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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 January 2013
29 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Man Shot In Beit HanounIMEMC – Tuesday January 29; Palestinian medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and injured by Israeli military fire in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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Global Research 27 January 2013: Week in Review: Drone Proliferation – Crimes Against Humanity for “Global Security”
27 January 2013 — Global Research The Children Killed by America’s Drones. “Crimes Against Humanity” committed by Barack H. Obama., Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 26, 2013 Behind each name there is the face of a child with a family history in a village in a far away country, with a mom and a dad, with brothers and Continue reading
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The Bared Teeth of the Syrian War: Qatar Feels the Brunt By Armine AKOPYAN (Armenia)
The war in Syria appears to be increasingly remote-controlled from abroad. Almost all states in the region seem to be involved to varying degrees, with Qatar providing the lion’s share of the funds going to the Free Syrian Army. However, the investment has generated disappointing returns. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 19 January 2013: The Scramble for Africa
19 January 2013 — Global Research Mali Conflict Could Refuel Algeria’s Civil War, Abayomi Azikiwe, January 18, 2013 Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire In regard to the situation in Algeria, there has been over the last two decades insurgencies led by Islamist forces there and it appeared as if these difficulties and conflicts Continue reading
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Media Lens: Death Of A Hero By David Cromwell
One measure of a society’s honesty is what it says about its political and military leaders when they die. Are the deceased leader’s perceived virtues exalted, while any blemishes are airbrushed out of the picture? Recent media coverage following the death of General Norman “Stormin’ ”Schwarzkopf, the Allied military commander during the Persian Gulf War… Continue reading
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Review of "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956" By Eric Walberg
The period following WWII in eastern Europe is considered to be a black one, best forgotten. All the pre-war governments had been quasi-fascist dictatorships which either succumbed to the Nazi onslaught (Poland) or actively cooperated with the Germans (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria). The Soviet liberation was greeted with trepidation by many – with good reason for… Continue reading
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Movie Review: “Zero Dark Thirty”: Torturing the Facts By Marjorie Cohn
Zero Dark Thirty is disturbing for two reasons. First and foremost, it leaves the viewer with the erroneous impression that torture helped the CIA find bin Laden’s hiding place in Pakistan. Secondarily, it ignores both the illegality and immorality of using torture as an interrogation tool. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 8-12 January 2013: Dr. Drone Heads the CIA, Hollywood “Nominates” the CIA
12 January 2013 — Global Research “Zero Dark Thirty”: Torturing the Facts, Marjorie Cohn, January 11, 2013 Granting impunity to the torturers combined with propaganda films like Zero Dark Thirty, which may well win multiple Oscars, dilutes any meaningful public opposition to our government’s cruel interrogation techniques. Continue reading
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US Decline? (No. 7) Deepa Kumar: Anti-Imperialist Sentiments Growing across the World
The United States has established a military base whenever it set foot into a new country. According to former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ron Paul, the United States has military personnel in some 130 countries and statistics show that it has bases in more than 30 countries, from Singapore, South Korea and… Continue reading
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Movie Review: Django Unchained: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger By Jordy Cummings
Of all the “b-movie” film genres of the 20th century, none was more consistently radical than the spaghetti western. So-named because of its Italian lineage, these films used the setting of the wild west to portray thinly veiled allegories about popular uprisings, class and racial oppression, and armed rebellion against the ruling classes. Continue reading
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Book Review: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa By Stephen Gowans
Maximilian C. Forte’s new book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (released November 20) is a searing indictment of NATO’s 2011 military intervention in Libya, and of the North American and European left that supported it. Continue reading
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Ireland copyright battle: Newspapers demand $400 for sharing links
The body representing Ireland’s main newspapers is demanding a minimum of $400 for third parties to directly link their articles, sparking an unprecedented copyright row which strikes at the very heart of sharing content on the World Wide Web. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 29 December 2012 – 6 January 2013: America’s Death Squads and Dirty Tricks
6 January, 2013 — Global Research Bolivarianism in Venezuela. “With or without Chavez, it’s institutionalized”, Stephen Lendman, January 06, 2013 Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: 9/11 Revisited and Financial Conspiracies
28 December, 2012 — Global Research Facebook Yields to Pressure: Reactivates Political Critics’ Accounts, Washington’s Blog, December 28, 2012 Continue reading
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Book Review: Reality economics By Michael Hudson
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on top, and let human nature do the rest. The acquisition of power soon leads to its abuse, to economic and social hubris. By seeking to protect its gains, perpetuate itself and make its… Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 16 December 2012: Al Qaeda in Syria and WMD Propaganda
16 December, 2012 — Global Research Gun Violence in America, Stephen Lendman, December 16, 2012 Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 9 December 2012: Foreign Backed Terrorists and NATO Expansion in the Middle East
9 December 2012 — Global Research Protests spread throughout Egypt against Islamist dictatorship, Johannes Stern, December 09, 2012 Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 30 November 2012: War Crimes and Regime Change
30 November 2012 — Global Research News Netanyahu: Palestine Vote at UN ‘Meaningless’, John Glaser, November 30, 2012 Continue reading
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