GR Week in Review 16 May 2012: War on Islam, Bush Guilty of War Crimes and the Missing Terrorists
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16 May 2012: Black Agenda Report – Obama’s Gay Gambit / Death By Wall St. / Phantom Issues
16 May 2012 — Black Agenda Report - News, commentary and analysis from the black leftObama’s No-Risk Drive-By On Gay Marriage
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonThe president’s announcement favoring the right of same sex couples to marry is long overdue and better than nothing. But it doesn’t make him a fearless warrior for human rights, any more than Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize makes him Mahatma Gandhi. -
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DALLAS PARTY ENDS BADLY FOR U.S. TRADE REPS AND FEDERAL AGENTS
May 12, 2012 — Yes Labs - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dozens of rogue “delegates” disrupt Trans-Pacific Partnership gala with “award,” “mic check,” mass toilet paper replacement, projection
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Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 May 2012
12 May 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Was Industrial Sabotage at Play with Super Jet crash in Indonesia?
12.05.2012 | 07:26 | Wayne MADSENBased on past aggressive competitive commercial tactics employed by the alliance of American corporations, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and the Pentagon, aviation experts in Asia are wondering aloud whether the recent crash of the new Sukhoi Super Jet 100 in Indonesia was the result of high-stakes industrial sabotage engineered to protect Boeing’s lucrative commercial and military aviation market in Asia at the expense of a resurgent Russian aviation industry…
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 May 2012: Nuclear Israel: Image of Apocalyptic Horror
11 May 2012 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
New UNRWA Upgrade Plan To Improve Dheisheh Refugee Camp
IMEMC – Dheisheh, the oldest refugee camp in the West Bank, is set to receive a facelift under a new UNWRA upgrade plan. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), is launching a new program to upgrade UN refugee camps’ dilapidated facilities. … -
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 May 2012: Nuke Mecca: US Military Teaches Officers
11 May 2012 – Information Clearing House
“U.S. Military Taught Officers:
Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam,”
By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman
“The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a ‘total war’ against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31290.htm
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A Triumph of the Radical Left in Greece: A Message to Europe By Haris Golemis
12 May 2012 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 632
The recent electoral results in Greece was a serious blow to the governments of Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy [referred collectively as ‘Merkozy’], as well as to all those arrogant neoliberal parties, politicians, analysts, EU, ECB and IMF officials who thought that the European people can suffer passively and for an indefinite period the extreme austerity policies of neoliberal orthodoxy, which supposedly aim to an exit from the capitalist crisis in Europe.
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Statewatch News Online11 May 2012 (10/12)
11 May 2012 – http://www.statewatch.org/ - e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EU: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Presidency criticised: Even worse than the Commission
2. EU: Visits campaign : Obstacles to the right to know: Migrant Camps in Europe
3. EU-EAW: Council: practical operation of the European arrest warrant – Year 2011
4. EU: AI and ECRE Letter on behalf on 166 NGOs:Appeal to EU institutions
5. EU-ECJ: SCHENGEN BORDERS CODE: ECJ General Advocate’s opinion on sea surveillance
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Statewatch 11 May 2012: Support the “Call for an Open Europe”
11 May 2012 – Statewatch
- freedom of information in the EU
“Access to documents in the EU is not a “gift” from on high to be packaged, sanitised and manipulated. It is a “right” which is fundamental in a democracy”: Tony Bunyan, Deirdre Curtin and Aidan White in Essays for an Open Europe
That was in 2000, now in 2012 the right of access to EU documents is under great threat again Continue reading this...
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CIA ALLOWED TO SUSTAIN COVER-UP OF BAY OF PIGS HISTORY
11 May 2012 — National Security Archive
Judge Denies Declassification of Final Volume of CIA Official Report on Invasion of Cuba
CIA Officials Defy Obama Directive on FOIA which states that “the Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.”
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 May 2012: Israeli government announces plan to forcibly remove 2300 Bedouins
10 May 2012 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Court Injunction Delays Demolitions of Jerusalem Area Bedouin Homes
IMEMC – The Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center obtained on Wednesday an injunction order for Khan al-Ahmar Kurshan community. This temporary injunction prevents the demolition of homes of the eight families that received 24-hour eviction notices on Sunday, 6 May. … -
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GR Week in Review: Police States, Failures of Capitalism and Global Warfare
9 May 2012 — Global ResearchURL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30775Police States:
“After reporting this week on a Pentagon-created plan for interning activists at re-education camps, questions were asked about the US Army manual that allegedly outlines the resettling of US citizens. Can Americans be sent to propaganda prisons?” (POLICE STATE: Army manual for re-education camps applies to US citizens) Continue reading this... -
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First Madeleine Albright, now Prince Harry: The Strange World of Humanitarian Awards By Felicity Arbuthnot
7 May 2012 — Global Research
URL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30742“You fasten the triggers for others to fire,
Then you sit back and watch,
When the death count gets higher.
You hide in your mansion
As young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in mud.” (“Masters of War”, Bob Dylan, 1941- ) -
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Video: Woody Shaw plays Monk’s ‘Bemsha Swing
9 May 2012 — Jazz on the Tube
The great Woody Shaw playing the Thelonious Monk composition ‘Bemsha Swing,’ was recorded on Aug. 21, 1985 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA. with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Stanley Cowell piano, David Williams bass, and Terri-Lyne Carrington on drums. Continue reading this...
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Media Lens: The Mystery Of The Missing Clocks By David Edwards
10 May, 2012 — Media Lens
The truth peeks out at us from the most unexpected places. It can be seen, for example, in the empty spaces where one might otherwise hope to find a clock in shops. The average retailer doesn’t approve of customers clock-watching – they might realise they have something more important to do and cut short their shopping trips.
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 May 2012: Ads Warn Jewish Parents – Keep Daughters Away from Arabs
9 May 2012 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Negev Prison Refuses To Admit Jailed MP Due To Health Condition
IMEMC – Detained elected Palestinian Legislator, Mohammad Abu Jheisha, was moved from the Ofer Israeli prison to the Negev detention camp, in the Negev desert, but the administration there refused to admit him due to his bad health condition. … -
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 9 May 2012: Another Foiled False Flag
9 May 2012 – Information Clearing House
Another Foiled False Flag
By Stephen Lendman
Pretexts are needed for militarism, imperial wars, and homeland repression. If and when people learn they were duped, it’s too late to matter. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31281.htm
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Capitalism in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: From the “Golden” to the Dark Ages of Capitalism
23 April 2012 — James Petras
“Capitalism in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: From the ‘Golden’ to the Dark Ages of Capitalism 04.23.2012 :: Analysis Introduction: The economic, political and social outlook for the second decade of the 21st century is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists, is pessimistic regarding the world economy.
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 May 2012: ‘Dad, They Are Killing Me’ : Video – Police Brutality
8 May 2012 – Information Clearing House
US Kills 5 Afghan Kids
By Glenn Greenwald
The way in which the U.S. media ignores such events speaks volumes about how we perceive them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31275.htm
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 May 2012: No closure in killing of 21 Gaza family members
8 May 2012 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Supreme Court Decides to Remove Palestinians Their Homes In Jerusalem
IMEMC – The Palestinian News Network, PNN, reported that the Israeli Supreme Court has decided to remove the families of Ghazi Zalloum and Ismail Wazwaz from their homes in the neighborhood of Alqurma in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem in favor to replace them with Israeli settlers. The court claimed that both properties belonged to Jews before 1948, the year Israel was created in the historic land of Palestine. …
