Home > Keywords > International > Wars and conflicts

Wars and conflicts

  • Pakistan : Hamid Gul terms arrest reports as non-sense
    9 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rawalpindi—Former Inter-Services-Inetlligence chief Hamid Gul on Sunday dismissed as “nonsense” reports that Pakistan has agreed to arrest and hand him over to India in connection with the probe into the Mumbai terror attacks.
    “It is nonsense, it is disinformation because (Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice and America want my name to be included,” Gul told a private Indian channel from Rawalpindi.
    He was reacting to a Washington Post report that said Pakistan has agreed to a 48-hour (…)

  • Taliban burn Western forces’ supplies
    8 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Taliban burn Western forces’ supplies
    For a second night running, Pakistani Taliban torched dozens of containers full of supplies meant for Western forces in Afghanistan, in a brazen raid on the outskirts of Peshawar, officials and witnesses said. Having set ablaze close to 100 trucks, some carrying military vehicles, in the early hours of Sunday, the militants struck again on Monday, this time hitting a container terminal two kilometres away from the first attack. "The militants (…)

  • Obama Doesn’t Plan to End the Occupation in Iraq
    8 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Zmag December 08, 2008
    Source: AlterNet.org
    By Jeremy Scahill
    The New York Times is reporting an "apparent evolution" in president-elect Barack Obama’s thinking on Iraq, citing recent statements about his plan to keep a "residual force" in the country and his pledge to "listen to the recommendations of my commanders" as Obama prepares to assume actual command of U.S. forces.
    Source: blogimages
    "At the Pentagon and the military headquarters in Iraq, the response to the statements (…)

  • Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa
    7 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa
    by Keith Harmon Snow
    Global Research, December 7, 2008 www.allthingspass.com - 2008-12-05
    War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old clichés about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as "news". Meanwhile, early indications out of America are that President-elect Barack Obama will assemble a foreign policy-team primed for business as usual.
    How will Hillary Clinton (…)

  • McCain warns Pakistan of Indian air strikes
    7 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    If Pakistan did not act swiftly to arrest the people involved, the Senator said, India would be left with no option but to conduct aerial operations against select targets in Pakistan.
    Sunday, Dec 07, 2008 Nirupama Subramanian
    ISLAMABAD: United States Senator John McCain has said there is enough evidence of the involvement of former Inter-Services Intelligence officers in the planning and execution of the Mumbai attacks.
    If Pakistan did not act swiftly to arrest the people involved, (…)

  • Is Justice Closing in on Rwanda’s Paul Kagame?
    6 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    With the recent arrest of a close associate, while on tour in Europe, attention now focuses on Presidentl Paul Kagame. Is justice closing in, at long last, on the President of Rwanda? Or will powerful western backers such as Canada and USA continue to shield him from accountability for his role in the 1994 regime change/genocide?
    http://www.africanexecutive.com/mod...

  • Educate-Yourself (NWO) An Overview
    5 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New World Order (NWO) An Overview
    By Ken Adachi http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/
    Translated versions: Introduction There is a worldwide conspiracy being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group of genetically-related individuals (at least at the highest echelons) which include many of the world’s wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite, as well as members of the so-called Black Nobility of Europe (dominated by the British Crown) whose (…)

  • The ‘Other’, Older Palestinian Coup D’etat
    4 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The ‘Other’, Older Palestinian Coup D’etat
    By Nicola Nasser*
    Failing to substantiate for the President of the autonomous Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, a credible “legal” basis to extend his term from the Basic Law, which is the constitutional terms of reference that govern the rotation of power and the renewal of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the PA, Abbas in his capacity as the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation (…)

  • A Peace Process That Makes Peace Impossible
    2 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Palestinian – Israeli peace-making can only deliver if Palestinians are united, but the current Annapolis “peace process” was launched first of all as a blueprint for perpetuating the inter- Palestinian divide.
    Commitment or non-commitment to what the Quartet of the US, EU, UN and Russian mediators in Middle East peace – making described as the “Annapolis Process” in a statement they released after their meeting in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on (…)

  • Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback
    1 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback
    by James Petras
    Global Research, December 1, 2008
    "The deal South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics is negotiating with the Madagascar Government looks rapacious…The Madagascan case looks neo-colonial…The Madagascan people stand to lose half of their arable land." Financial Times Editorial, November 20, 2008
    "Cambodia is in talks with several Asian and Middle Eastern governments to (…)