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Child starves to death in Westminster By Rory MacKinnon
The 10-month-old boy was discovered dead in the family’s flat in north-west London in March, with a leaked post-mortem report showing ‘no food in his gut at all and so [he] had not eaten for several days at least’ – with evidence of ‘a long period of malnourishment.’ Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 25 September 2012: UN Chief: “Door Closing To Two-State Solution”
25 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel To Build New Settler-Road Near QalqiliaIMEMC – The so-called Israeli Civil Administration Office, run under the Israeli Military in the occupied West Bank, is planning to pave a new road to be used by Jewish settlers, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia. … Continue reading
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VTJP News & Articles 10 September 2012: Among the ruins of Bedouin al-Araqib
10 September 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 80 Injured In Clashes Between Residents, Security Forces In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported Monday that eighty residents and members of the Palestinian security forces were reported when a number of residents attacked the City… Continue reading
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Syria at the Mercy of the West's "Ministers of Terrorism" By Finian Cunningham
Murder, sabotage, bribery, contract killings — and that’s just the behavior of Western political leaders and their Arab allies. Forget the fancy titles, manners and clothes — ongoing violence in Syria shows that the foreign policy of these powers is being conducted by terrorists and thugs in high offices. Which let’s one glimpse what level… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 14 March 2012
14 March 2012 20:03:07 — williambowles.info Obama and Cameron: No intervention in Syria, pullout in AfghanistanRussiatoday.ru Today at 19:31The US and the UK are just as determined as ever to remove Bashar Assad from power, but are unlikely to go for a full-scale military intervention – at least for now. Military intervention would destabilize Syria –… Continue reading
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Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
This press conference concludes a 10 day visit to the region, carried out within the framework of my mandate as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. I have had meetings with representatives of Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society actors, as well as with… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 January 2012: Bunker state cemented by new Israeli law against refugees
19 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Arrests Islamic Jihad Fighters In Jenin IMEMC – Released for Publication – The Israeli Internal Security Service (Shabak) revealed that its operatives kidnapped ten members of the Islamic Jihad in recent months, in the Jenin district, in the northern part of the West… Continue reading
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The death of David Kelley: First court hearing Mon 19 Dec & vigil from 10am
At long last a step closer to a coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr. David Kelly. This would be the first time a court would hear the medical anomalies that led many to conclude that Dr Kelly did not commit suicide. Will the lid on the government cover-up about the case and this pandora’s box… Continue reading
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LIBYA: The Making of a Ghost Town By Karlos Zurutuza
Tawargha had been Muammar Gaddafi’s headquarters during the terrible two-month siege of the rebel enclave of nearby Misrata,187 km southeast of capital Tripoli. Once a vibrant city of 30,000 inhabitants, the vast majority of them black, Tawargha has turned into a huge ‘supermarket’ where families from nearby Misrata load their vehicles with the spoils of… Continue reading
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Mass killing and humanitarian disaster in NATO siege of Sirte By Bill Van Auken
Refugees from the Libyan coastal city of Sirte report that thousands have died as a result of relentless NATO bombardment and shelling by the the Western-backed ‘rebels.’ Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 September 2011 (24/11)
28 September 2011 Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Statewatch Analysis: Court of Justice:The NS and ME Opinions -The Death of ‘Mutual Trust’? INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS: ’10 years after 9/11, Journalism in the Shadow of Terror Laws’ EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION: Letter to the European Commission signed by 34 NGOs including Statewatch Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 21 September 2011
21 September 2011 — williambowles.info NATO powers indifferent to Libyan refugees World Socialist Web Site Today at 16:33 The same NATO countries that waged war on Libya in the name of ‘protecting civilians’ have given ‘an abysmal response to the plight’ of refugees from this conflict. Continue reading
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Video: Palestinian Refugees Right to Return – Al-Awda
21 August 2011 — Al-Awda Tears of Gaza Continue reading
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NATO Allows Libyan Refugees to Drown in the Mediterranean By Peter Schwarz
According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, 1,500 Libyan refugees have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the war against Libya in March. On August 4, German newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ reported a death toll of 1,820 since the beginning of the year. Continue reading
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Palestine’s ‘last village’ faces the bulldozers: Lifta to make way for Jewish vacation homes By Jonathan Cook
Although most Israeli drivers barely notice the buildings, this small ghost town — neglected for the past six decades — is at the centre of a legal battle fuelling nationalist sentiments on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 23-24 June 2011
24 June 2011 — williambowles.info 24 June 2011 More than 1500 refugees flee Syria in one day The Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — More than 1500 Syrian refugees streamed across the border to safe havens in Turkey in one day as Syria’s 3-month-old pro-democracy movement braced for another day of mass protests Friday. The refugees… Continue reading
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“Rebels” are power-hungry terrorists, say Libyan refugees — RT
Civilian casualties have raised serious misgivings about NATO intervention in Libya, even among supporters of the ongoing aerial campaign. And while the international community is taking sides in the conflict, it is the Libyan people who suffer most. Continue reading
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Cynthia McKinney’s truth dispatches from Libya: Days 1-3 By Wayne Madsen
During the last air sanctions against Libya, imposed by the United Nations in 1992 over alleged Libyan involvement in the bombings of PanAm 103 and UTA 772, many Libyans traveling to and from Tripoli were forced to fly through Tunisia, traveling overland to and from the Tunisian border to their homes in Libya. With European… Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 6 June 2011: Factbox: Saleh family entrenched in Yemen security, business
6 June 2011 — williambowles.info 3 Killed as Violence Returns to Yemen’s Capital Voice of America Photo: AP Armed tribesmen, loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, stand guard in a street corner around al-Ahmar’s house, during clashes with Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, June 6, 2011. Opposition tribesmen in… Continue reading
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Video footage of Palestine refugees crossing from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
Video footage of Hasan Hijazi, a Palestine refugee who came in from Syria, being interviewed on Israeli TV while sightseeing in Yafa Continue reading
The New Dark Age 