Thursday, June 30, 2011

US, Israeli and Greek governments try to intimidate and block Gaza aid flotilla including US ship and crew

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A new international aid flotilla is preparing to sail from Greece to Gaza to provide aid to Gazans and protest the Israeli blockade which ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Private creditors and banks' refusal to write down Greek debts likely to lead to Argentina style default

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The Guardian has reported that German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to get Greece’s private sector creditors, including the banks, to for...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Amnesty finds Libyan rebels lied about Gaddafi rape orders, mercenaries and anti-aircraft guns - and says some protesters might have been armed

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In case anyone else hasn’t seen it yet there’s an article in the Independent newspaper quoting Amnesty International investigators saying ...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

More on the oil motive for NATO's intervention in Libya

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The difference between the Gaddafi government’s oil policies and those that oil importing governments (such as NATO countries) and compani...

Libya: NATO governments actions and inactions elsewhere show the intervention in Libya can't be about protecting civilians or promoting democracy

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The claim constantly made by NATO governments that they have intervened militarily in Libya to protect civilians and promote democracy is ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Libya : The homes of members of Gaddafi's government are not legitimate military targets or command and control centres

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No amount of calling the houses of members of Gaddafi’s government and his advisers ‘Command and control centers’ will change the fact tha...

Libya - NATO and the rebels should accept Gaddafi's offer of elections as a chance to avoid a long war with more civilians killed by both sides

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Gaddafi last week offered elections supervised by international observers if the rebels and NATO would agree to a ceasefire (1). Given ev...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Power, wealth, judges, rights, Giggs, misogyny, Murdoch and Goodwin

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The media and lawyers specialising in media law are showing great ingenuity in trying to present their reporting of sex gossip stories as ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Even former Mossad and Shin Bet chiefs say negotiate with Hamas without preconditions

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The claim that Hamas refuses to recognise Israel’s right to exist and that this makes negotiations with them impossible has been made agai...
Monday, May 23, 2011

The outcry against super-injunctions on reporting private lives is about selling papers to make money

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The newspapers’ outcry over the super-injunction against reporting which footballer had an affair has nothing to do with the public intere...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

There is no public interest involved in publishing gossip about sex – only money grubbing and distracting from real issues

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Whatever Fred Goodwin's faults, the whole world does not have a right to hear every detail of his private life, or anyone else's I...
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