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The Strange Thing About Cluster Bombs By Jim Naureckas
That’s the strange thing about cluster bombs: When they’re used by official enemies, they’re weapons of indiscriminate terror (FAIR Blog, 4/16/11,1/2/13). When they’re used by the United States, they’re not much worth talking about. Continue reading
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NSA: National Security Agency Tasked with Targeting Adversaries’ Computers for Attack Since Early 1997, According to Declassified Document
Since at least 1997, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been responsible for developing ways to attack hostile computer networks as part of the growing field of Information Warfare (IW), according to a recently declassified internal NSA publication posted today by the non-governmental National Security Archive (“the Archive”) at The George Washington University. Continue reading
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The NATO Economy, the solution to the U.S. crisis? By Thierry Meyssan
New Secretary of State John Kerry’s first contacts were not devoted to the Asia pivot (transfer of U.S. forces to the Far East) or the partition plan for the Middle East, but to the creation of a NATO economy, without arousing the slightest concern in Europe. However, should it be implemented quickly, this project would… Continue reading
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The battle of Damascus has begun By Thierry Meyssan
The Battle of Damascus is not intended to topple President Bashar al-Assad, but to fracture the Syrian Army to better ensure the domination of Israel and the U.S. over the Middle East. While the city is bracing for a new assault by foreign mercenaries, Thierry Meyssan takes stock of the situation. Continue reading
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Assad in Western eyes: From riches to rags By Dmitry Babich
The recent pronouncements by Western leaders and the monarchs of the Persian Gulf Emirates on the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his regime make one want to rub one’s eyes. Are we hearing them from the same people we have just seen shaking hands with Assad and hinting at lucrative contracts with his “regime”? Didn’t… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 20-22 November 2011
22 November 2011 — williambowles.info 22 November 2011 Destabilisation of the entire Arab world. Moscow Decries US-NATO’s Global Provocation in Syria GlobalResearch.ca Today at 06:44 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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Diplomatic Blowback By Craig Murray
Here is something you won’t find in any western media. Part of the actual Russian speech or ‘Explanation of Vote’ for their veto of the UN Resolution on Syria. It is worth reading. It is my own translation from the website of the Russian mission to the UN. There will be an official UN translation… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, September 11, 2011: New Documents Detail America's Strategic Response to 9/11
The documents published here describe multiple important post-9/11 strategic decisions. One relates to the dominant operational role played by the CIA in U.S. activities in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Over 200 African Leaders: NATO's Libyan War Part Of Plan To Recolonize Continent
A group of African intellectuals has written an open letter criticising the NATO-led military attacks on Libya, saying Africa ran the risk of being re-colonised. Continue reading
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“Operation Mermaid Dawn”: NATO carnage in Tripoli By Thierry Meyssan
The “mermaids” are the mosque loud speakers which were used by Al Qaeda to send the signal to start the revolt. Immediately, rebel “sleeper cells” went into action. Small, highly mobile, groups kept multiplying the attacks. The night combats left 350 dead and 3000 injured. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 6, 2011
6 August 2011 — Stop NATO Media Coalition: NATO, Israel Breached Geneva Convention, Security Council Resolution NATO ‘Protects’ Libyan Civilians By Killing Them U.S. Navy Drone Shot Down Along Libyan Coast U.S. Marines Extend Counterinsurgency Front From Black To Caspian Sea Afghanistan: Four Killed In Anti-NATO Rally Georgia: U.S. Marines And Machine Guns New Japanese Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 5 August 2011
5 August 2011 — williambowles.info Syrian unrest charges Lebanese tinderbox Asia Times Online Today at Noon The protests and violent counter-protests in Syria are echoed in Tripoli, the second-largest city in Lebanon and a microcosm of the treacherous field of Lebanese politics. Recent clashes in the city show that sectarianism remains a tinderbox, with the Continue reading
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The Role of the UN Security Council in Unleashing an Illegal War against Libya By Ronda Hauben
Looking back at the sequence of events by which the issue of Libya was brought to the Security Council, leads to an important observation. It was not a Security Council member nation which started this process. Nor was it the Arab League. Rather it was a party that one could argue had no legitimate basis… Continue reading
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A Palestinian State Redeems the U.N.’s Historic Nakba (Catastrophe) By Mohamed Khodr
9 July 2011 — Intifada Palestine This September is the moment of truth for the United Nations Security Council and the U.N. General Assembly, despite the threatened U.S. veto. Continue reading
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The War in Libya: The African Union's Mistake of Policy and Principle By Dr. Kwame Akonor
Africa’s handling of the Libyan crisis at the United Nations has been timorous and confusing, but it presents an opportunity as well as a challenge for the continental body on how it defines its future strategic interests. Continue reading
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The War in Libya: The African Union’s Mistake of Policy and Principle By Dr. Kwame Akonor
Africa’s handling of the Libyan crisis at the United Nations has been timorous and confusing, but it presents an opportunity as well as a challenge for the continental body on how it defines its future strategic interests. Continue reading
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Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of Libya
The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company. Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war 22 March 2011
22 March 2011 — Stop NATO World Steps Up Criticism Of Western Attacks On Libya China Calls For Immediate End To Western Attacks On Libya U.S. Warplane Crashes In Libya Eight Warplanes: Sweden Follows NATO Into Another War First Combat Mission For Eurofighter: British MPs Back War Duty To NATO: Canadian MPs Unanimously Back Libyan Continue reading
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Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya. Continue reading
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Obama’s Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
On March 19, US and British cruise missiles joined with French and other NATO combat aircraft in Operation Odyssey Dawn/Operation Ellamy, a neo-imperialist bombing attack under fake humanitarian cover against the sovereign state of Libya. Continue reading