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  • "The Anti-Empire Report"
    15 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Blum
    Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life
    How could they have known? It wasn’t on Oprah or Fox News.
    Hillary Clinton and many other members of Congress claim that their support of the invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence reports. How could they dispute the research and analysis of all those experts, so well trained and experienced in their fields?
    Well, apart from the fact that American intelligence agencies and their reports (…)

  • UNESCO withdraws its sponsorship of Reporters sans Frontières
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    PARIS, March 12 (PL).- The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) withdrew its sponsorship today from the French group Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), on the occasion of “Internet Freedom Day.”
    Diplomatic sources from UNESCO told Prensa Latina that the agency made the decision due to the repeated demonstration of a lack of ethics on the part of RSF in its goal of disqualifying a certain number of countries.
    The conduct of RSF does not fit the profile or (…)

  • Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March (stopwar.org.uk)
    8 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London
    Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don’t attack Iran End the siege of Gaza
    On his recent trip to the Middle East, George Bush said: "Iraq is now a different place. Levels of violence are significantly reduced. Hope is returning to Baghdad."
    Try telling that to residents of the southern outskirts of Baghdad, whose homes were flattened on January 10, when US bombers unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives in the (…)

  • Afghanistan : Women’s Lives Are Worse Than Ever
    7 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush claims that Afghani Women are "learning the Blessings of Freedom" But all we’ve given them is Poverty, Death and Abuse
    Women’s lives worse than ever. That’s the actual headline to an article in The Independent about the state of women’s (and girls’) lives in Afghanistan, six years after our war to "liberate" them.
    At a White House Celebration of International Women’s Day, March 12, 2004, President Bush said: "In the last two-and-a-half years, we have seen remarkable and (…)

  • Half the City’s Poor have been permanently displaced (CounterPunch)
    6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home.
    The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) reports Medicaid, medical assistance for aged, blind, disabled and low-wage working families, is down 46% from pre-Katrina levels. DHH reports before Katrina (…)

  • Israeli official warns Palestinians of "shoah"
    1 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joseph Nasr and Adam Entous, Reuters
    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Israeli official warned Palestinians in Gaza on Friday they risked a "shoah" if rocket fire continued, using the Hebrew term for holocaust as the Jewish state contemplated invading the Hamas-run enclave.
    Aides rushed to insist the deputy defense minister had meant the word only in its alternative meaning as a general disaster.
    But the strength of the language reflected Israel’s anger over the recent rocket fire. (…)

  • Pétition : Oppose ExxonMobil action against Venezuela
    29 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venuela Information center Sign on line : http://vicuk.org
    Pétition: Join with leading figures opposed to ExxonMobil action against Venezuela
    In a letter published in the Guardian (28 Feb), over 50 prominent figures representing a wide section of British society have signed a statement, organised by the Venezuela Information Centre, raising concern over legal action taken by oil giant ExxonMobil to prevent the Venezuelan government from exercising its right to control its natural (…)

  • France heads for war games in the Gulf
    28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ben Hall in Paris and Simeon Kerr in Dubai
    French armed forces will take part in large-scale war games in the Gulf next week, underlining France’s growing military presence in the region as heightened tensions persist over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
    France will deploy 1,500 personnel, two frigates and eight Mirage fighter jets to the defence exercises, held in conjunction with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
    Paris has long-standing defence co-operation agreements with the two (…)

  • Sarkozy "get lost" video becomes Internet hit (video)
    25 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Astrid Wendlandt
    A video of French President Nicolas Sarkozy telling a bystander to "get lost" has become a hit on the Internet.
    Sarkozy was filmed by a journalist from the daily Le Parisien on a walkabout at the annual farm fair in Paris on Saturday.
    Sarkozy offered his hand to a man who said: "Don’t touch me, you are soiling me." In reply, Sarkozy said, without dropping his smile: "Get lost, dumb ass."
    The video was posted on Le Parisien’s website www.leparisien.fr.on and by (…)

  • Sen. Lieberman Says Waterboarding Won’t Really Hurt You!
    20 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Hughes
    “The healthy man does not torture others.” - Carl G. Jung
    “Turncoat Joe” Lieberman is full of surprises. The other day, Feb. 14, 2008, the hawkish U.S. Senator from Connecticut said that waterboarding “is not torture!” He added, however, that it should be permitted “only under the most extreme circumstances” Well, let’s see... personally, I don’t like Barbara “BaWa” Walters. She gets on my nerves, whining so much about everything. I wouldn’t mind seeing her (…)