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Scenarios for Syria: War and Stabilization By Nile Bowie
Diplomatic attempts to solve the Syrian crisis have been rejected by both members of the Syrian government and the opposition. As Ankara laments bold rhetoric and militarizes its border with Syria, this article attempts to foresee three possible outcomes to the ongoing crisis. Continue reading
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Video: Ed Herman on "Humanitarian Imperialism" Pt. 2
Edward Herman Pt2: The development of humanitarian intervention as a concept is essentially an overthrow of international law (includes transcript) Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 June 2012: Simulating an Iranian attack on Israel – why?
30 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Bethlehem church designated as Endangered World Heritage siteIMEMC – The United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization voted Friday to designate the Bethlehem Nativity church and pilgrimage route as a World Heritage site, which will provide the Palestinian Authority with funding to maintain and restore Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June 2012: Israel, US blast UN vote on Palestinian heritage sites
29 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 22 Elected Legislators Still Imprisoned By IsraelIMEMC – Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, reported that the current number of elected Palestinian legislators imprisoned by Israel dropped to 22 after Israel released, on Thursday afternoon, two legislators, the Continue reading
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NATO Proxies Turkey and Saudi Arabia Move to War Footing on Eve of Syrian ‘Peace Summit’ By Finian Cunningham
The NATO-backed covert aggression against Syria could be reaching a tipping point for all-out war involving state forces. That should be no surprise. For the past 16 months, NATO and its regional proxies have been steadily increasing the violence and turmoil inside and outside Syria, while the Western corporate-controlled media maintain the ridiculous fiction that… Continue reading
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CONFIRMED: US CIA Arming Terrorists in Syria By Tony Cartalucci
The New York Times in their article, “C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” confirms what many have already long known – that the West, led by the US and its Gulf State proxies, have been arming terrorists, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, while berating the Syrian government for “violating” a UN mandated… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Game Over For The Climate?
Last week, the Independent marked the half-century with a well-meaning but frankly insipid ‘landmark series’ titled ‘The Green Movement at 50’. But there’s a glaring hole in such coverage; and, indeed, in the ‘green movement’ itself: the insidious role of the corporate media, a key component of corporate globalisation, in driving humanity and ecosystems towards… Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 22 June 2012: UN Monitors Spying for Washington in Syria, Covert Derivatives and Food Politics
Global Research, June 22, 2012 URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31551 SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War? ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK – by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-07-15 Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 June 2012: Africa: What Israel’s Anti-African Pogroms Tell Us About Zionism
012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Farmer Injured Near BethlehemIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported Friday that a Palestinian farmer was injured when Israeli soldiers attacked several farmers, and fired concussion grenades at them, while working in their lands in “Roman area”, east of Tiqoua in Bethlehem district. … Continue reading
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THE HOULA MASSACRE: Opposition Terrorists “Killed Families Loyal to the Government”
The report is based on a chronology of events as well as eyewitness accounts. Entire pro-government families in Houla were massacred. The terrorists integrated by professional mercenaries were not pro-government militia as conveyed in chorus by the mainstream media, they were in large part mercenaries and professional killers operating under the auspices of the self-proclaimed… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 May 2012: Mavi Marmara indictments herald an end to Israeli impunity
31 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Calls for Intervention in Arrests of Fishermen in GazaIMEMC – The General Union of Palestinian Workers in Gaza demanded that human rights organizations intervene immediately to stop attacks on Palestinian fishermen that occur every fishing season. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: Good Rockets, Bad Rockets – BBC Bias On India And North Korea
Like Israel and Pakistan, also nuclear powers, India has never signed the NPT. Despite this, the US has supported the development of nuclear weapons in all three countries – India receiving particular support from George W. Bush and Obama. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 May 2012: Nuclear Israel: Image of Apocalyptic Horror
11 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center New UNRWA Upgrade Plan To Improve Dheisheh Refugee CampIMEMC – Dheisheh, the oldest refugee camp in the West Bank, is set to receive a facelift under a new UNWRA upgrade plan. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), is launching a new program Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 May 2012: Nuke Mecca: US Military Teaches Officers
11 May 2012 — Information Clearing House “U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam,” By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman “The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a ‘total war’ against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31290.htm Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online11 May 2012 (10/12)
11 May 2012 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Presidency criticised: Even worse than the Commission2. EU: Visits campaign : Obstacles to the right to know: Migrant Camps in Europe3. EU-EAW: Council: practical operation of the European arrest warrant – Year 20114. EU: AI and ECRE Letter on behalf on 166 NGOs:Appeal to EU Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 May 2012: Israeli government announces plan to forcibly remove 2300 Bedouins
10 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Court Injunction Delays Demolitions of Jerusalem Area Bedouin HomesIMEMC – The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center obtained on Wednesday an injunction order for Khan al-Ahmar Kurshan community. This temporary injunction prevents the demolition of homes of the eight families that received 24-hour eviction notices Continue reading
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First Madeleine Albright, now Prince Harry: The Strange World of Humanitarian Awards By Felicity Arbuthnot
Humanitarian Awards are surely taking on a whole new meaning. The end of April brought the obscenity of the announcement that Madeleine Albright, a woman prepared to sacrifice children by proxy(i) was to be awarded America’s highest honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for her role as a long time champion of democracy and human… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Mystery Of The Missing Clocks By David Edwards
The truth peeks out at us from the most unexpected places. It can be seen, for example, in the empty spaces where one might otherwise hope to find a clock in shops. The average retailer doesn’t approve of customers clock-watching – they might realise they have something more important to do and cut short their… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 May 2012: Ads Warn Jewish Parents – Keep Daughters Away from Arabs
9 May 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Negev Prison Refuses To Admit Jailed MP Due To Health ConditionIMEMC – Detained elected Palestinian Legislator, Mohammad Abu Jheisha, was moved from the Ofer Israeli prison to the Negev detention camp, in the Negev desert, but the administration there refused to admit him due to his Continue reading
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