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  • A near-riot and parliament besieged: Iceland boiling mad at credit crunch
    25 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A near-riot and parliament besieged: Iceland boiling mad at credit crunch
    24 November 2008
    By Omar Valdimarsson in REYKJAVIK THOUSANDS of Icelanders have demonstrated in Reykjavik to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Geir Haarde and Central Bank governor David Oddsson, for failing to stop the country’s financial meltdown. It was the latest in a series of protests in the capital since October’s banking collapse crippled the island’s economy. At least five people were injured (…)

  • GEAB N°29: Phase IV of the Global Systemic crisis: Breakdown of the Global Monetary System by summer 2009
    24 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    GEAB N°29: Phase IV of the Global Systemic crisis: Breakdown of the Global Monetary System by summer 2009
    November 17, 2008
    The G20-meeting held in Washington on November 14/15, 2008, is in its essence a historical indicator that the Western - above all Anglo-Saxon - monopoly on global economic and financial governance, is coming to an end. Nevertheless, according to LEAP/E2020, this meeting also clearly demonstrated that this kind of summits is doomed to inefficiency because they (…)

  • Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq - A CorpWatch Report on L-3/Titan
    23 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq - A CorpWatch Report on L-3/Titan
    http://s3.amazonaws.com/corpwatch.org/downloads/L-3TITANreport.pdf
    Enterprise "Titan" - if secret services outsource tasks ...
    – http://translate.google.com/transla...

  • Terrorism and Human Rights
    22 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS By- D.N.Rath
    THE SILENCE AND OUTRAGE Suddenly there is ambiguous silence on GUJCOC after the of arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh. The euphoria that was on wheel has come to a sudden halt, where one after another related to Ahmedabad serial bomb blast and Surat are arrested. The ambiguous silence is very meaningful. The fate of the euphoria depends on the so called ATS’s finding of the involvement of so called terror trio, Sadhvi Pragya Singh, Lt. Colonel Srikant (…)

  • Washington secretly authorized military raids on 20 countries since 2004
    20 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington secretly authorized military raids on 20 countries since 2004
    By Bill Van Auken 11 November 2008
    Since 2004, the Bush administration has secretly authorized military raids against up to 20 countries without any declaration of war or even any explicit congressional authorization for armed action, according to a report published Monday in the New York Times.
    The report, which cites recent attacks on targets in Pakistan, Syria and Somalia, establishes that under an order (…)

  • War Escalation : "Operation Lion Heart" in Pakistan and Afghanistan
    20 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aamir Latif, IOL Correspondent
    Six people were killed in the Bannu strike, the first US missile attack outside the rugged tribal regions. (Reuters)
    ISLAMABAD — American, Pakistani and Afghan troops are conducting a coordinated operation to hunt down Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants along the Afghan border.
    "Pakistan doesn’t have the drone technology. Therefore, we have to depend on them (US forces)," a senior Pakistani government official told IslamOnline.net, requesting anonymity (…)

  • US seeks alternative supply routes to Afghanistan
    20 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "The Dawn"
    By Our Correspondent
    WASHINGTON, Nov 19: The United States is seeking alternative supply routes for Nato troops in Afghanistan, including a tortuous overland journey from Europe, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
    The United States currently uses the Karachi-Khyber Pass route for supplying 67,000 foreign troops stationed in Afghanistan, including 32,000 Americans. Nearly half of US forces operate under Nato command.
    About 75 per cent of Nato and US (…)

  • Bowles on Palestine / media coverage
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.creative-i.info/?p=2196
    by Sarah Meyer, UK researcher
    http://indexresearch.blogspot.com
    "Cowardice asks the question, ’Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ’Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ’Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ’Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • US to send more copters to Iraq, Afghanistan
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Seoul—The United States will withdraw about 20 Apache attack helicopters from South Korea for redeployment in Iraq and Afghanistan next year, the U.S. military said Sunday.The U.S. has notified South Korea of its plan to re-station one of the two Apache battalions in South Korea to make the unit available for rotational deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military command in Seoul said in a statement.Each Apache battalion is comprised of some 20 helicopters, according to U.S. (…)

  • Pak : Resumption of Isaf supplies likely today
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "The Dawn"
    By Ibrahim Shinwari and Syed Irfan Raza
    LANDI KOTAL/ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The government is likely to allow resumption of supplies to International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan and reopen the Peshawar-Torkham highway on Monday.
    An official said on Sunday that security forces would escort convoys carrying fuel and other goods from Tahkt Bai to the border town of Torkham.
    On Nov 10, a group of militants hijacked 13 trucks carrying supplies for Nato (…)