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  • Palestine/israel : Peace and Democracy must go Hand in Hand
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thepeoplesvoice.org 11/10/07 By Ramzy Baroud
    After years of marked absence, the Bush administration has finally decided to upgrade its involvement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The announcement of a Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland has raised red flags for anyone who has learned from past experience how unbalanced and insincere peace efforts actually can lead to further violence. And it requires little cynicism to ponder how genuine these current efforts (…)

  • NATO Expands into Arab South, Hindered by US-created Chaos
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    Discreetly but progressively and confidently the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is expanding south and southeast almost uncontested — after the collapse of the former USSR-led Warsaw Pact — outside the mandate designated by its statute into the Arab Middle East as well as into the Caspian Sea regions.
    However, the U.S. obsession with the Iranian threat and with finding an exit strategy from the Iraqi quagmire made Washington less attentive to Turkey’s (…)

  • Special Intervention Group: Assassination accusations
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A television documentary claims that a Norwegian security company trains staff to torture and cites a report accusing the firm of executions.
    05 Nov 2007, 16:35
    On the Monday edition of Dokument 2 images from the Norwegian managed security company Special Intervention Group’s (SIG) extreme training course will be shown.
    The company is led by two Norwegians and provides training for Norwegians, Swedes and Danes to become bodyguards in war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, (…)

  • SILICOSIS- A DEATH TRAP FOR AGATE WORKERS IN GUJARAT AN ENQUIRY REPORT BY P.U.C.L.GUJARAT
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    SILICOSIS- A DEATH TRAP FOR AGATE WORKERS IN GUJARAT
    AN ENQUIRY REPORSILICOSIS- A DEATH TRAP FOR AGATE WORKERS IN GUJARAT
    AN ENQUIRY REPORT BY P.U.C.L.GUJARAT
    Workers working in the agate industries are dying of silicosis in regular interval for last 40 years in Khambhat. Families are wiped out totally. But there is no respite from the death trap of economically impoverished people of this area.
    The agate industry, is a household industry in the Khambhat region of Gujarat and its (…)

  • US: Iran Attack Plans Ready if Needed
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    US: Iran Attack Plans Ready if Needed
    Robert Burns – Associated Press November 8, 2007
    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. defense officials have signaled that up-to-date attack plans are available if needed in the escalating crisis over Iran’s nuclear aims, although no strike appears imminent.
    The Army and Marine Corps are under enormous strain from years of heavy ground fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, the United States has ample air and naval power to strike Iran if President Bush (…)

  • PREPARING FOR LIFE AFTER OIL
    8 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael T. Klare, The Nation
    This past May, in an unheralded and almost unnoticed move, the Energy Department signaled a fundamental, near epochal shift in US and indeed world history: we are nearing the end of the Petroleum Age and have entered the Age of Insufficiency. The department stopped talking about "oil" in its projections of future petroleum availability and began speaking of "liquids." The global output of "liquids," the department indicated, would rise from 84 million (…)

  • IRAN : The Road to Armageddon? by Felicity ARBUTHNOT
    7 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research and the UN Observer
    Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists... “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20: 13
    They are at it again. Remember when Milosovic was labelled “the butcher of Belgrade”, the new Hitler?
    Then Saddam Hussein was “the butcher of Bagdad” and, of course the most dangerous man since Hitler - with weapons of mass destruction which could be unleashed on the world “in forty five minutes”.
    Colin Powell lied to the U.N., about the danger Iraq posed to the (…)

  • Iran: Israel’s WMDs, serious threat to global security
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister says Israel’s arsenals of weapons of mass destruction are the most serious threat to global security.
    Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, said Israel has refused to join the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction which makes the Zionist Regime the biggest obstacle to the disarmament process in the region.
    Araqchi made the remarks in the 12th annual conference of members (…)

  • The Future of Global Unions: Is Solidarity Still Forever?
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Alan Howard
    Last November in Vienna, fifteen years after the demise of the Soviet Union and well into the third decade of corporate-driven globalization, the international trade union movement was reorganized to eliminate its debilitating cold war political divisions and to enhance coordination across industrial lines made obsolete by globalization. The founding of this new organization, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which represents 168 million workers in 153 (…)

  • Pakistan Sinks Deeper Into the Night
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Intoxicated by the Incense of Power
    By TARIQ ALI
    For anyone marinated in the history of Pakistan yesterday’s decision by the military to impose a State of Emergency will hardly comes as a surprise. Martial Law in this country has become an antibiotic: in order to obtain the same results one has to keep doubling the doses. What has taken place is a coup within a coup.
    General Pervaiz Musharraf ruled the country with a civilian façade, but his power base was limited to the Army. And it (…)