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NATO’s covert hand crucial in rebel advance on Tripoli — RT
During the months of fighting in Libya, NATO provided crucial assistance to the rebels far beyond air strikes on Gaddafi’s key communications and weapons facilities. Surveillance, private contractors and military instructors have helped to turn rebel groups into a force able to storm Tripoli. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 22 August 2011
22 August 2011 — williambowles.info U.N. council to hold special meeting on Syria CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — The UN Human Rights Council is scheduled to meet Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss allegations of human rights violations in Syria. The special meeting comes after the United Nations sent a humanitarian Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 August, 2011: Israel’s Convenient War on Gaza
21 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Egyptian Hacker Hacks Into Netanyahu’s Website IMEMC – Monday August 22, 2011 – 03:22, An Egyptian hacker managed on Sunday to hack into the website of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and placed a picture of Egyptian soldiers raising the Egyptian flag in Continue reading
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Fake Social Media Messages Led To War Against Libya By Marinella Correggia
This is what the UN resolutions and the war [on Libya] are based on… a tweet from a fake source. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 21 August 2011
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info The curious case of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Wikileaks and Julian Assange #DBB 100gf | Politics and Computers There’s trouble brewing in the leakosphere (if we can call it that), with Julian Assange and Wikileaks on one side and German technology activist Daniel Domscheit-Berg on the other. At issue is a new Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 21 August 2011
21 August 2011 — williambowles.info 21 August 2011Syrian townspeople welcome army to rout “gangs” Russiatoday.ru Today at 07:33 This week pressure has been mounting again on the Syrian leader Bashar Assad. The US and European leaders called on him to step down, but Russia refused to support the demand, saying Assad should be given time Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 20 August, 2011: We've Been Warned: The System is Ready to Blow
20 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Getting Away with Torture: Obama Bans War Criminals, Except Our Own By Nat Hentoff You, President Obama, are obligated to bring the foregoing list of war criminals during the Bush presidency into our courts or, before that, be subject to an independent criminal investigation. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28897.htm Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 18-20 August 2011
20 August 2011 — williambowles.info 20 August 2011 Jay Rothermel, “Who Defends Syria’s Sovereignty?” MRZine.org Today at 15:43 Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 August, 2011: Ongoing Escalation Against Gaza, 7 Killed, Dozens Injured
19 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Gaza; 15 Palestinians Killed Due To Israeli Bombardment In 24 Hours IMEMC – Saturday August 20, 2011 – 03:20, As Israel continued the bombardment of the Gaza Strip since Thursday, Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the number of slain residents arrived Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 August, 2011: Four years in prison for Facebook message
19 August 2011 — Information Clearing House Debt Crisis in West is Just a ‘Prelude to War’ By K. Selim The American dream no longer exists. The U.S. establishment, Democratic or Republican, is not prepared to cash in its last major comparative advantage – military supremacy. Continue http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28874.htm Continue reading
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FRANKLIN LAMB: TRIPOLI ON THE CUSP
Truth be told, some foreign observers, and certainly this one, having been based in Tripoli the past nearly eight weeks, have not taken very seriously occasional media predictions that Tripoli might soon be invaded by ‘NATO rebels’ and certainly not by NATO country forces putting their boots on the ground. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 August, 2011: Video survey: Racism rampant among Israeli youth
18 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Bombards Rafah Killing Six Palestinians; Child Killed In Gaza City IMEMC – Thursday August 18, 2011 – 20:51, Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday evening that six Palestinians, including a senior resistance leader, and a child, were killed Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 August, 2011: Israel to Recruit 70 Countries to Vote against Recognizing Palestine, Says Israeli Official
17 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestine UN Observer: “Settlements Jeopardize Peace Efforts” IMEMC – Thursday August 18, 2011 – 02:19, Palestinian Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, stated Wednesday that Israel’s insistence on constructing and expanding its illegal settlements in the occupied territories jeopardize all efforts Continue reading
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Jean Bricmont / Diana Johnstone: Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?
Last March, a coalition of Western powers and Arab autocracies banded together to sponsor what was billed as a short little military operation to ‘protect Libyan civilians’. Five months later, all the assumptions on which the war was based have proved to be more or less false. Human rights organizations have failed to find evidence… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 August, 2011: Palestinians in no hurry to join housing protests
13 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 81 US lawmakers in Israel on ‘tour’ sponsored by Zionist lobbying group IMEMC – Saturday August 13, 2011 – 21:55, One-fifth of the US Congress is currently in Israel on a free trip sponsored by the American Israel Educational Foundation, an affiliate of Continue reading
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NATO, ICC Criminalise Stone Throwing, Legitimise Street Shooting By Bernard Anbataayela Mornah
As we are all witnessing the most aggressive form of neo-colonialism in the north of our continent? Overnight, the Brits and the French have become so concerned about Africa as to have to appointed themselves as the overseers of the mixed reactions in the north of our continent. Continue reading
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NATO Allows Libyan Refugees to Drown in the Mediterranean By Peter Schwarz
According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, 1,500 Libyan refugees have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe since the beginning of the war against Libya in March. On August 4, German newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ reported a death toll of 1,820 since the beginning of the year. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 August, 2011: US Mideast policy: Well on its way to total irrelevance
12 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center USAID Threatens To Stop Funding Projects In Gaza IMEMC – Saturday August 13, 2011 – 04:59, A source at the US Department of State stated that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) would stop funding all projects in the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 August, 2011: Israel approves 1,600 Jerusalem settler homes
11 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas: “Future State Will Be Under NATO Security Forces Headed By The USA” IMEMC – Friday August 12, 2011 – 03:12, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated Thursday that the future Palestinian state will be under the security responsibility of a third party, NATO Continue reading
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Libya — Lather, Rinse, Repeat — Syria: Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn By Maximilian C. Forte
One detects a strong tendency among liberal imperialists and assorted self-designated “progressives” to think of their actions and thoughts as being above history, as if residing in some altostratus of unimpeachable rectitude. If they pretend to act and think as if they were gods, it is not an historical accident. At the end of their… Continue reading
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