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Iraq and the Betrayal of a People – Impunity Forever? By Hans Christof Von Sponeck
Ethnic tension and sectarianism have become a major element in Iraqi politics since the US/UK invasion of 2003, a polarization of inter-group relations Iraqis had not known before. This explains much of the existing hideous crime including murder, kidnapping, property destruction and, most noteworthy, the deteriorating relationships between Baghdad and the three northern Kurdish governorates. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 19 February 2013: Racism and the hypocrisy of Israel’s advocates
19 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Several College Students Injured By Army Fire Near RamallahIMEMC – Ramallah – Tuesday February 19; Palestinian medical sources reported that several students of the Birzeit University, near Ramallah, were mildly injured after Israeli soldiers attacked a nonviolent protest held in support of Palestinian prisoners held by Continue reading
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UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay: “Pretext-maker” for Western Military Aggression By Ken Stone
Navi Pillay is up to her old tricks: she’s abusing her position as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide a pretext for imperial aggression against Syria. Today, February 18, 2013, she repeated her call for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to be referred for investigation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the… Continue reading
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The Children of Iraq: “Was the Price Worth It?” By Bie Kentane
Behind all these data, figures and numbers that I will present to you, are children with a name, a personality, they are sisters, brothers, daughters, a son, a grandchild, a friend. I regret to have to put them in tables and categories, each of them , so vulnerable and fragile, they became the victim of… Continue reading
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Al Qaeda: The Database By Pierre-Henri Bunel
This article originally published by Global Research in 2005 sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries, while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy, which threatens the security of the Western World. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 February 2013: Palestinians fleeing Syria bombed by Israel in Gaza
18 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Admits Using Private Palestinian Lands In Kibbutz MeiravIMEMC – The so-called “Israel’s Lands Administration” acknowledged that privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank’s Northern Plains have been used for the expansion of the Kibbutz Meirav, located within the Green Line. … Continue reading
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ICH 18 February 2013: Will Humanity Survive Obama’s Second Term?
18 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Upcoming Iranian Nuclear Talks Humanity May Not Survive Obama’s Second TermBy Stephen LendmanTehran’s nuclear program isn’t at issue. It’s red herring cover for imperial aims. It’s the oil, stupid, and regional dominance. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34004.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 February 2013: Robbery of Books and Ownership of Narrative
15 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Eight Injured After Army Invades Al-EesawiyyaIMEMC – Friday Evening, February 15; Palestinian medical sources reported that eight Palestinians have been injured after Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Eesawiyya area in occupied East Jerusalem, and attacked dozens of nonviolent protesters. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 February 2013: Israeli government gives convicted murderer 1.3 million for illegal takeover of Palestinian land
14 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center HRW: “Israel Violated International Law During Gaza War”IMEMC – Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Israel’s airstrikes against the Gaza Strip in the most recent war on Gaza in November of last year violated International laws of war, as the Israeli army bombarded areas that had Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 13 February 2013
13 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 360 Detainees To Hold Solidarity Hunger StrikeIMEMC – The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Wednesday that 360 Palestinian detainees will be holding a one-day hunger strike in solidarity with the hunger striking detainees. … Continue reading
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War Crimes and the Global War on Terrorism: US Arms Al Qaeda in Syria, Mass-Slaughters Civilians in Afghanistan By Tony Cartalucci
AFP has reported that a recent NATO airstrike in Afghanistan has killed over 10 civilians in an all-too-familiar headline glossed over by the Western media in an exercise of both depravity and hypocrisy. RT’s article, “NATO airstrike kills 10 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children – officials,” notes in particular that up to 11,864 civilians… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 February 2013
10 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Surround Azzoun TownIMEMC – Israeli soldiers surrounded, on Saturday at night, Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, and fired dozens of gas bombs at local residents. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 9 February 2013
9 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Injuries Reported As Army Attacks Bil’in’s Weekly ProtestIMEMC – Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday afternoon, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah; dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. Similar attacks Continue reading
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ICH 9 February 2013:
9 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria: How Jihadist’s Are Taking Over Syria‘s “Revolution” By Ruth Sherlock, Aleppo Life in Syria‘s most populous city has become a dog-eat-dog existence: a battle for survival in a place where the strong devour the weak. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33892.htm Continue reading
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America’s WMD Pretext to Wage War on Iraq – Ten Years after Colin Powell By Michael Welch
Powell’s dossier included the testimonies of anonymous defectors, satellite images, schematics of mobile labs for biological weapons agents, intercepted phone conversations and a prop vial supposedly containing Anthrax powder. Continue reading
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America’s WMD Pretext to Wage War on Iraq – Ten Years after Colin Powell By Michael Welch
Powell’s dossier included the testimonies of anonymous defectors, satellite images, schematics of mobile labs for biological weapons agents, intercepted phone conversations and a prop vial supposedly containing Anthrax powder. Continue reading
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The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War By Diana Johnstone
Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping up in universities. Five years ago, an unlikely “Genocide Prevention Task Force” was set up headed by former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former defense secretary William Cohen, both veterans of the Clinton administration. Continue reading
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Fleets of Drones Descend on Africa By Glen Ford
U.S. drone bases are multiplying on the African continent. Niger has just “given the green light to accepting American surveillance drones on its soil”; neighboring Burkina Faso already has one; two new drone facilities are opening in Ethiopia and the Seychelles; and UN peacekeepers in Congo want U.S. drones. Drones have terrorized Somalia from AFRICOM’s… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 6 February 2013
6 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Shepherd Injured After Being Attacked By Settlers Near NablusIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian shepherd was attacked, on Wednesday afternoon, by a group of extremist Israeli settlers west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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U.S. Escalate Imperialist War in Mali and Niger By Abayomi Azikiwe
In the immediate aftermath of the Hollande visit, dozens of French war planes escalated their attacks on several areas in the north. Under the guise of disabling supply routes for the designated “terrorists” groups, the mountainous north-east region around Kidal and Tessalit was pounded. Continue reading
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