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Statewatch News Online,30 June 2011 (17/11)
30 June 2011 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Statewatch Analysis: “Network with errors”: Europe’s emerging web of DNA databases 2. UK: Statewatch Analysis: Review of counter-terrorism powers fails to deliver definitive change 3. ECHR-UK: JUDGMENT: UK would violate human rights of two Somali nationals if it returned them to Mogadishu 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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Video: José Pertierra talks on film about the Miami 5 and Posada Carriles
They are known as the “Cuban 5” and are serving the life sentences in the US because they were accused of committing espionage conspiracy. According to those five though, their mission was to stop terrorism against Cuba, monitoring actions against Miami-based terrorism groups. Continue reading
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Media Lens: If At First You Don’t Succeed – Four Decades Of US-UK Attempts To Topple Gaddafi
Behind a wall of silence, the US and UK have been conducting over the last four decades a massive, largely secret war against Libya – often using Chad, the country lying on its southern border, as its base. The current attacks on Col. Gadafi’s troops and attempts to assassinate the Libyan leader with the US… Continue reading
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9/11 Revisited by Paul Carline
Cards on the table. I’ve been a “truther” since early 2002 when I came across the first major challenge to the official 9/11 story in the shape of the wonderful “Hunt the Boeing” site created by French researcher Thierry Meyssan. Until then I’d accepted the standard “Left” version of the government account – that a… Continue reading
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The Crisis of Civilization – Trailer
The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system. Continue reading
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US secret aims in Yemen secret no more — RT
As confirmed by a recent WikiLeaks dispatch of classified diplomatic cables, US special operations forces are carrying out strikes against suspected terrorists in Yemen, and the Yemeni government is taking the credit. But US plans in Yemen go further than strikes. The military are discussing long-term bases and asking for more than a billion dollars… Continue reading
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The Latest Wikileaks Afghanistan Stories 25-26 August, 2010
26 August, 2010 — Creative-i 26/8/10 – WikiLeaks: CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States Exporting Terrorism 26/8/10 – CIA shrugs off WikiLeaks “exporter of terrorism” release 26/8/10 – Wikileaks Posts Classified CIA Memo 26/8/10 – Wikileaks publishes ‘red cell’ CIA paper 25/8/10 – WikiLeaks leak lame, alleged CIA assassin accidently shoots self 25/8/10 – Continue reading
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…We were told we were fighting terrorists. The real terrorist was me and the real terrorism is this occupation…
A SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN [An Repentant War Criminal] http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.915959 more about “AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN“, posted with vodpod “…I tried hard to be proud of my “service”, but all I could feel was shame. Racism can no longer mask the reality of the occupation. These were people. These were human beings. I since Continue reading
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Revealing the Real U.S.-Africa Policy By Gerald LeMelle
It’s time for some straight talk on U.S. foreign policy as it relates to Africa. While Obama administration officials and the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) representatives insist that U.S. foreign policy towards Africa isn’t being militarized, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. Continue reading
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Internet Threatened By Censorship, Secret Surveillance, And Cybersecurity Laws By Stephen Lendman
Net Neutrality must be defended at all costs. Preserving a viable, independent, free and open Internet (and the media overall) is essential to a functioning democracy, but the forces aligned against it are formidable, daunting, relentless, and reprehensible. Some past challenges suggest future ones ahead. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Living Our Values’: Guardian News & Media And The Climate – Part 2
Earlier this month, the Observer smeared climate activists by highlighting police warnings of a “growing threat of eco-terrorism”. The alleged threat is presented by a group called Earth First!, which the paper claimed “has supporters who believe that reducing the Earth’s population by four-fifths will help to protect the planet”. Continue reading
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Media Lens: CHILDREN IN THE CROSSHAIRS
3 November, 2008 Media Silent On Evidence Of Israeli Targeting Of Youngsters <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media On the afternoon of Thursday 28 February, 2008, a group of <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Palestinian boys were playing football on some open ground near their homes in the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Gaza Strip. At around Continue reading
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Tom Burghardt: Pointing the US Surveillance Apparatus at the American People
As we have seen throughout these eight long, dark years of the Bush administration, the geopolitical machinations of the U.S. ruling class have created nothing but disaster and suffering. From Afghanistan to Iraq and from Hurricane Katrina to the ongoing nightmare that is “Hurricane America” in the form of the recent $700 billion Wall Street… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Complicit Enablers’ – UK Media Ignore US Whistleblowers
11 June, 2008 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media In April 2006, George Bush bade farewell to his outgoing White House press secretary, Scott McClellan: “One day he and I are going to be rocking on chairs in Texas talking about the good old days and his time as Continue reading
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(Yet More) Rumours of War and other tales from Psy-Ops Central by William Bowles
7 September 2007 “Reports that the Bush administration will put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: It’s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within Continue reading
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Media Lens: Every Bloodbath Has A Silver Lining – Part 2
We wrote to Jonathan Freedland about his article, “The war’s silver lining”, and asked him: “Are you not, here, celebrating the efficacy of state terrorism as a political tool? Is Damascus not literally terrorised by what it has seen in Iraq?” Continue reading
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Media Lens: Every Bloodbath Has A Silver Lining – Part 1
9 March 2005 — Media Lens The Sting – You’re Next In a remarkable article in last week’s Guardian entitled, “The war’s silver lining”, Jonathan Freedland wrote: Continue reading
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Law ‘n’ Order By William Bowles
Marx saw the state as ‘whithering away’ with the building of communism (as opposed to the state under socialism, which is a kind of ‘interim stage’ between capitalism and communism). Moreover, Marx was quite specific about it. Under communism, the state becomes a government of ‘things’ as opposed to a government of people. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 