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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 July, 2011: 4.2 million Palestinians in West Bank, Gaza Strip
12 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Over Two Thousand Jewish Americans And Canadians Make Aliyah This Summer IMEMC – Tuesday July 12, 2011 – 19:35, Twenty-five hundred Jewish Americans and Canadians are expected to immigrate to Israel this summer of 2011. The immigrants will be residing in areas with Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Newslinks 12 July 2011: UN official says US breaks rules in torture probe
12 July 2011 — williambowles.info The Conscience & Agency of Bradley Manning Firedoglake With previously unreleased instant message chat logs, Steve Fishman for New York Magazine published a feature story July 3, 2011, that further examined the accused whistleblower to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning. It looked at his family life before going … http://my.firedoglake.com/kgosztola/2011/07/11/the-conscience-agency-of-bradley-manning/ Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 12, 2011
12 July 2011 — Stop NATO U.S., French Security Guards Violently Disperse Syrian Protesters Afghan War: French Death Toll Reaches 63 U.S. Marines: AFRICOM ‘Adding Muscle’ To African Counterinsurgency Campaigns Japan: U.S. Army To Open New Battle Systems Center For Afghan-, Iraqi-Style Wars Australia: 22,000 U.S., Canadian, Local Troops In Full-Spectrum War Games Serbia: U.S., Continue reading
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Libyan PM urges UN intervention to stop NATO military attack
11 July 2011 TRIPOLI, July 10 (Xinhua) — Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi has urged UN intervention to stop NATO military attacks against the north African country, local media reported. Al-Mahmoudi made this appeal when meeting Saturday with Abdel Elah al-Khatib, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy for Libya. NATO’s intensive airstrikes have caused Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 July, 2011: Weekend Roundup – Don't Support the Troops
10 July, 2011 — Information Clearing House Don’t Support the Troops – Bring Them Home By Sheldon Richman Politicians love nothing better than to pay tribute to “our troops,” especially those who have made “the ultimate sacrifice.” Yet those words stink of hypocrisy when one realizes that the same politicians create the conditions that then Continue reading
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Resources on CIA / Mossad involvement in the assassination of Rafiq Hariri
Came across this extremely comprehensive list of links to stories on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, that I think is worth distributing more widely. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 July, 2011: Israel gives award to tank shell used against civilians in Gaza
8 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Six Palestinians, Including Daughter Of Legislator IMEMC – Saturday July 09, 2011 – 03:30, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank including the daughter of a female legislator from the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 July, 2011: Israel Prepares To Stop “Welcome To Palestine” Activists
7 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Rapporteur Slams UN Report Backing Israeli Raid On Flotilla IMEMC – Friday July 08, 2011 – 03:52, Olivier De Schutter, Special United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Food, voiced strong criticism of a highly anticipated UN report that is said to Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 July, 2011: Israel lawmaker ‘narrowly escapes UK arrest warrant’
6 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Spanish flotilla activists occupy embassy in Greece IMEMC – Thursday July 07, 2011 – 02:16, A group of Spanish activists have occupied their country’s embassy in Greece, calling for the release of an aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 7 July, 2011: It's Time to Get Outraged
7 July, 2011 – Information Clearing House Libya and War Powers By Ted Rall The people of Libya, like those of Afghanistan and Iraq and Pakistan and Yemen and so on, are suffering privation and mutilation and death at the hands of NATO, which is nothing more than an American sock puppet. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28506.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 July, 2011: People are Awakening: The Revolution Has Begun
6 July 2011 — Information Clearing House Palestinian People Power By Alan Hart Marching to the borders of pre-1967 Israel is what the Palestinians should now do, and not only the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip prison camp. They should be joined by Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Continue reading
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Moscow: 'Weapons drops break resolution' By Tom Mellen
Moscow urged Western states to stop delivering weaponry to belligerents in Libya today – warning that Nato’s cavalier attitude to international law was undermining efforts to resolve cold war-era differences Continue reading
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Moscow: ‘Weapons drops break resolution’ By Tom Mellen
Moscow urged Western states to stop delivering weaponry to belligerents in Libya today – warning that Nato’s cavalier attitude to international law was undermining efforts to resolve cold war-era differences Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 July, 2011: The Day of Victory: Bil’in Celebrates the Removal of the Wall
2 July , 2011 — VTJP News Greek authorities arrest US Flotilla boat captain for attempting to sail without permission IMEMC – Saturday July 02, 2011 – 21:58, One of the ten boats scheduled to travel to Gaza to bring much-needed humanitarian aid and support has had its captain arrested by Greek authorities after attempting Continue reading
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Russian, S. African presidents to meet, discuss Libyan peace efforts
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a telephone conversation on Saturday with South African President Jacob Zuma agreed to meet to discuss peace efforts in Libya, the Kremlin press service said. Continue reading
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Libyan People’s Aspirations and a Forgotten UN Resolution
Hamid Dabashi: The US/NATO pushed a militarization of the Libyan struggle which has turned into a civil war Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 July, 2011: Greek cabinet votes to stop Flotilla as US Boat to Gaza forced back to port
1 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Freedom Flotilla activists: “Gaza blockade has been extended to Greece” IMEMC – Friday July 01, 2011 – 21:32, With the US boat escorted by military commandos back to a Greek port, the Canadian boat boarded by Greek police, and two other Flotilla boats Continue reading
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Even if Gaddafi is killed, NATO will not leave – ex-Belgian MP
‘The problem with resolutions is that they are not legal texts. Basically the interpretation of resolutions is a matter of ideology and power. France interpreted it the way they did just because they could! One shouldn’t forget they drafted these resolutions themselves. It just suits their interests,’ stated Vanoost. Continue reading
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Replay: Libya rape claims ‘hysteria’ – investigator
A UN human rights investigator has cast doubts over claims by the chief ICC prosecutor of evidence that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had ordered mass rapes. Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks 29-30 June 2011
30 June 2011 — williambowles.info Yemeni VP unsure about Saleh’s return. CNN Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) — The Yemeni government has lost control over five provinces, and security in the country is deteriorating, the nation’s acting president told CNN in an exclusive interview Wednesday. In his first interview with a Western TV network … http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/06/29/yemen.vice.president/ Continue reading
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