseas Deployment Of Advanced U.S. Interceptors Russia: Main Goal Of U.S., NATO In Libya Was To Murder Gaddafi Afghan Soldier Slays Two NATO Counterparts Georgia… Continue reading
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Breaking News. SYRIA: Arab League Head of Mission Refutes Western Media Propaganda By Michel Chossudovsky
The head of the Arab League monitoring group in Syria, Sudan’s General Mustafa Dabi, has made “contradictory statements” on the human rights situation in Syria, which no doubt will eventually be erased from the record as not in keeping with the official propaganda line. Continue reading
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Guided By Our Grandchildren By Jane Miller
Paternoster Square, in the heart of London, is the grim and newish development owned by Mitsubishi. It contains the Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and a wing of the London School of Economics (once the nursery of left politics, now a bastion of the right). It was there that the Occupy protestors planned to… Continue reading
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New York Times Finds Noam Chomsky Fit to Print
“I am involved in these appeals all the time but I get no calls unless it is an enemy of the US,” Chomsky said. “This is more a comment on the media than on the case.” Continue reading
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NYTIMES Highlights CCR Witness Who was Stopped / Targeted by the NYPD
21 December 2011 — CCR On Sunday, The New York Times featured a powerful op-ed, Why Is the N.Y.P.D. After Me?, authored by Nicholas K. Peart. Nicholas submitted a declaration in support of our recently filed motion for class certification in Floyd v. the City of New York. In the piece, he shares his experiences… Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 16-19 December 2011
19 December 2011 — williambowles.info 19 December 2011 Fresh violence hits Tahrir Square BBC News Today at 10:40 At least one person dies in fresh clashes between protesters and troops in the Egyptian capital Cairo, bringing the death toll since Friday to 11. Continue reading
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New Riot Police Shields Will Suffocate Protestors With Acoustic Waves
Raytheon has a patent pending now for a new police shield that produces a low-frequency sound which resonates with the respiratory tract, making it hard to breathe. According to the patent, the intensity could be increased from causing discomfort to the point where targets become ‘temporarily incapacitated’. Continue reading
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Russia united – for the time being (Part II) By Eric Walberg
Russia’s parliamentary elections have sparked a political crisis, surprising everyone, from President Putin (excuse me, Medvedev) down, including the demonstrators themselves, marvels Eric Walberg 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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Video: Out-FOXed: What’s NOT happening in Moscow — RT
I don’t harbor any hopes that the FOX people will see this and suddenly change their ‘errant ways’. But for the viewers – there are no palm trees in the streets of Moscow, the Prime Minister is spelled ‘PuTin’, not ‘PuTTin’ and the plural for ‘protester’ is ‘protesterS’. For future references. Continue reading
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Video: Out-FOXed: What’s NOT happening in Moscow — RT
I don’t harbor any hopes that the FOX people will see this and suddenly change their ‘errant ways’. But for the viewers – there are no palm trees in the streets of Moscow, the Prime Minister is spelled ‘PuTin’, not ‘PuTTin’ and the plural for ‘protester’ is ‘protesterS’. For future references. 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 1 December 2011
1 December 2011 — williambowles.info How Does He Defy Democracy? Let We Count the Ways Pacific Free Press Army private Bradley Manning is accused of leaking thousands of government documents to Wikileaks. These documents expose untold numbers of lies by US government officials, wrongful killings of civilians, policies to ignore torture in Iraq, … http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/10303-how-does-he-defy-democracy-let-we-count-the-ways.html Continue reading
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The “Enforcers”: MINUSTAH and the Culture of Violence in Port-au-Prince
Although at first glance it may seem that Haitian protests against the presence of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) are due to scattered incidents of violence committed by its members against locals, a close examination reveals a pattern of systematic acts of heavy repression against the population. Continue reading
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Egypt imports 21 tons of tear gas from the US, port staff refuses to sign for it
CAIRO: The arrival of 7 and half tons of tear gas to Egypt’s Suez port created conflict after the responsible officials at the port refused to sign and accept it for fear it would be used to crackdown on Egyptian protesters. Continue reading
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Egypt Newslinks 25-27 November 2011
27 November 2011 — williambowles.info 27 November 2011 Protests against military rule cloud Egypt election Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 13:25 Continue reading
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Video: Death & defiance on Tahrir: Govt regrets & rejects — RT
Addressing journalists on Thursday, Egypt’s Military Council rejected protesters’ demands to quit power immediately. Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians who are not convinced by the military’s statements continue to occupy Tahrir Square. Continue reading
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