Afghans Believe US Is Funding Taliban
Guardian.co.uk - 052510
Intellectuals and
respected Afghan professionals are convinced the west is prolonging
conflict to maintain influence in the region ...
The Bilderberg Group: A
Secretive Group, Once Denied By Many, Now Exposed The Nefarious Pact Among Kings, Queens, Presidents And The
Wealthy Elite NewsFocus - 060710
Once regarded
as unsubstantiated fact and conspiracy rumor, this
secretive cabal of the world's powerful elite is now accepted as fact and a
danger for all of mankind to wake up to and be most wary of.Many have
denied the group's existence, but only because they were either too naive to
fathom its purpose, too lazy to do their own research, or part of the cover-up
to keep the group's alliance and agenda a secret.
History has shown that when those of immense wealth
unite together with a common purpose, it is most always for their own
enrichment, and the forced servitude of those with far lesser means.
Read about the Bilderberg Group and understand how
they adversely affect our world for the sake of their own greed. Then do a
search for the Trilateral Commission and also the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR).
While you're at it, search for Bohemian Grove. As hard as it is to accept for
some, the world does not work as many know it. (Read
More)
Conspiracy of Silence: Who are the Bilderberg Group?
Gordon Brown Resigns As UK Prime Minister
BBC News - 051110
Mr. Brown has officially tendered his resignation to the Queen at Buckingham
Palace, and recommended Conservative leader David Cameron succeed him.
The 65-page report from the independent commission appointed by the UN said that
the inquiry commission believed the failure by Pakistani authorities to
effectively investigate Bhutto’s death was “deliberate.”
It said that investigators were hampered
by the fear that the intelligence agencies may have been involved and that
the agencies and other government offices “severely hampered” the investigation.
...
Central Secretary of Pakistan People’s Party
(PPP) Jehangir Badar has said that a case will be lodged against Pervez
Musharraf by the state in the wake of UN Report on the assassination of Ms
Benazir Bhutto. ...
NewsFocus:
They may want to take a real hard look at the ISI and the CIA as well. Many
suspect Washington (Bush administration) involvement as well.
Gordon Brown Sticks Foot In Mouth With Live Mic Open This Certainly Is Not Going To Help Him In The Upcoming
Election
NewsFocus - Op/Ed - 042810
Gordon Brown is exactly like Tony Blair, a lapdog for the
uber-wealthy "powers that be." He does their bidding and is a huge advocate for the New World
Order. The people do not get a say in Mr. Brown's New World Order. They don't
get a vote. Hopefully he will be defeated, but time will only tell what "big
money" will do to see his re-election.
Gordon Brown Caught On Open Mic
Wait until the end, when he gets in his car. Gordon tells how he really feels.
Pentagon
Reveals U.S. Has 5,113 Nuclear Warheads (WMD)
CTV - 050410
The Pentagon figure released Monday includes deployed weapons, which are those
more or less ready to launch, and reserve weapons. It does not include thousands
of warheads that have been disabled or all but dismantled. Those weapons could,
in theory, be reconstituted, or their nuclear material repurposed.
How We Were All Lied To Over The Kosovo War The Lengths That Crooked Politicians Will Go To For War &
Profit NewsFocus - 042710
We were all told that
Solobodan Milosevic was a bad guy and was ousted because of the alleged
Yugoslavian genocide, but was that the real story? Coincidentally, Milosevic
died in his jail cell before the end of his trial, with the cause
suspiciously listed as a heart attack. How convenient.
It may interest many to know that Yugoslavia
holds a more profitable interest to the greater elite powers of wealth. The
country was more likely targeted because of its strategic geographic and
economic position. Most Americans are naively unaware of this region's vast
economic value.
Some of the most
important (lucrative) land and water routes pass through Yugoslavia. This
economic corridor provides valued communication links between Europe, the Middle
East, the North Sea and the Caucasus-Caspian zone. Coincidentally enough, those
locations just so happen to have some of the largest oil resources in the world,
and they are of great economic value to Europe.
Like all wars,
if there isn't money in it, there is no need to invest war dollars for no return
value. Yugoslavia had value, and that made it a prime target of the uber-wealthy
elite. Like other conflicts and wars before it, the Kosovo war was a sham right
from the start, but in order to fully see the deception, it helps to have an
acute understanding of the past.
Remember one of
the most stirring testimonies on Iraq, as George H.W. Bush sought a reason to
invade the country? (After he told Saddam it was okay to invade Kuwait.) It was
the young
Iraqi girl who tearfully told Congress that Saddam's soldiers had stormed
their hospitals, overturning incubators and leaving new born babies to die on
the cold floor, but that story was revealed to be
a bald-faced
lie.
Bush used the
world's largest PR firm, Hill & Knowlton, to
plant a story that would con Americans into sympathetic support for attacking
Saddam. Coincidentally enough, the person running the H&K Washington office was
none other than close Bush friend, Craig Fuller, who was Bush's Chief of Staff
when he was Vice President. (Also, the Wirthlin Group, research arm of H&K, was
the pollster for the Reagan Administration.)
Fast forward to eight years later
and once again we were being fed a story of human atrocity with the Bosnian
Serbs as the scapegoats. This time it was the foreign press that was used as the
conduit for disinformation and state propaganda. British news channel ITN faked
pictures of a Bosnian-Serb "death camp". Remember the pictures of the alleged
prison camp, with the emaciated man behind barbed wire? It too was all fake. The
film crew positioned themselves on the inside of a fence, looking out
towards the men, who were actually looking in. The closely cropped video gave
the impression from the camera view that it was the men who were on the inside
of the fence, when in actuality it was the news team who was on the inside
looking out. (see video below)
So the Bosnian War was a concocted
farce, just like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led the US into Viet Nam, and
also the weapons of mass destruction that Bush and Cheney blatantly lied about
to get us into the second Iraq war. (Makes you really wonder about the Iran
accusations, doesn't it?)
Americans need to understand how we
are duped into war and how the media is used to sell us all a perverted lie for
the sake of imperialism and war profits.
See the following short film,
"Judgment." It details the Kosovo war lie and how we were all duped into
another illegitimate war. People need to be aware of how far men of power will
go to abuse their office for political and financial gain. It also helps for the
public to understand just how complicit and/or corrupt many in our media are
when it comes to selling the grand political lie to us all. An informed public
is an educated public.
Know the real truth. It just might
not be what you were originally led to believe.
Up to this point, it seems as though most Americans have not
really been too concerned about the financial meltdown that is taking place in
Greece. But they should be. The truth is that the debt crisis we see playing
out in Greece may soon repeat itself in some of the largest nations in the world
such as Japan, the U.K. and even the United States. Once upon a time, this kind
of thing only happened in third world nations, but now virtually every nation on
earth has a debt problem. As the saying goes, the borrower is the servant of
the lender, and so when a country like Greece gets in way, way too deep
financially, it ends up having to give up a portion of its sovereignty to those
controlling the purse strings. In the case of Greece, those controlling the
purse strings are the IMF and the EU. But it just isn’t Greece that is in
trouble. Dozens of nations are in serious financial trouble and are at the
mercy of those who can bail them out. The truth is that global financial
institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, the European Central Bank and the
Federal Reserve are increasingly gaining power all over the globe as governments
around the world continue to accumulate frightening amounts of debt.
...
Ireland proves lower corporate taxes lead to bankrupt governments
CrooksandLiars.com,
By karoli Sunday May 09, 2010 1:00pm Hey conservatives, heads up on this. It's a very big
deal. Ireland, long-time darling of conservative anti-taxers, is in some deep
fiscal trouble. Not because they've overspent, but because they've
undertaxed. ...
The RealNews Network - Is The Euro About To Crash?
