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  • U.S. Sold Phosphorus Shells Used in Gaza to Israel
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Sold Phosphorus Shells Used in Gaza to Israel
    Published: February 02, 2009 6:40 AM ET
    LITTLE ROCK The United States sold phosphorus artillery shells made at the Pine Bluff Arsenal to Israel — the same kind of rounds allegedly used against civilians during the recent fighting in Gaza.
    A State Department official told The Associated Press that the rounds — typically used to light up darkened battlefields or provide smoke cover for combat troops — were most recently shipped to (…)

  • Neither The US Nor Israel Is A "Genuine Party To Peace." by Noam Chomsky
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Neither The US Nor Israel Is A "Genuine Party To Peace."
    by Noam Chomsky
    Global Research, February 1, 2009 Information Clearing House
    Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously - both what he says, and what he omits. Particularly significant is his first substantive statement on foreign affairs, on January 22, at the State Department, when introducing George Mitchell to serve as (…)

  • Economic meltdown could cost 50 million jobs, says ILO
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    One World South Asia 29 January 2009
    The global economic crisis is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of people joining the ranks of the unemployed, working poor and those in vulnerable employment, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global Employment Trends report (GET).
    Source: minnesotaindependent.com
    The ongoing financial crisis could add another 50 million to the globally unemployed. This grim scenario is predicted by ILO’s latest report (…)

  • War on Gaza: Israeli Action, Not Reaction
    1 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Stubbornly insisting on getting the carriage before the horse as the approach to a “durable and sustainable” ceasefire in Gaza Strip, U.S. and European diplomacy in particular is building on an Israeli misleading premise that the 22 – day military operation, dubbed “Cast Lead,” against the Palestinian Gaza Strip was a reaction and not a premeditated long planned scheme that found in the change of guards in Washington D.C. an excellent timing. It was “not simply a (…)

  • Own part of a corporation and ask for action against Israel
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Own part of a corporation and ask for action against Israel
    If any of you own shares* in a company doing business with Israeli companies and want to actively take actions, you could do something like this:
    (*You can buy shares if you dont own them - going cheap at the moment)
    Letter to Vodafone PLC
    Dear Sir/Madam,
    With regards to Vodafone Corporate responsibility. As a shareholder, I understand that my company purchases products and services from Israeli companies, for example (…)

  • CLINTON: Israel has right to respond to Gaza rocket attacks
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    29/01/2009 HAARETZ By News Agencies Source: stevecotler.com U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that Israel had a right to defend itself and that Palestinian rocket attacks on the Jewish territory could not go unanswered.
    "We support Israel’s right to self-defense. The [Palestinian] rocket barrages which are getting closer and closer to populated areas [in Israel] cannot go unanswered," Clinton said in her first news conference at the State Department. (…)

  • China Considering Dropping U.S. Treasuries for Gold
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    China Considering Dropping U.S. Treasuries for Gold
    Posted January 30th, 2009 by MississippiGRITS
    LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Gold slipped from a three-month high on Friday after data showed the U.S. economy had contracted by less than expected in the fourth quarter, taking some of the heat out of safe-haven buying.
    Spot gold climbed 2 percent to $926.90 an ounce, its highest since Oct 10. It was quoted at $918.90/920.90 an ounce at 1406 GMT, up from $906.75 in New York late on (…)

  • Is Gates Undermining Another Opening to Iran?
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Inter Press Service (IPS)
    by Gareth Porter
    Source: ohmygov.com
    WASHINGTON - When U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused Iran of "subversive activity" in Latin America Tuesday, it raised the question whether he is trying to discourage President Barack Obama from abandoning the hard line policy of coercive diplomacy toward Iran he has favored for nearly three decades.
    In making a new accusation against Iran, just as Obama is still (…)

  • Palestine has the Right to Respond to Israeli Attacks
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last update - 19:42 27/01/2009 Palestine has the Right to Respond to Israeli Attacks By News Agencies The Global People’s Resistance Front (GPRF) said on Tuesday that Palestine had a right to defend itself from the US funded Israeli attacks on the Palestinian territories. The war crimes and illegal attacks against Palestine could not go unanswered.
    "We support Palestines right to self-defense. Israel, while armed and funded as the fourth center of nuclear and military (…)

  • Art of War: Gaza
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Gaza