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Arming Libyan rebels contradicts case for war — RT
The UN resolution allowing use of force against Gaddafi is meant to protect civilians. Armed rebels are clearly not civilians; so France’s airlifting of weapons to Libya goes against the whole case for the war, says British journalist John Laughland. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online,30 June 2011 (17/11)
30 June 2011 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Statewatch Analysis: “Network with errors”: Europe’s emerging web of DNA databases 2. UK: Statewatch Analysis: Review of counter-terrorism powers fails to deliver definitive change 3. ECHR-UK: JUDGMENT: UK would violate human rights of two Somali nationals if it returned them to Mogadishu Continue reading
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HAITI: THE NEXT ROUND by Robert Roth
On March 18th, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family returned home from a 7-year forced exile in South Africa – an exile brought about by the violent U.S.-orchestrated coup in 2004. Up until the last minute, the U.S. government tried to stop the return, with President Obama going so far as to place a last-minute… Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 28, 2011
28 June 2011 — Stop NATO Reports Of U.S. Military Plans Against Libya, Syria Cause Concern U.S. Aircraft Supercarrier Enters Mediterranean For ‘NATO Missions’ Libya: International Criminal Court Cover For NATO Operations All Freedom-Loving People Must Condemn NATO Action In Libya Germany To Supply NATO With Arms For Assault On Libya UN: U.S. Gets 4,200 Continue reading
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Gaddafi’s arrest ordered by International Criminal Court — RT
’The decision of the International Criminal Court is not legally binding for Libya, for a simple reason – Libya is not a member state of the court, and as long as Mr. Gaddafi stays on Libya’s territory, this decision cannot be fulfilled,’ said Kosachev. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 June, 2011: What’s Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research? Exposing Israel’s Most Dangerous Secret
26 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protesters dismantle section of wall in Bil’in village; 7 injured by Israeli troops IMEMC – Saturday June 25, 2011 – 02:42, Protesters in Bil’in village continued dismantling a section of the Israeli Wall that the Israeli army began removing earlier this week, in accordance Continue reading
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Sarkozy’s Libyan War By Robert Harneis
The history of Khadafy’s relationship with the West, and the United States in particular, is the stuff of pulp fiction. In 1969 the CIA under the newly elected President Nixon helped him overthrow the British puppet King Idris in the newly oil rich kingdom. They picked the wrong guy. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Three Little Words: WikiLeaks, Libya, Oil
‘Libya has some of the biggest and most proven oil reserves — 43.6 billion barrels — outside Saudi Arabia, and some of the best drilling prospects.’ So reported the Washington Post on June 11, in a rare mainstream article which, as we will see, revealed how WikiLeaks exposed the real motives behind the war on… Continue reading
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Fukushima city: officially safe thanks to new ‘creative’ safety standards — RT
‘What the government did was change the radioactivity control level, the standard levels from 1 millisieverts per year to 20 millisieverts per year. That is, 20 times looser [than] the standards before the accident and now they raised the standards so they can say it was as safe as before, but actually the standards have… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 June, 2011: Savvy flotilla prep in full swing at Athens port
22 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ross: “Israel Must Remain Jewish State” IMEMC – Thursday June 23, 2011 – 04:54, Dennis Ross, senior aide to American President, Barack Obama, stated during a speech in Jerusalem, Wednesday, that all steps must be taken to ensure that Israel “remains a democratic and Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 June, 2011: American flotilla passengers set to challenge U.S. support for Gaza blockade
21 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu: “We Need To Disengage From The Palestinians, Need To Keep Jewish Majority” IMEMC – Wednesday June 22, 2011 – 03:26, As the Israeli cabinet was holding its Sunday meeting, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that he supports the notion of a total Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter June 21, 2011: The Plan to Destabilize Syria
21 June 2011 — Information Clearing House “I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.” – Harold Pinter Attacking Libya — and the DictionaryBy Jonathan SchellThe Obama administration claims that if the adversary cannot fight back, there is no war.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28392.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 June, 2011: Gaza in crisis as smugglers divert trade to Libya
20 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Migdal Oz Plan Outlines Response To Palestinian Reactions To Declarations of Statehood IMEMC – Monday June 20, 2011 – 17:02, Israel is drawing up plans for a series of eventualities come September and a Palestinian declaration of statehood. The Migdal Oz plan, seen Continue reading
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Turkish Actions Designed To Trigger NATO Confrontation With Syria? By Rick Rozoff
Last week a feature by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton excoriating the political leadership of Syria appeared in the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq Al-Awsat. Saudi-supported and printed in twelve locations, it is considered to be among the most influential newspapers in the Arab world. Continue reading
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Jews for Justice for Palestinians Weekly newsletter 20 June 2011
20 June 2011 — Jews for Justice for Palestinians The state of Jews June 18th, 2011 From its origin as ‘Jew-state’ through various twists of meaning, the current ‘Jewish state’ which Palestinians must recognise has more in common with Pakistan than the USA or any European state of all its citizens. Uri Avnery traces the Continue reading
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Why Regime Change in Libya? By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
There is undeniable evidence that contrary to the spontaneous, unarmed and peaceful protest demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, therebellion in Libya has been nurtured, armed and orchestrated largely from abroad, in collaboration with expat opposition groups and their local allies at home. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 June, 2011: Netanyahu Seeks To Form Block Of 30 To Counter To Palestinian UN Bid
15 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli troops attack anti-Wall protest near Ramallah, injuring seven IMEMC – Wednesday June 15, 2011 – 23:06, According to local sources, Israeli forces attacked a non-violent action by Palestinian men, women and children trying to block Israeli bulldozers from bulldozing their farmland and orchards Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 16 June 2011: Obama Financial Suporters Get Top Jobs
16 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House The Revolution Will Not Be Deactualized Oct. 6th: Will Tahrir Square Come to Washington? By Ted Rall Here in the United States, corrupt politicians and their corporate overlords have raped the wealthiest nation in the history of civilization, reducing one out of five Americans to unemployment as the Continue reading
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STATEMENT OF FREEDOM FLOTILLA II – STAY HUMAN STEERING COMMITTEE TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
On 14 June 2011, as part of its 17th Session, the Human Rights Council held discussions on the status of implementation of the conclusions contained in the report of the independent international factfinding mission on the flotilla attack. The Freedom Flotilla II Steering Committee submitted the following statement Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks for 15 June 2011: CIA to send armed drones into Yemen
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info UN official calls for Syria probe…US preps for Yemen problems 9&10 News WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is getting ready in case the worst happens in Yemen. The US is building a secret CIA air base in the Persian Gulf region to target al-Qaida terrorists there in case anti-American Continue reading