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  • CIA head suggests Cheney almost wishing U.S. will be attackedAuthor
    16 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”
    Monday 15th June, 06:10 AM JST
    Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney “smells some blood in the water” on the issue of national security.
    Cheney has said in several interviews that he thinks Obama is making (…)

  • Anti-Americanism in Israel
    16 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Anti-Americanism in Israel
    by Justin Raimondo
    Global Research, June 13, 2009 Antiwar.com "In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government over U.S. President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the U.S. in a letter to cabinet ministers on Sunday.
    "In the 11-page letter, obtained by the Jerusalem Post from a minister on Monday, Peled recommends steps Israel can take to compensate (…)

  • Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
    13 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Where Have All the Democrats Gone? By David Glenn Cox
    If you live long enough you will see just about all that there is to see, except maybe the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. I was reading news stories and that’s how I felt when I ran across this one:
    “June 12 (Bloomberg) — U.S. lawmakers are set to approve a $106 billion war-spending bill after President Barack Obama said he would use ’every legal and administrative remedy available’ to block the release of photos of troops abusing (…)

  • For 300 years Britain has outsourced mayhem. Finally it’s coming home
    12 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    For 300 years Britain has outsourced mayhem. Finally it’s coming home
    Opium, famine and banks all played their part in this country’s plundering of the globe. Now it’s over, we find it hard to accept
    George Monbiot, guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 June 2009
    Why now? It’s not as if this is the first time Britain’s representatives have been caught out. The history of governments in all countries is the history of scandal, as those who rise to the top are generally the most ambitious, ruthless (…)

  • where are women and secularists of Muslim countries in Obama’s speech in Cairo?
    11 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Reinforcing presumed religious identities: where are women and secularists of Muslim countries in Obama’s speech in Cairo?
    by Marieme Helie Lucas (1)
    siawi.org
    June 4, 2009
    It is beyond doubt that many people around the world, of various political opinions and creeds, will feel relieved after the discourse the President of the USA delivered in Cairo today. It is apparently a new voice, a voice of peace, quite far from Bush’s clash of civilisations. But is it so?
    I presume that (…)

  • Urge Olympic Committee to Help End the Canadian Seal Slaughter
    9 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Urge Olympic Committee to Help End the Canadian Seal Slaughter
    The Canadian government has begun its annual war on seals. This year, sealers will beat and skin up to 338,200 of these gentle animals. Now more than ever before, it is vital to speak up and demand a permanent end to the cruel seal slaughter and to urge everyone you know to speak out as well.
    All eyes are on Canada as it prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. This extra attention will bring increased scrutiny and comes (…)

  • Obama’s Cairo Speech to Muslims - pro-war lies, slies, holocaust denial & "no we can’t"
    8 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Obama’s 4 June 2009 Cairo Speech to the Muslim World was a dishonest, hypocritical, pro-war, pro-Zionist travesty of lies, slies (spin-based untruths) and holocaust denial amounting to a de facto "no we can’t offend the Zionists" (see “Obama’s Speech to the Muslim World. Zionist spin and Orwellian holocaust denial”: on MWC News: .
    Up to the 1930s American involvement in the Muslim World was through business and attendant diplomacy apart from military involvement against Barbary (…)

  • Obama’s Major Gaffe in Cairo / By Heinrich Mencken
    7 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nobody caught this in the Western media—or the world media in general.
    That is because those who have had a good grounding in general history in the mainstream media, and in the wider public, are few and far between, and because the mainstream media, and the popular conscience are conditioned by the short-term memory of the 24-hour news cycle.
    I’m referring to a major, major gaffe in Obama’s Cairo speech that concerns the history of Muslims in Spain. I quote:
    "Islam has a proud (…)

  • Obama admits US involvement in Iran coup in 1953
    5 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obama admits US involvement in Iran coup in 1953
    US President Barack Obama made a major gesture of conciliation to Iran on Thursday when he admitted US involvement in the 1953 coup which overthrew the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
    "In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government," Obama said during his keynote speech to the Muslim world in Cairo.
    It is the first time a serving US president (…)

  • Germany Blasts ’Powers of the Fed’
    3 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Germany Blasts ’Powers of the Fed’
    By JOELLEN PERRY
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare public rebuke of central banks, suggested the European Central Bank and its counterparts in the U.S. and Britain have gone too far in fighting the financial crisis and may be laying the groundwork for another financial blowup.
    "I view with great skepticism the powers of the Fed, for example, and also how, within Europe, the Bank of England has carved out its own small line," Ms. Merkel said (…)