Polish President Lech Kaczynski Killed In Plane Crash The Guardian UK -
Apr 10, 2010
The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, was among 132 people killed when their
plane crashed in Smolensk, west Russia. Photograph: Tomasz Gzell/EPA The Polish
...
Mistrust of Moscow Cited As Nation Seeks Reasons For Crash The Australian, AP
- 041110 Polish President Lech Kaczynski, a one-time
anti-communist with a gift for taunting the Kremlin, had every reason to believe
he was not welcome in ...
Another Stain In The History Books Brisbane Times -
Matt Moore - 041110
WARSAW: He died en route to the most sensitive mission possible - a visit to the
place that has driven a wedge between Poles and Russians for three ...
Polish President Dead In
Plane Crash In Russia
A morbidly ironic tragedy given the circumstances. Investigation needed.
New Tragedy Echoes The Old JoongAng Daily -
041110
A shocking and tragic accident has occurred on the other end of the world. In a
mysterious accident in Russia early Saturday, the Polish presidential ...
A Brief History of Iran
Many Americans do not know the real truth about our role of
interference in Iran.
7.1-magnitude quake strikes off Solomon Islands The Associated Press -
041110
ADELAIDE, Australia — A major earthquake has struck off the
Solomon Islands, but a tsunami was not expected. The US Geological Survey said
the 7.1-magnitude ...
This Is What Our Cousins Across The Pond
Think (They're Spot On)
Titled, "What Barry Says," this piece is absolutely right on.
British Inquiry Into Iraq War Turns Toward Bush
Administration RawStory.com, by
Stephen C. Webster - Sunday,
March 21st, 2010 -- 8:16 pm
Senior Bush administration officials, including former President George W. Bush
himself, have been asked to give testimony before a British committee
investigating the basis for the invasion of Iraq, according to a published
report.
Other officials
contacted by the panel include former Vice President Dick Cheney, former
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
and former Bush adviser Stephen Hadley, among others. ...
Russian military chief: I think that there are plans to bomb Iran Russian military chief says Iran bombing inadmissible RussiaToday.com,
041210
(RT)
— Russia’s Chief of General Staff has told the press that bombing Iranian
territory in order to make the country give up its nuclear program was
inadmissible.
General Nikolai
Makarov said at a press conference on Monday that possible bombings of Iran by
the United States or Israel were an “extreme option that no one had the right to
allow”. “As of the possible bombings, I doubt that they could really take place,
though I think that there are such plans,” Makarov said. ...
Moscow Subway Blasts Kill 38; Death Toll Could Be Higher Once Again The Immediate Scapegoats Are Alleged Muslim
Terrorists
NewsFocus.org - 032910
Is this another false-flag event, or a real terrorist attack?
It's getting hard to tell at times these days. Our hearts and prayers go out to
the victims in this calculated tragedy. We hope that RT News will be as earnest
in their reporting on this event as they have been on 9/11. We look forward to
future reports as details unfold on this mass murder.
RT News: Moscow Subway Blast
Moscow Subway Video
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine
Conflict
Iraq To Sue US, Britain Over Depleted Uranium America's Greatest War Crime That Will Linger A
Million Years
February 5, 2010
Iraq’s Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against the US and UK over
their use of depleted
uranium bombs, an Iraqi minister says. Iraq’s Minister of Human Rights,
Wijdan Mikhail Salim, told Assabah newspaper that the suit will be based on
reports from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment finding an
increase in the number of babies born with defects in the countries’ southern
provinces. The US and UK are said to have dropped nearly 2,000 tons of depleted
uranium bombs following the 2003 invasion. ...
NewsFocus: This
is arguably Americas greatest international shame. We've overthrown
democratically elected government's for our own benefit, but this is an atrocity
that any moral country with a conscience should have known better about.
Absolutely shameful. Americans need to demand accountability from our
government.
What a shame we didn't
get to vote here, huh? Yes, despite some heavy-duty pressure (and the implied
threat of being blocked from membership in the European Union),
the tiny country voted no
to a crushing repayment plan for the British and Dutch debts incurred by a
failed Icelandic bank. That plan would have required each Icelander to pay
around $135 a month for eight years — about 25% of the average family's salary:
REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Icelanders blew whistles and
set off fireworks in the capital as referendum results Sunday showed they had
resoundingly rejected a $5.3 billion plan to repay Britain and the Netherlands
for debts spawned by the collapse of an Icelandic bank.
Voters in the tiny Atlantic island nation defied both their
parliament and international pressure to display their anger at how their nation
was being treated. ...
Dakar — Worldwide 1.1 billion people still relieve
themselves outdoors, with eight out of 10 of them living in 10 countries,
according to the most recent drinking-water and sanitation report by the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Other key facts from the report: Some 884 million
people drink from unprotected springs, hand-dug wells or other unsafe water
sources, and 29 million more urban dwellers relieve themselves outdoors now than
20 years ago.
To mark World Water Day IRIN draws from the
report to offer a snapshot of water and sanitation data up to 2008.
Using household surveys, 152 censuses and 318
government-reports, the report estimated 2.6 billion people still rely on
buckets in the bush for hygiene.
Even if countries meet the Millennium Development
Goal of halving the proportion of their population without basic sanitation by
2015, there would still be 1.7 billion people worldwide without basic
sanitation, according to the report. ...
The international community has come out in force
to condemn and declare war on the Somali fishermen pirates, while discreetly
protecting the illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fleets from around the
world that have been poaching and dumping toxic waste in Somali waters since the
fall of the Somali government eighteen years ago.
In 1991, when the government of Somalia
collapsed, foreign interests seized the opportunity to begin looting the
country’s food supply and using the country’s unguarded waters as a dumping
ground for nuclear and other toxic waste.
According to the High Seas Task Force (HSTF),
there were over 800 IUU fishing vessels in Somali waters at one time in 2005,
taking advantage of Somalia’s inability to police and control its own waters and
fishing grounds. The IUUs poach an estimated $450 million in seafood from Somali
waters annually. In so doing, they steal an invaluable protein source from some
of the world’s poorest people and ruin the livelihoods of legitimate fishermen.
...
US to engage in 'hit and run' war in Somalia
InformationClearinghouse.info
The United States is involved in preparatory military operations in Somali for a
'major' offensive against Somali fighters, report says. ...
As the Middle East Peace Talks Hit Deadlock, Talk of Israel Joining the European
Union Increases
IntelDaily.com, by Claude Salhani - February 5, 2010
The Middle East peace talks are at a deadlock. Negotiations between Israel and
the Palestinians to move ahead with the plan established by the so-called
Quartet – the US., U.N., EU and Russia — have faltered and come to a complete
standstill. ...
China rejects Iran sanctions, pushes for diplomatic solution
InformationClearinghouse.info
China said Thursday it will continue to push for a diplomatic resolution to the
Iranian nuclear standoff, rebuffing efforts by Western powers to introduce a new
set of sanctions against Iran.
Iran, China sign $143mn drilling deal
InformationClearinghouse.info
China, which now gets more than 15 percent of its oil from Iran, reportedly has
commitments of more than $80 billion in the country's energy sector.
US
Plans $1.4bn Media Aid For Pakistan
Business24-7.ae - 030110
There is strong anti-American sentiment in Pakistan and the hope is this new
assistance will help ease that tension. ...
U.S. Will Determine Who Can Board Some Canadian Flights
InformationClearinghouse.info Starting in December, some
passengers on Canadian airlines flying to, from or even over the United States
without ever landing there, will only be allowed to board the aircraft once the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined they are not terrorists.
NewsFocus: By
what right are we allowed to do this to our good Canadian neighbors?
