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Moscow: 'Weapons drops break resolution' By Tom Mellen
Moscow urged Western states to stop delivering weaponry to belligerents in Libya today – warning that Nato’s cavalier attitude to international law was undermining efforts to resolve cold war-era differences Continue reading
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Moscow: ‘Weapons drops break resolution’ By Tom Mellen
Moscow urged Western states to stop delivering weaponry to belligerents in Libya today – warning that Nato’s cavalier attitude to international law was undermining efforts to resolve cold war-era differences Continue reading
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UK “upping the ante” in Libya means “killing more civilians” – activist
British anti-war activist Dr. David Halpin says he hopes that British, American and Israeli politicians responsible for war crimes will be held accountable in his lifetime. Continue reading
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Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy By Michael Parenti
Why has the United States government supported counterinsurgency in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, and many other places around the world, at such a loss of human life to the populations of those nations? Why did it invade tiny Grenada and then Panama? Why did it support mercenary wars against progressive governments in Nicaragua, Mozambique, Angola,… Continue reading
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Obama Loses His ‘Constitutional Law Professor Hat’ By Charles Davis
As a candidate for president, Barack Obama was a Distinguished Constitutional Scholar. As a president waging an illegal war? He’s just some guy who, gosh, isn’t really in a position to talk about that complex document he took an oath to uphold and defend. Continue reading
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Obama Loses His ‘Constitutional Law Professor Hat’ By Charles Davis
As a candidate for president, Barack Obama was a Distinguished Constitutional Scholar. As a president waging an illegal war? He’s just some guy who, gosh, isn’t really in a position to talk about that complex document he took an oath to uphold and defend. Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 29-30 June 2011
30 June 2011 — williambowles.info Yemeni VP unsure about Saleh’s return. CNN Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) — The Yemeni government has lost control over five provinces, and security in the country is deteriorating, the nation’s acting president told CNN in an exclusive interview Wednesday. In his first interview with a Western TV network … http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/29/yemen.vice.president/ Continue reading
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Afghanistan: Victory in defeat By Eric Walberg
There are many parallels between Vietnam and Afghanistan. The recent American mayors’ resolution to “bring our war $$ home” and Obama’s announcement that troops are now being withdrawn are fresh reminders, but the story they tell is grim, says Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Why teachers should strike (even if they don’t want to) By Ed
On June 30, although most of the teachers and lecturers in the NUT, ATL and UCU will be going on strike, not all of them will be. The following post, by Jacob Mukherjee*, presents a case for why those teachers should make the sacrifice and join the strike on June 30. Continue reading
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Fukushima city: officially safe thanks to new ‘creative’ safety standards — RT
‘What the government did was change the radioactivity control level, the standard levels from 1 millisieverts per year to 20 millisieverts per year. That is, 20 times looser [than] the standards before the accident and now they raised the standards so they can say it was as safe as before, but actually the standards have… Continue reading
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Fukushima and the Mass Media Meltdown: The Repercussions of a Pro-Nuclear Corporate Press By Keith Harmon Snow
A sociological and technological discussion — in the wake of the out-of-control nuclear apocalypse in Japan — addressing the compromise of public health and security created by the failure of the western corporate mass media to equitably report on, mildly investigate, or even moderately challenge, the nuclear power industry. Continue reading
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9/11 and the Orwellian Redefinition of "Conspiracy Theory" By Paul Craig Roberts
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps. Continue reading
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Turkish Actions Designed To Trigger NATO Confrontation With Syria? By Rick Rozoff
Last week a feature by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton excoriating the political leadership of Syria appeared in the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat. Saudi-supported and printed in twelve locations, it is considered to be among the most influential newspapers in the Arab world. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 14 June 2011
14 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks cables show worry about Saudi oil security MiamiHerald.com Secret US State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks and shared with McClatchy Newspapers and other news organizations show otherwise. Even though 70 percent of Saudi Arabia’s oil exports flow through the Abqaiq facility, Saudi security forces were … http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/13/2264843/wikileaks-cables-show-worry-about.html Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 14 June 2011
14 June 2011 — williambowles.info NATO refuses to rule out bombing Libyan Roman ruins CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff NATO cannot verify rebel claims that Gadhafi may be hiding rockets at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Leptis Magna. (CNN) — NATO refused to say Tuesday whether or not it would bomb ancient Continue reading
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Video: Guilty as Charged
Lawrence Wilkerson Pt7: Before Powell’s UN presentation I wrote my resignation but didn’t submit it Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 1 of 2: 13 June 2011 (15/11)
13 June 2011 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org STATEWATCHING EUROPE: Civil Liberties, the state and the European Union Saturday 25 June 2011 (10.00-17.30) Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf Book Online:http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html EU: Statewatch Analysis: Rethinking the EU Security Research Programme by Ben Hayes Council of Europe: NGO letter Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 12 June 2011
12 June 2011 — williambowles.info A new documentary peers into the WikiLeaks founder’s cyber-netherworld MiamiHerald.com By Glenn Garvin WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his life has a single, simple purpose: “I like crushing bastards.” That sentiment sounds noble, until you find out just how flexible his definition of “bastards” is. “All of us came across Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 12 June 2011: US defense sales to Bahrain rose before crackdown
12 June 2011 — williambowles.info Bahrain opposition holds rally calling for more political rights Sacramento Bee CAIRO, Egypt — Bahrain’s opposition on Saturday held on to its demand for an elected government that represents the will of the people, as the government announced details of a national dialogue scheduled for next month. … http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/11/3693793/bahrain-opposition-holds-rally.html Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 4-11 June 2011
11 June 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation UN – A Peril for World Health 11.06.2011 | 01:20 | Dmitriy SEDOV The possibility that the UN is used to promote the interests of the drug business cannot be ruled out… The Russian foreign ministry’s calls for an overhaul of the UN acquire a deeper meaning in Continue reading
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