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  • Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
    Soaring crop prices and demand for biofuels raise fears of political instability John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian Saturday November 3 2007
    Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to (…)

  • Iraqi weapons ’expert’ unmasked as a fraud
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraqi weapons ’expert’ unmasked as a fraud
    By Sadie Gray
    Published: 03 November 2007
    The Iraqi defector whose claims regarding Saddam Hussein’s biological warfare capabilities were central to the US government’s case for the 2003 invasion, despite repeated warnings that they were dubious, has been unmasked by a television documentary.
    The informer, codenamed Curveball was Rafid Ahmed Alwan who, in 1999, turned up at a refugee centre in Germany seeking political asylum. He went on (…)

  • UK navy warship to head for Gulf
    2 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    UK navy warship to head for Gulf A Royal Navy aircraft carrier is to head to the Gulf next spring, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
    HMS Illustrious will be in waters near Iran alongside the destroyer, Edinburgh, and a frigate, Westminster.
    Earlier this year, 15 British service personnel were captured by Iranians as they searched a cargo boat in the Gulf.
    The ships, accompanied by two minesweepers and three support vessels, will spend six months in the Gulf, the Indian Ocean (…)

  • ATTAKING IRAN FOR ISRAEL ? BY RAY MAC GOVERN
    1 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is at her mushroom-cloud hyperbolic best, and this time Iran is the target. Her claim last week that "the policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge to American security interests in the Middle East and around the world" is simply too much of a stretch.
    To gauge someone’s reliability, one depends largely on prior experience. Sadly, Rice’s credibility suffers in comparison with Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic (…)

  • Largest dam in Iraq is at risk of an imminent collapse!
    1 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The largest dam in Iraq is at risk of an imminent collapse that could unleash a 20m (65ft) wave of water on Mosul, a city of 1.7m people, the US has warned.
    The largest dam in Iraq is at risk of an imminent collapse that could unleash a 20m (65ft) wave of water on Mosul, a city of 1.7m people, the US has warned.
    .......However, a $27m (£13m) US-funded reconstruction project to help shore up the dam has made little or no progress.
    ....a US watchdog said reconstruction of the dam had (…)

  • The Most Important Presentation to Date Regarding Our World: Seymour Hersh Amnesty International Lec
    31 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The following video/audio presentation is the most important talk given to date regarding the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impending attack on Iran by the United States. It is a must see for anyone that wants to know what is happening in the Middle East, what World War III will look like, the complete hell that the 1.5 million American soldiers that have been involved in the Iraq war have had to live through and in what condition they are returning to the United States, how (…)

  • No Evidence Iran Building Nuclear Weapons : Mohamed ElBaradei
    30 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Did you get that? NO EVIDENCE=NONE=ZERO=NADA The attack on Iran is ILLEGAL and based on BULLSHIT....again! America, you were warned. By The Associated Press
    10/28/07 "AP" — — WASHINGTON: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Sunday he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could bring disaster.
    "We have information that there has been maybe some studies about possible weaponization," said (…)

  • DESMOND TUTU LIKENS ISRAELI ACTION TO APARTEID
    30 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Adrianne Appel
    Published on Monday, October 29, 2007 by Inter Press Service
    BOSTON - South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu compared conditions in Palestine to those of South Africa under apartheid, and called on Israelis to try and change them, while speaking in Boston Saturday at historic Old South Church.”We hope the occupation of the Palestinian territory by Israel will end,” Tutu said.
    “There is a cry of anguish from the depth of my heart, to my spiritual relatives. (…)

  • What we must learn from India: People Power, Land Reform and the Origins of Tree Hugging
    29 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A true democracy can only be identified when the citizens of a Nation join together to affects the laws under which they are governed. India, the most populous democracy in the world, has in its brief history repeatedly shown us how the poorest of the poor can join together and become a force to be reckoned with.
    The latest lesson that we have been taught is how to achieve changes in property laws to protect the impoverished. “An estimated 25,000 people from across India gathered in New (…)

  • Japanese pay for Iran oil in yen
    29 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Japanese pay for Iran oil in yen
    South Korea, China, Taiwan, Russia, Syria and Italy have announced plans to reduce their dollar holdings. Japanese oil refiners have started paying for Iranian crude oil in yen instead of dollars. Japan’s largest oil refiner, Nippon Oil Corp., announced the change in September; Cosmo Oil Co. and Japan Energy Corp. followed suit in October.
    How significant is it that more and more nations are ceasing to use the dollar to conduct international trade? (…)