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France and the U.S. Play Tag-Team in Africa By Glen Ford
The United States and France, once thought of as imperial competitors, act as military tag team partners in Africa. France puffed up like a hyper-aggressive peacock in the assault on Libya, and now strikes unilaterally against Islamists in Mali. But the junior imperialist’s brashness comes with the confidence that the superpower has its back. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 January 2013: Obama says Israel moving towards isolation: Report
15 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center At Least 17 Including 7 Reporters Injured As Army Attack Bab Al-Shams AgainIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that at least 11 nonviolent peace activists, and 7 reporters, have been injured when Israeli soldiers attacked a group of activists trying to reach the Bab Al-Shams, Continue reading
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Why French commandos botched the raid on Al Shabab
Reliable sources in and around BuloMarer town in South Somalia where French commandos raided late last night, say that the French commandos first landed at a village called Daaydoog which is located at the seas side and three kilometers away from BulMarur where the French intelligence officer held by Al Shabab militants. Continue reading
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Mali is Libya all over again
The situation in Mali is directly linked to the Nato mobilisation in 2011 to overthrow the Gadaffi regime in Libya. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Death Of A Hero By David Cromwell
One measure of a society’s honesty is what it says about its political and military leaders when they die. Are the deceased leader’s perceived virtues exalted, while any blemishes are airbrushed out of the picture? Recent media coverage following the death of General Norman “Stormin’ ”Schwarzkopf, the Allied military commander during the Persian Gulf War… Continue reading
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ICH 13 January 2013: 100 Killed: France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali
13 January 2013 — Information Clearing House The “War On Terror” Spreads to Africa: By WashingtonsBlog The situation in Mali is simply a convenient, after-the-fact rationale for a long-planned expansion of the U.S. military footprint in Africa. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33601.htm Continue reading
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Review of "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956" By Eric Walberg
The period following WWII in eastern Europe is considered to be a black one, best forgotten. All the pre-war governments had been quasi-fascist dictatorships which either succumbed to the Nazi onslaught (Poland) or actively cooperated with the Germans (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria). The Soviet liberation was greeted with trepidation by many – with good reason for… Continue reading
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Somalia Newslinks 13 January 2013: France's failed commando raid
13 January 2013 — williambowles.info France fails to free intelligence agent held in Somalia; Paris sends more … Washington Post PARIS — As France reinforced its intervention forces in Mali with additional aircraft and soldiers, French commandos launched a failed raid on the other side of Africa in a vain attempt to rescue an intelligence officer held Continue reading
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ICH 12 January 2013: Propaganda and Tyranny in the Middle East
12 January 2013 — Information Clearing House AFRICOM’s Imperialist Quest By Burkely Hermann Since 2003, the modern American ‘scramble for Africa,’ has begun, as “…in quiet and largely unnoticed ways, the Pentagon and the CIA have been spreading their forces across the continent. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33597.htm Continue reading
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The U.S. Military Swarms Over Africa By Glen Ford
2013 is the year the U.S. kicks off its wholesale military occupation of Africa. The escalation should come as no surprise, since the Army Times newspaper [8] reported, back in June, that a U.S. brigade of at least 3,000 troops would become a permanent presence on the continent in the new year. Continue reading
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ICH 9 January 2013: Bradley Manning Was Mistreated: Military Judge
9 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Are Israeli Fears Of A Nuclear Iran Overblown? By Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett Strategically, as we’ve argued before, there is no way that a mythical nuclear-armed Iran, much less an Iran enriching uranium at well below weapons grade, poses an “existential threat” to Israel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33576.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 31 December 2012: The Settlement That Broke the Two-State Solution
31 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel To Displace 1000 Palestinians Next WednesdayIMEMC – Head of the Wadi Al-Maleh area, in the northern plains of the occupied West Bank, Aref Daraghma, stated that the Israeli army intends to displace around 10000 Palestinian Bedouins in the area in order to conduct military Continue reading
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ICH 30 December 2012: Islamophobic Hate Crime in New York City
30 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Brahimi Says Has Syria Plan All World Powers May Back By AFP Lavrov said both he and Brahimi agreed there was hope for a solution as long as world powers put pressure on both sides. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33473.htm Continue reading
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Syrian Opposition uses chemical weapons, backed by US and NATO By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
syriafree army Well congratulations Messrs. Obama, Cameron and Hollande, and your Foreign Department sidekicks Hillary Clinton, Laurent Fabius and William Hague. Your terrorists in Syria have managed to use chemical weapons against government forces, something you were warning President Assad against doing. Well, well, how the tables turn. Continue reading
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War or prosperity? UK’s price tag for Afghan war rises to $30 billion while cutting vital social services at home
“The UK has revealed that the cost of its involvement in the war in Afghanistan has reached $27.6 billion, and may end up being as much as $32.5 billion. Meanwhile, the UK continues to slash domestic social services to reduce its budget deficit. Continue reading
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Video: Israeli Army Killing Palestinian Protestors with Impunity say Activists
Last week, in one of the first actions of its kind, activists released the names of Israeli soldiers involved in the killing of a Palestinian protester. Mustafa Tamimi, a 28 year-old demonstrator from the village of Nabi Saleh, was killed when a soldier shot a tear gas canister at his face in December last year. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 15 December 2012: Unsettling realities of Israeli settlements
15 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Attack Residents, Vehicles, Near NablusIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that several injuries took place in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after extremist Israeli settlers, and soldiers attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles; the army also fired dozens of gas bombs Continue reading
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ICH 5 December 2012: Doomsday for Iran? US Tests EMP Bomb
5 December 2012 — Information Clearing House ‘West Moves in for Syrian Endgame and War on Iran’ By Finian Cunningham The American-led propaganda war on Syria seems to be moving towards the endgame of providing the political cover for direct Western military attack on that unfortunate country. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33228.htm Continue reading
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‘No mistake’ in strike that killed Gaza family: Israel
There was “no mistake” in an Israeli air strike that killed 12 Palestinians in Gaza, including 10 from the same family, the Israeli army said on Tuesday, saying the raid targeted a “terror operative.” Continue reading
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Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question By Prof. James Petras
For the past forty-five years the state of Israel has been dispossessing millions of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories, confiscating their lands, destroying homes, bulldozing orchards and setting-up ‘Jews-only’ colonial settlements serviced by highways, electrical systems and water works for the exclusive use of the settlers and occupying soldiers. Continue reading
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