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  • Iran demands oil pay in yen not dollars
    16 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Lindsay
    The dollar fell against the yen this afternoon on reports Iran has asked Japan to stop paying for its oil in dollars
    The dollar was driven down against the Japanese yen this afternoon, hit by the news that Iran had asked Japan to pay for its oil purchases in the Japanese currency and not in dollars.
    Iran has sent a letter to Japanese refiners, signed by Ali A Arshi, the general manager of crude marketing and exports for Iran’s national Iranian Oil Company, according (…)

  • I Spy an American
    15 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Trish Schuh
    HARET HREIK, Lebanon - When he heard my American accent, the Hezbollah cabbie yelled "You are an American spy." He swings off the main road and onto a deserted lot. The interrogation begins. "What are you doing here? Why are you in Dahiyeh?"
    Very late on a stormy January night I attended Ashura celebrations in Hezbollah’s shelled-out neighborhood in south Beirut. It was the annual Shia commemoration of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, and Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan (…)

  • Is It Time to Rein in AIPAC?
    15 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    “All of these people [in the Israel Lobby] are pleading a special interest. I am an American.” — President Harry S. Truman
    Grant F. Smith’s latest book, “Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From The 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal,” reveals the controversial history of the influential lobbying organization, known as “AIPAC”. It comes on the heels of his insightful tome, “Deadly Dogma,” an expose’ of the Neocons, where he evidenced their (…)

  • South Asia Monsoon Crisis Presents An Opportunity To Learn And Prepare For Future Crisis.
    15 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee.
    Is the South Asia monsoon a harbinger of things to come and will we be ready next time around? The perennial monsoon floods that have devastated parts of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal are said to be the worst in 30 years.
    The death toll has surpassed 2,200. meanwhile, the event has made over twenty million people homeless and has resulted in massive crop failure, ensuring hunger, poverty and homelessness for millions of men, women and children in South Asia for some time (…)

  • FED looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FED looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU
    GEAB N°16 is available! Global systemic crisis / Summer 2007 : Fed looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU Public announcement GEAB N°16 (Special Summer 2007 issue - 23 pages!)
    This second quarter’s fundamental event about to shove most players’ anticipations over the coming months, is certainly the final and simultaneous failure of the two key-strategies defined by US leaders, i.e.:
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  • Politics Unmercifully Trespass Humanitarian Borders in Gaza
    12 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    The major political players who are involved in sealing off 1.5 million Palestinians into an open air prison in the world’s most densely populated 360-square-kilometre area of the Gaza Strip are unmercifully trespassing humanitarian borders there; they perceive in the collapsing economy of the Mediterranean coastal strip, which is rapidly developing into a humanitarian crisis, a political “window of opportunity.”
    Ironically they are counterproductively citing security (…)

  • VP Cheney in 94, Iraq would become a quagmire under US occupation. Amazing video
    12 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that "not very many" American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

  • Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits
    11 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits
    by Catherine Austin Fitts
    This is a historic documentation about the current international economic melt down, coup organisation, Identities, tricks and timelines of the international elite. It’s long and complete - save it to disc. It speaks about who is profiting from drugs and the privatisation of prisons and follows the $highway all the way.
    http://www.dunwalke.com/

  • Cheney urging strikes on Iran (prisonplanet)
    10 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef McClatchy Newspapers
    President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues.
    At a news conference Thursday, Bush said Iran had been warned of unspecified consequences if it continued its alleged support for anti-American forces in Iraq. U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker had conveyed the warning in meetings with his Iranian (…)

  • The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story
    10 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    62 years ago, on August 9th, 1945, the second of the only two atomic bombs (a plutonium bomb) ever used as instruments of aggressive war (against essentially defenseless civilian populations) was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by an all-Christian bomb crew. The well-trained American soldiers were only "doing their job," and they did it efficiently.
    It had been only 3 days since the first bomb, a uranium bomb, had decimated Hiroshima on August 6, with chaos and confusion in Tokyo, where the (…)