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  • Empire, Energy and Al-Qaeda: The Anglo-American Terror Network The Imperial Anatomy of al-Qaeda, Part II
    10 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Empire, Energy and Al-Qaeda: The Anglo-American Terror Network The Imperial Anatomy of al-Qaeda, Part II
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research, September 8, 2010
    The End of the Cold War and Strategy for the New World Order With the end of the Cold War a new strategy had to be determined to manage the global system. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, declarations of a “New World Order” sprang forward, focusing on the United States as the single world superpower. This presented a (…)

  • Israeli academics boycott settlements
    7 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israeli academics boycott settlements
    THURSDAY, 02 SEPTEMBER 2010 16:27 Over 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer take part in cultural activities or lecture in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ariel.
    Press TV reported: In a signed petition, faculty members from universities across Israel vowed not to lecture or participate in any discussions in the illegal settlements area and voiced support for the theater artists who have said they would refuse to perform in this West (…)

  • THE MISNOMER OF PEACE TALKS
    7 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE MISNOMER OF PEACE TALKS
    John Chuckman
    I don’t know how anyone given the task could draw a map of Israel: it is likely the only country in the world with no defined borders, and it actually has worked very hard over many decades to achieve this peculiar state.
    It once had borders, but the 1967 war took care of those. It has no intention of ever returning to them because it could have done so at any time in the last forty-three years (an act which would have been the clearest (…)

  • Island of Shame
    7 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Island of Shame
    by Murray Polner
    Review of David Vine’s Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009)
    Why should anyone care about 5,000 part-African, part-southern Indian Chagossians, who once inhabited Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean mid-way between Africa and Indonesia, who were exiled so the U.S. could build yet another military base?
    Since the onset of WWII and its aftermath, tens of millions (…)

  • Non-combat US troops in Iraq engage in combat
    7 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Non-combat US troops in Iraq engage in combat
    by Boris Volkhonsky
    Global Research, September 6, 2010 Voice of Russia
    On September 5, US troops were called in by Iraqi authorities to help combat insurgents who attacked an army base in Baghdad. There were no casualties among the American military and the whole incident would hardly be worth mentioning be it not for the fact that American participation in combat took place only five days after the widely advertised pullout of all US (…)

  • Making history: support for Israeli artists who say NO to normalizing settlements
    7 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    When some 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights signed a letter stating they would refuse to play in the new theatre in Ariel, one of Israel’s largest settlements, the attacks from Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sport and many others were swift and intense. Over 150 leading Israeli academics and writers-including Amos Oz and David Grossman- came to their defense. It was the first time such mainstream figures had drawn a line around normalizing settlements (…)

  • Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack tells William Parry why he is boycotting Israel
    6 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The movement for a cultural boycott of Israel in response to its treatment of the Palestinians, modelled on the boycott of apartheid South Africa, could eclipse decades of disingenuous political charades in engaging western intellectuals, academics and artists. Internationally renowned figures such as Naomi Klein and Ken Loach have supported the call, and now one of Britain’s most successful bands, Massive Attack, is publicly backing the boycott.
    “I’ve always felt that it’s the only way (…)

  • VIDEO: Pentagon’s Half-Billion-Dollar PR Budget to Sell Afghan War
    5 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    VIDEO: Pentagon’s Half-Billion-Dollar PR Budget to Sell Afghan War
    by grtv
    $547 million. That’s the Pentagon’s P.R. budget. They’re using it to spread mistruths and misplaced hope in ‘progress’ with one goal in mind: to extend the brutal, costly Afghanistan War.
    General Petraeus’ media blitz is only the tip of the iceberg in the Pentagon’s effort to sell war to the American people. The Defense Department has a budget of more than $500 million for public relations efforts directed at (…)

  • The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis”
    5 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis” Part I
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research, September 5, 2010
    Introduction As the 9th anniversary of 9/11 nears, and the war on terror continues to be waged and grows in ferocity and geography, it seems all the more imperative to return to the events of that fateful September morning and re-examine the reasons for war and the nature of the stated culprit, Al-Qaeda. The events of 9/11 (…)

  • Australia’s hung Parliament forshadows Afghan War Debate - yet "The Age" already censors the Awful Truth
    5 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    With the hung Parliament result in the recent Australian Federal Election a major crack has appeared in the US Alliance edifice of lies, propaganda and deception over 9-11, the War on Terror and the horrendously deadly, 8 million-victim wars of occupation still being waged in Occupied Iraq, Occupied Afghanistan (and elsewhere).
    With 72 seats for Labor (the Labs) , 73 seats for the Liberal-National Party Coalition (the Libs), 1 Green seat, 1 Greenish independent (Andrew Wilkie) and 3 right (…)