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  • CLUSTER BOMBS AND TEDDY BEARS by Bican Jagger
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Published on Monday, November 5, 2007 by The Telegraph/UK
    This November 5 sees an international day of action to raise awareness of the human suffering caused by cluster bombs. Ten years after a treaty banning landmines, there is now an international process under way to ban cluster bombs.
    Like landmines, cluster bombs kill and injure civilians after conflict.
    The widespread use of these weapons in Lebanon last year drew the world’s attention to that once again. Like (…)

  • IRAQ : MILLIONS TRAPPED IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    International Press Service (IPS) Ahmed Ali*
    At least five million Iraqis have fled their homes due to the violence under the U.S.-led occupation, but half of them are unable to leave the country, according to well-informed estimates.
    According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 4.4 million displaced Iraqis, an estimate that many workers among refugees find conservative.
    The UNHCR announced last week that at present 2,000 Iraqis are (…)

  • IRAQ : Engineers Confirm a Real Surge Would Drown Half A Million People
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Gen. Petraeus & U.S. Engineers Confirm a Real Surge Would Drown 500,000 People
    The Most Dangerous Dam in the World
    By PATRICK COCKBURN
    A catastrophic failure of the largest dam in Iraq would send a wave 65ft high hurtling down the valley of the river Tigris, killing up to 500,000 people, US engineers warned yesterday.
    The dam, which is near Mosul in the north of the country, was built in 1984 on a bed of water-soluble rock and is in imminent danger of collapse. "In terms of the (…)

  • The Russian Revolution: 90 years on. An analysis
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
    It would be perhaps more correct, from a historical viewpoint, to remember the centennial of the First Revolution of 1905/7 while we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution, whose implications were vast and whose objectives were victoriously achieved, both in Russia and in the internationalization of the Socialist ideals.
    Lenin died and went to Hell. Three days later, the Devil, desperate, telephoned Saint Peter, begging for an (…)

  • World’s biggest uranium enricher frantic to keep dumping waste in Russia
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Diet Simon
    By Diet Simon, collating from German IndyMedia postings
    Russian nuclear opponents say they will defy a ban and demonstrate in St Petersburg tomorrow against the massive import of German, Dutch, British and French uranium waste to Russia.
    The Dutch ship Doggersbank is expected in the port tomorrow, Thursday the 11th, with the latest shipment of depleted uranium from enrichment plants in Gronau (Germany) and Almelo (Holland).
    German supporters of the Russian activists in (…)

  • Taliban capture third western Afghan district
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taliban capture third western Afghan district
    Herat, Afghanistan, Nov 04: Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday, defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military offensives.
    The hardline Islamist Taliban relaunched their insurgency two years ago to topple the pro-Western Afghan government and eject the 50,000 foreign troops, expanding their operations further from the mainly Pashtun south where (…)

  • What Happened in Nahr Al Bared? (video)
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MICHAEL BIRMINGHAM
    A Palestinian Camp in Lebanon is Burned and Destroyed, the Media is Banned, and the World is Silent
    Nahr Al Bared is a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of Lebanon which has been home to about 40,000 Palestinian people, most of whom are the children and grandchildren of those who left Palestine in 1948. Some like Abu Mohammad were born in Palestine. He was ten years old, and next year it will be sixty years since the formation of the State of Israel was achieved (…)

  • Iraqi guns: Smugglers and bunglers
    4 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    With Iraq sliding into civil war amid repeated reports detailing the large-scale loss of US-provided weaponry, questions arise regarding the Pentagon’s alleged relationship with international gun runners.
    02 November 2007
    By Dominic Moran in Tel Aviv for ISN Security Watch (02/11/07)
    Post-invasion Iraq has been blighted by a massive proliferation in small arms, conducted with the active involvement of both state and non-state actors, including major criminal entities.
    This (…)

  • Musharraf declares state of emergency
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Musharraf declares state of emergency
    Troops surround Bhutto’s home; U.S. calls developments ‘regrettable’ BREAKING NEWS
    MSNBC News Services updated 12:45 p.m. ET Nov. 3, 2007
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, ahead of a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, thrusting the country deeper into political turmoil as it struggles to contain spreading Islamic militancy.
    Seven Supreme Court judges (…)

  • THE IRON WALL
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mohammed Alatar (2007, 57’)
    In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote:
    "Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population - behind an The Iron Wall , which the native population cannot breach." First published in Russian under the (…)