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Libyan rebel ethnic cleansing and lynching of black people « Human rights investigations
Further specific evidence has emerged that there is a strong racist element within the rebel forces, including at command level, and it is the stated intention of these forces to ethnically cleanse areas they capture of their dark-skinned inhabitants. Continue reading
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Libyan rebel ethnic cleansing and lynching of black people « Human rights investigations
Further specific evidence has emerged that there is a strong racist element within the rebel forces, including at command level, and it is the stated intention of these forces to ethnically cleanse areas they capture of their dark-skinned inhabitants. Continue reading
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Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare By Rick Rozoff
Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia. Continue reading
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Let them eat doughnuts: the US response to Bahrain's oppression By Mehdi Hasan
Syria was subjected to sanctions and Libya to air strikes; Bahrain, however, was rewarded with visits from the Pentagon’s two most senior officials – the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, and the then defence secretary, Robert Gates Continue reading
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Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare By Rick Rozoff
Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia. 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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Sally Hunt and Owen Jones on June 30
Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the University and College Union, and Owen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, analyse the political context of the June 30 strikes and discuss how to make them part of a successful movement against attacks by the government. Continue reading
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One Million March for Gaddafi: Where is this story?
Last Friday one million Libyans took to the streets of Tripoli to march in favour of their Brother Leader Muammar al-Qathafi and against the criminal precision-terrorism wrought on Libya’s population by NATO and the terrorist elements they are protecting. Yet where is this story? Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks for 16-17 June 2011
16 June 2011 — williambowles.info 17 June Yemeni government says Saleh to return from Saudi Arabia soonReutersAnti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz June 16, 2011. SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, taken to Saudi Arabia for Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks for 16 June 2011 NATO Continues airstrikes
NATO Newslinks for 16 June 2011 — williambowles.info NATO Continues Airstrikes Near Qaddafi’s Compound Fox News TRIPOLI, Libya — Hours after NATO airstrikes pounded the area near Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi’s compound again before dawn Thursday, Russia’s envoy to Libya turned up at a bombing site while on a visit to Tripoli for talks on Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks for 15 June 2011: Cameron humiliates first sea lord over Libya in Commons
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info 10 US lawmakers sue Obama over Libya strikes CBS News President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, March 28, 2011. (AP) WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of 10 lawmakers is suing President Barack Obama for taking military action against Libya without … Continue reading
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ColdType June-July 2011 Issue
14 June 2011 — Coldtype Download in pdf format at http://www.coldtype.net 1. Back to the, er, past . . . This month we’ve changed our name from The ColdType Reader back to the original, and simpler, title of ColdType. It’s the third time we’ve changed our name: the first incarnation of ColdType was in tabloidprinted Continue reading
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“Humanitarian” Bunker Buster Bombs: NATO cranks up air campaign in Libya by Atul Aneja
Since Tuesday morning, Tripoli was subjected to relentless bombardment which appeared to pause only at dawn on Wednesday. The attacks, with heavy ‘bunker buster’ bombs that can easily rip through concrete structures or destroy underground complexes, smashed large parts of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi’s Al Aziziya compound. Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 14 June 2011: CIA Plans Drone Strikes in Yemen
14 June 2011 — williambowles.info Yemen president health stable but suffers throat problem, prime minister very … Washington Post By AP, SANAA, Yemen — A senior Yemeni official in the Saudi capital says President Ali Abdullah Saleh has developed a problem with his throat but that his overall condition is stable. Saleh is being treated Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 9 June 2011: NATO rejects Russia’s missile defence proposals
9 June 2011 — williambowles.info As NATO Bombs Tripoli, World Powers Chart Libya Without Gadhafi Voice of America Photo: AP NATO has launched more airstrikes near the residence of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as global powers gathered to discuss a Libya without him. Loud explosions rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli late Wednesday, with the first Continue reading
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Special Report: Foreign Military Intervention in Libya
NATO has resumed operations over Tripoli, as aircraft launched strikes on the heart of the capital. The renewed bombardment comes after a brief respite that followed the heaviest day of bombing since the campaign began. Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info NATO: Time to plan for post-Gadhafi Libya CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: “We will keep up the pressure for as long as it takes.” (CNN) — It is time to start planning for what to do in Libya after leader Moammar Gadhafi’s Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 7 June 2011
7 June 2011 — williambowles.info Morning Star: Help for expats in war zone by Our Foreign DeskBBC: Yemen’s Saleh ‘gravely wounded’BBC: Clashes rock south Yemen citiesSCF: Iran urges Yemeni people not to allow foreign meddlingUK marines on Yemen exit standbySocialist Worker: Yemen after Saleh?SCF: EU leaders call on Yemeni people to reconcile Continue reading
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NATO Newslinks 7 June 2011: Gates Says NATO Forces Ready for Decisive Blow in Afghanistan
7 June 2011 — williambowles.info Libya crisis: Tripoli hit by Nato air strikes BBC News Huge explosions have rocked the Libyan capital, Tripoli, during a series of air strikes by low-flying Nato jets. Some of the blasts appeared to strike close to the compound of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The attacks came as diplomatic Continue reading
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