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  • China’s Proposal for a Super-sovereign Reserve Currency System
    10 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    China’s Proposal for a Super-sovereign Reserve Currency System Reform the International Monetary System
    by Zhou Xiaochuan
    Global Research, April 9, 2009 People’s Bank of China
    Proposal of the Governor of the People’s Bank of China presented to the G20 Meetings
    The outbreak of the current crisis and its spillover in the world have confronted us with a long-existing but still unanswered question,i.e., what kind of international reserve currency do we need to secure global financial (…)

  • The Financial War Against Iceland: Being defeated by debt is as deadly as outright military warfare
    5 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Financial War Against Iceland: Being defeated by debt is as deadly as outright military warfare
    by Prof Michael Hudson
    Global Research, April 5, 2009
    Iceland is under attack – not militarily but financially. It owes more than it can pay. This threatens debtors with forfeiture of what remains of their homes and other assets. The government is being told to sell off the nation’s public domain, its natural resources and public enterprises to pay the financial gambling debts run up (…)

  • Should Obama be tried for his Afghan Genocide war crimes in Occupied Afghanistan?
    5 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    As the new American president tours Europe garnering support for mass murder of Indigenous Asians in Occupied Afghanistan and robot-bombed Pakistan, sensible, anti-racist, humanitarian people should take stock and ask the pertinent questions e.g. how many people have died avoidably in Occupied Afghanistan so far under American Emperor Barack Hussein Obama?
    Occupation excess deaths can be either violent (from bullets and bombs) or non-violent (from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated (…)

  • Sri Lanka: Killings, Concentration Camps and International Silence
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Arundhati Roy
    What is happening rightg now in Sri Lanka, and what is being so effectively hidden from public scrutiny, is a brazen, openly racist war. The world must step in. Now.
    http://www.guerrillanews.com/headli...

  • Now you see them, now you don’t: Orthodox Israeli newspapers Photo-shop out female Cabinet ministers
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Now you see them, now you don’t: Orthodox Israeli newspapers Photo-shop out female Cabinet ministers
    By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE
    3rd April 2009
    Two women serve in Israel’s new Cabinet - but some Israelis would rather not see them.
    Newspapers aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jewish readers tampered with the inaugural photograph of the Cabinet, erasing female ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver.
    Ultra-Orthodox newspapers consider it immodest to print images of women.
    Continue to read: (…)

  • Iraqi Cardiologist Dr Al-Kubaisy’s “Occupation Year 7” Speech in EU Parliament reveals Iraqi Holocaust
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Below are the beginning and end parts of the transcript of the “Occupation year 7” speech by Iraqi cardiologist Dr Omar Al-Kubaisy in the European Parliament, 18th March 2009, about the horrendous consequences of the illegal, war criminal and genocidal racist Zionist (RZ)-backed US, UK and Australian invasion and occupation of Iraq (for the full speech see: ).
    This transcript was forwarded to me by the eminent BRussells Tribunal – both Dr Omar Al-Kubaisy and myself are members of the (…)

  • Chas Freeman slams ’destructive’ Israeli policies
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chas Freeman slams ’destructive’ Israeli policies Charles W. Freeman
    Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:20:20 GMT
    Former US diplomat Charles W. Freeman says he doubts whether the current Israeli policies can guarantee the regime’s survival in the Middle East.
    "I don’t see how Israel can continue to survive in the long term as a state in the Middle East if it is not prepared to deal with respect and consideration with its Arab neighbors specially the Palestinians," Freeman, a former US ambassador to (…)

  • James Petras’ New Book: The Power of Israel in the United States
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    James Petras’ New Book: The Power of Israel in the United States
    by Stephen Lendman
    Global Research, October 29, 2006
    James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He’s a noted academic figure on the US Left and a well-respected Latin American expert and longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles. He’s also an advisor to the landless workers in Brazil and the unemployed workers movement in Argentina. Along the way, he managed to find (…)

  • Let’s not Be Blackmailed by the War Cartel
    1 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Let’s not Be Blackmailed by the War Cartel
    by Tobias Salander, Switzerland
    In the 19th year of the war, the states of the US-UK-Germany war alliance are facing bankruptcy. Yet, instead of transforming the military-industrial complex into a peace economy and making the economic power serve the people, the wars are carried on, even extended – and states like Switzerland are attacked, in order to raise money for the empty war chest. Instead of following the guidelines of international law, (…)

  • Remembering Land Day
    31 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Palestinians across the Middle East were due to commemorate Land Day today, marking the anniversary of clashes in 1976 in which six unarmed Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army as it tried to break up a general strike. Although Land Day is one of the most important anniversaries in the Palestinian calendar, sometimes referred to as the Palestinians’ national day, the historical event it marks is little spoken of and rarely studied. “Maybe its significance is surprising given (…)