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  • Israel’s Settlement on Capital Hill
    30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Israel’s hilltop settlement in our nation’s capital (must be) dismantled.’
    "With [traditional Israeli defense strategists] it’s all about tanks and land and controlling territories... and this hilltop and that hilltop. All these things are worthless." - Incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Soon after the sand settled following the Six Day War in 1967, Jewish settlements began dotting the hills in the occupied territories. These settlements are typically located on the high (…)

  • ICTR: Canada’s Dallaire "failed in his mission", says expert
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A French military historian giving expert testimony at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, says General Romeo Dallaire, who commanded the UN Force in Rwanda in 1994 "failed in his mission."
    "He cold have faced the situation and suppressed the massacres."
    "A leader, a general must reserve that option instead of being locked up in a protective legalism..."
    It has long been suggested in some quarters that Dallaire and another Canadian hero, Louise Arbour were complicit in the (…)

  • Video / Prof. Avi Shlaim: Settlements turned Israel into apartheid state
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video / Prof. Avi Shlaim: Settlements turned Israel into apartheid state
    By Haaretz Staff and Fora.tv
    Tags: Avi Shlaim, Zionism
    British-Israeli Professor Avi Shlaim joined a handful of academics in London earlier this month to debate the future of Zionism, in a panel entitled "Israel at 60: What happened to the Zionist dream?"
    Shlaim, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict at Oxford University, made headlines last year when he decided to speak at an Oxford Union debate in favor of (…)

  • UN General Assembly President Calls for Boycott of Israel
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN General Assembly President Calls for Boycott of Israel
    Al Manar TV http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=65253&language=en
    The UN General Assembly president sparked Jerusalem’s ire after calling for international boycott on Israel.
    Israel filed a formal complaint with the United Nations on Tuesday over statements made by UN General Assembly President, Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, who called for an international boycott of Israel after accusing (…)

  • Divide and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Divide and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project
    by Andrew G. Marshall
    Global Research, July 10, 2008
    Establishing an "Arc of Crisis"
    Many would be skeptical that the Anglo-Americans would be behind terrorist acts in Iraq, such as with the British in Basra, when two British SAS soldiers were caught dressed as Arabs, with explosives and massive arsenal of weapons.[1] Why would the British be complicit in orchestrating terror in the very city in which they are to provide (…)

  • AWOL American soldier applies for German asylum. Statement of André Shepherd at press-conference
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AWOL American soldier applies for German asylum Statement of André Shepherd at press-conference in Frankfurt/M. (Germany)
    Hello, my name is Andre Shepherd, and I was a member of the U.S. Army before finding that my conscience would no longer allow for me to continue in such a capacity. I am currently Absent Without Leave and am requesting asylum in Germany. I am asking for your support in this difficult matter. I enlisted in the military in January of 2004 and worked my way up in rank from (…)

  • America’s Child Soldiers: US Military Recruiting Children to Serve in the Armed Forces
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    America’s Child Soldiers: US Military Recruiting Children to Serve in the Armed Forces
    by Sherwood Ross
    Global Research, November 29, 2008
    In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon “regularly target(s) children under 17,” the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says.
    The Pentagon “heavily recruits on high school campuses, targeting students for recruitment as early as possible and generally without limits on the age of (…)

  • You Cannot Pardon a Crime you Authorized
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    You Cannot Pardon a Crime you Authorized War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates
    by Lawrence Velvel
    Global Research, November 27, 2008
    Statement from the Steering Committee for the Prosecution for War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates
    Never before has a president pardoned himself or his subordinates for crimes he authorized. The closest thing to this in U.S. history thus far has been Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence. Bush is widely expected to (…)

  • Indian Army takes control of financial capital
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Gunmen attack Mumbai, 80 killed
    Source : "Pakistan Observer"
    Mumbai—Gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India’s financial capital, killing 80 people and wounding 250, officials and media reports said.
    The Press Trust of India said at least 80 people were killed in the attacks that began late Wednesday and continued into Thursday morning.
    Johnny Joseph, chief secretary for Maharashtra state, of which (…)

  • China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. New US Military Command
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. New US Military Command
    by F. William Engdahl
    Global Research, November 26, 2008
    Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing with the Republic of Congo, the oil-rich Gulf (…)