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Student Questions From Tripoli By Franklin Lamb
One thing most foreigners and the local population agree on in western Libya is that there were few signs in early February that eastern Libya would erupt as it did and many are still unclear what and who caused it and why and how. But when half a dozen bright, energetic, nationalistic Libyan under and… Continue reading
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NATO War on Libya in an Impasse: Another take on Libya Hubris for China By Peter Lee
Western self-regard was on full display in a United States headline describing the Libya Contact Group confab in Istanbul over the weekend. It read: World leaders open Libya talks in Turkey. Well, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was there. Much-diminished leaders of 19th-century world powers Britain and France – and first millennium world power… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 July, 2011: For Lieberman, human rights = terrorism
22 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Weekly Nonviolent protest Held In Ni’lin IMEMC – Saturday July 23, 2011 – 01:04, Local sources reported Friday that dozens of Palestinian residents of Ni’lin village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by Israeli and international peace activists, held the Continue reading
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ECHELON: The Global Eavesdropping Scheme Dwarfs Murdoch’s “News of the World” By Sherwood Ross
As eavesdroppers go, next to Uncle Sam and John Bull, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur. That’s because a global eavesdropping scheme being run today by the United States and Great Britain dwarfs anything that Rupert Murdoch’s editors at The News of The World (TNTW) ever dared attempt. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 July, 2011: Troops Uproot Olive Orchards Near Jerusalem
21 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into Room Of Detained Fateh Leader, Barghouthi IMEMC – Thursday July 21, 2011 – 19:19, Palestinian Ministry of Detainee at the dissolved government in Gaza reported Thursday that Israeli soldiers broke, on Wednesday at night, into the room of detained Fateh Continue reading
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Gaza: The Blockade Runners: Pro-Palestinian activism to break the illegal siege By Julie Lévesque
The following article by Julie Lévesque is Part I of a review of the lone humanitarian ship to Gaza, “The Spirit of Rachel Corrie” which reached Palestinian territorial waters before being brutally intercepted by The Israeli Navy. Continue reading
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The Role of the UN Security Council in Unleashing an Illegal War against Libya By Ronda Hauben
Looking back at the sequence of events by which the issue of Libya was brought to the Security Council, leads to an important observation. It was not a Security Council member nation which started this process. Nor was it the Arab League. Rather it was a party that one could argue had no legitimate basis… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 July, 2011: The Method in Netanyahu’s Madness
20 July , 2011 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israel airstrikes hit targets south of Gaza City 7/21/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli jet fighters launched air strikes on two sites in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning. The Az-Zaitoun and Ash-Shujaiyeh neighborhoods south of Gaza City were targeted causing massive structural damage. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 16, 2011
16 July 2011 — Stop NATO 120-Day War: 15,308 NATO Sorties Over Libya, 5,767 Strike Missions Britain Adding More Warplanes For Intensified Attacks On Libya Several NATO Fighter Jets Violate Pakistani Airspace Another NATO Soldier Killed By Afghan Counterpart NATO Chief Criticizes Czech Republic For Not Spending More On Arms ‘Protracted Conflicts In GUAM Area’ Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 July, 2011: Confused strategy: How the PA sold out Palestinian unity
15 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Sheikh Salah, Detained By Britain, To Be Released On Bail IMEMC – Saturday July 16, 2011 – 03:49, The British Authorities decided to release Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 territories, on bail after Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 July, 2011: Israel’s Crackdown Grows with Boycott Bill
14 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Army Airstrikes Gaza; Four Residents, Including Two Children, Wounded IMEMC – Friday July 15, 2011 – 04:42, The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip leading to damages and four injuries among the Continue reading
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Somalia Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Horn of Africa drought: Kenya to open Ifo II camp BBC News Kenya has agreed to open a new refugee camp near its border with Somalia, as thousands are fleeing the region’s worst drought in 60 years. Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the Ifo II camp, which can fit up Continue reading
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How the U.S. meddled in Haiti By Andrea Hektor
Kim Ives is a journalist and editor with Haiti Liberté, a weekly newspaper published in Port-au-Prince and New York City. He talked to Ashley Smith about what’s ahead for Haiti under a new president, as well as the recent Wikileaks revelations about U.S. meddling in the country and what the return of ousted former Jean-Bertrand… Continue reading
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UN official presses for truth panel on Duvalier By TRENTON DANIEL
More than 20 lawsuits have been filed in a Haitian court against Duvalier for crimes ranging from attempted murder and torture to embezzlement since he made an unexpected return to his homeland in January after 25 years in exile. Continue reading
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The Tyee – How We Helped Pave Haiti's Road to Cholera Hell By Crawford Kilian
On Oct. 18, 2010, Cuban medical personnel in rural Haiti reported they had treated 61 cases of acute watery diarrhea in the previous week. On that same day they had another 28 cases and two deaths. It was a totally avoidable epidemic; worse yet, it was brought to Haiti by the UN peacekeepers who were… Continue reading
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Israel and the Flotillas: Clever madman By Eric Walberg
There is much angst among people of conscience over the fate of Freedom Flotilla II, but by effectively scuttling it, Israel is really just hammering more nails in its own coffin, says Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter July 13, 2011: Putin Slams US
July 13, 2011 — Information Clearing House It’s Raining Trillions Why The US Won’t Leave Afghanistan By Pepe Escobar The notion that the US government would spend $10 billion a month just to chase a few “al-Qaeda types” in the Hindu Kush is nonsense. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28565.htm Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 13 July 2011: UN torture official accuses US of rule violations
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info Manning visits ‘breach UN rules’ BBC News UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez said the US had has broken rules by insisting on monitoring conversations with Pte Bradley Manning. Mr Mendez says he needs unrestricted access to Pte Manning to do his job. Pte Manning, 23, is being held Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 13 July 2011
13 July 2011 — williambowles.info Activist: Bomb hits gas pipeline in eastern Syria The Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — A human rights activist says a bomb has damaged a natural gas pipeline in eastern Syria. It’s the first attack on the country’s oil industry amid a monthslong uprising against the regime. Rami Abdul-Rahman from the Continue reading
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