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  • China out of Oil: 1000 trucks are stranded
    29 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chinese tiger has nothing in tank
    Rowan Callick, China correspondent | November 28, 2007
    CHINA is running out of fuel. Police are guarding petrol stations in several inland provinces to prevent fights, as shortages of petrol and diesel are causing huge queues of trucks, buses and cars.
    In Kunming, capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, 1000 trucks are stranded.
    A truck driver named Li told the Chuncheng Evening News he had been stranded at the Stone Tiger Gate petrol station (…)

  • Afghanistan Cannabis Crop Up 40 Percent
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cannabis cultivation rose 40 percent in Afghanistan this year, to 173,000 acres from 123,550 in 2006, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime estimated in its 2007 opium survey. The crop is being grown in at least 18 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, according to the survey released last month. The U.N. report singles out Balkh as a "leading example" of an opium-free province, saying other areas should follow "the model of this northern region where leadership, incentives and security have led (…)

  • The Globe and Mail is peddling World War III: Will Canadians buy a war with Iran as easily as Americans bought Iraq?
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following article, “A plan to attack Iran swiftly and from above” by Paul Koring published in the November 22, 2007 issue of The Globe and Mail is an attempt to convince Canadians that a war with Iran is legitimate, and that it will have minimal consequences.
    What sane human being would read this article and not feel anger, sorrow, and the putrid smell of a neoconservative agenda to sell a war, a Nuclear World War.
    This propaganda piece disguised as a juvenile analysis of the (…)

  • IRAQ: THE WOMEN’S STORY (2006, 47’)
    26 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    StopWar.UK
    The invasion of Iraq heralded promises of freedom from tyranny and equal rights for the women of Iraq. But three years on, the reality of everyday life for women inside Iraq is a different story.
    To make this film, two Iraqi women risk their lives to spend three months travelling all over the country with a camera to record the lives and experiences of women they meet. Dispatches: Iraq: The Women’s Story provides a compelling account of a life inside Iraq that is rarely seen (…)

  • Putin asks Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces to "be ready" for aggressors
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday warned that Moscow would not remain indifferent to NATO’s "muscle-flexing" and said Russia’s nuclear forces would be ready for an adequate response to any aggressor.
    Putin, speaking to top generals less than two weeks before December 2 parliamentary elections, said the NATO military alliance had built up its forces close to Russia’s borders.
    "We see that military resources of certain states and members of the NATO alliance are being built up (…)

  • Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sherwood Ross November 19, 2007
    By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.
    So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed."
    "More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing (…)

  • Are US allies abandoning a sinking ship?
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three countries that have been allied with the United States are rapidly trying to distance themselves from what appears to be a sinking ship.
    First “Turkey on Tuesday signed an agreement with neighboring Iran for joint power production projects despite U.S. pressure against investment in the Islamic Republic.
    “Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler played down U.S. discontent with flourishing energy cooperation between its NATO ally Turkey and Iran, saying more agreements would be (…)

  • Indian ’slave’ children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap
    24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ian McDougall in New Delhi
    Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
    Speaking to The Observer, the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.
    Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using (…)

  • NOAM CHOMSKY: Waiting for Annapolis
    24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE crimes against Palestinians in the occupied territories and elsewhere, particularly since the Palestinians voted "the wrong way" in the Hamas victory last year, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims, and is likely to harm them.
    Our actions have to be adapted to real-world circumstances, difficult as it may be to stay calm in the face of shameful crimes, in which we in the United States are (…)

  • The battle for ayurveda: India is racing to record the details of its traditional medicine
    24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The database, totalling more than 30 million pages and known as the Traditional Knowledge Data Library, has come about for one very simple reason: to prevent Western pharmaceutical giants and others using this traditional Indian information to create a product for which they then obtain a patent.
    By Andrew Buncombe Published: 23 November 2007
    They range from the everyday to the decidedly obscure, from items with a specific, specialised use to those with a host of applications. Their (…)