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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 June, 2011: Uncivilized Relations: Israel Confronts its Neighbours
9 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Raids West Bank Towns Overnight IMEMC – Thursday June 09, 2011 – 17:14, Maan news agency is reporting that five Palestinian men, including minors, were abducted over night during raids on West Bank towns and villages by the Israeli military. Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 10 June 2011: Palestine-UN | East Jerusalem | Jordan Valley
10 June 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over Palestinian UN bid East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers Francis A. Boyle: Could Obama veto Palestine’s application to the United Nations? B’Tselem Jordan Valley report: Dispossession and Exploitation Palestinians in America: an intelligent socialist’s guide to Tony Kushner, with Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 9 June 2011
9 June 2011 — williambowles.info Bahrain official blasts Ecclestone “hypocrisy” pitpass.com A number of prominent people in Bahrain have criticised Bernie Ecclestone’s u-turn on the country’s 2011 Grand Prix, describing the latest decision as “shameful”. Although the announcement that Bahrain will not now host a race this year has yet to be …www.pitpass.com/43852-Bahrain-official-blasts-Ecclestone-hypocrisy Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 9, 2011
9 June 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Defense Chiefs Endorse Extension Of Libyan War To End Of September Pentagon Chief Pressures More NATO Allies For Libyan War Support 83-Day Air War: 10,290 NATO Sorties, Almost 4,000 Combat Flights Namibia: Call For Marches, Other Actions Against NATO’s Atrocities In Libya NATO Escalates Bombardment Of Tripoli Obama’s Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 June, 2011: Gaddafi's daughter files “war crimes” lawsuit related to NATO air strike that killed relatives
8 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House “Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.” – African Proverb Libya: A Deafening Silence By Jody McIntyre We have been sold on a false premise, and, as Noam Chomsky would say, have allowed the manufacture of our consent. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28282.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 June, 2011: Israeli forces ransack Nablus offices of the Change and Reform Bloc
8 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Wine Bottles Smashed In Al-Aqsa Compound IMEMC – Wednesday June 08, 2011 – 17:56, Local sources report that a number of Jewish settlers broke into the al-Aqsa compound and began drinking wine and smashing bottles on the floor. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
The United States, the European Union and the United Nations decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections despite believing that the country’s electoral body, “almost certainly in conjunction with President Preval,” had “emasculated the opposition” by unwisely and unjustly excluding the country’s largest party, according to a secret US Embassy cable. Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info SCF: China calls for prompt ceasefire in Libya North Africa NATO Plans for Libya Without Gadhafi Voice of America NATO says it is committed to its military campaign against forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and is preparing for a Libya without the authoritarian leader. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Continue reading
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The rights of Israel By Joseph Massad
Israel’s entire basis for beginning negotiations lies in the false premise that it has a ‘right’ to exist Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 8, 2011
8 June 2011 — Stop NATO NATO’s Libyan Air War: 10,177 Sorties, 3,860 Combat Missions Sixty Blasts Tear Through Tripoli As NATO Steps Up Bombing NATO Defense Chiefs Discuss Libya As Tripoli Bombing Is Intensified No NATO Operations In Syria And Yemen…Except With UN Resolutions Expanded Shanghai Cooperation Organization Can Offset U.S.-Dominated Unipolar World, Eastern Continue reading
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Bahrain Newslinks 8 June 2011
8 June 2011 — williambowles.info US presses crown prince to ease Bahrain crackdown Los Angeles Times Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bahrain’s crown prince, Salman bin Hamad Khalifa, speak with reporters at the State Department. (Jim Watson / AFP/Getty Images / June 7, 2011) By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times President Obama pressed Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 June, 2011: Jewish settlers vandalize mosque in Ramallah
7 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US Seeks To Maintain Central Role In Peace Process IMEMC – Tuesday June 07, 2011 – 15:37, The US has signalled that it intends to maintain its leading position in facilitating Middle East peace talks with its announcement of discussions aimed at renewing the Continue reading
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Syria may become another Iraq – author — RT
France and Britain are building the diplomatic pressure against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying he has lost his legitimacy. They are calling for a special UN resolution on Syria, which Russia strongly opposes. Author Jean Bricmont says that what France and Britain are doing is ‘crazy.’ Continue reading
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Media Manipulation and the Endless Onslaught of Empire Selected Articles
7 June 2011 — Global Research Media Manipulation: The Propaganda Machine at Work VIDEO: Mladic Arrest Will Not Open EU Doors to Serbia Watch the interview on GRTV – by Boris Malagurski – 2011-06-07 Continue reading
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Going Rogue: NATO War Crimes in Libya By Susan Lindauer
It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels or else rape them in front of… Continue reading
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Russia’s U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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Russia's U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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LIBYA: NATO IS ONE STEP FROM A GROUND WAR
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov on Sunday said he was concerned about NATO’s use of attack helicopters in Libya, warning the alliance was one step away from a land war, DPA reported. Continue reading
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Libya: NATO's War Of Aggression Against A Sovereign African State By Obi Nwakanma
The use of Western troops in Africa – particularly in the case of France – the use of its paratroopers, first in Ivory Coast, and now in Libya, represents a new strategic declaration of war against Africa, the African interest, and the African continent. In NATO’s disregard of AU, there is without doubt a remanifestation… Continue reading
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