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  • Iraq Removes Chief Judge in Saddam Trial
    20 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By SAMEER N. YACOUB and JAMAL HALABY
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The chief judge in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial was replaced Tuesday amid complaints from Shiite and Kurdish officials that he was too soft on the former Iraqi leader, a move that could raise accusations of government interference in the highly sensitive case.
    The government spokesman’s office announced that judge Abdullah al-Amiri was removed but did not say who would take his place or why he was replaced. He was replaced on (…)

  • IMPERIALISM 101 - THE US ADDICION TO WAR, MAYHEM AND MADNESS - PART II
    20 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness - Part II - by Stephen Lendman part I
    Part I of this article explained that the US was always a warrior, imperial nation, building it in steps and addicted to its madness. First we took it from its original inhabitants; then we expanded it beyond our borders by seizing the half of Mexico we wanted; later we established colonies abroad; and now, our method of choice is to rule the world through compliant leaders in client states (…)

  • Beautiful Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on MSNBC
    20 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Beautiful Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on MSNBC
    19.9.2006
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912050/

  • FOOD STANDARD AGENCY FACES LEGAL CHALLENGE OVER GM-CONTAMINATED RICE
    19 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth has taken the first step in mounting a legal challenge to the UK Food Standards Agency for its failure to take appropriate action to prevent illegal GM rice from being sold to the public. The challenge coincides with the discovery, by the environmental campaign group, of GM-contaminated rice in two types of own-brand rice sold by British supermarket, Morrisons [1].
    Friends of the Earth sent a number of rice samples for testing after it was (…)

  • The Coming Collapse of Zionism
    18 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Moral Bankruptcy of Israel’s Founding Idea
    The Coming Collapse of Zionism
    By KATHLEEN CHRISTISON Former CIA Analyst
    Is it only observers outside the conventional mainstream who have noticed that by its murderous assault on Lebanon and simultaneously on Gaza, Israel finally exposed, for even the most deluded to see, the total bankruptcy of its very founding idea?
    Can it be that the deluded are still deluded? Can it truly still be that Israel’s bankruptcy is evident only to those (…)

  • Kevin Zeese: “It’s Time to Try Diplomacy in Middle East!”
    18 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Bombing Iraq (after 9/11) would be like our invading Mexico after the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor.” - Richard Clarke, former National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
    Washington, D.C. - “The U.S. has put in place policies in the Middle East for many decades that give people of the region many good reasons to hate us,” said Kevin Zeese, an Independent candidate for the U.S. Senator for the state of Maryland. He was speaking at the Palestine Center, on September 13, (…)

  • Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
    By Jason Leopold August 5, 2005
    Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear scientists on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the scientists’ oil company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge of both companies’ business dealings.
    Just last (…)

  • The Hariri Assasination Revisited
    17 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Hariri Assassination Investigation: Are Those Who Pulled the Trigger Pulling the Strings? Interview with Jürgen Cain Külbel conducted by Silvia Cattori. Silvia Cattori
    September 15, 2006
    Berlin
    Jürgen Cain Külbel, born in 1956 in Berlin, graduated in Criminology, is among those honest and courageous investigative journalists who are ready to undergo great sacrifices in order to contribute to the search for truth and the respect we owe our readers. Reading his book (1), as well as (…)

  • The Decline Of The American Empire
    16 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Decline Of The American Empire By John Chuckman September 15, 2006 The rise now of China, Japan, Europe, and others-India, Korea, and to some extent Russia and Brazil-means the United States must be relatively diminished on the world stage, much as an only child whose mother just gave birth to quintuplets.
    The United States is losing its capacity as supplier of many useful things to the world. This role is being seized by China and others. The American working class, which briefly (…)

  • IMPERIALISM 101 - THE US ADDICION TO WAR, MAYHEM AND MADNESS - PART I
    16 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness - Part I - by Stephen Lendman
    The US-led aggression in the Middle East and the three failed attempts to oust Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez since 2002 (with a fourth now planned and likely to be implemented soon) are just the latest examples of this country’s imperial agenda and the "new world order" it has in mind. The way this country now engages throughout the world isn’t much different than what it’s done close to home and (…)