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  • THE AFGHAN TRAP: Obama’s Foreign Policy Challenge
    22 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    “We didn’t push the Russians to intervene but we knowingly increased the probability that they would... It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap...The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its Vietnam War."
    Zbigniew Brzezinski (Advisor to Former President Jimmy Carter)
    A recent issue of Newsweek magazine invoked the (…)

  • Gazans: IDF used us as ’human shields’ during offensive
    22 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amira Hass
    GAZA - The question "Who is it?" was answered with: "The Israel Defense Forces." Majdi Abed Rabbo, 39, who is a Palestinian Authority (Ramallah) employee and a member of its intelligence apparatus, went down to open the door. Standing there was the son of his neighbors, Mahmoud Daher, and behind him a soldier whose rifle was jammed into Daher’s back. The soldier pushed Daher aside and aimed the rifle at Abed Rabbo.
    "He ordered me to pull down my pants. I pulled them down. (…)

  • CANADA MUST ARREST GEORGE BUSH FOR WAR CRIMES!
    22 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    While legal perils swirl around George W Bush’s White House lawyers for their role in empowering torturers, Bush will cross an international border—possibly for the first time—as a free and private citizen..
    Dinner footwear may be optional By BILL KAUFMANN
    I really hope he shows up in the flight suit.
    He can also, in good conscience, bring along that banner he once courageously blamed on sailors because this time, his mission really is accomplished.
    It’s hard being a stranger to (…)

  • Art of War : Goliath
    22 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Goliath

  • Canada threatens to slash funding of Arab Rights NGO over Gaza
    21 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canada’s Immigration minister [Jason Kenney] threatened to slash funds to the country’s largest Arab organization, despite fears that the cuts would affect its ability to provide services to new immigrants, after its president denounced Canadian politicians for backing Israel’s assault on Gaza...
    http://www.guerrillanews.com/headli...
    Please urge Canada not to stop funding CAF as political punishment:
    Minister of Immigration: Jason Kenney: email kennej@parl.gc.ca
    cc: Canadian Arab (…)

  • Critic of Murderous Kagame Regime in Rwanda killed in Crash...
    17 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The evening before Human Rights Watch expert on Rwanda Alison Des Forges’ critical quote on the secret deal worked out between Rwanda’s murderous U.S.- backed President, Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila appeared in a Washington Post article, written by Stephanie McCrummen from Kigali, the Rwandan capital, Des Forges died in the fiery crash of Continental Flight 3407, en route from Newark to Buffalo, Des Forges home town.. (…)

  • A ’fraud’ bigger than Madoff
    16 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A ’fraud’ bigger than Madoff
    Patrick Cockburn – The Independent February 16, 2009
    In what could turn out to be the greatest fraud in US history, American authorities have started to investigate the alleged role of senior military officers in the misuse of $125bn (£88bn) in a US -directed effort to reconstruct Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The exact sum missing may never be clear, but a report by the US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) suggests it may (…)

  • Canada becomes Israel
    14 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper’s government publicly supported Israel’s brutal assault in Gaza and voted along at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel’s actions three weeks ago. Now Canada has taken over Israeli diplomacy. Literally.
    Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper’s government publicly supported Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza and voted alone at the UN Human Rights Committee in defense of Israel’s actions three weeks ago. Now Canada has taken over Israeli (…)

  • The Left and Support for Anti-Imperialist Islamic Resistance
    14 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The massive demonstrations in European capitals and major cities in support of the people of Gaza highlighted once again the core problem: the vast majority of the Left, including communists, agrees in supporting the people of Gaza against Israeli aggression, but refuses to support its political expressions such as Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon..
    http://www.countercurrents.org/ross...

  • Interview of Noam Chomsky
    14 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    «The terrorist war against Cuba, which was most extreme under Kennedy, was uncontroversially in violation of international law.»
    Interview of Noam Chomsky
    Liberté 62 : «In your book What We Say Goes you declare that «the USA are the outlaw land par excellence, free from the International Law». The US blocus of Cuba - about 50 years , blocus denouced by many ONU’s résolutions - that you qualified of «strangling strategy of Cuba», seems to illustrate this fact in a exemplary way. How the (…)