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  • Pakistan army beaten by "talibans"
    10 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Troops pull out of Lowi Sam
    By Anwarullah KHAN
    Source: "The Dawn"
    KHAAR, Aug 9: Security forces on Friday night pulled out of Lowi Sam area of the Bajaur tribal region after fierce clashes with militants. Both sides suffered heavy casualties in the three-day gunbattle.
    Eyewitnesses said the situation was chaotic and the area was littered with bodies and burnt vehicles. They said the soldiers, who had been under siege for the past three days, had returned to their base in Khaar, (…)

  • Israel backs Georgia in Caspian Oil Pipeline Battle with Russia
    9 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: Debka (indian intelligence)
    Georgian tanks and infantry, aided by Israeli military advisers, captured the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, early Friday, Aug. 8, bringing the Georgian-Russian conflict over the province to a military climax.
    Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin threatened a “military response.”
    Former Soviet Georgia called up its military reserves after Russian warplanes bombed its new positions in the renegade province.
    In Moscow’s first (…)

  • MASSIVE US ARMADA HEADS FOR IRAN AS MAJOR WAR LOOMS LARGE!
    8 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A massive US naval armada is heading for the Middle East. Meanwhile Russia and Georgia have engaged forces in what appears to be a major geopolitical crisis and developing confrontation in the region. This is probably as dangerous a constellation of events as has yet occurred. Don’t just wait for it on CNN.
    Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war (…)

  • Insurrection in Kashmir occupied by Indian army
    8 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Muslims in Kashmir protest against assault: Yasin Malik hospitalized
    SRINAGAR, Aug 7: Security forces fired teargas and used batons on Thursday against hundreds of angry people were protesting over assaults in occupied Kashmir, police said.
    Chanting “we want freedom” and “Indian forces leave Kashmir,” the protesters hurled rocks at police and paramilitary soldiers at several places in Srinagar, said Prabhakar Tripathi, a spokesman for the Central Reserve Police Force.
    The Muslims say (…)

  • The ‘Security Vacuum’ in Jerusalem
    6 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Jerusalem, the casus belli of the Palestinian national struggle of liberation and the rallying cry of the Zionist movement for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, was recently described as becoming “a terror hub,” a “hotbed” of violent Palestinian neighborhoods and as being “encircled” by “a security vacuum,” where going into the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat “is more dangerous than the (northern West Bank) Jenin refugee camp,” according to the Israeli (…)

  • India : Sops for cops serving in red dens
    6 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bhubaneswar, Aug. 5: In order to boost the morale of police personnel working in Maoist-affected areas, chief minister Naveen Patnaik today announced a state gallantry award of Rs 1 lakh and a special package for them.
    The morale of the men in khaki working in the Naxalite-hit areas has been down following frequent rebel attacks. Recently in two consecutive attacks in Malkgangiri, 55 policemen of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh had been killed.
    Meanwhile, leaders of the Orissa Police (…)

  • The Devastation of Iraq’s Past by Hugh Eakin (URUKNET)
    31 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    URUKNET.INFO July 27, 2008
    In May 2003—some eight weeks after the American invasion had begun— Abdul-Amir Hamdani, the archaeology inspector of Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq, traveled to Najaf to call on the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. He had an urgent request. "We needed his help to stop the pillage," Hamdani recalled. The province, which is midway between Baghdad and Basra, covers much of what was once the land of Sumer. In the third millennium BC, it was a fertile plain densely (…)

  • Be Careful What You Wish For
    29 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    The Peoples Corporate Republic of China, the world’s largest slave labor plantation, have sought desperately to showcase to the world their Two Systems -One China policy by hosting the Olympic games.
    So far the plan is working beyond their wildest expectations, but not in the way they anticipated. While many hosting countries have, in the past, feared not having Olympic venues ready in time for the visiting people, China’s problems are just the opposite. They must vet (…)

  • Eyes on the Maobadi: 4 Reasons Nepal’s Revolution Matters
    28 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mike Ely
    Something remarkable is happening. A whole generation of people has never seen a radical, secular, revolutionary movement rise with popular support. And yet here it is – in Nepal today.
    This movement has overthrown Nepal’s hated King Gyanendra and abolished the medieval monarchy. It has created a revolutionary army that now squares off with the old King’s army. It has built parallel political power in remote rural areas over a decade of guerrilla war – undermining feudal (…)

  • Do you want to know why Iran has a nuclear program?
    26 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The principal lesson taught in school regarding personal finance is that everyone should have at least a five-year business plan. Creating such a plan forces us to take inventory of what we have, allowing us to figure out what we need to do to be able to prepare for what our needs may be for the future.
    This concept is also applied to collectives, such as corporations, communities and countries. The larger the collective the further into the future the business plan should foresee.
    This (…)