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Middle East / North Africa Newslinks for 28 February, 2011
28 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Libya Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 28 February, 2011 Egypt Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 28 February, 2011 Yemen Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 28 February, 2011 Tunisia Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 28 February, 2011 Bahrain Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 28 February, 2011 Oman Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks… Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 28 February, 2011
28 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Activists on Facebook call for March protests in Saudi Arabia USA Today On Sunday, about 100 Saudi intellectuals, activists and university professors published an open letter calling on the king to launch major political reforms and allow citizens to have a greater say in ruling the country, Reuters reports. …… Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 27 February, 2011
27 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Saudi Arabia holding firm in the Middle East for now: Platts TV Platts The wave of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is not expected to touch Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporting nation, despite the spread of popular revolt in the region, guests on the Platts… Continue reading
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Egyptian Military Supports US Dominance In Region
Gilbert Achcar: If intervention needed in Saudi Arabia or Arab countries, US could rely on Egyptian military Continue reading
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Bahrain Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 23 February, 2011
23 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Protests in Bahrain Become Test of Wills New York Times Freed political prisoners were tossed in the air by a jubilant crowd in Manama, Bahrain, on Tuesday. The king released the prisoners as a conciliatory gesture. More Photos “ By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and NADIM AUDI MANAMA, Bahrain — More than… Continue reading
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Bahrain Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 15 February, 2011: Saudi Military Entered Bahrain to Crackdown on Protesters
15 February, 2011 — creative-i.info Bahrain Protests Swell With Second Death, Tear Gas at Funeral BusinessWeek 15 (Bloomberg) — Protests against Bahrain’s government escalated today as a second demonstrator was reportedly killed and police used tear gas to break up … www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-15/bahrain-protests-swell-with-second-death-tear-gas-at-funeral.html Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 10 February, 2011
10 February, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks blasts defector ahead of book launch CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Berlin (CNN) — A former WikiLeaks staffer who left the organization to start a rival website “damaged” WikiLeaks infrastructure and … www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/10/germany.openleaks.wikileaks/ Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Power, Propaganda, and the Global Political Awakening By Andrew Gavin Marshall
This essay aims to examine the nature of the Wikileaks releases and how they should be approached and understood. If Wikileaks is changing things, let’s hope people will make sure that it changes things in the right direction. Continue reading
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Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran?
Mainstream media has been quick to highlight WikiLeaks’ cable reporting a statement from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia that the U.S. should attack Iran, because it is a danger to the region. Larry Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, gives The Real News a series of reasons why such… Continue reading
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9/11 ANALYSIS: 9/11 and America’s Secret Terror Campaign By Andrew Gavin Marshall
For several years prior to the events of 9/11, top American strategists had been acknowledging the necessity of what they oft-termed a “new Pearl Harbor”, a momentous attack upon America itself, in order to mobilize the American populace for a new global war of domination. Continue reading
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa By John Vidal
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations. Continue reading
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U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And Indian Ocean By Rick Rozoff
During the past month the U.S. has carried out deadly military strikes in Yemen: Bombing raids in the north and cruise missile attacks in the south of the nation. Washington has been accused of killing scores of civilians in the attacks in both parts of the country, executed before the December 25 Northwest Airlines incident… Continue reading
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The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint By F. William Engdahl
For some months the world has seen a steady escalation of US military involvement in Yemen, a dismally poor land adjacent to Saudi Arabia on its north, the Red Sea on its west, the Gulf of Aden on its south, opening to the Arabian Sea, overlooking another desolate land that has been in the headlines… Continue reading
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‘US aided’ deadly Yemen raids
The US provided firepower and intelligence to help the Yemeni government launch a series of deadly raids against suspected al-Qaeda bases in the country, the New York Times has reported. Continue reading
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Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula By Rick Rozoff
It is perhaps impossible to determine the exact moment at which a U.S.- supported self-professed holy warrior – trained to perpetrate acts of urban terrorism and to shoot down civilian airliners – ceases to be a freedom fighter and becomes a terrorist. But a safe assumption is that it occurs when he is no longer… Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: “Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran” by F. William Engdahl
The world-renowned Times newspaper of London published a report in its July 5th edition titled, ‘Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran.’ The story, were it true, would imply a dramatic change in Saudi foreign and military policy whose consequences potentially could lead to a World War III. A more serious investigation reveals that… Continue reading
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