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  • Palestinian Propaganda Prize for Israel
    18 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    The inter-Palestinian war of words and the mutual violations of the freedom of press and expression by the Hamas - led government of Ismael Haniyyeh in the Gaza Strip and the Fatah – led government of Salam Fayyad in the West Bank have presented Israel with its biggest propaganda prize that is overshadowing the violations of human rights committed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
    The Palestinian Center for Press (…)

  • IRAQ : It Is The Death of History by Robert Fisk
    18 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Monday, September 17, 2007 by The Independent/UK
    It Is The Death of History
    by Robert Fisk
    2,000-year-old Sumerian cities torn apart and plundered by robbers. The very walls of the mighty Ur of the Chaldees cracking under the strain of massive troop movements, the privatisation of looting as landlords buy up the remaining sites of ancient Mesopotamia to strip them of their artefacts and wealth. The near total destruction of Iraq’s historic past - the very cradle of human (…)

  • Update from Syria: After IDF bombing
    17 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SYRIA’S SMOKING GUN by Trish Schuh DEIR EZ ZOR, Syria- On a bridge over the Euphrates River at sundown, neighboring mosques weave a chorus calling Muslims to prayer. This destitute, ramshackle oil town on Iraq’s desert frontier seems calm, despite Israel’s recent raid on a military base outside the city to destroy "Syria’s nuclear program."
    The Qamishli-Deir Ez Zor highway, alleged by Israel to be a weapons route for Iraqi insurgents, was also quiet, and there were no heavy (…)

  • The disgraced ABC consultant and the push for war in Iran
    17 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The disgraced ABC consultant and the push for war in Iran
    Attytood.com – September 13, 2007
    There’s a huge new media scandal breaking this morning, and the headline so far — that a much-used consultant to ABC News published a phony interview with Barak Obama — may well be the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The news about now ex-ABC consultant Alexis Debat (left) is just dribbling out, but I’m surprised people haven’t been connecting the dots. This post will seek to connect a couple of (…)

  • Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
    16 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
    Graham Paterson – Sunday Times September 16, 2007
    America’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.
    In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies. (…)

  • Debt storm likely to head west and engulf Japan
    16 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Debt storm likely to head west and engulf Japan
    By Damian Reece, City Editor Last Updated: 12:10am BST 16/09/2007
    The global credit crisis has hit our high streets again. Having seen mortgage rates rise this week, people were left standing in Depression-era queues waiting to get their cash out of Northern Rock, now being shored up by the Bank of England.
    Predators circle ailing lender Northern Rock
    But the focus of this debt storm rolling round the world’s financial system will shift (…)

  • Chevron Seeks Greater China Links Two Years After Unocal Tussle
    12 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil producer, is pursuing increased gas and exploration business in China, two years after the company won a tussle with Cnooc Ltd. for control of Unocal Corp.
    By Ying Lou
    The company will seek opportunities in exploration, deepwater drilling and natural gas output, Isikeli Taureka, president of Chevron International Exploration and Production, said in an interview in San Francisco yesterday.
    Oil demand in China, the world’s (…)

  • Sustaining Palestinian Division, Reviving a Partner
    12 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Saving a Palestinian partner, whom they have rejected until Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in mid-June, has become the most important mission preoccupying the U.S. Administration and the Israeli government, a mission which nonetheless Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is taking seriously, against all the odds, pursuing a “hope” that their preoccupation could yet be a window of opportunity to revive serious Palestinian – Israeli peace negotiations and break through (…)

  • Explosion at Turkish-Iranian pipeline - Gas supply to Turkey Stopped
    11 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Gas supplies to Turkey were stopped because of explosion at a natural gas pipeline from Iran, the state-run pipeline company said Monday.
    AP
    Sep 10, 2007
    The explosion late Sunday near the town of Dogubayazit, close to the border with Iran, damaged the pipeline, forcing authorities to cut the gas flow, a statement from the pipeline company, Botas, said.
    It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion. Separatist Kurdish rebels have attacked pipelines close to the border with (…)

  • Never Doubt That a Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Neocons Can Destroy the World
    10 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Never Doubt That a Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Neocons Can Destroy the World (If We Let Them)
    Posted September 6, 2007 | 11:59 PM (EST) I don’t think this is what Margaret Mead had in mind but I admit it was the first thought that popped into my mind when I saw this composite photograph and read some of the accompanying blog commentary on DownWithTyranny! back on August 9th (a portion of which follows):
    Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard (…)