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  • The Real Authors of the Congo Crimes
    3 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Over the past two years, many different sources have exposed the ongoing crimes of the Kagame government and military, both before and after Kagame seized power in Rwanda in July 1994. Long a favorite of the Clinton and Bush administrations, Kagame’s crimes are reaching huge proportions that require him and his US admirers to do something to divert attention from Kagame’s own responsibility for Nkunda’s crimes, as well as many, many others committed over the past two decades including (…)

  • Gaza New Siege Mechanism
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    The rebuilding of Gaza has become the latest siege weapon. The Israeli occupation, the US that had backed its offensive, and the EU which did nothing to stop it are conspiring to turn the reconstruction process into a means to produce a suitable "peace partner" while the Arab summit in Kuwait hopes to use it to bring about Palestinian reconciliation. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority (PA) government is urging all parties and others to look to it as the sole channel for (…)

  • U.S. Sold Phosphorus Shells Used in Gaza to Israel
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. Sold Phosphorus Shells Used in Gaza to Israel
    Published: February 02, 2009 6:40 AM ET
    LITTLE ROCK The United States sold phosphorus artillery shells made at the Pine Bluff Arsenal to Israel — the same kind of rounds allegedly used against civilians during the recent fighting in Gaza.
    A State Department official told The Associated Press that the rounds — typically used to light up darkened battlefields or provide smoke cover for combat troops — were most recently shipped to (…)

  • America’s War in Central Africa: The Pentagon’s proxy war in the Eastern Congo
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    America’s War in Central Africa: The Pentagon’s proxy war in the Eastern Congo
    by Keith Harmon Snow
    Global Research, February 1, 2009
    allthingspass.com
    The purported ’arrest’ of General Laurent Nkunda, on January 22, 2009, by the troops of the joint FARDC and Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) operation is no surprise, it is merely damage control, with Nkunda ’arrested’—most likely shuffled off to luxury in Rwanda—to recover some sense of credibility for the international police forces—the (…)

  • Neither The US Nor Israel Is A "Genuine Party To Peace." by Noam Chomsky
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Neither The US Nor Israel Is A "Genuine Party To Peace."
    by Noam Chomsky
    Global Research, February 1, 2009 Information Clearing House
    Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously - both what he says, and what he omits. Particularly significant is his first substantive statement on foreign affairs, on January 22, at the State Department, when introducing George Mitchell to serve as (…)

  • My Future As An Arms Manufacturer by Terry Jones (The Nation)
    1 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Terry Jones The Nation January 22, 2009
    Source:/www.philhart.com
    It’s not that I’m keen on killing people. It’s just that the money’s so good. It’s not that I’m keen on killing people. I haven’t actually killed anyone myself yet. It’s all to do with economics. You see, I can’t help but notice that the arms industry is doing extremely well. In fact in these times of economic disaster, it’s the one industry that seems to be expanding.
    According to the Government’s Defence and (…)

  • War on Gaza: Israeli Action, Not Reaction
    1 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Stubbornly insisting on getting the carriage before the horse as the approach to a “durable and sustainable” ceasefire in Gaza Strip, U.S. and European diplomacy in particular is building on an Israeli misleading premise that the 22 – day military operation, dubbed “Cast Lead,” against the Palestinian Gaza Strip was a reaction and not a premeditated long planned scheme that found in the change of guards in Washington D.C. an excellent timing. It was “not simply a (…)

  • Laurent Nkunda’s ’arrest’ Rwanda’s Latest Shell Game...
    1 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    In essence, what has happened is that Nkunda’s National Congress for the Defense of the People has been replaced by thousands of Rwandan troops. The problem is Rwanda’s and Uganda’s aggression against the Congo backed primarily by the United States and British governments and corporate interests since 1996...
    http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/...

  • Own part of a corporation and ask for action against Israel
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Own part of a corporation and ask for action against Israel
    If any of you own shares* in a company doing business with Israeli companies and want to actively take actions, you could do something like this:
    (*You can buy shares if you dont own them - going cheap at the moment)
    Letter to Vodafone PLC
    Dear Sir/Madam,
    With regards to Vodafone Corporate responsibility. As a shareholder, I understand that my company purchases products and services from Israeli companies, for example (…)

  • CLINTON: Israel has right to respond to Gaza rocket attacks
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    29/01/2009 HAARETZ By News Agencies Source: stevecotler.com U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that Israel had a right to defend itself and that Palestinian rocket attacks on the Jewish territory could not go unanswered.
    "We support Israel’s right to self-defense. The [Palestinian] rocket barrages which are getting closer and closer to populated areas [in Israel] cannot go unanswered," Clinton said in her first news conference at the State Department. (…)