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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 February 2012: It's Time We Recognised the Blair Government's Criminality
16 February 2012 — Information Clearing House It’s Time We Recognised the Blair Government’s Criminality By John Pilger In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30558.htm Continue reading
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Annus Horribilis: NATO Bombed Libya To The Stone Age By Elena Ostroumova
The NTC has failed to gain control over the hundreds of militias that fought in the war. Many of them are still in possession of arms they are not willing to part with. Armed gangs have control over scores of detention centers for people accused of links to the Gaddafi regime. Human rights groups say… Continue reading
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Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us By Robert Scheer
Four decades ago Richard Nixon, a once famously hawkish Republican president, cut a deal with the Communist overlords of China to reshape the world. The result was a transformation of the global economy in ways that we are only now, with the sharp critiques of Apple’s China operation, beginning to fully comprehend. Continue reading
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IRAQ UNDER US MILITARY OCCUPATION: Maliki Proxy Government orders Execution of former PM Tariq Aziz
Iraq has been illegally invaded, occupied and decimated. Surely the UN cannot sit by as these terrible executions – pogroms – go ahead. Death sentences for no other reason than that Mr Aziz and his colleagues were part of the legitimate, sovereign government of Iraq – a ‘sovereignty and territorial integrity’ which was guaranteed by… Continue reading
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PCHR Holds Urgent Consultative Meeting Addressing the Case of Palestinian Detainee in Israeli Jails, Khader Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike
Adnan, Who Is on Hunger Strike In the context of its efforts to follow up the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and its interest in the their detention conditions, on Tuesday afternoon, 14 February 2012, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) held an urgent consultative meeting in its Head Office in Gaza… Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 14-15 February 2012
15 February 2012 — williambowles.info 012 US-Backed Regime Replays State of Emergency to Crush Pro-Democracy Movement by Finian CunninghamDandelion Salad Today at 07:12 by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 14 February 2012 Bahrain’s first anniversary of its pro-democracy protests has been met with massive police and army violence, with many civilians injured from Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 10-14 February 2012
14 February 2012 — williambowles.info VIDEO: Protests on Bahrain anniversary BBC News Today at 13:30 Police try to prevent people marking the anniversary of pro-democracy protests in Bahrain’s capital, after a second day of clashes in outlying villages. Continue reading
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Carla Stea: World War and the Russia-China Veto – Towards a Break Point at the UN Security Council?
It is troubling, indeed, that although Mrs. Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had never set foot in Syria during the period about which she professed expertise, she was, nevertheless invited to address the United Nations Security Council on December 9, 2011, and much of the Western media quoted her as… Continue reading
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PETITION – Khader Adnan’s life ebbing away, facing day 57 of hunger strike
Please read and sign the emergency petition (below). You are asked to sign as quickly as possible. It is unlikely he can survive many more days – he is desperately thin and ill already. It is our responsibility to act because the International Red Cross & Red Crescent is not taking the necessary steps to… Continue reading
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Russia And Syria: Laboratory For Testing Advent Of Multipolar World
Those who berate Russia for being an openly acknowledged supplier of weapons to the Assad regime ignore the fact that the rebel Free Syrian Army is being clandestinely armed and financed by the authoritarian Arab League members. Continue reading
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Syria Regime Change PR in High Gear: More ‘Newborn Baby Slaughter’ Propaganda By Patrick Henningsen
We can already see exact parallels with the current PR operation to bring down Syria with how Libya went down. In one story published today, it seems that one award-winning mainstream newspaper has been caught red-handed running faux news on Syria – and incredibly, it’s not the first time this exact story has been used. Continue reading
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Syrian NGOs Working Directly With British Government By Tony Cartalucci
It is quite clear that the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” based in London and receiving the entirety of their reports via “phone” & YouTube videos from Syria, is working in coordination with both US-funded NGOs and the British Foreign Minister. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Newslinks 8 February 2012
8 February 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks, Assange and Democracy Green Left Weekly WikiLeaks, a free press publishing and media organisation, has revealed human rights abuses, war crimes and corruption in governments across the world. Yet the US Administration wants to close WikiLeaks down and prosecute its founder Julian Assange. http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/49821 Continue reading
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UK: Government ‘may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters
Leading neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons. Continue reading
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Anonymous calls for anti-ACTA rallies, Poland suspends bill — RT
A wolf in sheep’s clothing – that’s how ACTA opponents have described the international copyright treaty. Thousands are to protest in Sweden on Saturday while in Poland the legislation has been suspended after attacks on government websites. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 January 2012: "Pro-Gaddafi" fighters retake Bani Walid
25 January 2012 — Information Clearing House US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes By Ray McGovern America’s newspaper of record won’t even report accurately what Israel (or the CIA) thinks on this important issue, if that goes against the alarmist conventional wisdom that the neocons favor. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30358.htm Continue reading
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Meet ACTA- PIPA and SOPA’s Big Brother
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an international treaty that threatens free speech and your privacy online. Imagine if your ISP could censor their networks, police what you did online, and with greater ease turn your information over to authorities. That’s the danger that ACTA poses, and it’s got to be stopped. Continue reading
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EU unable to defend apartheid Israel By Ralph Schoenman
Interview with Ralph Schoenman, political analyst and author of the Hidden History of Zionism, Berkeley. Continue reading
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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (29 December 2011 – 04 January 2012) Continue reading
The New Dark Age 