Chilean president raises quake death toll to 795 China Daily -
030210
SANTIAGO - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said Tuesday that
the death toll from Saturday's devastating earthquake had reached 795. ...
Huge 8.8 Quake
Hits Chile; Tsunami Threat For Pacific Update: Tsunami Danger Is Minimal As Threat Passes For Pacific
Washington Post -
Roberto Candia, Eva Vergara -
022710
AP TALCA, Chile -- One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Chile
on Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the
fractured earth. ...
US Fights For Access To EU Bank Data
InformationClearinghouse.info The US government has
initiated a diplomatic offensive against threatened moves by MEPs to block a
deal that gives American intelligence agencies direct access to European bank
data.
Queen Elizabeth II The Largest Landowner On Earth Over $33-Trillion Dollars In World Real Estate Holdings
WhoOwnsTheWorld.com
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states
and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one
sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface. ...
Largest Five Personal
Landowners On Earth
Queen Elizabeth II
6,600 million acres
King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia
553 million acres
King Bhumibol of
Thailand
126 million acres
King Mohammed IV of
Morocco
113 million acres
Sultan Quaboos of
Oman
76 million acres
NewsFocus: And of course she's supporting
our schools by paying property tax, right?
Dogboy and Mr. Dan: Iran
In The Crosshairs
More Blackwater Than Cops, Pakistan Says
InformationClearinghouse.info
There are more
private security contractors from Xe, formerly Blackwater, operating in
Islamabad than capital police, a religious leader said. ...
Descent Into Barbarism: The US and NATO Wage War on the World
InformationClearinghouse.info, byFinian Cunningham The argument is won: capitalism as an effective
system to organize society and provide for human needs has expired. The evidence
is conclusive.
Continue
Every Occupation Fuels an Insurgency
InformationClearinghouse.info, by
Dennis Kucinich
Afghanistan, Jobs and Health Care, All big issues in America. And one man with
strong opinions on all of them is U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
Continue
China’s hawks demand cold war on the US
InformationClearinghouse.info,
More than half of
Chinese people questioned in a poll believe China and America are heading for a
new “cold war”.
Medical records which would shed light on the death of government
scientist David Kelly will be kept secret for 70 years, it emerged yesterday.
The unprecedented move has been ordered by Lord
Hutton, who chaired the inquiry which controversially concluded that the
mysterious death was suicide.
It means vital evidence, including the results of
Dr Kelly's post-mortem examination - which have never been made public -
will remain under wraps until 2073, by which time anyone involved in the case
will almost certainly be dead. ...
Venezuela may have just become the center of an energy-starved world.
The Orinoco Belt, situated squarely underneath
the South American nation, may hold some 513 billion barrels of crude oil,
according to a new
report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
That's twice the size of Saudi Arabia's oil
reserves, placing Venezuela firmly atop the list of oil-rich nations.
...
NewsFocus:
This is news to the public, but not the U.S. Government. Maybe now people
will connect the dots and understand why Bush kept trying to pick a fight with
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. It's all about the black gold.
Gulf Nations Sign Monetary Pact! Gulf Nations
Ally; Banking Cartel Takes Over English.Aljazeera.net, 121209 Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia signed and ratified the pact on
Tuesday, which will see them work towards setting up a joint central bank and
implementing a single currency.
NewsFocus: The
real power in this world does not come not from our elected leaders, but from
the cabals of the ultra-wealthy central banks. (Money = Power)
Gulf Arabs agree on joint military force
InformationClearinghouse.info
The US-allied six-nation bloc is located
across the Gulf from Iran and includes the world’s top oil exporter Saudi
Arabia. They share Washington’s concerns over Iran’s nuclear plans. ...
Iran anniversary 'punch' will stun West
InformationClearinghouse.info Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
"The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance
(of Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave
them stunned," Ayatollah Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a
gathering of air force personnel on Monday.
Haiti quake toll tops 110,000
InformationClearinghouse.info -
012410 Meanwhile, authorities in Haiti have
ended search and rescue operations, a day after two survivors were pulled alive
from the rubble of collapsed buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince, 10 days
after they were buried.
7.0 quake hits Haiti; could be 'catastrophe,'
official says CNN International -
Mallory Simon,
Shasta Darlington -
011210 AP reported that a hospital had collapsed (CNN) -- A major
earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power
lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a
catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's ...
Arab States Take 4 of Top 5 Spots in Purchase of U.S.
Weapons and Services(The
Military Industrial Complex Is Making Serious 'Bank')
InformationClearinghouse.info,
By Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky
- 123009 Most of the leading buyers of American military hardware in 2008 had two
characteristics in common: they speak Arabic and their governments are opposed
to democracy and basic freedoms.
Continue
Are We Really That Different?
Stop The Orchestrated Clash of Civilizations. What Would Jesus
Do?
The Aim of America’s Secret War? Welcome to Pashtunistan
InformationClearinghouse.info,
By Shaukat Qadir - 122809
Pakistan’s conspiracy theorists have long held that the real object of Xe,
acting on behalf of the CIA, is to destabilise Pakistan so as to have an excuse
to take over or destroy its nuclear assets, because Israel and the US remain
uncomfortable with a nuclear Pakistan. I have long disputed this theory, but am
finding it increasingly difficult to continue doing so.
Continue
‘Blackwater, DynCorp working in Pakistan’: Gates
InformationClearinghouse.info - 012410
Gates conceded that US security companies Blackwater and DynCorp are operating
in Pakistan in private capacities. He said the companies would comply with
Pakistani laws.
Iran Nuke Document Was Forged: U.S. Intelligence
InformationClearinghouse.info,
By Gareth Porter - 123009 U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document
published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an
Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron
initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central
Intelligence Agency official.
Continue
National Irish Bank moves to cashless banking IrishTimes.com
- 123009
National Irish Bank has written to thousands of its customers this month
informing them of a “new style of banking” in which branches will not handle
over-the-counter cash transactions.
NewsFocus: And so it begins. Globalist
economic reform or a too for Big Brother?
War Crime Case Against Tony Blair Now Rock-solid A trial would be warmly welcomed by
millions – so what happens next?
InformationClearinghouse.info - by Neil ClarkDec 2009 Going to war to change another country's regime
is prohibited by international law, while the Nuremburg judgment of 1946 laid
down that "to initiate a war of aggression", as Blair and Bush clearly did
against Iraq, "is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war
crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".
Continue
Mystery of Tony Blair's money solved
Guardian.co.uk - 121709
A little-known loophole in UK company law is being used by Tony Blair to keep
his finances secret, the Guardian can disclose.
Time Flies
Russia warns US about missile shield
IntelDaily, Wed, 30 Dec 2009
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday that
Moscow will pursue plans for new weapons to counter the US missile defense
system, and added that the US plans are holding up a new nuclear disarmament
treaty. ...
Putin warns US over missile defence EnglishAljazeera.net - 123009
Russia must develop new offensive weapons to counter US missile defences and
prevent policymakers in Washington from feeling they can "do whatever they
want," Vladimir Putin, the country's prime minister, has said ...
China mulls overseas naval base EnglishAljazeera.net - 123009 Chinese naval vessels have been operating in the Gulf of Aden off the Horn of
Africa for a year, escorting both Chinese and foreign ships through the waters
where Somali pirates operate. ...
U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen
NYTimes.con - 122809
In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened
a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen.
CIA present in Yemen since 2008 Blogs.JS-Kit.com- 122809
Report: Mohamed al-Anisi had told the Saudi Arabian
newspaper Okaz that the Yemeni forces were cooperating with the US military on
attacks against al-Qaeda camps.
