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  • It’s insanity, stupid! - Al Gore and that Nobel Peace Prize
    15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gabriele Zamparini
    The Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore opened a heated debate: was it right to award a mass murderer and war criminal? This is a curious question that certainly would have a meaning in a sane world, certainly not in ours. A few days ago, commenting on this blog about this ordinary episode of folly, I wrote that Al Gore was
    “(…) a top war criminal that in a sane world would be hanged or imprisoned for life. But we are not living in a sane world – just in case someone (…)

  • Turkey’s Kurdish Problem and its Impact on Northern Iraq
    15 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Garbis Altinoglu 12-13 October 2007 Updated on 14 October 2007
    On October 7th, 13 army personnel, who were part of a unit conducting military operations at the Gabar mountain in the southeastern province of Shirnak were waylaid and killed by PKK guerillas. (These deaths followed the killing of 12 Kurdish peasants on September 29th in the same area, probably by the Turkish “security” forces.) On October 8th, two more soldiers died in mine explosions in Diyarbakir and Shirnak and three (…)

  • St Petersburg anti-uranium protests banned
    11 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer
    The police on Thursday disrupted an environmental picket outside the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, detaining more than 10 activists fromlocal and international ecological groups campaigning against theimport of spent nuclear fuel and depleted uranium hexafluoride. Thepicket was held in the wake of a hefty cargo of depleted uraniumarriving in the city.
    At 1 p.m., activists from the environmental groups Bellona, Ecodefence andGreenpeace and the (…)

  • Niger expels French film-maker accused of rebel ties
    8 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Abdoulaye Massalatchi
    Francois Bergeron, Paris, October 6
    NIAMEY, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Authorities in Niger have expelled a French documentary film-maker for suspected links to a Tuareg-led rebellion in the desert north.
    Francois Bergeron, an independent film-maker who has been working on a series of documentaries about Tuareg nomads in Niger, was arrested in August in Agadez, a Saharan trading town at the centre of an 8-month-old Tuareg uprising.
    The Tuareg-led Niger Movement for (…)

  • A world under surveillance
    7 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From surveillance cameras to data pirating, every bit of life is scanned and stored to meet economic and political agendas. Until awareness is heightened and proper legislation put in place, our right to privacy will continue to be violated, said privacy activists at the Privacy Rights in a World under Surveillance conference held last weekend at Montreal’s Sheraton Centre.
    By Stephanie Stein 2007-10-03 10:16:57
    An explosion of new technologies that enable the tracking and monitoring of (…)

  • IRAQ WAR : "Battle for Haditha"
    2 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Wals
    Toronto International Film Festival 2007
    This is the fourth of a series of articles devoted to the recent Toronto film festival (September 6-15).
    Battle for Haditha is a genuine achievement. Nick Broomfield’s film is an effort to reconstruct the events and circumstances leading up to the massacre of 24 men, women and children by US marines in the Iraqi city of Haditha in November 2005.
    The film, a dramatization of the episode, first follows the various (…)

  • Shifting Targets - The Administration’s plan for Iran
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Seymour M. Hersh
    In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq, to an increasing degree, as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran. “Shia extremists, backed by Iran, are training Iraqis to carry out attacks on our forces and the Iraqi people,” Bush told the national convention of the American Legion in August.
    “The attacks on our bases and our troops by Iranian-supplied munitions have (…)

  • Martial Law - is this for real?
    30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ian
    Look what I found posted to my door this morning! It was a multi-page document printed on bright red paper. I took a look out my window, and sure enough, there’s an army humvee parked down the streets with a couple of soldiers milling about. What the fuck is going on? !!! ATTENTION !!!
    This is an official communication from the United States Government. Read and understand these instructions! Failure to comply with these instructions may result in arrest.
    As of 30 September (…)

  • The Iran War is on the Front Burner
    29 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
    The war that Dick Cheney has been planning against Iran, has moved from the back burner to the front, and those who do not see this are either blind or complicit.
    Military deployments are in place, as laid out in detail in a Sept. 16 feature by Michel Chossudovsky in Global Research, while the statements of intent to wage war, issued by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, have been hyped in British and American news outlets.
    The fact that war is high on (…)

  • IRAN : HILLARY CLINTON VOTES FOR WAR - AGAIN !!!
    29 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David Bromwich
    Yesterday, by a vote of 76-22, the Senate passed the Kyl-Lieberman amendment in support of military actions against Iran. This is the second such endorsement of the president by a senate majority in just three months. In July, the Lieberman amendment to “confront Iran” passed with the far stronger majority of 97-0.
    The original draft of Kyl-Lieberman had asked U.S. forces to “combat, contain, and roll back” the Iranian menace within Iraq. But the words “roll back” were (…)