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  • Palestinians and Native Americans: The Inherent Struggle for Freedom and Justice
    23 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Palestinians and Native Americans: The Inherent Struggle for Freedom and Justice
    By Ramzy Baroud
    Few can be as blunt regarding the legacy of the United States toward the native people of this land as the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. In his narrative, "The Winning of the West," Roosevelt spoke about the "spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world’s wasted spaces." He wrote: "The European settlers moved into an uninhabited waste...the land is really (…)

  • China to Force Rain Ahead of Olympics By Associated Press
    22 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    China to Force Rain Ahead of Olympics By Associated Press 1:36 PM PDT, April 25, 2007
    BEIJING — Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine. The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics, through a process known as cloud-seeding, to clean the air and ensure clear skies. China has been tinkering with artificial rainmaking for decades, but whether it works is a matter of debate among (…)

  • Third US Carrier Strike Group Heads to Iran
    22 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DEBKAfile: A third US carrier, the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise Strike Group is speeding towards the Persian Gulf
    June 21, 2007, 12:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
    According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the US naval build-up off the shores of Iran marks rising military tensions in the region, accentuated by last week’s Hamas victory which has endowed Iran with a military foothold on Israel’s southwestern border.
    The USS Enterprise CVN 65-Big E Strike Group, the US Navy’s largest air carrier, (…)

  • Robert Fisk: Welcome to ’Palestine’
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Robert Fisk: Welcome to ’Palestine’ Published: 16 June 2007
    How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. First, we demand that the Palestinians embrace democracy and then they elect the wrong party - Hamas - and then Hamas wins a mini-civil war and presides over the Gaza Strip. And we Westerners still want to negotiate with the discredited President, Mahmoud Abbas. Today "Palestine" - and let’s keep those quotation marks in place - has two prime ministers. Welcome to the Middle (…)

  • Middle East : Iraq US military launches massive assault in Iraq (WSWS)
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East : Iraq US military launches massive assault in Iraq By Bill Van Auken 20 June 2007
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    Backed by armored columns and helicopter gunships, some 10,000 US troops have launched a massive assault on the provincial capital of Baquba and other areas north and east of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
    The operation, dubbed Arrowhead Ripper, is one of the largest since the US invasion of Iraq (…)

  • FED looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    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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  • Child Labor: The Hidden Ingredient to the Billion-Dollar Chocolate Industry? DEMOCRACY NOW
    18 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Interview :Brian Campbell. Attorney with the International Labor Rights Fund. AMY GOODMAN: Brian Campbell is an attorney with the International Labor Rights Fund. He joins us from Washington now. We did invite a representative from the Chocolate Manufacturers Association to join us, but they declined our Valentine’s Day invitation. Brian Campbell, lay out the chocolate landscape.
    BRIAN CAMPBELL: Well, in Cote d’Ivoire, as you mentioned before, there is estimated between 100,000 and (…)

  • Bayer (asprin) co. infects thousands with AIDS! (video)
    18 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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  • JOHN PILGER :Rage against injustice (The Guardian )
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rage against injustice
    John Pilger’s Freedom Next Time confronts some uncomfortable truths, says Nicholas Lezard
    Saturday June 9, 2007 The Guardian Buy Freedom Next Time at the Guardian bookshop
    Freedom Next Time by John Pilger (Black Swan, £8.99)
    A recent profile of the politically active comedian Mark Thomas described him as "John Pilger with a sense of humour". This is a bit hard on Pilger. It might be easy to think of him as the grim chronicler of the world’s many injustices, (…)

  • Welcome to ‘Palestine’ by Robert Fisk
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, June 16, 2007 by The Independent/UK Welcome to ‘Palestine’ by Robert Fisk
    How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. First, we demand that the Palestinians embrace democracy and then they elect the wrong party - Hamas - and then Hamas wins a mini-civil war and presides over the Gaza Strip. And we Westerners still want to negotiate with the discredited President, Mahmoud Abbas. Today “Palestine” - and let’s keep those quotation marks in place - has two prime (…)