Senator Lieberman calls for ‘preemptive’ attack on Yemen
RawStory.com - 122809
"Iraq was yesterday’s war," Lieberman explained. "Afghanistan is today’s war. If
we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war. That’s the danger we
face."
US Attack Kills 120 In Yemen Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Suspected "Terrorists"
InformationClearinghouse.info, bBy BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE, LUIS MARTINEZ and KIRIT
RADIA
As many as 120 people were killed in the three raids, according to reports from
Yemen, and opposition leaders said many of the dead were innocent civilians.
Continue
U.S. Cruise Missile Attacks in Yemen
InformationClearinghouse.info, by Glenn Greenwald
For many people, the mere assertion by anonymous U.S. Government officials that
these attacks targeted "suspected al-Qaeda sites" will be sufficient to deem
them justified.
Continue
U.S Kill 63 Civilians, 28 Children in Yemen Air Strikes
InformationClearinghouse.info, by Press TV
Yemen's Houthi fighters say scores of civilians, including many children, have
been killed in US air-raids in the southeast of the war-stricken Arab country.
The Shia fighters on Friday reported the deaths of 63 people, including some 28
children, in the southeastern province of Abyan.
Continue 'US aided' deadly Yemen raids:
YouTube video shows women and children killed in attacks
US media: Obama ordered deadly blitz on Yemen
InformationClearinghouse.info US Nobel Peace Prize laureate President Barack Obama has signed the
order for a recent military strike on Yemen in which scores of civilians,
including children, have been killed, a report says.
US drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents Guardian.co.uk - 121709
One of America's most sophisticated weapons in the conflicts in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, the unmanned drone, has been successfully penetrated
by insurgents using software available on the internet for $26 (£16).
Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S.
Warplanes
Wired.com - Dec 2009
Militants have the
ability to see through the eyes of all kinds of combat aircraft — from
traditional fighters and bombers to unmanned spy planes. The problem is in the
process of being addressed. But for now, an enormous security breach is even
larger than previously thought.
Obama moves ahead with AFRICOM
InformationClearinghouse.info - 121709
US ArmyConcerned over the supply of oil to the US and a supposed need to
continue the global 'War on Terror', President Barack Obama has essentially
maintained the militarised approach to Africa that was the hallmark of his
immediate predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, writes Daniel Volman.
Israel Rules
InformationClearinghouse.info,
By Paul Craig Roberts
- 123009 On Christmas eve when Christians were celebrating
the Prince of Peace, the New York Times delivered forth a call for war. “There’s
only one way to stop Iran,” declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is “military air
strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.”
Continue
Israeli pleads guilty to leaking classified U.S.
documents Haaretz.com An Israeli lawyer and
left-wing activist who worked as a linguist for the FBI has pleaded guilty to
leaking classified documents to a blogger who posted the information online.
Dubai Opens World's Tallest Skyscraper, Renames It After Abu
Dhabi Leader
HuffingtonPost.com - 010410
(AP) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai opened the world's
tallest skyscraper Monday, and in a surprise move renamed the gleaming
glass-and-metal tower Burj Khalifa in a nod to the leader of neighboring Abu
Dhabi -- the oil-rich sheikdom which came to its rescue during the financial
meltdown. ...
Ex-FBI linguist pleads guilty to leaking secret documents
News.SMH.com 121809
Leibowitz, also known as Samuel Shamai Leibowitz, acknowledged handing over five
FBI documents concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United
States to the blogger, who was not identified. ...
Spymaster Sees Israel As The World Cyberwar Leader Israel
Using Civilian Technological Advances To Enhance Cyberwarfare
Reuters.com Using computer networks for
espionage -- by hacking into databases -- or to carry out sabotage through
so-called "malicious software" planted in sensitive control systems has been
quietly weighed in Israel against arch-foes ...
Chavez: U.S. military bases in Colombia stab to S. America
InformationClearinghouse.info
The president also said that the right-wing in Latin America was being organized
to attack the Bolivian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA) and the Union of South
American Nations (Unasur)
Chavez warns Colombia not to attack Venezuela
PressTV.ir
He told his countrymen that they must be calm but fully alert as Colombia has
sent two army battalions to the Venezuelan border. ...
Colombia to build new military base on Venezuelan border
RawStory.com 121909
Army Commander General Oscar Gonzalez meanwhile announced Saturday that six air
battalions were being activated, including two on the border with Venezuela.
Colombia 'facing foreign threat'(U.S.
Propaganda?) EnglishAljazeera.net
Silva did not specifically mention Venezuela in his interview with El Tiempo,
but spoke of the "growing risk" of a foreign power taking action against
Colombia.
Silvio Berlusconi to spend fourth night in hospital after attack guardian.co.uk -
121609
The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is to spend a
fourth night in hospital recovering from an attack which left him with a broken
nose and two chipped teeth. ...
Obama 'to expand drone strikes' in Pakistan
IntelDaily.com, Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:13:00 +0000
The administration of Nobel peace laureate, President Barack Obama, has
authorized an expansion of drone attacks on Pakistan's troubled tribal regions,
a new report says.
The New York Times report also says US and Pakistani officials are
discussing the possibility of CIA operated drone strikes in Pakistan's
Baluchistan province for the first time.
The purported aim of the American air strikes is to target militants. But
Pakistani media outlets say the raids have mostly killed civilians.
The unpopular strikes were initiated under the George W Bush administration in
2006.
Obama quietly authorizes expansion of war in Pakistan
DeccanHerald.com
CIA has submitted its plan to widen its campaign in Pakistan to the White House
and has asked for commitment to jack up the agency's budget for operations
inside the country.
Pakistan is a target and not a US ally
InformationClearinghouse.info
The USA-UK-Israel-India-Afghanistan have ganged up to trap
Pakistan under the garb of friendship so that it could be denuclearised and
ultimately reduced to a vassal state.
U.S. won't rule out Iran strike
Haaretz.com
France touts new nuclear sanctions: Military force would have only limited
effect in stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons but must remain an
option, the top U.S. military officer said Monday. ...
Obama told China: I can't stop Israel strike on Iran
indefinitely
Haaretz.com 121709
U.S. President Barack Obama has warned his Chinese counterpart that the United States would not
be able to keep Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear installations for much
longer, senior officials in Jerusalem told Haaretz. ...
Iran protests reported US Navy incident SILive.com 121709 UNITED NATIONS - Iran sent a letter to the U.N. protesting what it called an
unlawful attack by the U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf that caused an Iranian
fishing boat to sink. ...
The Peak Oil Crisis: China in 2010
IntelDaily.com, Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0000
Excerpt: Some outside observers, however, are not sure China's economy is is
really growing as fast as Beijing claims. They cite numerous examples of
anomalies in China's recent economic statistics. As China's exports are
acknowledged to have dropped by 23 percent in July and August and 15 percent in
September, this leaves only domestic consumption and investment in plant and
infrastructure to be the source of the rapid growth.
The Vicious Competition For Peak Oil
24/7WallSt.com, November 30, 2009
There has been a heated argument for the last several years about
when the world will start to run out of oil. The rate of oil production, after
more than a century of drilling, may have already peaked or it may peak in a
decade. Everything in oil production will be downhill after that. The Observer
recently pointed out that, “Even the Paris-based IEA admits that the world still
needs to find the equivalent of four new Saudi Arabias to feed increasing demand
at a time when the depletion rate in old fields of the North Sea and other major
producing areas is running at 7% year on year.”
The more relevant concern, at least in the
short-term, about oil should not be how much there is but who will own it.
Mysterious spiral
lights over Norway provokes debate
Mirror.co.uk - 121009
By Conrad Quilty-Harper, Mirror.co.uk 10/12/2009 The appearance
of a strange spiral light in the skies above
Norway yesterday has prompted plenty of debate ...
