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 How analysts in the Arab world see the Iraq war
Helena Cobban via rialator, Wednesday, Mar 28 2007, 1:13pm
LONDON -- Policymakers and strategic analysts in the Arab world have little confidence that current US troop surge in Iraq will do much more than – at best – postpone a complete political-security breakdown in Iraq, which, they fear, could then spread across the Middle East. During my lengthy recent discussions with experts in Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and with some well-connected Iraqis in Jordan, I heard a lot about how Iraq's collapse has been affecting these Arab societies. (story and 1 image)
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Bolton admits Lebanon truce block
BBC via rialator, Thursday, Mar 22 2007, 10:03pm
A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah's military capability. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Mar 22 2007, 10:39pm
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 Israel, U.S. hold large-scale joint missile defense exercise
IHT via rialator, Sunday, Mar 18 2007, 9:58am
Prepare for a major ‘incident’ from desperate conservative forces worldwide! The following article would be a routine report if not for U.S. war games and joint military exercises to be held in Australia in the next few weeks. The recent visit of deputy sheriff, John Howard, to Japan on behalf of his master, the USA, provides for Japan to take an active role in military affairs in the region. Howard signed a joint military assistance pact with Japan, which maintains a constitutional anti-war restriction on its military (at the moment).
Joint military exercises in strategic locations around the globe should alarm China, Russia and other nations. The Americans have no notion of subtlety so these exercises indicate more than just routine events. The rogue must be stopped!
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I am Sullied No More
Robert Bryce via rialator, Thursday, Mar 15 2007, 8:00pm
Faced with the corruption and criminality of the Iraq war, Col. Ted Westhusing chose death before dishonour. (story and 1 image)
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: The Official Legend of 9/11 is a Fabricated Setup
Chaim Kupferberg via rialator, Thursday, Mar 15 2007, 11:01am
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 15 March 2007
The Pentagon has released a 26 page transcript of the "confession" of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who is now being presented to World public opinion as the mastermind and architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Angola says does not need IMF's "restrictive" help
Reuters via rialator, Tuesday, Mar 13 2007, 10:27am
LUANDA (Reuters) - Oil-rich Angola has told the International Monetary Fund (IMF) it can manage on its own without any package from the organisation conditional on fiscal transparency, a state newspaper reported on Tuesday. (story and 2 comments)
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Global Realignment and the Decline of the Superpower
Mike Whitney via rialator, Friday, Mar 9 2007, 7:00am
The United States has been defeated in Iraq. That doesn’t mean that there’ll be a troop withdrawal anytime soon, but it does mean that there’s no chance of achieving the mission’s political objectives. Iraq will not be a democracy, reconstruction will be minimal, and the security situation will continue to deteriorate into the foreseeable future. (story and 1 image)
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China Rejects US Human Rights Criticism
Daniel Schearf via rialator, Thursday, Mar 8 2007, 6:48am
China has rejected U.S. criticism of its human rights record, accusing Washington of hypocrisy for not addressing its own abuses. In a tit-for-tat response to the U.S. State Department's annual human rights report, China issued its own report accusing Washington of systematic abuses both abroad - in Iraq and Afghanistan - and at home. Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing. (story and 2 comments)
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Australia: the new 51st state
John Pilger via rialator, Friday, Mar 2 2007, 7:02pm
John Howard's servility to the U.S. is even greater than Tony Blair's and has earned him the nickname Bush's deputy sheriff. The conspiracy between Washington, the media and politicians is eroding the country's freedoms. (story and 1 image)
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Oklahoma bombing conspirator claim
Pamela Manson via rialator, Thursday, Mar 1 2007, 8:07am
Much is being made of laws instituted after the Oklahoma bombing and the Hicks prosecution. The American prosecutors of David Hicks and the Australian Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, have made reference to these laws in relation to the Hicks case.
