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Adam Werritty attended Israeli secret service meeting

by on 21. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

 Adam Werritty was at a meeting between the former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox and the Israeli secret service, Whitehall sources have disclosed.   By  Holly Watt   TELEGRAPH.CO.UK    6:30AM BST 19 Oct 2011    The meeting between Dr Fox, Mr Werritty and the head of Mossad will raise further concerns about Mr Werritty’s role [...]

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David Miliband : Remembering Gaza

by on 18. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

David Miliband was British Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010, and is currently a member of parliament for the Labour Party.   Looking beyond statistics, the future of the children of Gaza is at risk of being wasted due to politics. Al Jazeera    Last Modified: 17 Oct 2011 07:00   Government is all about statistics, [...]

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Patrick Cockburn: Iran had better watch its step now Obama’s chasing votes

by on 18. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

A fumbling Tehran-backed plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was dismissed as bizarre by the rest of the world. But the White House is taking it very seriously Independent    Sunday, 16 October 2011   The plot in which an Iranian-American fromCorpus Christi,Texas, notorious locally for his Clouseau-like dimwittedness, tries to hire a Mexican gangster to [...]

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New War of Choice in Uganda Follows Familiar Foreign Police Doctrine

by on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Sending 100 combat troops to Uganda, Obama is fighting a routine fight: unnecessary war, support for dictatorship, and blowback as an afterthought  by John Glaser   Antiwar Forum    October 15, 2011   President Obama’s deployment of 100UScombat forces toUgandaand surrounding areas has shocked many as highly unusual and even downright bizarre. But while ground troops [...]

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Report: Arab Spring upheaval cost $55bn

by on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By Peter Biles BBC     14 October 2011   The popular protests this year in North Africa and theMiddle East- known as the Arab Spring – have cost the region more than $50bn, a new report says.   The report, by consultancy group Geopolicity, saysEgypt,SyriaandLibyapaid the highest financial price.   It warns that without a regional [...]

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Phyllis Bennis: The Prisoner Swap

by on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, Understanding the U.S.-Iran Crisis: A Primer, Ending the Iraq War: A Primer, and most recently Ending the Us War in Afghanistan: A Primer. If you want to receive her talking points and articles on a [...]

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No problem– Obama’s State Dep’t spokesperson is married to Romney’s neocon foreign policy adviser

by on 14. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Philip Weiss    Mondoweiss       October 12, 2011   Here is a crazy story no one is talking about that is evidence of theIsraellobby’s role in our politics. Last week, Mitt Romney announced a foreign policy team that includes Robert Kagan, a neocon who pushed for theIraqwar.   But Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, [...]

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Robert Fisk: Violence shows uneasy place of minorities after Arab Spring

by on 13. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Egypt is no stranger to religious tensions – but where do Christians fit into its revolution? The Independent   Tuesday, 11 October 2011   The statistics are easy, the future is not. Up to 20 million Copts inEgypt, 10 per cent of the population, the largest Christian community in the region. But President Anwar Sadat once [...]

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Taming the Arab Spring

by on 13. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

GÖKHAN BACIK g.bacik@todayszaman.com     TODAY’S ZAMAN   Turkey     09 October 2011, Sunday   Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the ultimate mission of the Egyptian army is no longer the protection of the homeland. Instead, its new mission is taming the Arab Spring.   Many things have changed inEgyptso far: Hosni Mubarak is gone, and [...]

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Israel bars nuclear whistle-blower from emigrating: media

by on 12. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Yahoo! Inc   Israel’s supreme court on Thursday barred nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu from emigrating on the grounds he still poses a threat to state security, Israeli media reported.   Vanunu, under orders to stay in Tel Aviv and not to speak to journalists, “has proved several times he can not be trusted and does [...]

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Alexander Cockburn: U.S. and Saudi Relations on Oil

by on 12. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Alexander Cockburn is co-editor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch. He is also co-author of the new book “Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils,” available through www.counterpunch.com.   Published on Friday, October 7, 2011 by Creators.com    Pose a threat to the stability ofSaudi Arabia, as the Shiite [...]

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The Real Story of How Israel Was Created

by on 12. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

 by Alison Weir, Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest. She can be reached at contact@ifamericansknew.org.  Antiwar Forum   October 11, 2011   To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 U.N. action [...]

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