June 30, 2011
As US troops prepare to leave Iraq in six months time, the country will be left with no effective defence from external threats. The army is ill-equipped, with no Iraqi pilots train to fly modern jet fighters and no missile defence system. Iraq currently does not possess any such aircraft, and if it were to purchase such planes it would take [...]
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June 30, 2011
Japan‘s desperate ‘nuclear gypsies’ Rights groups say country’s poorest people are being exploited to repair Fukushima plant. Last Modified: 30 Jun 2011 20 Economic downturn has forced many of Japan’s poorest people to work at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, risking exposure to dangerous levels of radiation. The growing number of so-called nuclear gypsies, who come [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Nuclear, nuclearpower, Osaka, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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June 30, 2011
Petraeus is expected to start his new job in September [Reuters] The US Senate has voted unanimously to confirm General David Petraeus to be the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, was nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Leon Panetta, who is leaving the CIA to become [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Dianne Feinstein, Iraq War, Leon Panetta, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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June 30, 2011
The attack on the Kabul hotel, which NATO says involved the Haqqani network, left at least 12 civilians dead [Reuters] NATO forces in Afghanistan say they have killed a senior member of the Haqqani network involved in an attack on Kabul’s Inter-continental Hotel on Tuesday night. Ismail Jan, the deputy commander of the Haqqani fighters in Afghanistan, was killed in “precision airstrike in [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Haqqani network, International Security Assistance Force, NATO, Paktia Province, Taliban
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June 30, 2011
The Audacity of Hope will join Freedom Flotilla II in the latest attempt to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. By Ramzy Baroud United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made a series of stern and fiery statements recently, giving the impression that war is somehow on us once again. Oddly, Clinton’s sudden reappearance [...]
Tags: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Israel, middle east, MV Mavi Marmara, United Nations, United States, United States Department of State, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
Posted in Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel Boycott, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints | No Comments »
June 30, 2011
It was mildly interesting to read a report in the SMH today concerning Gillard being a chorus of one as far as Afghanistan is concerned. Why it has taken so long for such material to reach the hallowed halls of the fourth estate is a mystery. The local population expressed views on Iraq and Afghanistan [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, ALP, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Canberra, Iraq, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd
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June 30, 2011
Bio Jeff Madrick is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New [...]
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June 30, 2011
AMERICAN INDIAN “JIMBO” SIMMONS GAZA FLOTILLA INTERVIEW WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011 AT 9:48PM GILAD ATZMON Jimbo Simmons is a member of the Choctaw Nation and of the Governing Council of the American Indian Movement, which resists colonization, respects traditional knowledge and self-determination, and raises awareness on issues that concern Indians of the Americas, from racism to [...]
Tags: American Indian Movement, Ethnicity, Gilad Atzmon, Israel, Organizations, Palestinian people, Police brutality, United Nations General Assembly
Posted in Atzmon, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel Boycott, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints | No Comments »
June 30, 2011
Britain accused of collaborating with Israel over Salah arrest Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images Arab Israelis and Palestinians have accused the British government of collaborating with Israel in detaining Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Ibrahim Sarsur, a United Arab List member of [...]
Tags: Arab citizens of Israel, Ibrahim Sarsur, Islamic Movement in Israel, Israel, Raed Salah, Salah, Sheikh Raed Salah, Tzipi Livni
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June 30, 2011
US: Press Allies to End Use of Child Soldiers Report Lists Repeat Offenders, but Military Aid Continues JUNE 27, 2011 Preface: Australians should remember that in this country we had a system once that was called “Boy Conscription” a brief description of which is as follows,” Boyhood conscription The government of prime minister Alfred Deakin and other [...]
Tags: Alfred Deakin, Barack Obama, Chad, Child Soldiers, Children Youth and Family, Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch, Jo Becker, Military use of children, United Nations, United States
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Daniel Ellsberg, David Swanson, George III of the United Kingdom, George W. Bush, History, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon, United State, United States Congress, United States Declaration of Independence, War Powers Resolution
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June 30, 2011
Demonstrators pass the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, during an anti-nuclear power protest in Tokyo on Thursday. Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP Trace amounts of radioactive substances have been found in urine samples taken from children from Fukushima city, raising concerns that residents have been exposed internally [...]