The following article from The Salt Lake Tribune today throws new light on the original bombing. At the very least these claims need to be fully investigated, as the resulting additions to American Law are now instrumental in the prosecution of the Australian citizen, David Hicks. (story and 1 image)
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American Torture on Trial
Naomi Klein via rialator, Monday, Feb 26 2007, 9:07pm
February 26, 2007 -- Something remarkable is going on in a Miami courtroom. The cruel methods US interrogators have used since September 11 to "break" prisoners are finally being put on trial. This was not supposed to happen. The Bush Administration's plan was to put José Padilla on trial for allegedly being part of a network linked to international terrorists. But Padilla's lawyers are arguing that he is not fit to stand trial because he has been driven insane by the government. (story and 2 images)
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The US, the world's hedge fund
Max Fraad Wolff via rialator, Monday, Feb 26 2007, 11:00am
There are some strange facts about the asset and trade positions of the US economy in the globalizing economy. The United States runs massive and growing trade deficits, is borrowing at a clip that would arouse the suspicions of a casino pit boss, and has been selling its assets to anyone who will buy. In the past 24 months, the US balance on goods and services comes in just shy of negative-$1.5 trillion. Across the same period, the US has sunk further into debt to the rest of the world.
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US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran
William Lowther and Colin Freeman via rialator, Sunday, Feb 25 2007, 8:19pm
America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.
In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions.
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Are leaders of India, China and Russia ready for a radical breakthrough?
Rajiv Sikri via rialator, Saturday, Feb 24 2007, 8:03pm
The long-awaited meeting of the foreign ministers of India, China and Russia in New Delhi on February 14, was, at one level, merely the latest in a series of trilateral meetings at this level held annually since 2002, generally on the margins of multilateral gatherings. (story and 1 image)
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US intelligence on Iran does not stand up, say Vienna sources
Julian Borger via rialator, Friday, Feb 23 2007, 10:06am
· Tip-offs did not lead to signs of banned activity
· IAEA report raises pressure for new sanctions
Much of the intelligence on Iran's nuclear facilities provided to UN inspectors by American spy agencies has turned out to be unfounded, according to diplomatic sources in Vienna. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
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Italians march against U.S. military base expansion
CNN via rialator, Saturday, Feb 17 2007, 6:07pm
VICENZA, Italy (AP) -- Tens of thousands of people marched peacefully through the northeastern Italian city of Vicenza under a heavy police presence to protest a planned U.S. military-base expansion that has strained relations within the governing center-left coalition. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
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Information Warfare, Psy-ops and the Power of Myth
Mike Whitney via rialator, Friday, Feb 16 2007, 12:24pm
The Pentagon’s bold new approach to psychological operations (psy-ops) appears to have derived from the theories of former State Dept official, Philip Zelikow (who also served on the 9-11 Commission) Zelikow is an expert on “the creation and maintenance of ‘public myths’ or ‘public presumptions’. His theory analyzes how consciousness is shaped by “searing events” which take on “transcendent importance” and, therefore, move the public in the direction chosen by the policymakers. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
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 For Neocons, an Attack on Iran Has Been a Six-Year Project
Larisa Alexandrovna via rialator, Monday, Feb 12 2007, 8:26pm
The escalation of US military planning on Iran is only the latest chess move in a six-year push within the Bush Administration to attack that country. While Iran was named a part of President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" in 2002, efforts to ignite a confrontation with Iran date back long before the post-9/11 war on terror. (story and 1 attached file)
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Former Guantanamo chaplain wants U.S. Army apology
Bernd Debusmann via rialator, Tuesday, Feb 6 2007, 8:12pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Capt. James Yee spent 76 days in solitary confinement, much of the time shackled and in leg irons, after accusations of sedition, espionage and aiding the enemy while serving as a Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay.
The Army's case against him collapsed at trial, and it eventually wiped his record clean and gave the West Point graduate an honorable discharge. (story and 1 comment)
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Iran: The War Begins
John Pilger via rialator, Friday, Feb 2 2007, 7:45pm
As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the spring.
The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran. For the Bush cabal, the attack will be a way of "buying time" for its disaster in Iraq. In announcing what he called a "surge" of American troops in Iraq, George W Bush identified Iran as his real target. "We will interrupt the flow of support [to the insurgency in Iraq] from Iran and Syria," he said. "And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.
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