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  • Now you see them, now you don’t: Orthodox Israeli newspapers Photo-shop out female Cabinet ministers
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Now you see them, now you don’t: Orthodox Israeli newspapers Photo-shop out female Cabinet ministers
    By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE
    3rd April 2009
    Two women serve in Israel’s new Cabinet - but some Israelis would rather not see them.
    Newspapers aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jewish readers tampered with the inaugural photograph of the Cabinet, erasing female ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver.
    Ultra-Orthodox newspapers consider it immodest to print images of women.
    Continue to read: (…)

  • G20 summit: US and Europe paper over divisions
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    G20 summit: US and Europe paper over divisions
    by Chris Marsden and Bill Van Auken
    Global Research, April 3, 2009 World Socialist Web Site
    The G20 summit concluded Thursday having failed to adopt the principal demands of either the US and Britain, which came to the London gathering advocating coordinated global fiscal stimulus, or a European bloc led by Germany and France, which called for international regulation of major financial institutions.
    Instead, the two sides papered over (…)

  • Daniele Ganser: «President Sarkozy has accepted the dominance of the United States»
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Daniele Ganser: «President Sarkozy has accepted the dominance of the United States»
    by Sandro Cruz*
    In view of Albania’s and Croatia’s recent admission to NATO and on the occasion of the Alliance’s 60th anniversary celebrations in France and Germany on April 3 and 4, Voltaire Net has asked Professor Daniele Ganser to give his assessment of this organisation. According to this world-renowned NATO specialist, the Alliance stopped playing a defensive role after the demise of the USSR. Today (…)

  • EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination
    by Rick Rozoff*
    The 60th anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be held in France and Germany on April 3 and 4. Eighteen years after the end of the Cold War, NATO has increased its membership to 26 countries, mostly European including numerous former Soviet republics. In Afghanistan NATO is waging its first armed conflict outside of Europe and its first ground war with the participation of armed units (…)

  • Fake, Faith and Epic Crimes
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fake, Faith and Epic Crimes
    by John Pilger
    Global Research, April 2, 2009 newstatesman.com
    These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the Nazis at Nuremberg. This defined rapacious invasion as "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the (…)

  • James Petras’ New Book: The Power of Israel in the United States
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    James Petras’ New Book: The Power of Israel in the United States
    by Stephen Lendman
    Global Research, October 29, 2006
    James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He’s a noted academic figure on the US Left and a well-respected Latin American expert and longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles. He’s also an advisor to the landless workers in Brazil and the unemployed workers movement in Argentina. Along the way, he managed to find (…)

  • War without Borders: A Geopolitical Assessment of NATO
    2 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    War without Borders: A Geopolitical Assessment of NATO NATO on its 60th anniversary
    by José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
    Global Research, April 2, 2009
    NATO’s 60th anniversary is an event that has sparked a healthy dose of analytical thinking and debate concerning said organization’s historical role as well as its current purposes in the early 21st century. Let us explore the geopolitical context in which NATO first came into existence so that later we examine the alliance’s contemporary (…)

  • No Galloway No Rice!
    31 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    British MP George Galloway gave the first of his talks in Canada via a video feed from New York city. He as barred from entering Canada after a complaint to Canada’s neocon government from the Jewish Defence League. A federal court yesterday upheld the barring.
    There was no such barring for war criminal George Bush less than 2 weeks before when he spoke in Calgary. Neither is there any barring expected when Condoleeza Rice visits Calgary May 13.
    http://mostlywater.org/no_galloway_... (…)

  • When Self Loathing Becomes Law: The Clarence Thomas Story
    30 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Whenever America commemorates past wars, or wages new ones, one persistent theme is how a particular war was essential to “the defense of freedom.” Although the United States has fought some wars where its liberty interests were at risk, in recent times this “defense of freedom” mantra has become little more than a subterfuge to conceal the fact that America’s military is increasingly being deployed so that multi-national corporations can plunder the human and natural resources of weaker (…)

  • Philippine Extra-Judicial Killings Continue, Obama’s Response In Question
    29 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Philippine Extra-Judicial Killings Continue, Obama’s Response In Question by Brian McAfee
    On March 23rd, Sabina Ariola, the leader of "Citizens for Excellence, Progress, Peace towards the Country’s Great Future," was gunned down. She is the 992nd civilian to be killed in the ongoing spree of extra-judicial killings that have been occurring since 2001, when Gloria Macapagal Arroyo assumed the (…)