Tags: fukushima, Government of Japan, Hiroshima University, Jan Beránek, nuclearpower, Richard Wakeford, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Yukio Edano
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June 30, 2011
Syria‘s president Bashar al-Assad has mentioned proposed changes in public, but some fear he is trying to buy time and brush up his image. Photograph: AP The US is promoting a “roadmap” for political reforms in Syria which would transform the regime of Bashar al-Assad but leave him in place for now – despite demands for [...]
Tags: Ba'ath Party, Bashar-al Assad, Demographics of Syria, Farouk al-Sharaa, Joshua Landis, middle east, Syria, United State, United States, United States Department of State
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June 30, 2011
Engelhardt, The President’s Military Mantra Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:00am, June 30, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: The next TD piece will appear on Tuesday, July 5th. Have a fine Fourth of July! Tom] The Militarized Surrealism of Barack Obama Signs of the Great American Unraveling By Tom Engelhardt It’s already gone, having barely outlasted its moment [...]
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June 30, 2011
Engelhardt, The President’s Military Mantra Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 8:00am, June 30, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: The next TD piece will appear on Tuesday, July 5th. Have a fine Fourth of July! Tom] The Militarized Surrealism of Barack Obama Signs of the Great American Unraveling By Tom Engelhardt It’s already gone, having barely outlasted its moment [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, JohnMcCain, President of the United States, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, TomDispatch.com, United State
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June 30, 2011
Once again there are are large number of posts today. You can see them all by clicking the previous page item at the bottom of this page.
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June 30, 2011
The Unanswered Question in Afghanistan Is, Why? By davidswanson - Posted on 29 June 2011 By Jim Hightower, Truthout Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, captured during the opening remarks at the Annual Meeting 2008 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2008. (Photo: Annette Boutellier / World Economic Forum) America‘s long, long war in Afghanistan [...]
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June 30, 2011
Israeli Anti-Freedom Flotilla II Propaganda On June 27, its press release headlined, “GAZA, WE ARE COMING. Despite pressure and threats of violence, flotilla will sail.” On June 27, A US Boat to Gaza Audacity of Hope press conference reiterated a determination to sail despite threats, pressure and other measures used to stop it. Participants [...]
Tags: Flotilla, Free Gaza Movement, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Gaza Strip, Israel, Rafah Border Crossing, United States
Posted in Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel Boycott, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints | No Comments »
June 30, 2011
It appears that the position in Libya is very different to what is being reported in the mainstream media. This page hopes to be able to present accurate information in the near future. George Ikners ikners.com Related articles Scenes from Tripoli a Franklin Lamb article (ikners.com) How France has kept the war ball rolling (ikners.com) Germans now want [...]
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June 30, 2011
There is no war so bad that it cannot be made worse by the intervention of the ICC The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi (Photo: EPA) Brendan Behan once said there is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse by the arrival of a policeman. Well today there [...]
Tags: African Union, Arrest warrant, Hague, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Omar al-Bashir
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June 30, 2011
Hotel Attack Will Only Prolong American Adventurism in Afghanistan Brian Beyer, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum A common misconception of blowback is that retaliation is limited to foreign governments and citizens. If this were to be the case, Chechen terrorists would not be bombing airports and the Taliban [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, InterContinental, Kabul, NATO, Taliban, United State, Zabiullah Mujahid
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June 30, 2011
Obama: Questions About War Powers Act ‘Defending’ Gadhafi Insists Congress Should Unify in Support of War by Jason Ditz, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today in a rambling press conference covering a myriad of topics, President Obama slammed the members of the House of Representatives for questioning the legality [...]
Tags: BarackObama, Libya, United State Congress, United States, United States House of Representatives, War Powers Resolution, West Bank, Yemen
Posted in Libya, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Regulating Democracy, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed | No Comments »
June 30, 2011
Israeli Military: ‘No Way’ of Stopping Nonviolent Protests in West Bank High-Ranking Officials Warn of Egypt or Tunisia-Style Protests by Jason Ditz, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum They’ve happened in virtually every other nation across the Middle East. They’ve brought down the regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and are on [...]
