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Rebel Assassins Terrorizing Libyans By Stephen Lendman
It’s a truism that where large energy reserves exist, America has imperial plans to control them. Libya is now ground zero. US-led NATO assassins invaded to menace, intimidate, kill, plunder, and cause out-of-control chaos, notably in Tripoli, the struggle’s current epicenter. Continue reading
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Video: Don Debar Analysis – Kadaffi controls the Majority of Tripoli
Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and journalist, believes that whatever Colonel Gaddafi or the rebel leaders say, it is practically impossible to verify what is true or false at this point. “But certainly what has been coming from the Western media has been proven to be lies,” he declared. Continue reading
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NATO’S Planned Bloodbath In Tripoli By Stephen Lendman
NATO intends to get the bloodbath it wants through intensified terror bombing and low-level strafing of civilians and nonmilitary sites. No matter that it grossly violates international and constitutional law, what Washington-led member states long ago trashed. Continue reading
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Fake Social Media Messages Led To War Against Libya By Marinella Correggia
This is what the UN resolutions and the war [on Libya] are based on… a tweet from a fake source. Continue reading
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UK: Tony McKenna, “Order within the Chaos”
A riot cannot be justified in the way a political march can. The reasons for a political march are adduced in advance and it is coordinated according to a pre-planned route. But a riot is chaotic and uncontrolled and feeds on itself, much like the fires it leaves burning in its wake. To see in… Continue reading
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Imperialists — hands off Syria!
U.S. and French imperialism have flagrantly intervened in the Syrian crisis and made it obvious that they will act to overthrow and replace President Bashir Assad. This is an open threat to the people of Syria. It is a clear signal that progressive forces in the U.S. must give priority to combating this imperialist intervention… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 13 July 2011: UN torture official accuses US of rule violations
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info Manning visits ‘breach UN rules’ BBC News UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez said the US had has broken rules by insisting on monitoring conversations with Pte Bradley Manning. Mr Mendez says he needs unrestricted access to Pte Manning to do his job. Pte Manning, 23, is being held Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 6 July 2011: GOP & Dems = Evil / Teachers Shoot Selves / Africa Stands Up
6 July 2011 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Freedom Rider: The Evil of Two Lessers by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Not only is Obama keeping the country in a perpetual state of war,” but he abandons core Democratic programs “at the Continue reading
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How Cornel West Did the Obamites a Favor By Glen Ford
Unable to defend the indefensible, Black Obama supporters have been ‘rendered all but mute on issues of policy.’ They got their chance to reenter the political conversation when Princeton professor and media celebrity Cornel West, a former Obama supporter who is now a harsh critic, speculated on the racial workings of the president’s brain. That… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report By William Blum: Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil's Island By William Blum
… I’m standing in the snow in front of the White House … Standing with Veterans for Peace … I’m only a veteran of standing in front of the White House; the first time was February 1965, handing out flyers against the war in Vietnam. I was working for the State Department at the time… Continue reading
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GUEST MEDIA LENS ALERT: A COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF FLAT EARTH NEWS AND NEWSPEAK – PART 2 By Jonathan Cook
The professional journalist, they suggest, is trained to seek out facts from which he or she constructs an “objective” news report. On this view, journalists select facts in the same way that, adopting an analogy used by Edwards and Cromwell, a geologist collects rocks for research. “Geologists have no emotional attachment to their rocks –… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, January 13, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, January 13, 2008: “The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life January 13, 2008 by William Blum http://www.killinghope.org An Unreasonable Man I recommend the new documentary about Ralph Nader, which was recently shown on PBS television, ‘An Unreasonable Man‘. Its primary focus is on Continue reading