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Stop Violence Now and Start National Dialogue! By the Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
The bloody events that have taken place in some governorates of Syria for more than a month, especially in the last several days of this month, are heartbreaking, an injury to our soul and a cause of great concern. The events have already left dozens of citizens, soldiers, and members of security forces dead and… Continue reading
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Yemen Mostly Mainstream Media Newslinks for 5 March 2011
5 March 2011 — creative-i.info Three protesters wounded at demonstration in Yemen Reuters Anti-government protesters rally to demand the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz March 4, 2011. By Mohammed Mukhashef ADEN (Reuters) – Three protestors were wounded on Friday evening when Yemeni security forces … www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/05/us-yemen-idUSTRE72338020110305 Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks for 1 March, 2011
1 March, 2011 — creative-i.info The WIKILEAKS NEWS & VIEWS Blog for Tuesday, Day 94 The Nation. (blog) Cables on Saudi Arabia and royal spending, Anonymous takes down Koch Bros website, Kenya cables on mercenaries and politics, and op-eds on WikiLeaks, journalism and upcoming protests in support of Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks. How did Candide Continue reading
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Liberty’s Easy Slide into Tyranny By Prof John Kozy
Executive privilege is the claim made by members of the executive branch that they can refuse to comply with certain subpoenas and other requests from the legislature and courts, but executive privilege is not mentioned in the Constitution. Some claim the privilege is a form of the common-law principle of deliberative process privilege whose roots… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Mostly Mainstream Newslinks for 15 February, 2011
15 February, 2011 — creative-i.info BHP offered to swap China info with US – Wikileaks Reuters Kloppers took personal credit for quashing that deal, according to Wikileaks, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “Australia does not want to become an open … www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/15/wikileaks-bhpbilliton-idUSL3E7DE27I20110215 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 8 February, 2011
8 February, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks’ Assange Resumes Extradition Fight Sky News The man at the centre of the WikiLeaks storm is returning to a high security court to continue his fight against extradition to Sweden. … news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/WikiLeaks-Founder-Julian-Assange-Back-In-Court… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 8 February, 2011
8 February, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks’ Assange Resumes Extradition Fight Sky News The man at the centre of the WikiLeaks storm is returning to a high security court to continue his fight against extradition to Sweden. … news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/WikiLeaks-Founder-Julian-Assange-Back-In-Court… Continue reading
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SERCO – The Corporate Dictatorship
8 January, 2011 The biggest company you’ve never heard of… For more on Serco see Corporate Watch 1st collector for SERCO – The Corporate Dictatorship Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Wikileaks Daily News Roundup 7 January, 2011
7 January, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks Cables Make Appearance in a Tale of Sunken Treasure and Nazi Theft New York Times By KIM SEVERSON and ROBBIE BROWN ATLANTA — The latest twist in the WikiLeaks tale is a plot worthy of a Tom Clancy thriller. It is a story of international … feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=9182c38c6c7dbd15f431c3569151c427 Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 December, 2010: It really is us against them
11 December, 2010 — Information Clearing House US House Approves Large Increase in Military Aid to Israel By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER Despite freezing funding for most aspects of the US government at 2010 levels, the US House agreed Wednesday evening to increase military aid to Israel substantially. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27041.htm Jailed Afghan Drug Lord Was Informer on Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 88
One of the most common threads running through the Wikileaks papers is Washington’s manic obsession with Iran. In country after country the United States exerts unceasing pressure on the government to tighten the noose around Iran’s neck, to make the American sanctions as extensive and as painful as can be, to inflate the alleged Iranian… Continue reading
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Media Lens: “Put the Palestinians on a Diet”
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”. Continue reading
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Media Lens: WikiLeaks – The Smear And The Denial – Part 2
The UK and US media smears described in Part 1 should be kept in mind when considering the gravity and importance of the latest WikiLeaks. In addition to thousands of previously unreported civilian killings, the leaks revealed more than 1,300 claims of torture by Iraqi police and military between 2005 and 2009. But these are… Continue reading
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The troops in Iraq are simply being renamed – activist – RT Top Stories
‘The reality is that the US has not built security in Iraq, but instead destroyed the little security that existed before,’ Turner told RT. ‘The troops that exist are being renamed, and instead of being called combat troops they are referred to as trainers, support forces. But they are the same people with a different… Continue reading
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Israeli and Palestinian Women Find New Way to Challenge The Occupation
On Friday, July 23, we went on a trip – a dozen Jewish-Israeli women with a dozen West-Bank Palestinian women and four of their children, one of them a baby. We drove through the interior hill country (`Shfela’) and toured Tel Aviv and Yaffa together. We ate at a restaurant, bathed in the sea and… Continue reading
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NATO must be ready to intervene anywhere: experts’ report
NATO must be ready to intervene externally, experts said Monday, proposing a new doctrine for the alliance, as well as ensure the security of its 28 member states internally, as it has done since 1949. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: WAR AS PR – OPERATION MOSHTARAK, MEANING “TOGETHER”
Idiocy is one thing, but the BBC’s idiocy all went one way – no journalist swooned with comparable helplessness at the feet of experts excoriating US-UK propaganda. As news of Sambrook’s move arrived, his former colleagues at the BBC were once again deferring to the “intelligent”, “thoughtful”, “sceptical” American and British politicians hawking the public… Continue reading
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Haitian police shoot scavengers indiscriminately
Haitian police on Monday shot indiscriminately at scavengers and looters in Port-au-Prince, hitting two in the head as post-quake security deteriorated, an AFP photographer reported. A group of police, pushed to keep control among a desperate population after the January 12 tremor which killed or injured many of their number and destroyed the city prison,… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS: THE BBC’S JEREMY PAXMAN ON IRAQ – “WE WERE HOODWINKED”
Does not government submission of evidence mark the point where serious journalism +begins+ rather than ends? What is the reason for journalism at all, if the responsibility is simply to accept what a US Secretary of Defence says because we “know” he “is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man”? Continue reading
The New Dark Age 