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  • Forty Years of Occupation
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    This June will mark an anniversary that will live in infamy for the people affected by the event it commemorates following a far greater one 19 years earlier on May 14, 1948. On June 5, 1967, Israel launched its so-called "Six-Day (preemptive) War" against three of its neighboring Arab states - Egypt, Jordan and Syria - claiming it was in self-defense to avoid annihilation Israeli leaders later admitted was spurious and false cover for a large-scale long-planned, (…)

  • Live Blogging House War Funding Debate
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    As illustrated in this graphic by Chris Jeffries, the Dems have surrendered. They’ve surrendered to Bush and Cheney and abandoned our troops to remaining in Iraq to kill, die, and suffer for - let’s be exact here - eternity. The votes this week are only happening because the Democratic leadership has chosen to make them happen. If members of the Democratic leadership vote No, that is only because they are hypocrits. They are only voting No because they know there are (…)

  • Swiss authorities question U.S. counterfeiting charges against North Korea
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Swiss authorities question U.S. counterfeiting charges against North Korea
    By Kevin G. Hall
    McClatchy Newspapers
    Posted on Tue, May. 22, 2007 (MCT)
    WASHINGTON - Swiss police who closely monitor the circulation of counterfeit currency have challenged the Bush administration’s assertions that North Korea is manufacturing fake American $100 bills.
    President Bush has accused North Korea of making and circulating the false bills, so perfect they’re called supernotes, and in late 2005 (…)

  • The Grauniad: An Unlimited Conduit for USUK’s War Propaganda
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fed up of the garbage with which their mainstream media force-feeds them, North American as well as readers all over the world have turned to newspapers like the UK’s Guardian in the hope of finding informed, intelligent reporting of world events. They will be disappointed. Today’s Guardian is as much part of an Orwellian, Atlanticist, warmongering propaganda campaign as is the disgraceful New York Times.
    Far from being the ’socialist’ newspaper that our American cousins believe it to be, (…)

  • Nigeria: a destroyed population
    23 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nigeria, which is the most populated state of Africa with its 132 million inhabitants, has been a victim of violent territorial destruction during the last fifty years. Massacre and violation of human rights do not arise any attention anymore, only some clamorous episodes capture the press’ interest for a moment and then they are forgotten.
    The state of Nigeria is the worlds eighth biggest producer of oil supplying 2.5 million barrels per day. The Niger Delta area, rich of black gold, has (…)

  • World War, Inc.: Loyal to Royal OIL to the End?
    22 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Retired Generals Challenge GOP in Ads By PHILIP ELLIOTT
    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Three retired generals challenged a dozen members of Congress in a new ad campaign, saying the politicians can’t support President Bush’s policies in Iraq and still expect to win re-election.
    "I am outraged, as are the majority of Americans. I’m a lifelong Republican, but it’s past time for change," retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste told reporters.
    "Our strategy in Iraq today is more of the same, a slow grind to (…)

  • Why the Pentagon censors Soldiers’ access to the Internet
    21 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by St. Clair
    The situation BOTH in Iraq and in Afghanistan is a lot more involved than mainstream media can fathom. And, if it could fathom what is going on, it would not be allowed to report it for obvious reasons, as this would further undermine the morale of the Western world.
    Troops and their families at home used to be able to at least write emails to each other via blog spots and troops were also allowed to access certain parts of the internet. This is now no longer possible.
    The (…)

  • Blair’s Kaleidoscope Dystopia
    20 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Significantly, one of the last things that Tony Blair does before finally quitting (don’t believe it until it happens) is to go off to greet the British military occupation on a rah-rah tour in Iraq. A mortar attack was made on the British Embassy but unfortunately missed hitting Blair who went on to give a heart-rending speech on what a great job ’Our Boys’ were doing defending good ol’ Freedom ’n’ Democracy and making the Matrix World a safer place to live, blah, blah, blah.
    Meantime, (…)

  • The Silent Scream: Might as well be dead?
    20 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?"....Edgar Allen Poe
    Some soldiers are luckier than others, that’s for damned sure. Many have been ordered back to the Zone for up to 4 additional tours in Hell. They comply,and in general they don’t complain; but they do wonder if this crazy military adventure/holy war is important enough to die for. Some who do just that never resolved the question.
    Thousands come home on stretchers, and hundreds more in boxes. Few are seen but all (…)

  • Israeli banks profit from Holocaust
    18 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2004 16:49 MECCA TIME, 13:49 GMT By Jonathan Cook in Jerusalem
    Investigations by the Israeli parliament have dug up disturbing evidence that Israel has been profiting for decades from vast sums invested in local banks by European Jews who died in the Nazi death camps. Banks object to how Holocaust assets have been calculated
    And even now the banks are delaying returning the money to their heirs.
    But unlike a similar scandal that hit European banks in the (…)