Tags: Israel, Israel Defense Forces, middle east, Palestinian people, Supreme Court of Israel, Syria, West Bank, Yemen
Posted in Israel, Israel a state of settlers, Israel and AIPAC, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel Boycott, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths | No Comments »
June 30, 2011
“Victory by Ramadan“ Scenes From Tripoli By FRANKLIN LAMB Tripoli. Entering Libya from Tunisia, the roughly 115 mile drive to Tripoli currently provides a fascinating if unsettling introduction to the current situation in Tripoli. By the time I arrived at the hotel my mouth tasted as if I had sipped kerosene and my clothes reeked [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Ramadan, Tripoli, United States
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June 30, 2011
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education War Colleges By HENRY GIROUX While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers to the increasing casualization of faculty labor and the commodification of knowledge, what [...]
Tags: Higher education, History, NBC Nightly News, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Pentagon, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, United State, USA, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), World War II
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June 30, 2011
27 June 2011 French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sent a letter to captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, expressing solidarity with him and assuring him that France, of which he is a national, will not give up on him. For us this is a hypocritical and blatantly biased act dressed up as a humanitarian gesture and [...]
Tags: French Revolution, Gaza Strip, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, Israel, Kerem Shalom, Nicolas Sarkozy, Palestinian prisoners in Israel
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June 30, 2011
Inside Greece’s General Strike: Video Report From Athens As Thousands Protest Sweeping Austerity Cuts As our broadcast went to air, lawmakers in Greece were voting on — and later approved — a new round of sweeping austerity measures amidst a general strike that’s brought tens of thousands into the streets. Riot police have fired volleys [...]
Tags: Athens, Audacity of Hope, Democracy Now!, Food Not Bombs, General strike, Greece, Hellenic Parliament, Syntagma Square
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June 30, 2011
Adm. McRaven: Obama administration has no plan for captured terrorists By Craig Whitlock, Published: June 29 The top military official involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that the Obama administration has no clear plan for handling suspected terrorist leaders if they are caught alive outside a war zone. Vice Adm. William H. McRaven told [...]
Tags: Guantánamo Bay, John R. Allen, Joint Special Operations Command, Lindsey Graham, Obama administration, Osama BinLaden, September 11 attacks, United States Navy SEALs, William H. McRaven
Posted in Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
June 30, 2011
Latest Guantánamo prison camp suicide was ‘indefinite detainee’ Sign up for email newsletters now! Never miss a McClatchy story Register Log in Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Add us to your iPhone or G1 MORE ON THIS STORY Story | Pentagon names new Guantanamo war crimes prosecutor Story | Another former Guantanamo detainee named [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Awal Gul, Carol Rosenberg, Guantánamo, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Inayatullah, iPhone, Pentagon
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June 30, 2011
Berlin Willing to Supply Weapons for Libyan War By Matthias Gebauer DPA A NATO air strike in Tripoli on June 7. NATO is running out of munitions to use in the Libya conflict. Now the German government is willing to supply weapons to its allies despite its fundamental opposition to the war, SPIEGEL ONLINE has [...]
Tags: Berlin, Bundeswehr, Germany, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency, United Nations Security Council
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June 30, 2011
Free Florida‘s ‘food terrorists’ A shanty town housing Florida’s poor and homeless, in Miami. Florida has been hard-hit by the housing market crash. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Think of “food terrorism” and what do you see? Diabolical plots to taint items on grocery-store shelves? If you are Buddy Dyer, the mayor [...]
Tags: Buddy Dyer, Disney World, Florida, Food Not Bombs, Homelessness, Lake Eola Park, Orlando Florida, Walt Disney World Resort
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June 29, 2011
‘If I was sane, I would have fled! By Mohammed Adow in Africa on Wed, 06/29/2011 – 00:33. Dr Mohammed Yusuf, is one of Somalia‘s unsung heros. He is the director and chief surgeon of the Madina Hospital, one of Mogadishu‘s few operational hospitals, and the country’s top trauma medical facility. His work involves [...]