Was David Kelly murdered on the orders of the British Government? Doctors Start Legal Action for New Inquest Global Research,
by Andrew Alderson - December 7, 2009 Six senior doctors have begun legal action to
force a new inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly, the scientist who died
days after being exposed as the source of a controversial BBC story on the Iraq
war.
Some suspect that Dr Kelly, 59, was murdered shortly after it was
revealed that he was the source of a BBC story which alleged that evidence
against Iraq had been "sexed up" by the Government in order to justify the 2003
invasion. ...
Afghan refugees who fled the war-torn south have claimed they are so
neglected by government in Kabul that
their children are dying from
hypothermia for want of the most basic supplies.
Families that left Helmand, Kandahar and other southern provinces to escape
the fighting between US-led forces and a resurgent Taliban say the cold is
much more lethal.
Living in a make-shift camp on the edge of Kabul, residents told Al
Jazeera's James Bays that no government official has ever come to see how they
have been forced to live.
The Queen is to hand over a substantial part of her public duties
to Prince William to help him prepare for the day when he becomes King,
according to a confidential document obtained by The Mail on Sunday.
Secret papers reveal that plans to
ease the strain on the 83-year-old monarch and her 88-year-old husband, Prince
Philip, are at an advanced stage.
The disclosures come despite months
of denials from the Palace that the Queen was planning to step back from her
official work in favour of her 27-year-old grandson.
The information is contained in a
briefing note written by Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Treasury officials about
new financial arrangements for Prince Charles and his sons.
Key paragraphs, disclosing the
reason for the changes, are blacked out.
But this newspaper has obtained an
uncensored version of the document which confirms that the Queen is grooming
William as a ‘Shadow King’. ...
Britain’s ruling elite express fear of “class war”
By Chris Marsden (WSWS)
-- For several days, Britain’s media was filled with discussion of the “class
war” supposedly launched by Prime Minister Gordon Brown against David Cameron
and the Conservatives. The occasion for the often heated and indignant press
response was Brown’s suggestion that Tory proposals for raising the threshold
for inheritance tax to £1 million were “dreamed up on the playing fields of
Eton.” The Treasury estimated that the proposals would cost £1.2 billion a year,
of which half would go to the wealthiest 3,000 estates.
Report: Iran and Syria sign defense cooperation pact
InformationClearinghouse.info
Iran and Syria signed a defense cooperation pact in Damascus on Friday, and
pledged to work in coordination to counter the regional threat they see posed by
the "Zionist regime," Iranian news agency Al-Alam reported.
Obama Is Preparing for War in South America An Interview with Eva Golinger
InformationClearinghouse.info,
by Mike Whitney - 121809 The rise of Barack Obama neutralized a growing
sentiment for profound change inside the US. Hopefully, the slowdown in US
activism will only be temporary. South of the border, there is tremendous change
taking place. New social, political and economic models are being built by
popular grassroots movements in Venezuela, Bolivia and other Latin American
nations that seek economic and social justice.
Continue
President Hugo Chavez to army: Shoot American ‘spy’
planes BostonHerald.com 122009 President Hugo Chavez
yesterday accused the United States of violating Venezuela’s airspace with an
unmanned spy plane, and ordered his military to be on alert and shoot down any
such aircraft in the future..
Chavez prepares Venezuela for 'US-provoked war'
InformationClearinghouse.info
President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela must be
ready to defend itself against what he called the US and
Colombia's gearing up for initiating a military conflict.
Venezuela's Chavez accuses Dutch of aggression
(Aiding A U.S. Attack?)
News.Yahoo.com 121809
President Hugo Chavez on Thursday accused the Netherlands of planning
"aggression" against Venezuela by allowing U.S. troops access to Dutch islands
off the Caribbean coast of the OPEC nation.
Historical Flashback:
The Pinochet files
InformationClearinghouse.info A series of
declassified US documents have revealed the extent of America's
role in the Chilean coup, reports Jonathan Franklin.
Cuba And Venezuela Sign $3.2Billion Trade Deal BBC News -
121209
Cuba's President Raul Castro and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo
Chavez are signing economic co-operation deals worth $3.2bn (£1.96bn). ...
US warns Latin America against cozying up to Iran
InformationClearinghouse.info
Hillary Clinton said on Friday that "we can only say that is a really bad idea
for the countries involved," warning Bolivia and Venezuela in particular.
Clinton went on to accuse Iran of being "the major supporter, promoter and
exporter of terrorism in the world ...
Iran
bans foreign media As major student
protest looms, Iran locks foreign media out of Tehran.
Russia wins India nuclear contracts
InformationClearinghouse.info Russia's state
nuclear company said Tuesday it could build four to six nuclear
reactors in eastern India, a day after Moscow led international
nuclear cooperation with New Delhi.
Why Pakistanis would reject $7.5 billion in US aid
ChristianScienceMonitor
The United States is offering
$7.5 billion to Pakistan for development – but only 15 percent
of Pakistanis support accepting it, according to a Gallup
Pakistan survey released Wednesday.
"Defiant" UN Backs Israel War Crimes Report
Press Association, by Gavin Cordon Britain and France today failed in an
attempt to delay a crunch Middle East vote at the UN, amid
warnings by Israel that it could derail the peace process.
Continue
Will Tony Blair Be the First European President?
RawStory.com 100309 Lisbon Treaty will give European Union a president -- and it
may be Tony Blair Ireland voted strongly in favor of the
European Union's Lisbon Treaty, overturning a previous, shock No
vote and taking a key step towards ending the 27-nation bloc's
deadlock, ministers said on Saturday.
...
Marx and Lenin Revisited
InformationClearinghouse.info,
by Paul Craig Roberts If Karl Marx and V.
I. Lenin were alive today, they would be leading contenders for
the Nobel Prize in economics.
Continue
US accepts Hamid Karzai as Afghan
President Despite poll fraud claims InformationClearinghouse.info,
By Giles
Whittell in Washington 092909 The White House has ended weeks
of hesitation over how to respond to the Afghan election by
accepting President Karzai as the winner despite evidence that
up to 20 per cent of ballots cast may have been fraudulent.
Continue
The Cost of Israel to US
Taxpayers
InformationClearinghouse.info,
by Richard H. Curtiss Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that
“Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid.” That's
true. But it's still a lie. The problem is that in fiscal 1997
alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal
budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion
from the foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in
federal loan guarantees.
Continue
India raises nuclear stakes India
boasts of new nuclear technology
Financial Times, by
James Lamont in New Delhi and James Blitz in London
September 27 2009 India says it can
now produce high yield nuclear weapons.
India Boasts of High-Yield Nuclear 'Strategic
Deterrent' ChattahBox -
092809
(ChattahBox)— In the wake of Iran's missile
testing on Sunday, the Indian government made an announcement
extolling its nuclear capabilities, of high-yield
...
Iran tests longest-range missiles BBC News -
092809
Iranian media has reported the successful testing of two of the
country's longest-range missiles, a week after it was revealed a
second uranium enriching plant was being built south of Tehran.
...
Iran Agrees to Let UN Examine Nuclear Site New York Times -
Neil MacFarquhar -
47 minutes ago
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Iran's nuclear chief said
Saturday that United Nations nuclear inspectors would be allowed
to visit the newly revealed uranium-enrichment facility. ...
America Is Led And Informed By Liars Another War in the Works
InformationClearinghouse.info, by Paul Craig Roberts 092909
The president of the United States and his European puppets are doing what they
do best--lying through their teeth. The US “mainstream media” repeats the lies
as if they were facts. The US “media” is again making itself an accomplice to
wars based on fabrications.
