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ICH 22 December 2012: I Quit Murdering People on November 17, 2012
22 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Fact Or Fiction? US and Russia Back Bid to Find End to Syrian War By Alex Spillius, Damien McElroy The United States and Russia have backed a final bid to find a political solution to Syria’s civil war, as Moscow said it was prepared to accept President Bashar al-Assad’s Continue reading
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Video: US Blocks UN Condemnation of Israeli Settlements
Vijay Prashad: Most European countries including UK support statement denouncing new settlements (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 21 December 2012: Israel’s assault on Gaza killed 177, mostly civilians
21 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Europe Trying To Convince U.S To Obtain Security Council Resolution Against SettlementsIMEMC – Nimir Hammad, Political Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, stated that several European Countries are exerting efforts meant at convincing the United States to obtain a serious resolution at the United Nations General Assembly Continue reading
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ICH 21 December 2012: NRA Wants Guns in Every School
21 December 2012 — Information Clearing House House Approves Bill Authorizing $633 Billion in War Spending By David Alexander Reuters The Republican-controlled House approved the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 315-107. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33406.htm Continue reading
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UN Report on Syria a devastating indictment of Western intervention By Chris Marsden
The report produced is a devastating indictment of the United States and other western powers, who have worked with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to depose of Bashar al-Assad by recruiting and aiding a Sunni insurgency overwhelmingly made up of Muslim Brotherhood supporters, Salafist and Al Qaeda-style groups. Many are foreign fighters brought to Syria… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 20 December 2012: Cut off from water and electricity grids, Arab Abu Farda stands alone
20 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Despite US criticism, Israel continues with plan to construct 6,000 new settlement unitsIMEMC – The US State Department issued a statement this week that included a rare criticism of Israeli policy, calling the ongoing construction of settlements on Palestinian land a “pattern of provocative action” that Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 19 December 2012: Election committee bans Palestinian MK Zoabi from participating in elections
19 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Several Palestinians Injured In Jenin, Two Children KidnappedIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported Wednesday that several residents have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation after the army fired gas bombs at them near Continue reading
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ICH 19 December 2012: Unbelievable – Outrageous! – Do you agree?
19 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Egypt’s New Pharaoh By Chris Hedges Morsi and the Brotherhood have been exposed as the heirs of the old dictatorship in new garb. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33380.htm Continue reading
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ICH 18 December 2012: What If Children Mattered No Matter Where They Lived –
18 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Obama’s War on Syria and Its Implications By Shamus Cooke The Obama administration has already declared war on Syria, even if it isn’t “official” yet. Consider the facts, all of them acts of war: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33365.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 December 2012: Israel approves 1,500 more settler homes in East Jerusalem
17 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In NablusIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different parts of the of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped five Palestinians including a school headmaster, and a Palestinian security officer. … Continue reading
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United States and al-Qaeda: Strange Bedfellows? Hassan N. Gardezi
There is a war raging in our times between a coalition of states led by the United States of America and al-Qaeda which has entered its second decade. One of the parties in this war, the United States, needs no introduction. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it became the sole superpower and is… Continue reading
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International Law and the Iran Impasse by Asli Bâli
Israel, the United States and their principal Western partners all now seem agreed upon a spring 2013 make-or-break deadline by which Iran must accept a Western-backed deal or face an array of threatened military operations aiming to damage or destroy its nuclear facilities. In the meantime, a crippling international sanctions regime, reinforced by even more… Continue reading
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ICH 15 December 2012: An Interview With Jesus Christ
15 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria: The Descent into Holy War By Patrick Cockburn It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in Syria. It shows two men being beheaded by Syrian rebels, one of them by a child. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33331.htm Continue reading
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Western backed Free Syrian Army has crossed the line By John Robles
The Free Syrian Army has committed an affront to all humanity by kidnapping and threatening to execute a female Ukrainian journalist and announcing that they will kill all Russians and Ukrainians they find in Syria. This could be taken to be akin to a declaration of war, obviously the armed insurgents in Syria have been… Continue reading
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America’s Power Game: Iranian People Victims of US Economic Sanctions By Kourosh Ziabari
The reality is that if the United States and its European allies had compelling evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, they wouldn’t hesitate for a moment to launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and what troubles them is that Iran is not really seeking nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 11 December 2012: The Civilian Toll of Israel’s Bombs
11 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas Threatens To Head To ICC Should Israel Implement E1 ProjectIMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, threatened to head to the International Criminal Court (ICC) should Israel insist on implementing its decision to build more than 3000 homes for Jewish settlers as part of its E1 Continue reading
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Secret Meeting in London: Plotting to Wage War on Syria without UN Authorization By Felicity Arbuthnot
Remember Libya was “not going to be another Iraq” disaster, “lessons have been learned”? Libya’s ruined towns and social structure of course, chillingly resemble Iraq. Now, it is Syria’s turn, but Syria will “not be another Libya”, yes mistaks were made, but lessons have yet again been learned. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report December #111 11th, 2012 By William Blum: Death by Stupidity
The hurricanes, the typhoons, the heat waves … the droughts, the heavy rains, the floods … ever more powerful, ever new records being set. Something must be done of course. Except if you don’t believe at all that it’s man-made. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 10 December 2012: Shattered Lives in Gaza
10 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into School Near Bethlehem, Attack Students, TeachersIMEMC – Palestinian sources in Taqoua’ village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, reported that Israeli soldiers broke, Monday, into the village’s High School for Boys, attacked several teachers and students, and left the school later Continue reading
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PCHR_e: PCHR launches campaign ‘Palestine to the ICC’
On 10 December, 2012, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, PCHR is launching its ‘Palestine to the ICC’ campaign. The campaign aims to encourage the relevant stakeholders, namely the State of Palestine, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the international community, to fulfil their responsibilities in ensuring justice and redress for Palestinian… Continue reading
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