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Syria Newslinks 15-16 December 2011
16 December 2011 — williambowles.info 16 December 2011 IRAQ MISSION [FINALLY?] ACCOMPLISHED : A dictatorship without a dictator Asia Times Online Today at 11:00 A democratic Iraq in a neighborhood riddled with dictatorships will not work, because Arab and Iranian regimes will always try to bring it down, as they did with Lebanon for more Continue reading
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Media Lens: Climate Crisis – The Collapse In Corporate Media Coverage
The latest round of UN climate talks has just begun in Durban, South Africa, but the world’s richest nations are already planning to prevent any new treaty from taking effect before 2020. Achim Steiner, head of the UN environment programme, has condemned the action as a ‘political choice’, rather than one based on science, calling… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 15 December 2011: Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq
15 December 2011 — Information Clearing House “Yankee Go Home” Iraq Celebrates US Army Withdrawal By Reuters Iraqis burned American flags, brandished banners and thronged the streets of the western city of Falluja to celebrate the withdrawal of US troops. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29999.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 December 2011: Netanyahu says Jewish extremists not terrorists
14 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Resident Seriously Injured By Army Fire In Gaza IMEMC – Palestinian Medical Sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one resident was seriously wounded on Wednesday morning, after the Israeli army opened fire at him east of Gaza city. … Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 13-14 December 2011
14 December 2011 — williambowles.info 14 December 2011Syria military convoy ‘ambushed’ BBC News Today at 15:47 Army defectors open fire on a military convoy in central Syria, killing eight soldiers, in retaliation for a deadly attack on civilians, activists say. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 December 2011: Israeli Settlers Continue Their Systematic Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Their Property
12 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli settlers cross Jordanian border in protest at Christian holy site IMEMC – Around thirty Israeli settlers crossed the border between the West Bank and Jordan and threatened to set up a settlement outpost there on Monday. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 December 2011: Thousands protest Israel Bedouin relocation plan
11 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Egypt Denies Claims Of Hamas Training Centers In Sinai IMEMC – Egyptian security officials denied claimed reported by the Israeli “Jerusalem Post” in which it said that the Hamas movement established basis and missile manufacturing facilities in the Sinai Peninsula as Israel bombards such Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 December 2011: Report: “19 Children Killed, 200 Injured, By Israeli Shells In 2011”
10 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Arrests Three Brothers In Nazareth, One Of Them Paralyzed IMEMC – The Arabs48 news website reported Saturday that the Israeli District Court in Nazareth ordered an extension on the remand of Mohammad Sa’id, 19, for additional ten days. … Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 5-8 December 2011
8 December 2011 — williambowles.info 8 December 2011 Attack damages Syria oil pipeline BBC News Today at 14:53 A major pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in Syria’s restive Homs province is attacked, activists and the state-run news agency say. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 December 2011: Israeli government to relocate 2300 Bedouin in order to expand settlement
6 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settler Sentenced 3 Months Public Service For Repeatedly Ramming Palestinian IMEMC – The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem sentenced a settler who rammed a wounded Palestinian with his vehicle, and drove his car over him back and forth, to three months “Public Service”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 December 2011: UNRWA: Israel’s displacement of Palestinians ‘doubles’
5 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 9 Palestinians Arrested Across the West Bank IMEMC – The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) are reporting, Monday, the detention of nine Palestinians across the West Bank by the Israeli military. … Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 3-4 December 2011
4 December 2011 — williambowles.info 4 December 2011‘Sanctions against Syria won’t bear fruit’ Russiatoday.ru Today at 06:47 The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for military intervention in Syria to bring down the ruling regime as sanctions continue to be piled on Damascus. But political activist Franklin Lamb has doubts on… Continue reading
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‘West’s policy on Syria could ignite WWIII’ — RT
The situation in Syria is just a warm-up before a real confrontation, which will draw Russia and China into action, believes Lawrence Freeman from the Executive Intelligence Review magazine. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 December 2011: Hebron: Occupation and Sterilization
2 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Turkey To Grant Hamas $300 Million IMEMC – Turkish sources reported that Turkish Prime Minister, Receb Tayyip Erdogan, sent a confidential letter to Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, inviting him to visit Turkey, and informing him that Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 2 December 2011
2 December 2011 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 2 December 2011 Done deal: Russia supplies cruise missiles to Syria Russiatoday.ru Today at 10:59 Fulfilling a contract signed in 2007, Russia has supplied Bastion coastal missile systems with Yakhont cruise missiles to Syria under a contract signed in 2007, a diplomatic source Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 November 2011: Boycott Israel campaign grows among UK unions, despite Zionist backlash
30 November 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas- Livni Met In Amman IMEMC – The Israeli Radio reported that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting in Amman on Wednesday with Israeli opposition leader of the Kadima Party, Tzipi Livni. … Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 29-30 November 2011
30 November 2011 — williambowles.info Maybe updated as the day wears on… 30 November 2011SYRIA: The Orwellian “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) used to Justify “Regime Change” and All Out War GlobalResearch.ca Today at 16:22 False pretences of humanitarianism are being used with a twisted legal regime in a plan for regime change against Syria. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 November 2011:Israeli military courts ‘have 99 percent conviction rate’
29 November 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Citizens Sue Minnesota State Board of Investment for Illegal Investments in Israel Bonds IMEMC – The lawsuit asserts that investment in Israel Bonds by the SBI is both unlawful and imprudent, and further contends that such investment violates the Minnesota statutes that control the Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 29 November 2011: US refuses to apologise for Pakistan air strike that killed 24 soldiers
29 November 2011 — Information Clearing House The Folly of Sanctions By Ron Paul We should be clear about this: sanctions against Iran are definite steps toward a US attack. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29849.htm Continue reading