Tags: Africa, International Criminal Court, Kenya, Mogadishu, Mohammed Yusuf, NATO, Somali people, Somalia
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June 29, 2011
Thousands of Syrians escaping violence in the north of the country have crossed the border into Turkey [Reuters]Thousands continue to take to the streets across Syria, despite the bloody crackdown on protests. Activists say more than 1,300 civilians have been killed by security forces. We bring you the latest news from various sources. Al Jazeera [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Idlib, Iran, middle east, Rameh, Reuters, Syria, United States
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June 29, 2011
An Egyptian protester injured during clashes with security forces evacuated from Tahrir square in the worst violence since Mubarak’s fall. Photograph: Amel Pain/EPA The fiercest street fighting seen in central Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak has left more than 1,000 people injured, as popular dissatisfaction with the military-led transitional government boiled over into [...]
Tags: Africa, Cairo, egypt, Elite, Habib Ibrahim El Adly, Hosni Mubarak, Protest, Riot control, The Guardian
Posted in Egypt, Women abuse and targetting, Women and discrimination, Women and rape and sexual assault, Women and revolution, Women become tragerts, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
June 29, 2011
Abdallah and Mohammed believe that parkour is all about overcoming obstacles, and that each person overcomes barriers in their own way [Mariam Shahin and George Azar] In the narrow sandy alleys of the Khan Younis refugee camp Mohammed al-Jakhbeer and Abdallah Enshsi, both 22, navigate their path out of the camp and into the many corners [...]
Tags: Gaza, Gaza Strip, Gaza War, George Azar, Israel, Jump London, Khan Younis, Khan Yunis, Parkour
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June 29, 2011
To the Last Drop Residents of one Canadian town are engaged in a David and Goliath-style battle over the dirtiest oil project ever known. Witness Last Modified: 23 Jun 2011 Filmmakers: Niobe Thompson and Tom Radford The small town of Fort Chipewyan in northern Alberta is facing the consequences of being the first to witness the [...]
Tags: Alberta, Athabasca oil sands, Canada, Chipewyan, David Schindler, Fort Chipewyan, Fort Chipewyan Alberta, Goliath, Northern Alberta, oilsands, Stockholm Water Prize
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June 29, 2011
Daughters of the brothel Naseema was born into and lives in one of India‘s most infamous brothels but is now working to free trafficked women. Witness Last Modified: 29 Jun 2011 10:40 Filmmaker Gautam Singh explains how he came to make Daughters of the brothel. India’s handwritten magazines have long fascinated me. But while researching the [...]
Tags: Bihar, Brothel, India, Jugnu, Nepal, Politics of Sexuality, Prostitution, Sexuality
Posted in India, Women abuse and targetting, Women and discrimination, Women and rape and sexual assault, Women and revolution, Women become tragerts, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues | No Comments »
June 29, 2011
The research includes not just direct war spending, but also indirect costs like medical care for soldiers [GALLO/GETTY] US spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has already cost at least $3.2 trillion, and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, far higher than previous estimates, according to a new study released by Brown University. [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Brown University, Iraq, Joseph Stiglitz, Linda Bilmes, United State, Watson Institute for International Studies
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Predator Drone, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror | 1 Comment »
June 29, 2011
The great billion dollar drug scam Part one of a two-part series examining methods used by multinational drug corporations to control markets – and lives. Drug corporations such as Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline have stated that companies producing generic drugs – often Indian – are able to bypass costs, and sell their ‘copied’ drugs for a [...]
Tags: Andrew Witty, Daniel Vasella, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Pharmaceutical industry, Rotavirus vaccine, United States, World Bank
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June 29, 2011
Did Netanyahu’s office distribute a fake video against Gaza flotilla? YouTube video features man who claims he is a gay and human rights activist who was denied joining Gaza flotilla because his group does not serve interest of organizers. By Barak RavidTags: Gaza flotilla Middle East peace Benjamin Netanyahu Did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office distribute a [...]
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June 29, 2011
In Fleeing Security Forces, Syrians Get an Unexpected Taste of Freedom GUVECCI, Turkey — From a rooftop in this dusty border town, Bilal looked out across the rugged valley to an abandoned refugee camp where he had fled advancing Syrian forces, fearing for his life, only to discover something quite unexpected: the feeling of freedom. [...]
