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War With Iran: Made in Britain?
On June 14th, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer bragged he was moving the country’s military assets and fighter jets to West Asia, to provide “contingency support in the region” in response to Iran’s counterattack on the Zionist entity. Asked by Sky News if he ruled out direct military involvement, he evasively responded, “I’m not getting… Continue reading
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Rhodesians never die: NATO’s mercenary zombies jive on
The death knell of NATO’s mercenaries in Kursk can be traced, via Hollywood’s Blood Diamond movie, all the way back to Rhodesia’s Bush War, where Rhodesia’s SAS, their Selous Scouts, and their Rhodesian Light Infantry, arguably history’s best and deadliest special forces ever, won all their battles, and, according to themselves at least, killed up to 15,000 insurgents, whilst suffering only… Continue reading
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UK: ‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’
On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced in tandem with a report, ‘”Rogue SAS Afghanistan execution squad” exposed by email trail’, published by the Sunday Times. Continue reading
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US, British ‘Clean House’ to Delete Syria Terror Links By Finian Cunningham
US President Barack Obama has just given the Pentagon orders to assassinate commanders of the Al Nusra terror network in Syria. American media reports over the weekend say the new urgency arises from US intelligence fears that al Qaeda-affiliated groups are preparing to mount terror attacks against Western targets from strongholds in Syria. Continue reading
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Drone Wars: MoD study sets out how to sell wars to the public By Ben Quinn
The armed forces should seek to make British involvement in future wars more palatable to the public by reducing the public profile of repatriation ceremonies for casualties, according to a Ministry of Defence unit that formulates strategy. Continue reading
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Dance on Thatcher’s grave, but remember there has been a coup in Britain By John Pilger
The corruption and inhumanity under Thatcher knew no borders. When she came to power in 1979, Thatcher demanded a total ban on exports of milk to Vietnam. The American invasion had left a third of Vietnamese children malnourished. I witnessed many distressing sights, including infants going blind from a lack of vitamins. Continue reading
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Libyan Scenario for Syria By Igor IGNATCHENKO
This September the British Times published an article saying the largest shipload of arms destined for Free Syrian Army came to Turkey from Libya. It stated there were 400 tons of weapons, including an unspecified number of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, grenade launchers and other arms aboard a Libyan ship the Intisaar, docked at the Turkish… Continue reading
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NATO troops in Libya: No entry, no exit By Konstantin Bogdanov
The saga of Tripoli’s fall and the toppling of the Gaddafi regime in Libya continues. The European allies seem to be launching a new phase of their Libyan operation, one that is marked by even greater military involvement. So far, only one thing is certain: increased activity in terms of technical intelligence gathering and on… Continue reading
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Sirte – the Apotheosis of “Liberal Intervention” By Craig Murray
There is no cause to doubt that, for whatever reason, the support of the people of Sirte for Gadaffi is genuine. That this means they deserve to be pounded into submission is less obvious to me. The disconnect between the UN mandate to protect civilians while facilitating negotiation, and NATO’s actual actions as the anti-Gadaffi… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 August 2011: Chavez: Now The War Begins
25 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Lies Unmasked As UK Admits Boots On The Ground Britain’s SAS Leads Hunt For Gaddafi By Thomas Harding, Gordon Rayner, Damien Mcelroy The SAS soldiers, who have been dressed in Arab civilian clothes and carrying the same weapons as the rebels, have been ordered to switch their focus Continue reading
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Video: British brains, brawn and bombs bolster Libyan rebels — RT
On Tuesday, British newspapers revealed that the UK not only detached spies and former SAS gurus to train militants, but was also providing them with ammunition for the operation, including night-vision goggles, advanced communication equipment and no less than 1,000 sets of body armor. Continue reading
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Video: British brains, brawn and bombs bolster Libyan rebels — RT
On Tuesday, British newspapers revealed that the UK not only detached spies and former SAS gurus to train militants, but was also providing them with ammunition for the operation, including night-vision goggles, advanced communication equipment and no less than 1,000 sets of body armor. Continue reading
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Al-Jazeera footage captures ‘western troops on the ground’ in Libya
Armed westerners have been filmed on the front line with rebels near Misrata in the first apparent confirmation that foreign special forces are playing an active role in the Libyan conflict. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 7 March, 2011: Obama says NATO considering military options in Libya
7 March, 2011 — Information Clearing House Libya: WikiLeaks Cables Warn of Extremist Beliefs By Heidi Blake Leaked diplomatic cables obtained by the WikiLeaks disclose fears that eastern Libya is being overrun by extremists intent on overthrowing Colonel Gaddafi’s regime. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27621.htm Continue reading
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Libya Mostly Independent Media Newslinks for 7 March 2011
7 March 2011 — creative-i.info Fareed Zakaria’s Contra Solution in Libya Nato ‘weighing action on Libya’ The Independent: Libya capture a ‘misunderstanding’ Former PM calls for talks to end Libya deadlock BBC VIDEO: John Simpson under fire in Libya US and allies step up military and intelligence operations in Libya Who’s backing the eastern rebels? Continue reading
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West putting a toe over Libya’s border
The eight Special Air Service officers were in the eastern part of the country escorting a junior diplomat who was supposed to negotiate with the rebels. They were seized on Sunday by anti-government protesters, who said they were outraged by the incident, seeing it as foreign intervention into Libya’s internal affairs. Continue reading
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Civil war in Libya, intervention by the West already a reality By William Bowles
So intervention in the internal affairs of Libya is already underway and the longer the civil war continues the greater the odds that the West will escalate its intervention, especially if it looks like Ghadifi can succeed in crushing the opposition. Continue reading
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‘Green slime’ invades Iraq By William Bowles
THERE’S a phrase set aside in the British army for men like Brigadier Gordon Kerr and it’s “Green Slime’’. Soldiers don’t mince words, and to regular squaddies and military brass, Kerr and his Intelligence Corps are on roughly the same level as pond life. Highly effective, immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life, but pond… Continue reading
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Iraq: Agents Provocateurs? By William Bowles
Fascinating. No really, the ‘evolution’ of state disinformation has probably never been better displayed than in the case of the two (more than likely) SAS soldiers who were ‘liberated’ after being arrested by the Iraqi police on 19 September by a phalanx of tanks and helicopter gunships that stormed the police station where the two… Continue reading
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