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  • How Congress Will End the Occupation
    24 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    Public pressure on Congress to end the occupation of Iraq resulted in a fundamental breakthrough on July 19th when 70 congress members sent a letter to the president. The key sentence in the letter was the first one:
    "We are writing to inform you that we will only support appropriating additional funds for U.S. military operations in Iraq during Fiscal Year 2008 and beyond for the protection and safe redeployment of all our troops out of Iraq before you leave office." (…)

  • Resistance of One
    24 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    There is something else we can try. If you’ve given up on staging marches and rallies, or if – like me – you haven’t but you want to try something else as well, and if you’ve given up on lobbying Congress as pointless, or if – like me – you haven’t but you want to try something else as well, and if educating your fellow citizens as to exactly how completely corrupt the whole system is seems like an incomplete answer, and if staging a general strike or taking over the (…)

  • Two Island Tales, The Use and Abuse of Power
    24 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    The idyllic lives of two island based populations were inexorably changed and came close to annihilation just to accommodate U.S. supposed protection of democracy. Both Bikini Atoll in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean’s Diego Garcia island were populated by thriving, self sufficient, fishing based population until coming under the radar screen of British and U.S. hegemonic interests. The disregard and callus indifference towards the effected populations show the true nature (…)

  • Making us all "safer".
    23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Army gets new ’enhanced blast’ weapon to fight Taliban..... or any other resisters who happen to oppose western imperialism.
    British soldiers in Afghanistan are being supplied with a new "super weapon" to attack Taliban fighters more effectively, defence officials said yesterday.
    The "enhanced blast" weapon is based on thermobaric technology used in the powerful bombs dropped by the Russians to obliterate Grozny, the Chechen capital, and in US "bunker busters".
    Defence officials (…)

  • The Iraq War: An American made holocaust
    23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As people are waking up to the grim news that 14 U.S. soldiers lost their lives in the hell hole known as Iraq, I suspect there are many who do feel that the Iraqis could be doing more to stop this blood letting. But, that line of thinking is one of sheer hubris since this blood letting began when we illegally invaded that sovereign country back in 2003. Yours truly including millions more around this globe tried to stop it, but we were not listened to by this arrogant government.
    While (…)

  • Former CIA officer: US to attack Iran within 6 months
    21 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former CIA officer: US to attack Iran within 6 months
    – http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Forme...

  • Top Swiss banker attacks US lending standards as ’unbelievable’
    20 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Yvette Essen
    Switzerland’s top banker has warned of massive losses from the unfolding credit crisis, describing the collapse in US lending standards as "unbelievable".
    Jean-Pierre Roth, president of the Swiss National Bank, said market turmoil was far from over as tremors from the sub-prime debacle continued to rock the world.
    "We’re certainly not at the end of the story. There are question marks surrounding the development of the American economy," he (…)

  • Muqtada al-Sadr : The British are retreating from Basra
    20 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By By Nizar Latif in Kufa, Iraq and Phil Sands in Damascus
    The British Army has been defeated in Iraq and left with no option but to retreat from the country, claims radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Violent resistance and a rising death toll among UK troops has forced a withdrawal, he said in an interview with The Independent.
    "The British have given-up and they know they will be leaving Iraq soon," Mr Sadr said. "They are retreating because of the resistance they have faced. (…)

  • Darfur: pornography for the chattering classes
    19 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brendan O’ Neill
    Normally, when one of Britain’s stuffy media watchdogs decrees that some public figure or broadcaster has said something less than honest, it causes a commotion. When the Advertising Standards Authority said earlier this year that Gillian McKeith, TV’s self-styled healthy eating guru, should stop using the title ‘Dr’, the media had a feeding frenzy.
    The Office of Communications’ harsh judgement against Channel 4 over the bullying of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on (…)

  • Sr. Financial Mgr sees ultimately a "Very big collapse of all financial mkts" and hyperinflation!
    16 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Asian indices dropped sharply early today after reports of liquidating hedge funds caused more credit market-related anxiety and triggered a sell-off on Wall Street. Financial shares across the region were hit hard, with losses in banking issues such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group in Japan. read more :
    – http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/n...
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    – http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/vi...
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