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  • Russia starts S-300 missile supplies to Iran - Iranian MP
    21 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Russia starts S-300 missile supplies to Iran - Iranian MP
    21/ 12/ 2008 TEHRAN, December 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has started the supplies of components for S-300 air defense systems to Iran, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday.
    Esmaeil Kosari, deputy chairman of the parliamentary commission on national security and foreign policy told the Iranian news agency IRNA that Iran and Russia had held negotiations for several years on the purchase of S-300 air defense systems and had (…)

  • ICTR-ADAD: Rwanda Tribunal Lawyers allege "cover-up"
    19 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Defence Lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda are charging a coverup and manipulation of the ICTR by member states. Furthermore they are requesting that all matters before the Tribunal be suspended pending an investigation by member states...
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index....

  • Video: Vets Rip Dubya over Iraq War at White House Rally
    18 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008, activists staged a “Shoe-In” demonstration in front of the White House. The rally was in solidarity with Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi. He recently tossed his shoes at Dubya, at a Baghdad press conference, held with the puppet Iraqi ruler, Nouri al-Maliki. Published reports indicate that Mr. al-Zaidi, after his arrest, has been subjected to torture. Speaking at the White House protest were Geoff Millard from the Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Jim (…)

  • Rwanda/DRC: Canada’s Dirty Hands
    16 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The lead defence lawyer for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has made explosive allegations concerning Canada’s role in Rwanda and DR Congo. The charges were made in a letter to Dominion Paper’s website:
    http://www.dominionpaper.ca/article...

  • Birth deformities in Iraq (due to depleted Uranium, chemicals...) videos
    16 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Source: arabamericannews.com
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-25843441.html

  • Dahr Jamail on Iraq Eyewitness to Occupation at Socialism 2008 (video)
    15 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dahr Jamail on Iraq Eyewitness to Occupation at Socialism 2008 20:33 - 21 juil. 2008
    Photo: www.thewe.cc
    "Over half the total population of the country are either refugees, in need of emergency aid or dead."
    Dave Jamail gave a riveting talk on the occupation of Iraq at Socialism 2008 in Chicago on June 20. Dahr has spent a total of eight months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. In the Middle East, Dahr has also has reported from Syria, (…)

  • Atrocity Unlimited: US Seeks to Turn Somalia into Global Free-Fire Zone
    12 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Atrocity Unlimited: US Seeks to Turn Somalia into Global Free-Fire Zone
    by Chris Floyd
    Global Research, December 12, 2008 uruknet.info
    Not content with destroying the only vestige of stability that Somalia had known for almost two decades by arming, backing and participating in a brutal "regime change" invasion by Ethiopia, the Bush Administration now wants to turn the ravaged land into an international "free fire zone," a giant Fallujah where any powerful nation on earth can launch (…)

  • Dear President Obama
    12 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ed Kinane
    "Dear Senator Obama:
    I’m concerned that you’ve yet to show a grasp of Middle East realities. Nor have you provided a broad critique of US policy in that region beyond your early opposition to the invasion of Iraq. This lapse is dispiriting to we who had hoped your “change” mantra meant you intended to reverse the neo-con drive for global hegemony.
    If you do grasp Middle Eastern realities, your choices of advisors and cabinet members suggest that you are aligning yourself (…)

  • Canada’s ’socialist’ NDP supports US Terror War in Afghanistan
    11 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Canada’s New Democratic Party has abandoned it’s nominally anti-war stance on Afghanistan. The NDP has recently formed a coalition with the opposition pro-war Liberal Party in an attempt to oust the ruling Conservatives.
    This abandonment of a principled anti-war position by a "left" party has been barely reported by the always subservient mainstream corporate media in Canada. It is a shocking and appalling position for a social democratic party to take and should not go unnoticed or (…)

  • Israel Rehearses Iran Attack (video)
    11 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CBS Archives
    20 juin 2008
    U.S. intelligence analysts say that nearly 100 Israeli warplanes staged a rehearsal air strike against nuclear facilities in Iran. David Martin reports from the Pentagon.
    Source: bristol.indymedia.org
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-25440401.html