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  • US Officials See Waste in Billions Sent to Pakistan
    26 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US has poured billions into Pakistan’s struggle against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But some American officials are now saying that Washington got too little for its money. And that much of the funding may have been misappropriated. Dov Zakheim, who served as the Pentagon’s top financial officer until 2004 and helped set up the program in late 2001, said in a telephone interview that while he was at the department, the military carefully checked whether Pakistan carried out the operations (…)

  • A Peace-killing Linkage, De-linkage
    26 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Linking the “aliyah” to what the Jewish literature has been describing as Eretz Israel or Yisrael HaShleima (Greater Israel) to the Israeli colonial settlement of the Palestinian land, which the Hebrew state occupied in 1967, while at the same time negating the Palestinian Right of Return, is torpedoing whatever prospect is left for a peaceful solution for the Arab – Israeli conflict, undermining the latest U.S.-sponsored launch of the Palestinian - Israeli talks in (…)

  • Chinese gov’t underscores traffic safety amid thick fog
    22 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chinese gov’t underscores traffic safety amid thick fog
    www.chinaview.cn
    2007-12-22 15:42:40 BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) — China’s central government called for local governments to ensure traffic safety as thick fog continues to plague major parts of the country, according to a circular released on Friday by the General Office of the State Council.
    The circular called for related organizations to cooperate in the work of weather monitoring and to take effective measures to (…)

  • Henry Kissinger - "culling the Herd"
    20 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    ..."Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the Third World," Kissinger said, "because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries...
    http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2757.shtml

  • Global food supply is dwindling rapidly, UN agency warns
    20 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BLACKLISTSNEWS, December 17, 2007. Reprint from International Herald Tribune
    ROME: In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
    The changes created "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food," particularly in the developing world, said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
    The (…)

  • British retreat from Basra brings us closer to a war with Iran: Seymour Hersh and Agent Provocateurs
    19 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s analyse the implications of the British ‘withdrawal’ from Basra Iraq.
    In 2003 two SAS soldiers were freed from a jail in Basra by the British military after they were caught “wearing Arab clothes” and “shooting at policemen”. From the car that they were driving, they opened “fire on a police checkpoint, killing one. In pursuit, the police surround(ed) and detain the drivers and (found) the vehicle packed with explosives.”
    “That’s right – two members of the British Armed forces (…)

  • MIRAGE OF IMPTOVEMENT IN IRAQ, by DAHR JAMAIL
    19 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    GLOBALRESEARCH.CA
    Mirage of Improvement in Iraq: Yet Another Facelift for the Failed Occupation
    Half the population of Iraq are either refugees, in need of emergency aid, wounded, or dead
    By Dhar Jamail
    The New York Times Nov 19 announces, "Baghdad’s Weary Start to Exhale as Security Improves."
    The Washington Post Nov. 23 reports, "Returnees Find a Capital Transformed."
    People in the US are willing to believe the establishment media telling them that refugees are returning to (…)

  • Manhunt in Pakistan for British suspect
    18 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Manhunt in Pakistan for British suspect
    Laura King and Sebastian Rotella – Los Angeles Times December 17, 2007
    Pakistani authorities said Sunday that they had launched a manhunt for a suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners who escaped from police custody a day earlier under murky circumstances.
    Senior Pakistani officials did not confirm the escape of Rashid Rauf, a Briton of Pakistani origin, until nearly 24 hours after he fled Saturday. He was reportedly able (…)

  • BALI Farce - climate racist, climate terrorist, climate criminal US, Oz & Canada threaten Terracide
    17 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US and its climate racist, climate terrorist, climate criminal allies Australia and Canada are seriously threatening the World, and particular the Developing World and mega-delta Developing countries such as Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Burma, Nigeria, Egypt, India and Pakistan (see: “Climate Criminals & Climate genocide. Anglo-Celtia threatens final Bengal Holocaust”: ).
    The Bali Climate Change Conference has ended in a FARCE due to the US veto of greenhouse gas (…)

  • Gaza Makes an Appeal to YOU!
    13 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    About 60 years have passed since our Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba). Palestinian people have passed through and tasted several sufferings and calamities, and the Gaza Strip, which includes about 1.5 million people, 75% of them refugees, got a big share of this suffering.
    By the start of the 2nd Intifada in 2000, Israeli Occupation violated all the taboos international conventions and has tortured Palestinians severely.
    In the meantime, the harsh siege imposed on the Gaza Strip has been (…)