Continue
Everything You Know About Iran Is A Myth
InformationClearinghouse.info,
By Lawrence of Cyberia Are you getting the message that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler
and Iran is the Fourth Reich and they’re just days away from nuking us and if we
don’tShock and Awe them into regime change and install a U.S.-friendly regime.
Continue
More Lies, More Deception
InformationClearinghouse.info, By Paul Craig Roberts
Iran is insisting that the US government abide by the non-proliferation treaty
that the US originated and pushed and that Iran signed. But the US government,
which is currently engaged in three wars of aggression and has occupying troops
in a number of other countries, insists that Iran, which is invading and
occupying no country, cannot be trusted with nuclear energy capability.
Continue
US vows to support Russia's entry into WTO
RawStory.com 092209
Washington is eager for Russia's entry into the World Trade
Organization, and promised Monday to offer "constructive support" toward that
end, US trade representative Ron Kirk said. ...
PROJECT INDECT: A.I. TO POLICE EUROPE
RawStory.com,
By
Stephen C. Webster -
September 20, 2009
The European Union is spending tens of millions of euros on an artificial
intelligence system known as “Project Indect,” which would draw from multiple
data sources, namely public surveillance cameras, in order to detect “threats”
and recognize “abnormal behavior” across the whole continent.
According to
the project’s Web site,
once completed, Project Indect would even be able to track vehicles as a type of
support network for EU police officers.
Perhaps more chilling,
the project promises “continuous monitoring” of “web sites, discussion
forums, usenet groups, file servers, p2p networks [and] individual computer
systems”.
President Carter:
US possibly 'involved' in 2002 Chavez coup
AFP 092009 The United States knew
about an abortive coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, and may
even have taken part, former US president Jimmy Carter has told a Colombian
newspaper.
"I
think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at
the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even
have been directly involved," Carter said in an interview with
El Tiempo published Sunday. ...
Hitman: Ten
year Old $25
million bounty on Hugo Chavez Colombian hitman: 2,500 paramilitary in Venezuela with goal
of ‘taking down’ Chavez RawStory.com,by
Stephen C. Webster -
Saturday, September 26th, 2009 -- 1:53 pm
A Colombian hitman recently disclosed to the Venezuelan
government that over 2,500 paramilitary fighters are in the country, each
chasing a $25 million bounty on the life of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez,
according to Arab news network Al Jazeera. ...
UPDATE!
Israel admits to organ thefts EnglishAljazeera.net
Israel has admitted that it harvested organs from the dead bodies of
Palestinians and Israelis in the 1990s, without permission from their families.
Israeli video confirms theft of Palestinian organs
Alarabiya.net - 122009
The 57-minute video was filmed by Yehuda Hiss, the director and chief
pathologist at the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, and explains how he
authorized organ theft, gave instructions to doctors to do so and said he would
sometimes snatch the organs himself. ...
Murdering Palestinians For Their Organs: "All Facts On The
Ground Prove Swedish Report Is Correct"
Voltaire Network, by Saed Bannoura 082309
Former Palestinian detainee, researcher
Abdul-Nasser Farwana, stated that all facts on the ground, since
decades, prove that the Israeli occupation executed Palestinian
detainees after they surrendered and refused to hand their
bodies to their families. Hundreds of bodies were transferred to
the families days, months or even years after the fact, and when
the bodies were sent back, they were missing vital internal
organs.
Honduras: Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies?
Signs of the Times, by John Perkins 080709 In writing my new book Hoodwinked (Random
House, Nov 2009 publication date), I recently visited Central
America. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the
military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected
president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two
US companies, with CIA support. And that the US and its new
president were not standing up for democracy.
Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International
Inc. (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Co had severely
criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in
Honduras's minimum wage, claiming that the policy would cut into
corporate profits. They were joined by a coalition of textile
manufacturers and exporters, companies that rely on cheap labor
to work in their sweatshops. ...
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You
don’t want to know
GlobalPost and Reuters, by Jean MacKenzie 081709
KABUL — It is the open secret no one wants to
talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In
Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is
the foreign assistance coming into the country.
Virtually every
major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it
protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban
themselves prefer to term it, “spoils of war,” the fact remains
that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a
large extent financing their own enemy.
“Everyone knows
this is going on,” said one U.S. Embassy official, speaking
privately. ...
AFRICOM: Western Self-Serving Interests or African Security? New
Liberian by Paul I. Adujie 082309 America’s Africa Command is instead seen as machinery
for Western governments to pursue their vaunted economic,
political and hegemonic hemispheric influence at the expense of
Africans as well as a backdoor through which Westerners can
outmaneuver rivals such as China and perhaps Russia in addition.
America’s establishment of the so-called African Command(AFRICOM),
should be seen for what it is: America’s self-interested armada
of protection for America, and her allies and not for Africa’s
security. ...
'Vladimir Putin's Dark
Rise to Power' Why 'GQ' Doesn't
Want Russians To Read Its Story
InformationClearinghouse.info,
By David Folkenflik His investigative piece, published in the September American edition of
GQ, challenges the official line on a series of bombings that killed hundreds of
people in 1999 in Russia. It profiles a former KGB agent who spoke in great
detail and on the record, at no small risk to himself. But instead of trumpeting
his reporting, GQ's corporate owners went to extraordinary lengths to try to
ensure no Russians will ever see it.
Continue
BRIC Countries Catch Up And Overtake G7 China, India And Russia Will Become The Engine of World
Growth
Global Research, by Oleg Mityayev June
17, 2009
MOSCOW. – The Russian city of Yekaterinburg on May 16 hosted the
first official summit of BRIC, a group comprising four countries
showing the highest rate of economic growth – Brazil, Russia,
India and China. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in the
wake of the summit that the event was aimed at promoting a
fairer world order. The BRIC nations currently account for 15%
of the global economy and 42% of global currency reserves. These
are important reasons for BRIC to have ambitions to influence
international economic and financial policies.
Towards a China-Russia Axis? Medvedev, Hu Sign Joint Statement, Several
Coop Agreements Global
Research, June 17, 2009
MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and
Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a joint statement upon
results of the Moscow summit on Wednesday. The leaders of the
countries were also attending the signing ceremony of the plan
of Russian-Chinese investment cooperation, as well as the
protocol to the June 27, 1997 intergovernmental agreement on the
creation and organizational matters of the mechanism of regular
meetings between the prime ministers of Russia and China.
The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up And the Nuclear Fallout for All of Us Today InformationClearinghouse.info,
By Greg Mitchell I was told by people in the Pentagon that they didn't want those [film]
images out because they showed effects on man, woman and child....They
didn't want the general public to know what their weapons had done.
Read More
US Military Command Aims to Help Africans Help Themselves And We Have This Swampland To Sell You Too... AllAfrica.com -
Aug 7, 2009 But, as a part of our day-to-day activities, we are not on the ground
pursuing terrorists, as you might find in places like Iraq and
Afghanistan. ...
Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax Change for the poor means food and jobs,
not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation... Politics in Iran
is a lot more about class war than religion. -Financial
Times Editorial, June 15 2009 Global
Research, June 18, 2009, by Prof.
James Petras
There is hardly any election, in which the
White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat
of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the
entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent
period, the White House and its camp followers cried foul
following the free (and monitored) elections in Venezuela and
Gaza, while joyously fabricating an ‘electoral success’ in
Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition
received over 53% of the vote. ...
Benazir Bhutto Says Osama Was Murdered
She warns here of her own impending assassination.
US plans $3B military boost for Pakistan We Call It The World's Terrorist
Depot, And Yet Give Them More Funding
RawStory -
Friday April 3,
2009 The
US Defense Department has a three billion dollar plan to train and equip
Pakistan's military over the next five years, US media reported Friday. The
funds would pay for helicopters, night-vision goggles and other equipment
and counterinsurgency training for Pakistan's special operations forces and
Frontier Corps paramilitary troops, the New York Times said. ...
