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  • Franco – Arab Ties Could Yet Survive Sarkozy’s U-Turn
    27 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser*
    The defensive and guarded Arab reaction to the self-pronounced and reported pro-Israel and pro-America statements of Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa, who was sworn in as the new President of France on May 16, as well as his Jewish connection and that of his foreign policy team, have alerted Arab capitals and public opinion to a possibly imminent break with his country’s more than a five-decade old balanced approach to Arab conflicts and the Arab – Israeli (…)

  • Media Courtesans Take a Bow & Give Themselves a Standing Ovation
    27 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    World Press Freedom in the Eyes & Ears of the Beholder by Trish Schuh UNITED NATIONS- On the annual World Press Freedom Day in May, UNESCO hosted an event for journalists called "Press Freedom, Safety of Journalists and Impunity." Under Article 1 of its Constitution, UNESCO is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to defend freedom of expression and press freedom.
    United Nations Correspondent Association President Tuyet J. Nguyen spoke about the life-threatening (…)

  • Who’s Behind the Fighting in North Lebanon?
    26 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "...Given Bush administration debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan and its encouragement for Israel to continue its destruction of Lebanon this past summer, the situation in Lebanon mirrors, in some respects, the early 1980’s when groups sprung up to resist the US green lighted Israeli invasion and occupation. But rather than being Shia and pro-Hezbollah, today’s groups are largely Sunni and anti-Hezbollah. Hence they qualify for US aid, funneled by Sunni financial backers in league with the (…)

  • SURGING TO VICTORY
    26 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I knew a man who fell from a ten story window. As he was falling people kept hearing him say ’So far so good’"....Steve McQueen, The Magnificent Seven.
    Let’s face it, the Neocons were right. After only 4 years in Iraq the isurgents are finally in their last throes. We’re turing the corner,realizing a new way forward,supporting a dynamic new purple democracy (Falwell didn’t like that!),and we’re chasing the terrorists down, smoking them out of their caves and bringing them to justice, (…)

  • US Attack on Iran Imminent
    25 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    News: Iran ’accused of attacks in Iraq to bolster US strategy’ - “The Bush administration may be highlighting accusations that the Iranian government is behind attacks in Iraq in order to strengthen its hand in preparing for military strikes on Iran, according to a leading British think-tank.”
    This analysis suggesting that the US is using Iran as a scapegoat for it’s failures in Iraq comes as “Iran says it will not succumb to "enemy" efforts to halt its nuclear program, (…)

  • Forty Years of Occupation
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    This June will mark an anniversary that will live in infamy for the people affected by the event it commemorates following a far greater one 19 years earlier on May 14, 1948. On June 5, 1967, Israel launched its so-called "Six-Day (preemptive) War" against three of its neighboring Arab states - Egypt, Jordan and Syria - claiming it was in self-defense to avoid annihilation Israeli leaders later admitted was spurious and false cover for a large-scale long-planned, (…)

  • Swiss authorities question U.S. counterfeiting charges against North Korea
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Swiss authorities question U.S. counterfeiting charges against North Korea
    By Kevin G. Hall
    McClatchy Newspapers
    Posted on Tue, May. 22, 2007 (MCT)
    WASHINGTON - Swiss police who closely monitor the circulation of counterfeit currency have challenged the Bush administration’s assertions that North Korea is manufacturing fake American $100 bills.
    President Bush has accused North Korea of making and circulating the false bills, so perfect they’re called supernotes, and in late 2005 (…)

  • The Grauniad: An Unlimited Conduit for USUK’s War Propaganda
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fed up of the garbage with which their mainstream media force-feeds them, North American as well as readers all over the world have turned to newspapers like the UK’s Guardian in the hope of finding informed, intelligent reporting of world events. They will be disappointed. Today’s Guardian is as much part of an Orwellian, Atlanticist, warmongering propaganda campaign as is the disgraceful New York Times.
    Far from being the ’socialist’ newspaper that our American cousins believe it to be, (…)

  • New attacks against Turkish Journalists and Trade Unionists
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    New attacks against Turkish Journalists and Trade Unionists The socialist weekly periodical „Alinteri“ (Sweat of Labour) has been subject to new attacks. The official correspondent of „Alinteri“ in the Turkish capital Ankara has been detained by a police raid early this morning. The correspondent Sami gök was not the only one to be taken by the police, the President of Egitim Emekcileri Dernegi (Education Workers Union), Sefa Gokdemir, and 10 readers of „Alinteri“ newspaper are still under (…)

  • Israeli banks profit from Holocaust
    18 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2004 16:49 MECCA TIME, 13:49 GMT By Jonathan Cook in Jerusalem
    Investigations by the Israeli parliament have dug up disturbing evidence that Israel has been profiting for decades from vast sums invested in local banks by European Jews who died in the Nazi death camps. Banks object to how Holocaust assets have been calculated
    And even now the banks are delaying returning the money to their heirs.
    But unlike a similar scandal that hit European banks in the (…)