BEIJING, July 9 (UPI) — China’s top leadership addressed the recent ethnic violence in the northwestern province of Xinjiang Wednesday, blaming overseas groups, promising "severe punishment" for instigators and calling stability the "most important and pressing task." The emergency meeting of China’s nine-member Politburo Standing Committee was chaired by President Hu Jintao, who cut short his visit to Italy for the G8 summit because of the seriousness of the situation.
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China blames Xinjiang violence on outside forces
10 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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If We’re Not There, Start Without US
8 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy David Glenn Cox
It is well-documented that Joe Biden has been known to speak out of turn. Of course the flip side of such a reputation is the ability to say things meant in earnest and then to simply laugh them off. On Sunday the Vice President told George Stephanopoulos that Israel has a sovereign right to decide how to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions whether the United States agrees or not.
His statements are beyond absurd, more worthy of a Dick Cheney or of Genghis Kahn. The (...) -
We have now 3 areas of western led "revolutions": Iran, Urumqi and Honduras. The CIA is behind everything
8 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentWe have now 3 areas of western led "revolutions": Iran, Urumqi and Honduras.
All I can say is: The CIA is behind everything!!!
The "Tibeten issue" really did`nt matter much as the Xinjang issue will cause much problems for China. The West wants to "hurt China real bad" but without any diect consequence to themselves.
First by encouraging "dissent and roiting" leading to mass demonstrations and killings of innocent people and further exploitation of the problems the west has already (...) -
U.S.-Russian Nuclear Agreement: Good News and Bad News
7 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
U.S.-Russian Nuclear Agreement: Good News and Bad News
by Robert Higgs (Tuesday, July 7, 2009)
"Obama and Medvedev have undertaken to move their governments in the right direction, but they need to move them much, much farther. Nothing short of scrapping these horrible, intrinsically indiscriminating weapons entirely will suffice to eliminate their terrible threat to mankind and other living creatures."
According to an AP report, U.S. president Barack Obama and Russian president (...) -
Demonising Iran conveniently hides uncomfortable truths for the West
3 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentDemonising Iran conveniently hides uncomfortable truths for the West
by Robin Yassin-Kassab
Global Research, July 3, 2009 The Sunday Herald - 2009-07-02
THE MAINSTREAM media narrative of events unfolding in Iran has been set out for us as clear as a fairytale: an evil dictatorship has rigged elections and now violently suppresses its country’s democrats, hysterically blaming foreign saboteurs the while. But the Twitter generation is on the right side of history (in Obama’s words), (...) -
Ethnic Cleansing as a State Policy
2 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By Nicola Nasser*
In his speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a new Israeli “peace plan,” with preconditions that a Palestinian negotiator must first meet before he would “promptly” engage in “unconditional” bilateral talks to meet an international consensus demanding the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. His preconditions added to the fourteen conditions the former Israeli government of comatose Ariel Sharon (...) -
Questioning The Ethical Legitimacy Of Drone Attacks In Pakistan And Afghanistan
2 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsOngoing Civilian casualties have become an important consideration when looking at and considering the use and legitimacy of drones in South Asia. In a belated admission last month the U.S. had admitted to 26 civilian deaths in a series of drone attacks that took place in May but was not released to the media until over a month later. In the May attacks Afghan officials put the death toll at 140, significantly higher than U.S. claims. In the same strikes the Afghan Independent Human Rights (...)
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Israeli Pirates comandeer Aid vessel in International waters
1 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
US remains silent over McKinney arrest by Israel
Nearly a day after the detention of former US lawmaker Cynthia McKinney by Israeli forces, Washington has yet to make a reaction.
Israeli Navy detained former US congresswoman and Nobel Prize laureate Cynthia McKinney and twenty other human rights activists on board a relief boat outside Israel’s territorial waters on Tuesday as they were heading to Gaza on a humanitarian mission.
Tel Aviv claims the boat was trying to break Israel’s (...) -
Video: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on the Palestine Question (Part 2 of 2)
1 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard is an activist, Constitutional Rights attorney, and the cofounder of the Partnership for Civil Justice. She is also the co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild. Ms. Verheyden-Hilliard was one of the speakers at an event entitled, “Viva Palestina: A Lifeline from the U.S. to Gaza.” It was held on the campus of American U., in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening, June 28, 2009. It was a fundraiser “for a special U.S. convoy, which will travel from New York City to (...)
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Video: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on the Palestine Question (Part 1 of 2)
1 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard is an activist, Constitutional Rights attorney, and the cofounder of the Partnership for Civil Justice. She is also the co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild. Ms. Verheyden-Hilliard was one of the speakers at an event entitled, “Viva Palestina: A Lifeline from the U.S. to Gaza.” It was held on the campus of American U., in Washington, D.C., on Sunday evening, June 28, 2009. It was a fundraiser “for a special U.S. convoy, which will travel from New York City to (...)