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  • Elbit, Dassault, HAL Team on Mirage Upgrade
    5 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Although the contract has not yet been signed, officials with HAL, prime contractor for the $1 billion upgrade program, said Elbit has been selected to supply electronic warfare systems and other avionics. defensenews By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI, NEW DELHI Posted 07/30/07 19:27
    India’s upgrade of 51 Mirage 2000-H combat jets is expected to incorporate avionics from Israel’s Elbit Systems, which has an equity arrangement with state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL).
    Although the contract (…)

  • Live From Lebanon: The Beirut of the Problem
    3 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    LIVE from Lebanon: The Beirut of the Problem by Trish Schuh
    BEIRUT- Early one peaceful Sunday morning, a Lebanese colleague from the Christian side of the Green Line offered to skip church and give me an Assassins’ Tour of Beirut. "Would you like to trace steps from the Civil War?," she asked. "That would be great," I said. "Why not?" I love a dose of napalm in the morning, as they say...
    We start with drive-by sightings of car bomb locales from the last few weeks and work back (…)

  • UN approves Darfur force of up to 26,000
    1 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    EVELYN LEOPOLD Reuters July 31, 2007 at 3:59 PM EDT
    UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to authorize up to 26,000 troops and police in an effort to stop attacks on millions of displaced civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region.
    Expected to cost more than $2-billion in the first year, the combined United Nations-African Union operation aims to quell violence in Darfur, where more than 2.1 million people have been driven into camps and an estimated 200,000 (…)

  • US escalates ME arms race
    1 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    US military package for allied Middle East states is designed to create a de facto Sunni Arab front against Iran as the region slips deeper into crisis.
    http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=17927
    31 July 2007 Commentary by Dominic Moran in Tel Aviv for ISN Security Watch (31/07/07)
    A high-level US delegation will hold talks with foreign ministers from allied Arab states in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday on a planned military package for allied Middle East (…)

  • Converging Interests in Iraq Allow Bush an ‘Iranian Option’ - Arabs Threatened
    31 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Converging U.S. – Iran interests in Iraq are creating a common ground for an “Iranian option” for President George W. Bush that could be developed into an historical foreign policy breakthrough of the kind he has been yearning for in the Arab – Israeli conflict or India; however several factors are ruling out this window of opportunity, including his militarization of the U.S. foreign policy, obsession with the “regime changes” overseas, his insistence on exploiting to (…)

  • Wanted, for crimes against the state
    31 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    For many years, Azmi Bishara has been one of the most prominent voices representing the 1.5 million Arabs living in Israel. But now he is a fugitive, facing some of the most serious allegations ever made against an Israeli MP. What happened? In a rare interview, he talks to Rory McCarthy
    When war broke out in Lebanon last summer there were few dissenting voices in Israel. Opinion polls showed unprecedented public support for the conflict. Politicians and pundits crowded television studios (…)

  • Hollywood plans strategy for promotion of war-based films
    28 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two of the marketing strategies on which most of the studios seem to have decided to rely on are non-concealment of the subject matter and tailoring the campaign to the film. The continuing support from Hollywood studios is also a factor behind producers’ inclination towards such themes. Saturday 28th July, 2007 (ANI)
    Washington, July 28 : The not so good reception of ’A Mighty Heart’, a film about late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, by the audiences has prompted Hollywood (…)

  • Philadelphia Emergency Antiwar Convention
    28 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On July 4, 2007, over 300 delegates from diverse activist organizations and concerned citizens across America joined together at the Philadelphia Emergency Antiwar Convention to form a United Front, dedicated to resolving our national crises of endless war and presidential dictatorship.
    These organizations included: Allentown Armory Activists, Alliance for a Sustainable Future, Boston 9/11 Truth, Coalition for Voting Integrity, DCOI Youth Group, DC 9/11 Truth, Delaware Valley Veterans for (…)

  • Dealing With Savages or The Boy Who Cried Nuke
    27 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    We in America love to demonize our enemies, with a broad brush we paint them, the only good Indian is a dead Indian. Or during World War two, the only good Jap was a dead Jap and by the internment of Japanese Americans we reinforced that notion.
    Today America demonizes it’s enemies both real and imagined with terms such as Islamofascist and narco terrorist’s. Big Brother himself would blush at the term Islamofascist, the idea that fascism which supports industry and government working in (…)

  • EU prepares for hard-core Chad mission
    27 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    As the EU sets peacekeeping plans in motion, the size of the force and the rules of its engagement in this hotspot remain key questions.
    By Brooks Tigner in Brussels for ISN Security Watch (26/07/07)
    The EU has set in motion plans to send a peacekeeping force to Chad along its troubled border with Sudan, prompting international aid and humanitarian groups to call for clear rules of engagement that focus on civilian protection and human rights and the (…)