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  • Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia
    by Rick Rozoff
    Global Research, May 14, 2009 Stop NATO
    "Today the situation is much more serious than before August 2008....[A] possible recurrence of war will not be limited to the Caucasus.
    "The new President of the United States did not bring about any crucial changes in relation to Georgia, but having a dominant role in NATO he still insists on Georgia’s soonest joining of the Alliance. If it happens, the world would face a more (…)

  • Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
    Posted on May 10, 2009
    By Chris Hedges
    The bodies of dozens, perhaps well over a hundred, women, children and men, their corpses blown into bits of human flesh by iron fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes in a village in the western province of Farah, illustrates the futility of the Afghan war. We are not delivering democracy or liberation or development. We are delivering massive, sophisticated forms of industrial slaughter. And because we (…)

  • Accusations With Regard to Israeli War Crimes Must be Investigated
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Accusations With Regard to Israeli War Crimes Must be Investigated
    by Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Other Occupied Territories
    On 23 March Richard Falk, the American Professor of International Law and UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Other Occupied Territories, gave his eagerly awaited oral statement to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on the human rights situation in the Gaza strip during the last war lasting from Dec 27, 2008 to 18 January 2009. In this (…)

  • THE UNTOLD, UNCOUNTED & UNSUNG CASUALTIES OF WAR
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    A disturbed Sergeant serving his third term of duty in Iraq picked up a weapon and killed five of his fellow soldiers.
    Sergeant John Russell of the 54th Engineer Battalion became the latest entry in the unsung casualties of war – a victim that few outside his circle of family and friends will mourn but a victim just the same.
    Sergeant Russell is one of the rare cases whose story is told on national media. Soldiers under constant duress are (…)

  • US official Rose Gottemoeller calls for Israel to sign non-proliferation treaty
    12 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    US official Rose Gottemoeller calls for Israel to sign non-proliferation treaty
    Abraham Rabinovich, Jerusalem | May 08, 2009
    A CALL by a US official for Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has raised fears in Jerusalem that the Obama administration may be seeking to block the Iranian nuclear threat by sacrificing Israel’s reported nuclear arsenal.
    US Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller said this week: "Universal adherence to the NPT, including by India, (…)

  • Action by NATO in Europe, brings China and Russia closer
    12 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Action by NATO in Europe, brings China and Russia closer
    F. William Engdahl
    To the extent as it is clear that the U.S. foreign policy under President Obama in all major areas of nothing more than a continuation of the Bush policy, the two great powers in Eurasia - namely Russia and China - cautious steps to deepen their economic and military cooperation. Gradually, the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization" (SCO) as a counterbalance to NATO as a defensive alliance. This development could (…)

  • ‘Wrong-sized’ missile sends new Trident cost soaring by £100m
    11 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    ‘Wrong-sized’ missile sends new Trident cost soaring by £100m
    ompatability worries as US firm takes on contractBy Rob Edwards, Environment Editor
    BRITISH TAXPAYERS are having to fork out an extra £100 million this year to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system because of fears that the missile being designed in the US could be the wrong size.
    The UK government is funding all of a contract for a US company to design a new missile compartment in an attempt to ensure that it will fit (…)

  • The Caucasus — Washington Risks Nuclear War by Miscalculation
    11 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Caucasus — Washington Risks Nuclear War by Miscalculation
    By F. William Engdahl, 11 August 2008
    The dramatic military attack by the military of the Republic of Georgia on South Ossetia in the last days has brought the world one major step closer to the ultimate horror of the Cold War era—a thermonuclear war between Russia and the United States—by miscalculation. What is playing out in the Caucasus is being reported in US media in an alarmingly misleading light, making Moscow appear (…)

  • Russia ’losing to China on Iran S-300 quest’
    10 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russia ’losing to China on Iran S-300 quest’
    Sat, 09 May 2009 18:14:06 GMT
    Iran is reportedly seeking to buy a Chinese-made air defense system which is a variant of the Russian S-300.
    In its quest for an advanced air defense system, Iran has reportedly shifted its hopes from Russia to China which owns a replica of the controversial Russian S-300.
    As Iran’s quest for the advanced Russian-made S-300 air defense system is believed to have hit rock bottom, a report by RIA Novosti said (…)

  • Mother’s Day 2009 - mass paedocidal, war criminal US Alliance kills 1,000 Indigenous infants every day
    9 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mother’s Day is about Mothers - Women who have had Children. What happens to those Children is of intense concern to Mothers and to those who love Mothers.
    Unfortunately the US and its allies (the UK, White Australia, NATO and Apartheid Israel) are killing about 1,000 of Mothers’ Children EVERY DAY (see “Hey, hey USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: ).
    A very timely reminder of the true origins of Mother’s Day has been provided by marvellous, humanitarian American (…)