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  • VENEZUELA: Events Are Ugly and Coming to A Head
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    The Bush administration tried and failed three prior times to oust Hugo Chavez since its first aborted two-day coup attempt in April, 2002. Through FOIA requests, lawyer, activist and author Eva Golinger uncovered top secret CIA documents of US involvement that included an intricate financing scheme involving the quasi-governmental agency, National Endowment of Democracy (NED), and US Agency for International Development (USAID). The documents also showed the White (…)

  • US military action on Pakistan advocated
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    * Analysts say likely dangers include collapse of Pakistan govt * Propose Special Forces operation to prevent nukes from falling into wrong hands * Suggest supporting army
    Daily Times Monday, November 19, 2007 By Khalid Hasan
    WASHINGTON: Two experts have proposed that the US should take pre-emptive action to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons before they fall into the wrong hands.
    Frederick Kagan of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute and Michael O’Hanlon of the more (…)

  • U.S aims to arm Pakistani paramilitaries
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New York Times has reported that U.S. military officials want to enlist Pakistani paramilitaries along the border with Afghanistan. At a military strategy meeting of the United States Special Operations Command, the strategy was formulated as a means of expanding the ongoing battle against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
    Tuesday 20th November, 2007
    The strengthening and expansion of Pakistani soldiers on the border would require higher approval and would involve a paramilitary force of (…)

  • Chavez in Tehran: "Empire of dollar is crashing"
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez in Tehran: "Empire of dollar is crashing"
    Reuters – November 19, 2007
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday the "empire of the dollar is crashing", a day after his country and anti-U.S. ally Iran advocated action over the weakening U.S. currency during an OPEC summit in Riyadh.
    Chavez, who on Saturday said oil prices could double to $200 per barrel if the United States attacks Iran over its disputed atomic ambitions, spoke to reporters after talks with his Iranian (…)

  • IRAQ: FALLUJAH Now Under a Different Kind of Siege
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ali al-Fadhily
    FALLUJAH, Nov 20 (IPS) - Three years after a devastating U.S.-led siege of the city, residents of Fallujah continue to struggle with a shattered economy, infrastructure, and lack of mobility.
    The city that was routed in November 2004 is still suffering the worst humanitarian conditions under a siege that continues. Although military actions are down to the minimum inside the city, local and US authorities do not seem to be thinking of ending the agonies of the over (…)

  • The empire’s operatives exposed: The Krongards, 9/11, and Blackwater/Iraq
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    New bombshell testimony before Congress has revealed that Alvin B. “Buzzy” Krongard, the former CIA executive director connected to 9/11 insider trading, is a consultant and advisory board member of Blackwater USA, the New World Order’s leading intelligence-related corporate mercenary death squad now under investigation for war crimes, murder, arms smuggling, and fraud in Iraq.
    By Larry Chin Online Journal Associate Editor Nov 19, 2007, 01:18 (…)

  • ’Denied in Full’: Federal Judges Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Joannides served as the chief of psychological warfare operations in the Agency’s Miami station at the time of Kennedy’s assassination. Using the alias "Howard," he was the case officer for a Cuban exile group whose members had repeated contact with accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in August 1963 — rendering any records of Joannides’ secret operations at that time potentially relevant to the JFK assassination story.
    by: Jefferson Morley Posted October 22, 2007 05:10 PM (EST)
    Lawyers (…)

  • CNN -Another Guy killed by police with Taser 2nd in one week
    19 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CNN reports another man has been killed by a taser used by police this time in USA. This makes the "don’t taser me man" guy look even more heroic. And shows that yes he was unjustly attacked. That university should be sued. John Kerry should answer as well.
    http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/18/taser.death/index.html

  • Iraqi archivist demands US return seized documents
    19 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Millions of historical documents seized by US occupation forces from Iraqi archives remain held in the United States by the CIA and the Pentagon and must, under international law, be returned to Iraq, Dr. Saad Eskander, the director of the Iraqi National Library and Archive in Baghdad, told an audience at Columbia University in New York City on November 12.
    wsws.org By Sandy English 17 November 2007
    Eskander stressed that the taking of these documents threatened the Iraqi people with (…)

  • Federal Reserve begins war on local currencies: Banking institutions try to maintain their strangleh
    18 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The first community-currency system was born in Canada in 1983. Since then the concept has spread to more than 2,000 communities across North America, South and Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The mechanics of these systems change to reflect individual circumstances. But the basic concept of an interest-free, community-controlled exchange medium has remained the same.”
    Using local currency can “stimulate the local economy by giving people incentive to shop in their own (…)