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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 February 2012: Saving Khader Adnan’s life is saving our own soul
18 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Injured After Army Bombarded Gaza IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that two residents were wounded, on Saturday evening, when the Israeli Air Force bombarded a blacksmith workshop in Az-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City. … Continue reading
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Syria Crisis, Arab Spring Revive Cold War Alignment By Marwan Kabalan
The Russian-Chinese co-ordination on many world issues, including in the UN Security Council, makes it almost certain that the West will, from now on, face tougher resistance to its polices from underprivileged powers in the international system. Continue reading
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Wrongheaded UN Vote on Syria: US-NATO "Arm Twisting" at the General Assembly By Stephen Lendman
Under international law, no nation or combination thereof, may interfere in the internal affairs of others, except in self-defense if attacked. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 17-18 February 2012
18 February 2012 19:09:22 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 012 Wrongheaded UN Vote on Syria: US-NATO “Arm Twisting” at the General Assembly GlobalResearch.ca Today at 18:29 For more details, please click on the link to read the article. Continue reading
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GEOPOLITICAL DESTABILIZATION AND REGIONAL WAR: The Road To Tehran Goes Through Damascus By Nile Bowie
Between the chaos and artillery fire unfolding in Homs and Damascus, the current siege against the Baíathist State of Bashar al-Assad parallels events of nearly a century ago. In efforts to maintain its protectorate, the French government employed the use of foreign soldiers to smother those seeking to abolish the French mandated, FÈdÈration Syrienne. Continue reading
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YOU CAN’T GET THERE FROM HERE: THE NEED FOR “COLLAPSE WITH AGENCY” IN PALESTINE By Jeff Halper
Even as I write this, the bulldozers have been busy throughout that one indivisible country known by the bifurcated term Israel/Palestine. Palestinian homes, community centers, livestock pens and other “structures” (as the Israel authorities dispassionately call them) have been demolished in the Old City, Silwan and various parts of “Area C” in the West Bank,… Continue reading
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Syria: China, Russia Won’t Allow Further Transformation Of UN Into West’s Bludgeon
Western powers are privileged to interpret interests and ethics at their own will due to their obvious dominance of public opinion. They label the 12 countries who voted differently to them at the UN as being ‘unethical.’ China should never be fooled by this hypocrisy. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 February 2012: Adnan Still On Hunger-Strike At Galilee Hospital
17 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Detainees In Ramon Punished For Protesting Abuse IMEMC – The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported Friday that Palestinian political detainees held at the Ramon Israeli prison, are being punished for protesting abuse against their families, who are being ordered to undergo humiliation and strip Continue reading
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Netizen Journalism, Libya and the UN By Ronda Hauben
In this issue is a collection of articles documenting what happened in Libya in 2011. These articles serve to argue that starting in February 2011 there was a media blitz supporting the NATO actions, largely based on unverifiable claims by the opposition against the government of Libya. The story that emerged is based on broadly… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 17 February 2012: Gays threaten the future of the human race says Libyan UN delegate
There are fifteen stories in today’s links, most from the MSM and twelve of the fifteen stories (some are essentially duplicates viz Business Week and TIME) have essentially the same headline: ‘A year after revolt, Libya mired in factional fighting’, or words to that effect. Predictably the BBC and Sky News headlines make no mention… Continue reading
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Libya Reprise: Former Mideast Colonial Powers France, Britain Plot Syria Takeover
17 February, 2012 — RT Friendly advice: France, UK to command ousting of Assad? Britain and France may send military advisors to teach the Syrian insurgents combat tactics, communication and other skills needed to attack governmental forces. Earlier unconfirmed reports said that British military are already on the ground in the besieged city Homs doing Continue reading
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Hungary: The gallows of capitalism By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
To call Hungary the gallows of capitalism is as right as calling it the gallows of human decency. Recently, the Hungarian Parliament legislated that homelessness is a criminal activity, meaning that those forced to live on the streets, through no fault of their own, can be thrown into a jail and be locked away. So… Continue reading
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Video: US double standards: Indirectly arming Syrian rebels? — RT
The conflict in Syria is intensifying and the UN is unable to agree on a solution to end the bloodshed. Meanwhile, US politicians are calling to arm opposition forces, amid suspicions the US may already be supplying weapons through its Arab allies. Continue reading
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Who Arms the Gang Called «Free Syrian Army» By Leonid Savin
Militant terrorist groups are the main force of those who apply efforts to destroy Syria after doing the same thing in Libya. The Report of the League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria (11) made public in January 2012 and ignored by the West, says there is no government organized repression against peaceful protesters… Continue reading
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Lies, Revolutions and Wars: A House of Sand and Fog By Nebojsa Malic
Last summer, as the Sandstorm mistakenly dubbed the “Arab Spring” swept across North Africa, a cadre of professional revolutionaries the Empire created in Serbia bragged about their role in the revolts to some European videographers. Sure, the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt may have begun spontaneously, but Empire-trained activists soon took control and channeled the… Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 16-17 February 2012
17 February 2012 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 012China sits out Syria regime change tango Asia Times Online Today at 11:00 There is a window of opportunity for China to promote its desired outcome in Syria – a ‘third path’ political strategy, one that eschews both regime change and perpetuation of Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 February 2012: Standing in solidarity with Khader Adnan
16 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Extremists On Facebook Celebrate Death of Palestinian Children Killed In Traffic Accident IMEMC – Earlier on Thursday morning, 9 Palestinian children and one adult were killed, and 42 were wounded in a tragic traffic accident between a school bus and a truck, near Continue reading
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After NATO’s War On Libya, Nation Turned Into Concentration Camp By Vladimir Gladkov
Militias keeps terrorizing civilians, spreading death, suffering and bloody chaos across the nation. At the same time, the fall of Gaddafi’s regime grants endless possibilities to all kinds of extremists, including radical Islamists. And the West, which, in effect, sponsored the turning of Libya into a war zone, could face the bitter consequences of its… Continue reading
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Week in Review: Crushing the Dollar, Anti-Dissent Laws and NATO’s Secret War on Syria
16 February 2012 — Global Research The Globalization of War: The “Military Roadmap” to World War III ONLINE INTERACTIVE READER – by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham – 2012-03-10 The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest. The military deployment of US–NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously. Continue reading
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