Tags: Bashar-al Assad, Damascus, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Red Crescent, Refugee, Refugee camp, Syria, Turkey
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June 29, 2011
Uganda and Burundi to get US drones to fight Islamists The US sees Islamist militants in Somalia as a security threat Continue reading the main story SOMALIA – FAILED STATE Counting the cost of anarchy Remembering life before the guns How does Somalia function at all? Somaliland: Non-existent country The US is supplying drone aircrafts [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Burundi, East Africa, Islamism, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, Somalia, Uganda, United States
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June 29, 2011
It should not come as a surprise that the phrases Manufacturing Consent and the creation of consent are actually from the mouths of arch supporters of the capital project and capitalist democracy. This was the function seen as entirely necessary to keep capitalist democracy afloat, in the battle for the mine. Where a totalitarian regime would and [...]
Tags: David Barsamian, Edward Bernays, Iraq War, John Pilger, Labour Party (UK), Lannan Literary Awards, Sigmund Freud, Washington DC
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June 29, 2011
The March of Obama’s Dark Cynicism Jeremy Sapienza, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Obama spent several minutes this afternoon droning on and stuttering about the economy, injecting words like “folks” and “busted” into his typically boring speech as recommended by his handlers to get the plebes to relate [...]
Tags: BarackObama, History, Libya, Obama, President of the United States, United States, War Powers Act, War Powers Resolution
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June 29, 2011
Like Nixon, Obama Will Waste Lives to Get Reelected by Ivan Eland, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum No one needs to tell the public that politicians are slick — and the ones who get elected are the oiliest. President Obama, in a recent speech announcing the phased withdraw of 33,000 [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Ivan Eland, Politics of Afghanistan, Richard Nixon, United State, United States Armed Forces, William R. Polk
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June 29, 2011
It’s ‘Kinetic,’ So Don’t Get Frenetic Throw away your dictionary – we’re not at war in Libya by Justin Raimondo, June 29, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Explaining the Obama administration’s rationale for violating the War Powers Act by not asking Congress for authorization to attack Libya, the White House claims that [...]
Tags: Harold Hongju Koh, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iraq War, Justin Raimondo, Libya, Obama administration, United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, War Powers Resolution
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June 29, 2011
New Libyan rebel recruits train near Benghazi. France today admitted arming rebels in partsof the country, in apparent defiance of the UN mandate Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/REUTERS Nato was today urgently reviewing the conduct of its military campaign inLibya after France admitted arming rebel fighters in apparent defiance of the UN mandate. The revelation surprised [...]
Tags: France, Hans Hillen, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nafusa Mountains, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, United Nations resolution
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June 29, 2011
Barack Obama looks up at a White House press conference in which he called upon Republicans to act in the interest of the country over borrowing talks. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Barack Obama has warned of “significant consequences” for the US economy if stalled financial negotiations lead to Congress failing to permit more government borrowing and America [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Libya, Republicans, United States, United States Congress, War Powers Resolution, White House
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June 29, 2011
Greece austerity vote and demonstrations – live updates Protesters set up burning barricades to block streets leading to the parliament in Athens Photograph: Panagiotis Tzamaros/Reuters 10.33pm: Vassilis Sylaides, a trade unionist at Intracom Electronics, has spoken to Socialist Worker about the violence in Syntagma Square: We’ll fight back every single measure they passed today. Today was [...]
Tags: Athens, Cryptome, Member of parliament, Reuters, Riot control, Socialist Worker, Syntagma Square, Tear gas
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June 29, 2011
Riyadh will build nuclear weapons if Iran gets them, Saudi prince warns Prince Turki al-Faisal: he said that if Iran came close to developing nuclear weapons Riyadh would not stand idly by. Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AFP/Getty Images A senior Saudi Arabian diplomat and member of the ruling royal family has raised the spectre of nuclear conflict [...]
Tags: Bahrain, Bashar-al Assad, Iran, middle east, RAF Molesworth, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Turki bin Faisal Al Saud
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