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  • Latin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington’s grip
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US-dominated world order is being challenged by a new spirit of independence in the global south
    by Noam Chomsky
    The US-dominated world order is being challenged by a new spirit of independence in the global south
    The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order" - Europe, North America and Asia - has continued to evolve.
    Every day Latin America, too, (…)

  • Antarctica Cannot Replace Ice Loss
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Study finds continent is shrinking faster than it can grow. Experts say changes to the global water cycle could hasten the pace of sea-level rise.
    By Robert Lee Hotz
    The ice sheets of Antarctica - the world’s largest reservoir of fresh water - are shrinking faster than new snow can fall, scientists reported Thursday in the first comprehensive satellite survey of the entire continent.
    Researchers at the University of Colorado determined that between 2002 and 2005 Antarctica lost ice at (…)

  • US LAUNCHES DIRTY WAR : WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE ?
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There can be no doubt what malign force is behind the massive spike in sectarian violence in Iraq ...The Pentagon ... Why ? They openly flouted the so called ’ Salvador Option’ 13 months ago ... From Newsweek of 1/14/05 : The Salvador Option ’ : " one pentagon proposal would send special forces to advise ,support, and possibly train Iraqi squads , most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathisers.... Why ? (…)

  • Iran: Time To Leak
    21 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Katherine Gun was a translator at the Britain’s communications spy agency, General Communications Headquarters. In 2002, she leaked a top-secret memo to a British newspaper, revealing the U.S. was spying on U.N. Security Council members before their vote on the Iraq war.
    Where are the whistleblowers about Iran?
    It is exactly three years since the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq, and a little over three years since Martin Bright and his colleagues at the London Observer (…)

  • The Lobby: Why is American policy in the Middle East skewered in favor of Israel?
    20 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    American foreign policy has been weighed down for all too many years by an albatross hung round Uncle Sam’s neck, one that distorts our stance especially vis-à-vis Middle Eastern issues and ultimately works against U.S. interests in the region and around the world: that albatross is unconditional support for the state of Israel. Of course, saying this amounts to a hate crime in today’s political atmosphere, and it is almost impossible to criticize the Jewish state without being accused of (…)

  • No pre-emptive Chernobyl in Iran!!!
    20 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nuclear Bunker Buster Bombs againt Iran: Madness
    Stephen M. Osborn
    The latest information I have had from the followers of Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use nuclear “bunker busters” in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can affirm that this is absolute madness. The “bunker buster” is a cute sounding name for a nuclear horror. Air bursts are horrible enough, doing incredible destruction through heat, shock and (…)

  • — GOP-connected contractor Custer Battles e-mail talks of Filipino house maids, fashion queens
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 19, 2006— GOP-connected contractor Custer Battles e-mail talks of Filipino house maids, fashion queens (in the manner of former FEMA Nordstrom shirt aficionado Michael Brown), and, more importantly, raising a $100 million fund to pursue non-government contracting work with "a lot less risk." Later, Custer Battles did attempt to negotiate a $100 million infusion from an unknown firm in Dubai after receiving $15 million in seed money from the benefactor. Custer Battles, Inc. was formed (…)

  • The Hague Tribunal: The Political Economy of Sham Justice by Edward S. Herman
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Carla Del Ponte Addresses Goldman Sachs on Justice and Profits
    November 20, 2005 GlobalResearch.ca On October 6, 2005, Carla Del Ponte, prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), gave a talk before an audience at Goldman Sachs in London that throws light on the role of the ICTY as well as the character and qualities of Ms. Del Ponte and her efforts. [1]
    Speaking before this business audience, Ms. Del Ponte emphasized that the ICTY and other UN (…)

  • How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
    We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies. [includes rush (…)

  • Spring calendar: Two months of activism! Get involved with ANSWER!
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    March 18-20 Global Days of Action April 20 Evening with civil rights attorney Leonard Weinglass April 29 Antiwar March in NYC May 20 "Hands off Venezuela, Hands off Cuba" march in DC
    Starting next weekend and lasting over the duration of the next two months there will be an intense level of mass anti-war and anti-imperialist organizing and mobilization. We hope everyone will join the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and other anti-war groups in building mass opposition to the government’s War for (…)