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Links US Air Raids: The Unlearned Lesson of Libya October 8, 2014 ( Yuri Zinin – NEO ) The speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives Akila Saleh Issa at the UN General Assembly demanded the international community to provide assistance in enhancing security in this troubled country. He stated that the rebuilding of a combat capable army in Libya is a matter of utmost importance, otherwise people will be left to face terrorists on their own. The alarming statements made by Libyan authorities coincided with the ongoing missiles strikes of the US against ISIL militants. This latest US military endeavor is now in the media’s focus, while Middle Eastern experts try to figure out the purpose of those strikes, just like Washington’s future steps and time limits that remain largely unclear to this day
Links Occupy Central: Benny Tai Doesn’t Care Why You Think You Protest October 8, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) –  Over the past several days, there has been a certain backlash, even among Hong Kong’s "Occupy Central" supporters themselves against the now exposed, US-backed leadership of the movement . After denying, then unsuccessfully defending the fact that "Occupy Central" co-organizers including Benny Tai, Joshua Wong, Martin Lee, Anson Chan, Audrey Eu, Jimmy Lai, and Joseph Zen are all entwined with US State Department-funded organizations, movements, projects, and institutions, many "Occupy Central" supporters are now attempting to claim this leadership does not represent them, and that they remain in the streets for entirely different reasons.
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Links US-style "Democracy" No Different than Beijing’s Version, US Labor Activist October 7, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – With the "Occupy Central" protests in Hong Kong still ongoing, the movement’s leadership has been exposed as completely backed, funded, and directed by foreign interests , particularly those of the US State Department through its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its subsidiary the National Democratic Institute (NDI).At the core of "Occupy Central’s" demands, as articulated by co-organizer Martin Lee during his trip to Washington D.C. with Anson Chan earlier this year , is the belief that Beijing should honor the demands made by parting British occupiers who held Hong Kong territory for nearly a century and a half. This includes the "one nation, two systems" approach that the US and British hope will allow Hong Kong to be used to "infect" mainland China with a Western controlled political orders and institutions
October 7, 2014 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – The Western press recently reported the destruction of a Soviet-era statue of Vladimir Lenin in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The Washington Post would claim in its report, " Ukrainians just pulled down a massive Lenin statue. What does that signal for Russia
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional