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  • Snow slams China; half million stranded at train station
    29 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Snow slams China; half million stranded at train station By Jaime FlorCruz CNN
    BEIJING, China (CNN) — Chinese workers and army soldiers were racing to sweep snow-covered highways and unclog railway routes for millions of travelers trapped by cold weather.
    More than 67 million people have been affected by the weather and economic losses are expected to reach as much as $3 billion, Chinese officials say.
    Blizzards have snapped power lines and destroyed houses and farmland, prompting (…)

  • The Empire That Must Be Obeyed
    29 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CounterPunch, January 23, 2008
    What Gives the US the Right to Claim a Moral Monopoly Over the World?
    "The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction."
    Five Western military leaders.
    I read the statement three times trying to figure out the typo. Then it hit me, the West has now out-Owellled Orwell: The West must nuke other countries in order to prevent the use of weapons of (…)

  • Former senior military officials : "NATO must prepare to launch nuclear attack"
    27 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research, January 22, 2008 The Telegraph (U.K.)
    Nato must prepare to launch pre-emptive nuclear attacks to ward off the use of weapons of mass destruction by its enemies, a group of former senior military officials has warned.
    Calling for a major change to Nato’s approach to defending its members and their interests, the authors of the report, which has been handed to Nato and Pentagon chiefs, said the first-strike use of nuclear weapons was a "indispensable instrument".
    The (…)

  • Escape from Gaza or Voluntary Transfer? by Mike Whitney
    26 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research
    January 25, 2008
    Forget everything you’ve read about the “Great Escape” from Gaza. It’s thoroughly misleading, most probably cooked up in an Israeli think tank as way to rid Palestine of its indigenous people.
    Here’s an excerpt from the Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva which explains the real motive behind the incident:
    “MK (Israeli Knesset member) Aryeh Eldad is hailing the Arab exodus to Egypt as proof that voluntary transfer is indeed an option.”
    “The Israeli left (…)

  • Oil for Iraqi citizens, by Hana Al-Bayaty* (3iii.org)
    26 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Al Ahram
    SIGN THE PETITION: http://www.3iii.org
    Some 4.7 million Iraqi citizens — one fifth of the population — have been forcibly displaced, within and outside their country, by the US occupation and the policies of the sectarian governments it installed since the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. It is a human catastrophe, a national tragedy, and a destabilising factor for the region. This exodus has been labelled "the fastest growing humanitarian crisis on the planet", unprecedented (…)

  • Russia Was Better Prepared for Collapse than the U.S.
    25 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russia Was Better Prepared for Collapse than the U.S.
    Dmitry Orlov Energy Bulletin January 16, 2008
    Originally published: December 4, 2006
    Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am not an expert or a scholar or an activist. I am more of an eyewitness. I watched the Soviet Union collapse, and I have tried to put my observations into a concise message. I will leave it up to you to decide just how urgent a message it is.
    My talk tonight is about the lack of collapse-preparedness here in (…)

  • Never against! European collusion in Israel’s slow genocide
    25 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Electronic Intifada 21 January 2008
    By Omar Barghouti
    The European Union, Israel’s largest trade partner in the world, is watching by as Israel tightens its barbaric siege on Gaza, collectively punishing 1.5 million Palestinian civilians, condemning them to devastation, and visiting imminent death upon hundreds of kidney dialysis and heart patients, prematurely born babies, and all others dependent on electric power for their very survival.
    By freezing fuel and electric power (…)

  • In a snow-covered China, entire regions are without electricity and gas
    24 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    In a snow-covered China, entire regions are without electricity and gas
    The energy shortfall has reached 70 gigawatts, equal to the production of all of Great Britain. There is a shortage of coal because of the closure of many non-compliant mines and the imposition of price caps. The snow is blocking the roads and preventing fuel delivery. The cold is also impacting water and gas suppliers.
    01/23/2008 14:40
    Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - China is facing its worst energy shortage in many (…)

  • GAZA: STOP BLOCKADE AND WAR. Sign the Petition now!
    23 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The years-old blockade of Gaza is at crisis point: with the humanitarian crisis growing, the southern border has been breached and 350,000 Palestinians are pouring across. The situation is out of control — the world must step in.
    To prevent catastrophe and protect civilians on all sides, your voice is needed urgently: we’re running an emergency global campaign to international, European and Arab leaders, calling on them to stop the siege, oversee open borders and help broker a ceasefire. (…)

  • Some 350,000 Gazans stream into Egypt
    23 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN: Some 350,000 Gazans stream into Egypt as militants blast border wall
    By Barak Ravid, Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff, and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents and News Agencies
    Tags: Hosni Mubarak, Ehud Barak
    Some 350,000 Palestinians poured out of Gaza and into Egypt early Wednesday, the United Nations said, after masked gunmen blew dozens of holes in the wall delineating the border.
    The Gazans rushed to purchase food, fuel, and other supplies made scarce by Israel’s blockade (…)