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  • Iraqi unions launch united struggle
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Susan Webb
    Iraq’s labor movement has formed a united permanent coordinating committee to “make its positions known” to the Iraqi government, and to challenge the dictates of international financial institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
    Six union federations, including two Kurdish labor organizations, issued a joint statement, Jan. 16, stressing “the importance of complete sovereignty for Iraq over its petroleum and natural resources” to “develop them in a (…)

  • Gorilla Empire? A Global State of Disunion
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Engelhardt
    This Tuesday, the presidential State of the Union Address rolls around yet again. Only four Januaries have passed since the President used a State of the Union Address to brand Iran, Iraq, and North Korea — the first two then bitter enemies, the third completely unrelated to either of them and on the other side of the planet — as a World-War-II-style "axis of evil." It was the first great State of Disunion deception of the Bush administration’s regal reign of error. Only (…)

  • Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - As his plane lifted off the runway here in August 2003, Brian Dean Curran rewound his last, bleak days as the American ambassador in this tormented land.
    Haiti, Mr. Curran feared, was headed toward a cataclysm, another violent uncoupling of its once jubilant embrace of democracy more than a decade before. He had come here hoping to help that tenuous democracy grow. Now he was leaving in anger and foreboding.
    Seven months (…)

  • Debate on Climate Shifts to Issue of Irreparable Change
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee ’Tipping Point’ When It Is Too Late to Act
    By Juliet Eilperin
    Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that, within decades, humans may be helpless to slow or reverse the trend.
    This "tipping point" scenario has begun to consume many prominent researchers in the United States and abroad, because the answer could determine how (…)

  • KUTCHH AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EARTHQUAKE - AN OVERALL VIEW
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    KUTCHH AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EARTHQUAKE - AN OVERALL VIEW A REPORT INTRODUCTION- Five years have passed since the 2001 Killer Earthquake, which devastated the life of Kutchh and killed thousands of people. Socialist Unity Centre of India (S.U.C.I.) reached Kutchh on the second day after the Earthquake, set up its base camp at Bahchau, and undertook intense medical and material relief work along with educational and cultural relief. A tarpaulin school was constructed in the early days, (…)

  • PSYOPS Blowback & the Imperial Arrogance of the DeceptoCons
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pentagon Document Shows ’PSYOP’ Messages Boomerang to U.S.
    By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer January 27, 2006
    WASHINGTON (AP) A Pentagon "road map" to more effective use of information as a weapon says psychological warfare messages targeted at foreign audiences are increasingly finding their way into the United States.
    The 78-page document, released Thursday by the National Security Archive, a nonprofit research group, spells out the Pentagon’s reasoning for putting greater emphasis (…)

  • 9/11 Paymaster behind 7/7 attacks : The Observer Research Foundation
    30 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Omar Saeed Sheikh , the British agent and the toast of Pakistan’s ISI, ran the 7/7 attacks from his jail cell. He was sentenced to death for the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl and has miraculously escaped execution -surviving no fewer than 32 court appeals. At the time of his original sentencing the United Kingdom begged for leniency . Spare his precious life , the government shreiked. According to Labour MP Michael Meacher and the Observer Research Foundation , Omar has been a (…)

  • The Killing Fields: Ghosts of the Walking Dead
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Don’t know if it has already been posted but that this was a must read. Sorry if this is a dupe.
    Found at www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
    Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price—we think the price is worth it. 60 Minutes (5/12/96)
    Oil, Simply (…)

  • 9/10/01 : ON THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    1) The Northern Alliance Leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud , is buried - paving the way for installation of an oil company company executive , Hamid Karzai. The likey perps : British intelligence and Pakistan’s ISI
    2) The head of Pakistani intelligence arrives in Washington on this day , after wiring 100k to Mohamed Atta. An asset of British intelligence , Omar Saeed Sheikh, facilitates the transaction.
    3) Sir David Manning ,Tony Blair’s top foreign policy advisor, meets with Deputy Sec. of (…)

  • Financial Times/LA Times - 57% Americans support military action in Iran
    28 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
    The poll, conducted Sunday through Wednesday, found that 57% of Americans favor military intervention if Iran’s Islamic government pursues a program that could enable it to build nuclear arms.
    Support for military (…)