Will U.S. financial woes lead to new world order?
Haaretz.com, by
Adam Abrams Last update - 14:01 26/03/2009 Is the U.S. about to lose its status as the dominant
global superpower? Will the dollar collapse? If so, what would become the
new global reserve currency and what would replace U.S. hegemony in a new
world order?
American troops are currently stationed in over 150 countries around the
world and have been actively engaged in combat since the beginning of the
war in Afghanistan in 2001. The pretext for the invasion of Afghanistan was
provided by the 9/11 attacks. ...
Obama: No
need for a 'global currency' Australian PM voices support for the dollar; new
currency not on G20's agenda RawStory.com,
by David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster -
March 24, 2009 During a live, prime-time press conference at which
reporters focused almost exclusively on economic matters, President Barack
Obama gave his first public opposition to Russia and China's proposal of
a world currency to supplant the dollar. ...
US Funds Palestinian Security Training Center
US provided most funding for $11.5 million center
in Jericho
Associated Press
031509
The Palestinian Authority
has opened a new training center for its elite presidential
guard in the West Bank town of Jericho. Most of the funding for
the $11.5 million center was provided by the United States. ...
US opens PA training centerJewish Telegraphic
Agency
Russian planes again flying over
U.S. Navy ships
CNN - by Mike Mount March 19th, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Russian military aircraft flew
over two U.S. Navy ships earlier this week as the ships
participated in a joint military exercise with South Korea in
the Sea of Japan, according to U.S. military officials. On
Monday, two Russian Ilyushin IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft,
known as “Mays,” overflew the U.S. aircraft carrier Stennis
while it was in international waters in the Sea of Japan. The
Russian aircraft flew about 500 feet over the ship, lower than
other flights the Russians have made over U.S. ships in the past
year. ...
India hands Mumbai Attack Evidence To Pakistan, Hints At ISI
role New evidence from interrogation of surviving
gunman, conversations between the gunmen and alleged handlers,
recovered weapons and satellite intercepts The Guadian, By Randeep Ramesh - Jan. 5,
2008
India handed to Islamabad today a dossier of evidence of
Pakistani "links" to the gunmen who led a bloody rampage through
Mumbai in November that left more than 170 dead, in an attempt
to mobilize world opinion against its neighbor. ...
This is an outrage! This guy is not responsible
for murder, unlike Bush.
Shoe-thrower fans unite online CNN - By
Jessica Ravitz 8 hours ago 031309
They've sung his praises on social networking pages, calling him
a "hero," "the greatest man of our time," "a legend.
...
George Bush Could Be Next On War Crimes
List New Zealand Herald - Mar
5, 2009
THE HAGUE – George W. Bush could one day be the
International Criminal Court's next target. David Crane, an
international law professor at Syracuse University, said the
principle of law used to issue an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir
could extend to former US President Bush over claims officials
from his Administration may have engaged in torture by using
coercive interrogation techniques on terror suspects...
War Crimes and Double Standards In These Times - 22
hours ago 030809
Most notably, Kristof doesn’t call for
prosecuting former President George W. Bush for war crimes,
despite hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died as a
result of Bush’s illegal invasion of their country. Many Iraqi
children also don’t have hands—or legs or homes or parents. But
no one in a position of power in American journalism is
demanding that former President Bush join President Bashir in
the dock at The Hague.
Could UN Prosecute Bush Next
for War Crimes?
Many are encouraging an investigation of the Bush
administration.
Crowds protest around world for
freedom in Tibet The Associated Press - 44
minutes ago 031009
NEW YORK (AP) - More than a thousand Tibetans and
their supporters marched through the city Tuesday, saying they
wanted to speak up for a silenced people on the 50th anniversary
of the failed uprising that forced the Dalai Lama into exile.
China clamps down on anniversary of Tibet
uprising
The Associated Press
Obama says report on letter to Russia inaccurate Reuters - 3
hours ago 030309
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama on Tuesday
dismissed as inaccurate a report he had linked US plans for a
missile defense shield to Russian help on Iran in a letter to
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The New York Times reported
on ...
The World
Phenomenon That Is Dubai
This is truly now the most spectacular place on the earth.
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Dubai: The New Playground of the Ultra-Rich
How many
bail-out dollars bought someone a spot here?
Ex-Serbian president acquitted of Kosovo war crimes Reuters UK,
By Reed Stevenson - 38
minutes ago 22609
AMSTERDAM - Former Serbian president Milan
Milutinovic was acquitted on Thursday by the Hague tribunal of
war crimes against Kosovo Albanians in 1999, but his five
co-accused were given jail terms of between 15 and
...
Profiles: Kosovo trial accusedBBC News
Poll: 65% of Israelis want unity gov't
Jerusalem Post, Israel -
Feb 16, 2009
By SHELLY PAZ Nearly two-thirds of Israelis
would like Kadima and the Likud to form a unity government, a
survey conducted by Market Watch the day after ...
Gordon Brown Ally: Rise of Fascism From
The Economic Crisis The economic crisis could spark
a resurgence in the Far Right By
Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor Last Updated: 6:23AM GMT 10
Feb 2009
Ed Balls, the Children's and Schools
Secretary, said the downturn was likely to be the most serious
for 100 years, and his comments appeared to raise the prospect
of a return to the Far Right politics of the 1930s and the rise
of Facism.
Who can probe Gaza war crimes claims?
BBC
News, By Bethany Bell
-
1 hour ago 021809
There have
been numerous calls for investigations into whether war crimes
were committed during the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Report: Israel engaged in covert war
inside Iran
By Luke Baker, Yahoo News 021709
LONDON (Reuters) –
Israel is
involved in a covert war of sabotage inside
Iran to try to delay Tehran's alleged attempts to develop
a
nuclear weapon, a British newspaper said on Tuesday,
quoting a former CIA agent and intelligence experts.
Pakistan has suddenly jumped to the news
forefront as of late.
Pak makes peace with Taliban, accepts
Sharia law in Swat
Indian Express, India -
3 hours ago 011609
Peshawar: Pakistan agreed to impose Islamic
Sharia law and suspend a military offensive across the Swat
valley in the northwest of the country, ...
Pakistan 'in fight for survival'
BBC News, UK -
Feb 14, 2009
Pakistan's president says his country is
fighting for its survival against the Taleban, whose influence
he said has spread deep into the country. ...
Iran claims first launch of its own
satellite
The Associated Press -
18 hours ago 020309
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran sent its first
domestically made satellite into orbit, the president announced
Tuesday, a key step for an ambitious space program ...
Iran satellite move sparks fears
BBC News, UK -
23 hours ago 020309
Western powers have expressed serious concerns
after Iran launched its first domestically-made satellite into
orbit. Iran says the satellite, ...
Iran Says Satellite Launch Serves No
Military Purpose
Bloomberg - 1
hour ago 020409
By Ladane Nasseri and Tony Czuczka Feb. 4
(Bloomberg) -- Iran said the launch of its first domestically
built satellite serves no military purpose, ...
News Report on Launch of Satellite
Is it true, or is it a fake? Some are skeptical on Iranian
launch.
Iran’s Omid satellite launched into orbit
Tehran Times, Iran -
11 hours ago 020309
The satellite, called Omid, or hope in Farsi,
was launched late Monday after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
gave the order to proceed. ...
Iran space breakthrough ruffles feathers in US
PRESS TV, Iran -
17 hours ago 020309
The United States accused Iran of seeking a
weaponized nuclear program shortly after the country made its
first satellite launch. ...
