UN
-
From the Cold War to NATO's "Humanitarian Wars" – The Complicity of the United Nations By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Humanitarian wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” are a modern form of imperialism. The standard pattern that the United States and its allies use to execute them is one where genocide and ethnic cleansing are vociferously alleged by a coalition of governments, media organizations, and non-governmental front organizations. The allegations… Continue reading
-
Syrian Victims: When Truth Is the First Casualty of War By Ross Ruthenberg
The Western mainstream media continuously beat the war drums for Libya-like treatment of Syria, using body count statistics to attempt to paint the year-old Syrian conflict as a humanitarian disaster crying out for NATO and its allies to bomb the government’s military forces into submission. Ironically, under the guise of “responsibility to protect”, the NATO… Continue reading
-
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 March 2012: Hospital ‘may consider force-feeding’ Shalabi
26 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ashrawi Condemns Israeli Threats of Cutting Tax RevenueIMEMC – On Monday Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the PLO executive committee, slammed the Israeli government threats to cut tax revenue as part of Israeli response to the last week UN council for Human Rights decision to investigate Continue reading
-
Some facts about Iran’s nuclear activities
“The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran’s nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead.” Continue reading
-
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 March 2012: Ayalon: “We Will Not Allow UN Committee Members Into The Country”
25 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Female Detainee On Hunger Strike Since TuesdayIMEMC – Lawyer of the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Firas Sabbah, stated that he managed, last Thursday, to visit detainee Amani Al-Khandaqji, at the Asqalan Israeli prison, and that she told him that she started an open-ended Continue reading
-
The Bradley Manning Prosecution Infected by Government Misconduct, Dismissal is the Only Option By Kevin Zeese
Manning has suffered the fate the Queen put on Alice when she was in Wonderland, “Sentence first — verdict afterwards.” By the time his court martial is actually held he will have been incarcerated for more than two years, one of those years was spent in solitary confinement. But, that is only one of many… Continue reading
-
New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-24 March 2012: Internet / Egypt / Azerbaijan / Latin America-Cuba / Afghanistan / Libya / UK
24 March 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Cyber security: new threats, new opportunities 24.03.2012 | 00:00 | Andrey NOVATSKY Speaking about the stronger cyber threats the US government mentions a new symbolic “Axis of Evil”: China – Russia – North Korea. The US claims that most of the cyber attacks on informational infrastructure of the US Continue reading
-
Syria: China And Russia Slow Down West’s Global Military Juggernaut
The West has dominated the evolution of the Arab Spring. The change of tone is good for China and Russia. If this trend continues, it may break the tradition of the West dominating Middle Eastern affairs. Continue reading
Arab, China, civil war, evolution, Global Times, intervention, Libya, Middle Eastern, NATO, Russia, Syria, UN, veto -
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 March 2012: Israel’s Nuclear Triggers
23 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Detains A Child At Roadblock Near JeninIMEMC – Israeli soldiers detained, on Thursday evening, a 12-year-old Palestinian child at a roadblock close to an illegal Israeli settlement, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. … Continue reading
-
PAMBAZUKA NEWS 578: DRC & SENEGAL: THE PEOPLE'S VOICE UNHEARD
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
-
PAMBAZUKA NEWS 578: DRC & SENEGAL: THE PEOPLE’S VOICE UNHEARD
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
-
Syria Newslinks 22-23 March 2012
23 March 2012 13:35:55 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 012Medvedev against solving problems by forceVoice of Russia, News Today at 12:51Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev believes that threats of using force against any country are very dangerous. He said this at an international conference on security in Europe and the Atlantic region, which Continue reading
-
'Syrian armed groups destroy civilian facilities with imported weapons'
23 March, 2012 — RT With the United States still threatening Damascus with more pressure and isolation, Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour told RT that the policy of backing one side in any national conflict could lead to disaster for the entire region. Continue reading
-
Turning Point on the Syrian Front: Dealmaking in Search of a Face-Saving Exit By Sharmine Narwani
In recent weeks, there has been a notable shuffle in the positions of key external players in the Syrian crisis. Momentum has quite suddenly shifted from an all-out onslaught against the Assad government to a quiet investigation of exit strategies. Continue reading
-
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 March 2012: Israel’s Willing Executioners: AIPAC Invades Washington
22 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Weekly: “Army Conducts 56 Invasions Into W. Bank, 1 In Gaza”IMEMC – The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on Israeli violations against the Palestinians in the occupied territory for the period between March 15-21, 2012, revealing that Continue reading
-
Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 March 2012: Sociopaths in US Governance
22 March 2012— Information Clearing House No Matter Who Does Them By War Criminals Watch People of conscience must insist on accountability for the actions of U.S. officials, no matter who is president. It is our obligation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30888.htm Continue reading
-
Information Clearing House Newsletter 21 March 2012: Arundhati Roy – Capitalism: A Ghost Story
21 March 2012— Information Clearing House Afghan Villagers Say Shootings Were Revenge By Deb Riechmann and Mirwais Khan Several Afghans near the villages where an American soldier is alleged to have killed 16 civilians say U.S. troops lined them up against a wall after a roadside bombing and told them that they, and even Continue reading
-
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 March 2012: A Planned Escalation: Israel Prepares for War
21 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Kidnap 11 year old Child From His ClassroomIMEMC – A report by the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, revealed that on Monday Israeli soldiers kidnapped an 11-year-old Palestinian child while he sat behind his desk at an elementary school in Rad Al-Amoud neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
-
Media Lens: Constructing Consensus – The ‘Victims-And-Aggressor Meme’
Together, politics and media combine to provide an astonishingly consistent form of reality management controlling public perception of conflicts in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Alastair Crooke, founder and director of Conflicts Forum,notes how the public is force-fed a ‘simplistic victims-and-aggressor meme, which demands only the toppling of the aggressor’. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 