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Archive for March, 2011

Liberals March to War

Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2011

“Humanitarian” interventionists salute their commander-in-chief

Justine Raimondo

Antiwar.com

23rd March, 2011

Now that President Barack Obama has intervened in Libya, his army of apologists is mobilizing to defend his “humanitarianism,” declaring that his war isn’t at all like Bush’s wars. It’s something new, and different – and admirable.

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What They’re Covering Up at Fukushima

Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2011

Douglas Lummis

Counterpunch

22nd March, 2011

Hirose Takashi has written a whole shelf full of books, mostly on the nuclear power industry and the military-industrial complex.  Probably his best known book is  Nuclear Power Plants for Tokyo in which he took the logic of the nuke promoters to its logical conclusion: if you are so sure that they’re safe, why not build them in the center of the city, instead of hundreds of miles away where you lose half the electricity in the wires?

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Nuclear Apocalypse in Japan

Posted by seumasach on March 24, 2011

Keith Harmon Snow

Global Research

18th March, 2011

As the sun set over quake-stricken Japan on Thursday 17 March 2011, we learned that four of six Fukushima nuclear reactor sites are irradiating the earth, that the fire is burning out of control at Reactor No. 4′s pool of spent nuclear fuel, that there are six spent fuel pools at risk all told, and that the sites are too hot to deal with. On March 16 Plumes of White Vapor began pouring from crippled Reactor No. 3 where the spent fuel pool may already be lost. Over the previous days we were told: nothing to worry about. Earthquakes and after shocks, tidal wave, explosions, chemical pollution, the pox of plutonium, contradicting information too obvious to ignore, racism, greed — add these to the original Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death. The situation is apocalyptic and getting worse. This is one of the most serious challenges humanity has ever faced.

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“Operation Odyssey Dawn” breaking for Washington

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

20th March, 2011

The French strikes against Libya are not a French operation, but a subcontracting component of Odyssey Dawn Operation under the authority of U.S. AfriCom. Their objective is not to rescue Libyan civilians, but to serve as a pretext to pave the way for the landing of U.S. forces on the Black continent, notes Thierry Meyssan.

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Creepy mission- Sami Ramadani on RT

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011

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International calls continue to stop military action against Libya

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011

SANA

23rd March, 2011

Libyan cities on Tuesday witnessed clashes between Libyan forces and protesters leading to the killing of scores of people, while Staff of the French Army announced that it would start its first mission in the Libyan atmosphere launched from its aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle.

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Clarification- this is a non-Nato operation run by Nato

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011

This is, therefore, not a NATO operation, even if it must be able to rely on military planning and intervention capacities of the Alliance,” Juppe said.

Compromise emerges for NATO role in Libya fight

Bloomberg

22nd March, 2011

A compromise is emerging that would see NATO take a key role in the military operation in Libya guided by a political committee of foreign ministers from the West and the Arab world.

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Libya: Western attack against international Law – Turkish speaker

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011

The American Kaffir

22nd March, 2011

Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin said March 22 that countries leading the UN Security Council resolution should pay attention to the fact that military action in Libya by the western coalition hit civilians, Anatolia news agency reported. He said NATO would hold an important meeting March 22 and that Turkey, who’s objections on the issue are right, was following developments carefully. Turkish State Minister and Chief Negotiator for EU talks, Egemen Bagis said a European leader began his election campaign by organizing a meeting that led to air strikes against Libya. Bagis added that the leader acted before a NATO decision, and that the act was based on his subjective evaluation of a United Nations resolution.

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Mullah Omar gets a Russian visitor

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011

M.K.Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

24th March, 2011

He can be disarmingly charming. Like any ethnic Uzbek. Plus he has cultivated a great sense of humor, especially the sardonic variety that is a Russian trademark, which sees you through adversities. He was trained in the tricks of his trade at the best professional schools in Moscow.

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The ‘optics’ of Odyssey Dawn

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2011

“Perversely, Odyssey Dawn is laying the groundwork for the partition of Libya. Balkanization looms.”

That is exactly what it is designed to do – end the national- democratic revolution.

Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

24th March, 2011

Odyssey Dawn, at least for now, is the first United States Africom war. The Pentagon, via Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, dispelled any doubts as he stressed that the “leading edge” is American. Homer is played by General Carter Ham, out of his headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany (no African country bothered to host Africom). And Ulysses – in what looks and sounds more like an Iliad than an Odyssey – is commander of Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn Admiral Sam Locklear, on board USS Mount Whitney somewhere in the Mediterranean

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Germany pulls out of NATO operations

Posted by smeddum on March 22, 2011

Tuesday Mar 22 2011
Germany has pulled out of NATO operations in the Mediterranean due to the disagreement over the forces’ mission in Libya. Read the rest of this entry »

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