Libya’s Qaddafi Is Elected As Leader of African Union
Bloomberg -
Feb 2, 2009
By Jason McLure and Mike Cohen Feb. 2
(Bloomberg) -- Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, whose government
has been accused of human rights violations during his ...
Gaddafi pushes for union after election to head AU
Reuters - Feb
2, 2009
By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA, Feb 2 (Reuters) -
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was elected chairman of the
African Union on Monday and made clear he would ...
Dismay as Gadhafi chosen to lead African
Union
The Associated Press -
Feb 2, 2009
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi of
Libya was elected Monday as leader of the African Union, a
position long sought by the eccentric dictator ...
"United States of Africa" put on hold
Deutsche Welle, Germany -
Feb 1, 2009
African leaders have delayed taking concrete
steps towards creating a federal government for all of Africa.
During the opening day of an African Union ...
UN may prosecute Bush administration,
regardless of US action
David Edwards
Published: Thursday
January 22, 2009
The UN's special torture rapporteur called on the US Tuesday to
pursue former president George W. Bush and defence secretary
Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo
prisoners. ...
The World is Facing the First Truly Global Economic Crisis
by Vladimir Putin Global Research, January 29,
2009 - World Economic Forum Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin’s speech at the opening ceremony of the
World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland January 28, 2009
World Newspapers Skewer Bush on Eve of Departure Rancor for President almost universal
John Byrne
Published: Monday
January 19, 2009
On the eve of his departure, newspapers
across the world are letting loose in editorials on the man seen
as responsible for diminishing America's standing in the world:
President George W. Bush.
And now... here's how the Russians
feel about all of this...
December Surprise
The Moscow Times, Russia ( Here's how the
Russians feel about this )
On Dec. 19, while the United States was
preparing for the last shopping weekend before Christmas, US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a Charter on ...
Switzerland to represent Georgia, Russia
eTaiwan News, Taiwan -
011209
AP The foreign ministers of Georgia and
Switzerland say Switzerland will represent Tbilisi's diplomatic
interests in Moscow _ and vice versa. ...
China now world’s third largest economy
China passed another milestone in its stunning
rise on Wednesday when new data showed it had leapfrogged
Germany in 2007 to become the world’s third-largest economy.
Israel Attacks UN Aid Convoys to
Gaza
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
has suspended operations in Gaza since coming under attack by
Israeli military forces on Friday.
A statement from the UNRWA said its temporary
suspension “was compelled by incidents in which UNRWA staff,
convoys and installations have come under attack.”
The statement said, “On numerous occasions in
recent days, humanitarian convoys have come under Israeli fire
even though their safe passage through clearly designated routes
at specifically agreed times, had been confirmed by the Israeli
liaison office.”
Thousands descend on White House to
protest Gaza war
Agence France-Presse
Published:
Saturday January 10, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several thousand
protesters -- 10,000 according to organizers -- descended on the
White House Saturday in support of Palestinians in Gaza, on the
heels of other protests across major world capitals.
Thousands protest Gaza bombings
ABC Online, Australia -
Jan 2, 2009
Thousands of Palestinians have been taking part
in demonstrations across the West Bank in response to a call
from Hamas for what it called a day of wrath ...
Israeli Attack on Gaza, Kills 205
Israeli warplanes have carried out a
massive air-strike on the Gaza Strip
By Press TV 122708
Video footages showed the
bodies of dead people including men, women and children on Gaza
streets...
Slaughter In Gaza More Than 200 Killed As
Israel Drops 100 Tons Of
Bombs In Gaza City
The BBC Video Report Israeli F-16 bombers have pounded
targets across the Gaza Strip, killing more than 200 people,
according to local medical workers.
Eyewitness: Chaos in Gaza
By BBC 122708
We can see from our office here in Gaza, in the middle of Gaza
City, ambulances are still evacuating the injured from buildings
and school kids are trying to find secure places.
Bush Winks at Israel’s
Slaughter in Gaza,Obama
and Clinton Are Silent By Matthew
Rothschild 122708
President-elect Barack Obama and Secretary of State-to-be
Hillary Clinton were shamefully silent in the first hours after
the attack. Bush’s reaction, and the non-reaction by Obama and
Clinton, underscores the point that Hanan Ashrawi made on
Saturday. “Israel has gotten used to not being held accountable
and to being a country that is above the law,” said the
Palestinian legislator and human rights activist. She called the
bombings a “massacre.”
Medvedev hopes for better ties with US under Obama
The Associated Press -
30 minutes ago 122408
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's president said Wednesday
he hopes his country will be able to develop better ties with
the United states under Barack Obama's ...
Medvedev: we will fight to defend interests
Reuters - 29
minutes ago 122408
By Christian Lowe and Dmitry Solovyov MOSCOW
(Reuters) - Russia reserves the right to use force again to
defend its interests and will not tolerate attempts ...
Russia Denies Delivering Sophisticated S-300 Missiles System To
Iran
Russia's Federal Military and
Technical Cooperation Service said in a statement posted on its
website on Monday that the reports about Moscow selling Iran
advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile system "does not correspond
to reality."
Tehran says no final agreement
yet on Russian air defence agreement
"The Foreign Ministry has not yet received
anything final in this regard, therefore I can neither confirm
nor deny this agreement," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan
Ghashghavi told reporters in Tehran.
Russian air defense deal with Iran underway - report
Russia is currently fulfilling a contract to deliver S-300 air
defence systems to Iran, RIA news agency quoted confidential
sources as saying on Wednesday.
Russia to give
Lebanon 10 MiG-29 jets as gift
Russia will give 10 MiG-29 fighter jets to Lebanon as a gift,
Russian news agencies quoted the head of Russia's Federal
Military and Technical Cooperation Service as saying on
Wednesday.
Russia and India sign nuclear energy, space agreements
Daily Times -
55 minutes ago
By Iftikhar Gilani NEW
DELHI: Russia and India on Friday signed landmark accords on issues ranging
from nuclear energy to space exploration, as President Dmitry Medvedev met
Indian leaders in a bid to bolster ties.
Russia, Venezuela reach nuclear accord
United Press International -
9 hours ago
CARACAS, Venezuela,
Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Russia and Venezuela have signed an accord that
aims to bring civilian nuclear power to the South American
nation ...
Russian president signs
deals with Cuba
United Press International
- Nov 28, 2008
HAVANA, Nov. 28
(UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Friday signed mining
and oil exploration deals with Cuban leader Raul Castro, Granma
reported ...
Russia pushes Latin America ties
BBC News, UK -
Nov 25, 2008
President Dmitry
Medvedev of Russia is on a tour of Latin America, aiming to
increase his nation's stake in a region of deep strategic
interest to the US. ...
Resurgent Russia makes waves in Latin
America
Reuters - Nov 25, 2008
By Patrick Markey - Analysis BOGOTA (Reuters) -
US officials may not be the only ones with a touch of Cold War
era jitters this week when Russia's president ...
US is Funding Terrorism
Deepak Chopra Blames Washington For Mumbai
Terrorist Attacks.
Chopra: What we have seen in Mumbai has been brewing for a long
time, and the war on terrorism and the attack on Iraq compounded
the situation. What we call "collateral damage" and going after
the wrong people actually turns moderates into extremists, and
that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this
disaster in Bombay.
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Iran: U.S. responsible for world crisis
Sat Nov 29, 6:49 am ET
DOHA (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed
the West for the global financial crisis on Saturday, saying
other countries were being dragged in to help resolve Western
problems.
"Leaders of the
Western bloc ... are trying to extend their own crisis to the
rest of the globe to portray it as global," Ahmadinejad told a
U.N. aid conference in the Qatar's capital Doha.
