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  • The Siege of Baghdad
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s funny, in a sad sick almost perverse sort of way, but it seems the only people who listen to George Bush and take him seriously anymore is the insurgency. Several months after his royal hind ass made his now famous “bring em on” statement the insurgency issued their own proclamation saying in affect, we have brought it on do you have anything else you wish to say to us?
    The on going political battle over Bushes insane surge, like Custer wishing for ten more men or Westmoreland’s (…)

  • ‘Cleansing’ the Two-state ‘Vision’ in Jerusalem
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    “Israel Slides towards the Disastrous One State Trap,” The Baltimore Sun’s editorial concluded on June 5. The conclusion is no more true than in Jerusalem, where systematically and persistently Israel is accelerating her “Israelization” plans for eastern Jerusalem that will in the foreseen future doom the “land-for-peace” formula as obsolete, outdated and dead letter, and rule out the widely trumpeted solution of the two-state “vision” based on it as “unrealistic” wishful (…)

  • China Accused of Olympics Merchandise Child Labor
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    China Accused of Olympics Merchandise Child Labor
    Reuters
    Monday June 11, 2007
    BEIJING—Chinese factories are churning out licensed bags, caps and stationery for the 2008 Beijing Olympics using child labour and paying workers less than half the minimum wage, a reports says.
    As members of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) gather in London for a progress update on the 2012 Games, the report–"No Medal for the Olympics"–finds evidence of children as young as 12 producing Olympic (…)

  • UN warns of five million Iraqi refugees, half of wich have no access to food aid (Cockburn)
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN warns of five million Iraqi refugees Half of displaced people have no access to food aid By Patrick Cockburn Published: 10 June 2007
    Omar, a Sunni driver, lived in a pleasant house in a Shia neighbourhood of al-Jihad district in west Baghdad until he decided that it was too dangerous for his family to stay.
    He moved with them to Damascus, but it was too expensive and he had no chance of getting a job.
    He returned to his home in al-Jihad, but when he arrived his neighbours said (…)

  • World Bank : Neoconned Again by John Nichols (The Nation)
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, June 9, 2007 by The Nation
    Neoconned Again
    by John Nichols
    One vote decided the race for World Bank president: that of the only world leader who thought neoconservative lothario Paul Wolfowitz was doing a heckuva job managing the troubled lender of last resort for developing nations. So it came as no surprise that voter in chief George W. Bush chose a Wolfowitz with an even sharper bite, former US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, to create the impression of (…)

  • World military expenditure increase of 37 per cent over the ten-years period since 1997 (SIPRI)
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Recent trends in military expenditure
    World military expenditure in 2006 is estimated at $1204 billion in current prices. This represents an increase of 3.5 per cent in real terms since 2005 and of 37 per cent over the 10-year period since 1997. Average spending per capita has increased from $173 in 2005 to $177 in 2006 at constant (2005) prices and exchange rates and to $184 at current prices.
    World military expenditure is extremely unevenly distributed. In 2006 the 15 countries with (…)

  • Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria By Chris Marsden (Global Research)
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington and Israel discuss possible war against Syria
    By Chris Marsden
    Global Research, June 9, 2007 World Socialist Web Site
    The Bush administration has used discussions between Israeli Transportation Minister and former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to insist that there should be no talks between Israel and Syria.
    State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday June 6, “We’re (…)

  • First Strike against Russia: The Real Danger behind US ABM Deployment in Eastern Europe
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    First Strike against Russia: The Real Danger behind US ABM Deployment in Eastern Europe
    By Chimes of Freedom
    Global Research, June 11, 2007 Chimes of Freedom
    "These European ABMs are an adjunct to the longstanding US policy of nuclear first strike against Russia, ..." (Professor Francis Boyle, Global Research, June 2007)
    Recent disinformation by the western media about Russia starting a new Cold War not only masks the threat of a US Anti-Ballistic Missile shield deployment but, as (…)

  • The Real Danger behind US ABM Deployment in Eastern Europe
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Recent disinformation by the western media about Russia starting a new Cold War not only masks the threat of a US Anti-Ballistic Missile shield deployment but, as always, projects the blame on the victim, Russia.
    The US missile shield must be understood in the context of its geo-strategic nuclear deployment. Far from being defensive, its ultimate purpose is to obtain such an unassailable advantage over any other nuclear power as to be able to threaten any would-be opponent with nuclear (…)

  • For Just Peace on the Basis of Two States: Israel & Palestine
    11 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Upon the invitation of the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) & the Israeli Communist Party (ICP), an international conference was held in East Jerusalem during the period 02 - 04 June 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and the 60th anniversary of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
    Twenty five international delegations and member of parliaments attended the conference from 12 countries throughout the world: Norway, Italy, (…)