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Bradley Manning Newslinks 30 November 2011
30 November 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning: MEPs’ open letter to the US government The Guardian We are concerned that the US army has charged Bradley Manning with “aiding the enemy,” a capital offence that is punishable by death. We have questions about why Mr Manning has been imprisoned for 17 months without yet having Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 30 November 2011
30 November 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Postpones Relaunch PC Magazine By Sara Yin WikiLeaks has postponed the relaunch of its online submission platform because it was deemed too insecure for whistleblowers to leak information. “Due to the deteriorating state of internet security which directly impacts the ability of … http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/none/291086-wikileaks-postpones-relaunch Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 29 November 2011
29 November 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks awarded at Walkleys SBS Julian Assange has launched a broadside against Prime Minister Julia Gilard while accepting WikiLeaks’ award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism at the 2011 Walkleys. Assange’s pre-recorded speech was played at the award ceremony, … http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1608279/WikiLeaks-awarded-at-Walkleys Continue reading
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The “Enforcers”: MINUSTAH and the Culture of Violence in Port-au-Prince
Although at first glance it may seem that Haitian protests against the presence of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) are due to scattered incidents of violence committed by its members against locals, a close examination reveals a pattern of systematic acts of heavy repression against the population. Continue reading
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Is Britain plotting with Israel to attack Iran? By Jonathan Cook
Last February Britain’s then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose ‘improper relations’ with the minister would lead eight months later to Fox’s hurried resignation. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 22-23 November 2011
23 November 2011 — williambowles.info 23 November 2011Plan for No Fly Zone Over Syria By Israeli National News European sources in Washington confirm that there are plans for a no fly zone to be imposed on Syria by Arab and Turkish warplanes, with the US coordinating the logistics. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29796.htm Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 23 November 2011
23 November 2011 — williambowles.info Bradley Manning’s defence plans to call 50 witnesses The Guardian The defence team for WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is planning to call 50 witnesses at next month’s military hearing, promising to turn the proceedings into a detailed legal battle over the merits of the prosecution case against him. … http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/22/bradley-manning-wikileaks-article-32?newsfeed=true Continue reading
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REMAINS OF TWO OF GUATEMALA’S DEATH SQUAD DIARY VICTIMS FOUND IN MASS GRAVE
The bodies of two men whose disappearance in 1984 was recorded in the notorious Guatemalan “death squad diary” have been located on a former military base outside the capital and positively identified through DNA testing, according to the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala, which announced its findings in a press conference this morning. Continue reading
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Cairo carnage: Shock footage shows cop atrocities — RT
Riot police are spreading tear gas and firing rubber bullets as the crowd of stone-throwing protesters at Egypt’s Tahrir Square begins to swell. RT’s Paula Slier reports from Cairo that the situation on the ground remains extremely tense. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 19-20 November 2011
20 November 2011 — williambowles.info 20 November 2011 The “Free Syria Army”: Placard-Waving Protesters are actually Machine Gun-Wielding Terrorists GlobalResearch.ca Tomorrow at 04:56 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim BY Gareth Porter
A former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosives chamber to test components of a nuclear weapon and carry out a simulated nuclear explosion. Continue reading
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Videos: Police Conspire to Shut Down OWS Nationwide By Michael Chester
19 November 2011 — Veterans Today Similar Tactics in Use Throughout the Country In recent days, a pattern has appeared across the country in the actions of police in dealing with the peaceful protesters taking part in the OWS movement. This coordinated effort leads many to suspect the dark presence of the Federal government in Continue reading
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Stop NATO news: November 19, 2011
19 November 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon ‘To Spread Out Through All Of Asia’ Openly Now U.S., Allies To Hold Largest Amphibious Assault Exercise In Ten Years NATO As ‘Guarantor Of Energy Security’ In Europe, Black Sea NATO Training Mission-Iraq Briefs Allied Military Attachés In Baghdad U.S. Submarine Force’s No. 2 Inspects NATO Mediterranean Operations Continue reading
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Pentagon could bomb enemy hackers — RT
A US Department of Defense report has outlined how the American military plans to respond to foreign hacker attacks. We’re talking all-out retaliation, both in cyberspace, and in real life. Continue reading
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The IAEA Report on Iran is based on Fake Intelligence. IAEA "Soviet Nuclear Scientist" Never Worked on Weapons BY Gareth Porter
The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by a Washington think tank Tuesday repeated the sensational claim previously reported by news media all over the world that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist had helped Iran construct a detonation system that could be used for a nuclear weapon Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: ISRAELIS PREVENT IRISH ACTIVISTS FROM BOARDING FLIGHT HOME
The seven Irish human rights activists due home in Ireland this afternoon at 2:25 pm were at the last minute prevented from boarding their flight out of Ben Gurion airport by Israeli armed guards. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: November 6, 2011
6 November 2011 — Stop NATO With Gunfire In Background, Libyan ‘Rebels’ Demand Salaries U.S. AWACS Crew Returns From Greece After Gaddafi Killed Between NATO Summits: Obama To Host Portuguese Counterpart Germany: Pentagon Officials Inspect NATO Global Full-Spectrum Training NATO Commander In Germany To Plan For Chicago Summit, ‘Future Operations’ Virginia: NATO Ambassadors Meet On Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Finally released – CIA History of DCI William Colby
The latest declassification (in August 2011) from a series of secret studies by the CIA History Staff of the agency’s directors, the volume gains credibility from its authorship by veteran CIA analyst and operative Harold Ford, who courageously presented to the Congress well-documented internal critiques of CIA director-designate Robert Gates during his confirmation hearings in… Continue reading
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