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  • Myanmar: Washington’s geopolitics and the Straits of Malacca
    29 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sara Flounders
    Attempting to understand George W. Bush’s concern for the people of Myanmar means looking beyond his statements at the U.N. General Assembly that “Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma” and that attempting to impose a new round of economic sanctions is because he “only desires peaceful change in Burma.”
    myanmar.gifHow is it possible for the Bush administration to be on the same side as a popular or progressive struggle, while threatening the planet with World (…)

  • Hariri Murder Solved
    29 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Daily Star Thursday, October 25, 2007 Hawi’s family sues Mossad for assassination by Lebanon Daily Star staff BEIRUT: The family of slain former Lebanese Communist Party leader Georges Hawi announced on Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit against Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency accusing it of plotting his assassination on June 21, 2005. Speaking during a news conference at the Bristol Hotel, Hawi’s step-son, Raffy Madayan, lashed out at the Lebanese authorities for (…)

  • REDUCING US CASUALTIES BY KILLING MORE CIVILIANS
    28 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CounterPunch
    Home of the Brave?
    By DAVE LINDORF
    Several years ago, I warned that as the Bush/Cheney administration sought to reduce politically problematic casualty rates in Iraq and Afghanistan, it would resort to increased use of air attacks to combat the growing insurgency in Iraq and the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.
    I also predicted that the result of this switch in tactics would lead to higher civilian casualties in those two countries.
    We’re now seeing those results. (…)

  • Iran: The Road to Armageddon?
    27 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Felicity ARBUTHNOT
    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 planet; George (…)

  • IRAN:White House Leak Cheney’s Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli Missile Strike
    26 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    White House Leak Cheney’s Plan for Iran Attack Starts With Israeli Missile Strike
    By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Cordula Meyer, Der Spiegel. Posted October 26, 2007.
    High-ranking military experts say an attack would lead to world economic chaos, or even what Bush calls ’World War III.
    US Vice President Dick Cheney — the power behind the throne, the eminence grise, the man with the (very) occasional grandfatherly smile — is notorious for his propensity for secretiveness and (…)

  • Ecological Warfare : Iraq’s Environmental Crisis
    26 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK
    The ecological effects of war, like its horrific toll on human life, are exponential. When the Bush Administration and their Congressional allies sent our troops in to Iraq to topple Saddam’s regime, they not only ordered these men and women to commit crimes against humanity, they also commanded them to perpetrate crimes against nature.
    The first Gulf War had a horrific effect on the environment, as CNN reported in 1999, "Iraq was responsible for (…)

  • New Steps by US Against Iranians
    25 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will announce a long-debated policy of new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, accusing the elite Quds division of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of supporting terrorism, administration officials said Wednesday night.
    The administration also plans to accuse the entire Revolutionary Guard Corps of proliferating weapons of mass destruction, the officials said. While the United States has long labeled Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, the decision to (…)

  • Caspian Summit: Putin Puts Forward A War-Avoidance Plan
    24 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Putin has grasped the fact that what the Cheney Crowd is threatening is World War
    by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
    Global Research, October 22, 2007
    The visit to Tehran on Oct. 16, by Russian President Vladimir Putin was officially billed as his participation in the second summit of the Caspian Sea littoral nations, convoked to deal with legal and other aspects of resource-sharing in the oil-rich waters. Although that summit did take place as scheduled, and important decisions were reached by (…)

  • Russia Orders ‘Immediate’ Purge Of All Windows Computers As Virus Fears Grow
    24 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russia Orders ‘Immediate’ Purge Of All Windows Computers As Virus Fears Grow
    October 24, 2007 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Reports circulating within President Putin’s Security Council are stating that a ‘redline’ of Russias Information Security Doctrine has been crossed and that the ‘potential’ for massive cyber attacks against the military infrastructure of both the Russian and Chinese Military Forces ‘appears’ to be imminent.
    According to these (…)

  • Jim Rogers Shifts Assets Out of Dollar to Buy Yuan
    24 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jim Rogers Shifts Assets Out of Dollar to Buy Yuan
    By Marcel van de Hoef and Danielle Rossingh
    Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — Jim Rogers, chairman of Beeland Interests Inc., said he is shifting all his assets out of the dollar and buying Chinese yuan because the Federal Reserve has eroded the value of the U.S. currency.
    I’m in the process of — I hope in the next few months — getting all of my assets out of U.S. dollars,’’ said Rogers, 65, who correctly predicted the commodities rally in (…)