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  • Iraqi Cardiologist Dr Al-Kubaisy’s “Occupation Year 7” Speech in EU Parliament reveals Iraqi Holocaust
    4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Below are the beginning and end parts of the transcript of the “Occupation year 7” speech by Iraqi cardiologist Dr Omar Al-Kubaisy in the European Parliament, 18th March 2009, about the horrendous consequences of the illegal, war criminal and genocidal racist Zionist (RZ)-backed US, UK and Australian invasion and occupation of Iraq (for the full speech see: ).
    This transcript was forwarded to me by the eminent BRussells Tribunal – both Dr Omar Al-Kubaisy and myself are members of the (…)

  • Daniele Ganser: «President Sarkozy has accepted the dominance of the United States»
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Daniele Ganser: «President Sarkozy has accepted the dominance of the United States»
    by Sandro Cruz*
    In view of Albania’s and Croatia’s recent admission to NATO and on the occasion of the Alliance’s 60th anniversary celebrations in France and Germany on April 3 and 4, Voltaire Net has asked Professor Daniele Ganser to give his assessment of this organisation. According to this world-renowned NATO specialist, the Alliance stopped playing a defensive role after the demise of the USSR. Today (…)

  • EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination
    by Rick Rozoff*
    The 60th anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be held in France and Germany on April 3 and 4. Eighteen years after the end of the Cold War, NATO has increased its membership to 26 countries, mostly European including numerous former Soviet republics. In Afghanistan NATO is waging its first armed conflict outside of Europe and its first ground war with the participation of armed units (…)

  • Fake, Faith and Epic Crimes
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fake, Faith and Epic Crimes
    by John Pilger
    Global Research, April 2, 2009 newstatesman.com
    These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the Nazis at Nuremberg. This defined rapacious invasion as "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the (…)

  • Chas Freeman slams ’destructive’ Israeli policies
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chas Freeman slams ’destructive’ Israeli policies Charles W. Freeman
    Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:20:20 GMT
    Former US diplomat Charles W. Freeman says he doubts whether the current Israeli policies can guarantee the regime’s survival in the Middle East.
    "I don’t see how Israel can continue to survive in the long term as a state in the Middle East if it is not prepared to deal with respect and consideration with its Arab neighbors specially the Palestinians," Freeman, a former US ambassador to (…)

  • Procuring Academics for Empire: The Pentagon Minerva Research Initiative
    3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Procuring Academics for Empire: The Pentagon Minerva Research Initiative
    by Prof. James Petras
    Global Research, April 2, 2009 The Pentagon’s military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. US military support for the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Gaza, the US-sponsored Ethiopian occupation of Somalia, the coup attempts in Venezuela (2002) and Bolivia (…)

  • War without Borders: A Geopolitical Assessment of NATO
    2 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    War without Borders: A Geopolitical Assessment of NATO NATO on its 60th anniversary
    by José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
    Global Research, April 2, 2009
    NATO’s 60th anniversary is an event that has sparked a healthy dose of analytical thinking and debate concerning said organization’s historical role as well as its current purposes in the early 21st century. Let us explore the geopolitical context in which NATO first came into existence so that later we examine the alliance’s contemporary (…)

  • The Nuclear Issue: Disarm and Live
    1 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On a planet without nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants
    « Disarm and Live », beginning by liberating humankind from the threat of self-destruction by nuclear weapons, is the objective pursued by ACDN since its foundation in 1996 and by the international « Abolition 2000 » network. Now in 2009 it is more topical than ever.
    ACT FOR TOMORROW
    “Disarm and live” was the theme of the 3rd RID-NBC (Rally for International Disarmament, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) organised on 9-11 May (…)

  • Let’s not Be Blackmailed by the War Cartel
    1 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Let’s not Be Blackmailed by the War Cartel
    by Tobias Salander, Switzerland
    In the 19th year of the war, the states of the US-UK-Germany war alliance are facing bankruptcy. Yet, instead of transforming the military-industrial complex into a peace economy and making the economic power serve the people, the wars are carried on, even extended – and states like Switzerland are attacked, in order to raise money for the empty war chest. Instead of following the guidelines of international law, (…)

  • Remembering Land Day
    31 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Palestinians across the Middle East were due to commemorate Land Day today, marking the anniversary of clashes in 1976 in which six unarmed Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army as it tried to break up a general strike. Although Land Day is one of the most important anniversaries in the Palestinian calendar, sometimes referred to as the Palestinians’ national day, the historical event it marks is little spoken of and rarely studied. “Maybe its significance is surprising given (…)