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Information Clearing House Newsletter May 27, 2011: Nato Rejects Libya Truce Offer
May 27, 2011 — Information Clearing House The New Face Of War “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges” By Conn Hallinan The assassination of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden did more than knock off America’s Public Enemy Number One, it formalized a new kind of warfare, where sovereignty is irrelevant, armies tangential, and decisions are Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 May, 2011: CCR Launches Lawsuit In Connection With Last Year’s Raid of Flotilla Bound to Gaza
26 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Vice-PM Shalom Against Opening Gaza Crossing IMEMC – Thursday May 26, 2011 – 17:08, Israeli Vice-Premier Silvan Shalom has spoken out against the easing of the blockade on Gaza through relaxed restrictions at the Egypt-Gaza crossing at Rafah, according to the Jerusalem Post. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 25 May, 2011: Protester Who Heckled Netanyahu Beaten
25 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House Dispatch From Tripoli NATO’s Feast of Blood By Cynthia McKinney NATO only attacks (as does the US and its allies) the poor and underprivileged of the 3rd world. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28182.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 May, 2011:
22 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli settlers dump sewage in Palestinian town IMEMC – Sunday May 22, 2011 – 19:07, Sewage and wastewater from the Israeli settlement of Ariel, the largest settlement in the West Bank, has polluted the Palestinian village of Bruqin, which sits adjacent to the settlement. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 May, 2011: US Knew Where Osama Was Since 2005 – The story behind the story
4 May 2011 — Information Clearing House Cross and Double Cross With Gitmo Files US Knew Where Osama Was Since 2005 By Israel Shamir Now we’ll give you the story behind the story: who crossed and double crossed whom, which information was redacted and how did it lead to OBL? www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28030.htm Continue reading
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People & Power – Yemen: A tale of two protests
People & Power – Yemen: A tale of two protestsFollow my videos on vodpod As demonstrations advance across Yemen, People&Power follows activist Tawakkol Karman. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter: Most Say it is Time for Someone New as President
5 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House A Genuine Tragedy Unfolds Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s Rulers Goose-Step to the Brink of the Abyss By PETER LEE While we are diverted by the opera-bouffe spectacle of the civil war in Libya’s desert, a genuine tragedy-and potential geopolitical trainwreck-is unfolding in Bahrain. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27832.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 4 April, 2011: The First Great War of the 21st Century
4 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House Mounting Evidence of CIA Ties to Libyan Rebels By Patrick Martin The Libyan rebel military is not the independent organ of a popular uprising against the Gaddafi dictatorship, but rather the creature of American imperialism, the most reactionary political force on the planet. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27817.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Yemen’s Useful Tyranny – The Forgotten History of Britain’s ‘Dirty War’: Part 2
Using declassified government files, historian Mark Curtis has exposed Britain’s ‘dirty war’ in Yemen in the 1960s, which he describes as one of the ‘least known aspects of recent British history’. The war lasted almost a decade under both Tory and Labour governments, and cost around 200,000 lives. Continue reading
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Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: 4 April 2011
4 April 2011 — Stop NATO Libyan War In Third Week As NATO Takes Command Six Warships, 600 Marines: Britain Deploys Task Force To Libya Why NATO Cannot Be Trusted Mounting Alarm Over U.S. Use Of Depleted Uranium Arms In Libya Impact Of Depleted Uranium Ammunition In The War On Libya Today It Is Libya, Continue reading
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Media Lens: Yemen’s Useful Tyranny – The Forgotten History of Britain’s ‘Dirty War’: Part 1
All revolutions are not equal. While Libya is deemed worthy of the West’s ‘humanitarian intervention’ – express delivery by B-2 bomber, F-15 fighter and cruise missile – protesters elsewhere have been denied such Western largesse. In response to the atrocities in Yemen, for example, Obama has sent mere words. The reason, as one astute commentator… Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks for 24 March 2011
24 March 2011— creative-i.info UK, Germany withdraw embassy staff from Yemen over unrest CNN By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — Germany and the United Kingdom are pulling nonessential embassy staff out of Yemen, they said Thursday, with the British citing “the rapid deterioration in the security situation.” Both nations are keeping small core … Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Noble’ War In Libya – Part 1
One can hardly fail to be impressed by the corporate media’s faith in humanity. Or at least that part of humanity with its finger on the cruise missile button. Last week, the Independent’s Patrick Cockburn predicted that ‘Western nations will soon be engaged in a war in Libya with the noble aim of protecting civilians.’ Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks for 23 March 2011
23 March 2011 — creative-i.info BBC: Yemen imposes state of emergency MRZine: Libya and Yemen — Study in Contrast By Prabir Purkayastha The Independent: Defiant Yemen President warns ‘mutinous’ military of long, bloody civil war The Independent: Yemen’s leader says he will step down Morning Star: Refusal to resign angers protesters Democracy Now: Jeremy Scahill: Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks for 23 March 2011
23 March 2011 — creative-i.info BBC: Yemen imposes state of emergency MRZine: Libya and Yemen — Study in Contrast By Prabir Purkayastha The Independent: Defiant Yemen President warns ‘mutinous’ military of long, bloody civil war The Independent: Yemen’s leader says he will step down Morning Star: Refusal to resign angers protesters Democracy Now: Jeremy Scahill: Continue reading
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Libya and Yemen — Study in Contrast By Prabir Purkayastha
It is now clear that the no-fly zone has been expanded in Libya to a military campaign for a regime change, something that the UN Security Council did not authorize. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 22 March, 2011: U.S. rescue chopper shoots six Libyan villagers as they welcome pilots of downed Air Force jet
22 March 2011 — Information Clearing House Libya: Another War We Shouldn’t Believe In By Ted Rall Does Qadafi have the right to defend himself? www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27742.htm Continue reading
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Libya and Yemen — Study in Contrast By Prabir Purkayastha
It is now clear that the no-fly zone has been expanded in Libya to a military campaign for a regime change, something that the UN Security Council did not authorize. Continue reading
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Yemen Newslinks for 21 March 2011: Slaughter in Yemen, 50 demonstrators shot dead
21 March 2011 — creative-i.info The Independent: Yemeni general backs opposition Morning Star: Army officers defect to opposition The Independent: Tanks deploy in Yemen as senior army commanders defect Dissident Voice: Imperial War on Libya Dissident Voice: Arab Deaths and U.S. Hypocrisy Dissident Voice: Empire’s New “Democratic” Plan for the Middle East Dissident Voice: Response Continue reading
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