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  • Israeli minister warns of Holocaust for Gaza if violence continues
    1 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
    Israel’s deputy defence minister yesterday warned his country was close to launching a huge military operation in Gaza and said Palestinians would bring on themselves a "bigger shoah," using the Hebrew word usually reserved for the Holocaust.
    The choice of vocabulary from Matan Vilnai, an often outspoken former army general, was unusually grave - the word is not normally used for anything other than the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews.
    Vilnai was speaking about (…)

  • France heads for war games in the Gulf
    28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ben Hall in Paris and Simeon Kerr in Dubai
    French armed forces will take part in large-scale war games in the Gulf next week, underlining France’s growing military presence in the region as heightened tensions persist over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
    France will deploy 1,500 personnel, two frigates and eight Mirage fighter jets to the defence exercises, held in conjunction with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
    Paris has long-standing defence co-operation agreements with the two (…)

  • CIA-Mossad, Inc Assassinate Hezbollah Co-Founder
    21 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hezbollah Co-founder Imad Mugniyah Assassinated By Trish Schuh February 21, 2008 BEIRUT, Lebanon- It was clear something big was about to break in the war on terror. In the weeks before "the world’s most wanted terrorist," Hezbollah’s Imad Mugniyah was assassinated, half a dozen internet/telecommunications cables had been cut to countries through out the middle east. Or "sabotaged" as the UN suggested. Similar types of communications interception often precede the launch of (…)

  • China - New Promoter of Mega Dams
    17 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS)
    By Antoaneta Bezlova
    BEIJING, May 23 (IPS)
    China is emerging as a new backer of massive dam projects around the globe, giving rise to fears for pristine natural resources and the cultural heritage of river peoples.
    Already home to nearly half of the world’s dams, China intends to more than double its hydropower generating capacity by 2020 by adding a series of new dams across the country. More significantly, in recent years, Beijing has been (…)

  • 1.5 Million Afghani Widows, Illiterate, Often Forced to Prostitute Themselves
    15 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Alternet - February 14, 2008
    1.5 Million Afghani Widows, Illiterate, Earning $16/Month and Often Forced to Prostitute Themselves
    Posted by Lucinda Marshall Feminist Peace Network
    The average age of an Afghan widow is just 35 years, and 94 percent of them are unable to read and write.
    The following report from IRIN tells the ghastly truth of what it is like for women in the aftermath of decades of militarism in Afghanistan:
    "There over 1.5 million widows out of an estimated 26.6 (…)

  • Iraqis killed by USA toll ’over one million’
    13 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq death toll ’over one million’
    aljazeera :: 2008-02-01 ::
    Over 1,000,000 Iraqis Killed as a Result of the Conflict Started by the US-led Invasion of Iraq in 2003
    More than one million Iraqis have died as a result of the conflict started by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a new survey by a UK polling group.
    The report was followed by more violence on Thursday, with five people killed and eight injured in a bomb blast in the Kazimiyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, (…)

  • The Garbage we’ve dumped in the Oceans is coming back to us : From India to the Arctic, our Ocean Currents are changing
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming...
    “The team of scientists found a 10-millibar decrease in water pressure at the bottom of the ocean at the North Pole between 2002 and 2006, equal to (…)

  • Too many babies without eyes in Iraq as a result of depleted Uranium bombs
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Edward De Sutter 26/05/2001 source : Dutch Journal Medical Science
    Source: Nederlands Tijdschrift Geneeskunde, 2001, 26 mei; 145(21), blz.1024 (Dutch Journal Medical Science, 26 May, 2001; 145(21), p.1024) Iraq: Too many babies without eyes
    Mohammed A. Salman, an eye surgeon from Baghdad, is reporting via the internet about the phenomenon anophthalmos: babies who have been born with only one eye or who are missing both eyes. This is a rare anomaly, which normally exists at 1 of the 50 (…)

  • Horror Chamber In Feb 1991 USA planes bombed Civilian shelter
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Feb 1991 USA planes bombed a shelter causing the death of 408 innocent civilians
    Inside the Al-Amiriya Shelter / Baghdad- IRAQ By RAMZY BAROUD
    A few years ago, I stepped into the horror of the Gulf War. It was April 1999, and the place was Baghdad’s al-Amiriya bomb shelter.
    Living most of my life in a refugee camp in Gaza, where the murder of innocent people at the hands of Israeli troops is routine, I was little hesitant to walk into al-Amiriya. I was not braced for what I would (…)

  • USA Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
    12 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MICHAEL R. GORDON
    WASHINGTON — The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But when it comes to the planning for the Iraq war, even an unclassified assessment can acquire the status of a state secret. That is what happened to a detailed study of the planning for postwar Iraq prepared for the Army by the RAND Corporation, a federally financed center that conducts research for the military. After 18 months of research, RAND submitted a report in the summer of 2005 called (…)