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  • Is Gates Undermining Another Opening to Iran?
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Inter Press Service (IPS)
    by Gareth Porter
    Source: ohmygov.com
    WASHINGTON - When U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused Iran of "subversive activity" in Latin America Tuesday, it raised the question whether he is trying to discourage President Barack Obama from abandoning the hard line policy of coercive diplomacy toward Iran he has favored for nearly three decades.
    In making a new accusation against Iran, just as Obama is still (…)

  • Palestine has the Right to Respond to Israeli Attacks
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last update - 19:42 27/01/2009 Palestine has the Right to Respond to Israeli Attacks By News Agencies The Global People’s Resistance Front (GPRF) said on Tuesday that Palestine had a right to defend itself from the US funded Israeli attacks on the Palestinian territories. The war crimes and illegal attacks against Palestine could not go unanswered.
    "We support Palestines right to self-defense. Israel, while armed and funded as the fourth center of nuclear and military (…)

  • Art of War: Gaza
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

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  • Petition: Protest EU Policy on Gaza
    28 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

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  • Israel launches New Attacks on Gaza !
    27 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel has re-launched aerial and ground attacks in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli soldier was killed in a bomb blast at a Gaza crossing.
    Palestinian witnesses said Israeli tanks are seen rolling into the Gaza Strip after a warplane struck targets across the territory, Haaretz reported.
    Heavy fighting have also been reported near Khan Yunis in southern Gaza after Israeli forces moved into the territory Tuesday afternoon.
    Earlier, Defense Minister Ehud Barak had threatened to attack (…)

  • USA and NATO: The Axis of Genocide
    27 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    No state has the right or standing under international law to launch an illegal military attack upon another UN member state in the name of "humanitarian intervention." This principle applies to both the US and Canada which are continuing to extinguish the Indigenous peoples who live within their imperial domains... United States and NATO: The Axis of Genocide By Francis A. Boyle’s
    What is the world to do about major human rights atrocities and catastrophes that undeniably do occur today? (…)

  • Uncle Tom Obama supports Afghan Genocide & Racist Zionist (RZ) Apartheid Israeli Occupation of Palestine
    26 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obviously Obama is vastly preferable to the Bush and McCain racist religious right republicans (R4s) and, while he could have done more and better so far, he has already done some good things e.g. appointments of Professors Chu and Holdren as top scientific advisers on climate change and other matters; US presence in Occupied Iraq to start declining; aid restored to African aid programs practicing birth control; closing Guantanamo Bay within the next year; and permitting life-saving and (…)

  • Obama’s Team Prepares Escalated Bloodletting In Afghanistan/Pakistan
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Patrick Martin
    24 January, 2009 WSWS.org
    In a series of meetings and public appearances Wednesday and Thursday, and with the first military strikes of his administration, President Barack Obama has given a clear signal that he plans intensified bloodshed in Afghanistan and Pakistan as the US escalates its military intervention in Central and South Asia.
    Missiles fired from unmanned Predator drones struck two targets inside Pakistan Friday morning, killing at least 18 people. As is (…)

  • Two US Airstrikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obama’s Pakistan Policy
    25 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Truthout Saturday 24 January 2009
    by: R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux and Joby Warrick,Washington Post Staff Writers
    Leaders from Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area along the border with Afghanistan met with Pakistani Army officials last February. On Friday, the US launched air attacks in Pakistan within the Waziristan area in a concrete demonstration of the Obama administration’s Pakistan policy.
    Two remote U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected (…)

  • Alarm Spreads Over Use of Lethal New Weapons
    24 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GAZA CITY, Jan 22 (IPS) - Eighteen-year-old Mona Al-Ashkar says she did not immediately know the first explosion at the United Nations (UN) school in Beit Lahiya had blown her left leg off. There was smoke, then chaos, then the pain and disbelief set in once she realised it was gone - completely severed by the weapon that hit her.
    Mona is one of the many patients among the 5,500 injured that have international and Palestinian doctors baffled by the type of weaponry used in the Israeli (…)