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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 January, 2011: Rabbis Call for Extermination Camps
17 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Nof Zion to Remain in Jewish Hands IMEMC – Monday January 17, 2011 – 16:47, Israeli supermarket magnate Rami Levy has made made a successful bid to take over development of the Nof Zion settlement project being built near the Palestinan neighbourhood of Jabal Continue reading
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CrossTalk on Haiti: failed aid — RT
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests why aid efforts in Haiti have largely failed. Who is to blame? Is it the UN, the US and its NGOs, or is it the fault of the Haitian people? Continue reading
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OAS Diplomat's Words Rattle Haiti's Occupation Regime By Roger Annis
When the interview turns to questions of aid and earthquake relief, Seitenfus drops a bomb in declaring, “If there is proof of the failure of international aid, it is Haiti.” Charity and aid to Haiti have enfeebled the Haitian state. Continue reading
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Guest Media Lens Alert – Tilting Towards Israel By Jonathan Cook
Towards the end of last year, we sent out two media alerts – Put The Palestinians On A Diet and Too Toxic To Handle? – about the corporate media’s failure to report the release of documents detailing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. “The idea”, explained a senior Israeli official, “is to put the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 December, 2010: PA: Israel continues land confiscations in West Bank
29 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Years After Gaza War, Gaza Remains Sealed-Off, Suffering Continues IMEMC – 29 Dec 2010 – Wednesday December 29, 2010 – 23:09, Two years after Operation Cast Lead: Gaza Remains Sealed-Off from outside World, Impunity for War Crimes Prevails Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 December, 2010: Villagers watch settlement homes multiply
23 December, 2010 – VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu Accuses the Palestinians Of Obstructing Peace IMEMC – 23 Dec 2010 – Friday December 24, 2010 – 04:38, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that the International Community understands that the Palestinians, not Israel, are responsible for obstruction the efforts to achieve peace Continue reading
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WikiLeaks' lesson on Haiti By Mark Weisbrot
One area of US foreign policy that the WikiLeaks cables help illuminate, which the major media has predictably ignored, is the occupation of Haiti. In 2004, the country’s democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was overthrown for the second time, through an effort led by the United States government. Officials of the constitutional government were jailed… Continue reading
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Climate Inaction Conference By Chris Williams
“If Cancún delivers nothing, or not much, then the UN process is in danger.” So said Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, ahead of the UN-sponsored climate change summit taking place in Mexico through December 10. The negotiations are known as COP-16, short for 16th Conference of the Parties. What does the “16”… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Too Toxic to Handle? Follow-up Alert on Israel’s Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza
On November 17, we sent out a media alert that highlighted the corporate media’s lack of interest in official documents revealing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. We, and many of our readers, emailed broadcasters and newspapers asking why the release of these documents was not reported in October. Were journalists simply unaware of… Continue reading
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The Mysterious "Laptop Documents". Using Fake Intelligence to Justify a Pre-emptive Nuclear War on Iran By Michel Chossudovsky
Without Russian military aid, Iran is a “sitting duck”. Its air defence system depends on continued Russian military cooperation. These developments strike at the very heart of the structure of military alliances. They prevent Russia and China to sell both strategic and conventional weapons and military technology to their de facto ally: Iran. In fact,… Continue reading
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The Mysterious “Laptop Documents”. Using Fake Intelligence to Justify a Pre-emptive Nuclear War on Iran By Michel Chossudovsky
Without Russian military aid, Iran is a “sitting duck”. Its air defence system depends on continued Russian military cooperation. These developments strike at the very heart of the structure of military alliances. They prevent Russia and China to sell both strategic and conventional weapons and military technology to their de facto ally: Iran. In fact,… Continue reading
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Haiti: One More Shameful UN Betrayal By Peter Hallward
Almost everyone now accepts that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti last month. The evidence is overwhelming and many experts (including the head of Harvard University’s microbiology department, cholera specialist John Mekalanos) made up their minds to that effect several weeks ago. Poverty and a lack of rudimentary infrastructure compels much of Haiti’s population… Continue reading
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Protesters shot dead as Haiti cholera toll tops 1,000 By Bill Van Auken
The port city, approximately 300 kilometers north of the capital of Port-au-Prince, was still largely paralyzed on Tuesday, with schools, public offices and businesses shut, streets blocked by barricades of burning tires and sporadic gunfire reported. The bridge leading to the city’s airport was blocked with welded metal barriers. Continue reading
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Haiti Cholera Protest Turns Violent
Clashes and gunfire have broken out between protesters and UN troops in Haiti, where a cholera epidemic has claimed over 900 lives in about three weeks. Continue reading
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Media Lens: “Put the Palestinians on a Diet”
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”. Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report November 2nd, 2010: Jon Stewart and the left By William Blum
2 November, 2010 — www.killinghope.org Jon Stewart and the left The left in America is desperate; desperate for someone who can inspire them, if not lead them to a better world; or at least make them laugh. TV star Jon Stewart is sometimes funny, especially when he doesn’t try too hard to be funny, which Continue reading
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UN: Israel Executed Flotilla Activists By Gareth Porter
The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 September, 2010: Will They Raid My Home For Writing This?
28 September, 2010 — ICH UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan: By Gareth Porter Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26470.htm Sitting on the Evidence: Obama Administration Silent on Israeli Murder of 19-Year-Old American Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: The Facts About Ahmadinejad's UN Speech By Jack A. Smith
On Sept. 25, the Times published a correction: “A headline on Friday with an article about an incendiary speech in the United Nations General Assembly by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran summarized his remarks about the Sept. 11 terror attacks incorrectly. In his speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad asserted various theories about the origin of the attacks,… Continue reading
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Media Disinformation: The Facts About Ahmadinejad’s UN Speech By Jack A. Smith
On Sept. 25, the Times published a correction: “A headline on Friday with an article about an incendiary speech in the United Nations General Assembly by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran summarized his remarks about the Sept. 11 terror attacks incorrectly. In his speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad asserted various theories about the origin of the attacks,… Continue reading
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