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  • "Tehran is terrified: America is being friendly"- Times
    4 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran’s hardline leadership has been knocked sideways by Barack Obama’s conciliatory tone. But how will it affect the election?
    Richard Beeston
    In Tehran drivers dutifully wear their seatbelts but think nothing of racing through a red light. Women must cover their faces and bodies under strict Islamic laws, but young women stretch the rules to reveal designer clothes, dyed hair, heavy make-up and prominently displayed bandages from recent cosmetic surgery.
    The state-controlled media (…)

  • Hey, hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000
    1 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Barack Hussein Obama (BHO) has just passed the 100 day mark of his presidency. Decent anti-racist humanitarians can ask the question: how many people have died avoidably in the Occupied Territories of the American Empire under President Obama? The answer: 180,000 including 113,000 under-5 year old infants; for details read on.
    1. Annual under-5 infant deaths in Overseas American Empire.
    Consulting UNICEF (see: ) we obtain the following estimates of “annual under-5 infant deaths” in (…)

  • Nepal’s Maoist Government Faces Unrest in the Ranks
    30 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    27th April 2009
    In the latest development in Nepal’s experiment with allowing former rebels to take the helm of the nation’s democratically elected government, the Maoist leadership formally retracted its threat last week to sack the chief of the formerly royalist Nepal army. The move, some say, may have saved the less-than-a- year-old government from being overthrown. The intractable dispute over assimilating the former Maoist guerrillas into the army, as per the terms of the peace accord (…)

  • Iran arrests group planning pre-vote bombings: radio
    29 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iran arrests group planning pre-vote bombings: radio
    Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:30am
    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has arrested a group of people linked to Israel who were planning bombings ahead of the Islamic Republic’s June presidential election, the intelligence minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.
    State radio, citing Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, did not say how many people had been arrested or give any other details.
    Iran often accuses Israel and the United States, (…)

  • Obama and Netanyahu: Storm Clouds Ahead?
    26 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Obama and Netanyahu: Storm Clouds Ahead?
    by Helena Cobban
    Global Research, April 25, 2009 Inter Press Service (IPS)
    A big confrontation is brewing between the United States and Israel’s new government over the Palestine issue. Since his first days in office, President Barack Obama has expressed clear support for speedy action toward the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Since then, he and his key advisers — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and special envoy (…)

  • US to abandon Israel over Iran?
    26 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    US to abandon Israel over Iran?
    Global Research, April 25, 2009 Press TV
    As Israeli threats of war against Iran encounter stiff opposition in the US, the new administration mulls over imposing sanctions on Tel Aviv.
    US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are mulling over a plan to impose sanctions against Israel if the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu implements its long-sought policy of countering Iran’s nuclear activities by taking military action (…)

  • China’s GDP to overtake U.S. by early 2020s, says Deutsche Bank analyst
    26 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    China’s GDP to overtake U.S. by early 2020s, says Deutsche Bank analyst
    Mainland to become world’s largest in about a decade, says Deutsche Bank
    By Chris Oliver, MarketWatch
    Last update: 9:15 a.m. EDT April 23, 2009Comments: 310
    HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — China will overtake the U.S. in terms of economic output within a decade, according to estimates released Thursday by Deutsche Bank, which said it had to accelerate its forecast of the mainland’s leadership in the global economy in (…)

  • Nuclear weapon free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East and the World? What about that?
    25 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nuclear weapon free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East/World? What about that?
    reposted of Mark Gaffney
    Friends, we must work together to prevent a catastrophe. We must stop the next Middle East war before it starts.
    The US government must turn over to the United Nations the primary responsibility for resolving the deepening crisis in Iraq, and, immediately thereafter, withdraw US forces from the country.
    We must also prevail upon the Israelis to sign the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) (…)

  • Iran, Israel ready to go to war
    24 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov, for RIA Novosti) - On April 18, the London Times reported that "the Israeli military is preparing itself to launch a massive aerial assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities within days of being given the go-ahead by its new government."
    Several days later, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being the "most cruel and racist regime," sparking a scandal at a UN racism conference in Geneva.
    At the same time, Israeli websites reported that Prime (…)

  • Iraqi Genocide (>4M dead) & Western Holocaust Commission, Holocaust Minimization & Holocaust Denial
    24 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The recent boycotts and walkouts by holocaust-committing and holocaust–denying Western countries over the UN Anti-racism Forum raised again the false Zionist and pro-Zionist Western assertions of “holocaust denial” by Iranian President Ahmadinejad. In reality, President Ahmadinejad is clearly NOT a denier of this WW2 atrocity as revealed from his speech at the UN Anti-racism Forum : “[US-UK post-war Jewish colonization was] "in order to establish a racist government in the occupied (…)