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  • Seymour Hersh: Secret war against Iran (video, 2008)
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-25092954.html

  • Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III
    25 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following will remain the top post for the next few days. It is an update of “10 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 10 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III ”, which in turn was an update of “7 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 7 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III.”
    For those who have been following this series, minor updates were made to events 1 through 10 and the Implications section, and event 11, the (…)

  • Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq - A CorpWatch Report on L-3/Titan
    23 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq - A CorpWatch Report on L-3/Titan
    http://s3.amazonaws.com/corpwatch.org/downloads/L-3TITANreport.pdf
    Enterprise "Titan" - if secret services outsource tasks ...
    – http://translate.google.com/transla...

  • Western Murdochracy Denial & Google Censorship of British Indian Holocaust & Churchill’s Crimes
    23 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Many people are aware that Google censors the Internet access of the people of China. However I suspect that many people are unaware of a more general Google censorship and how Google censors the Internet for everyone in the world.
    Thus, as detailed below, Google censors Churchill’s Crimes (notably his murder of 6-7 million Indians in the man-made 1943-1945 Bengal Famine) and the British Indian Holocaust (1.8 billion avoidable Indians deaths under the racist, genocidal British Occupation, (…)

  • Washington secretly authorized military raids on 20 countries since 2004
    20 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington secretly authorized military raids on 20 countries since 2004
    By Bill Van Auken 11 November 2008
    Since 2004, the Bush administration has secretly authorized military raids against up to 20 countries without any declaration of war or even any explicit congressional authorization for armed action, according to a report published Monday in the New York Times.
    The report, which cites recent attacks on targets in Pakistan, Syria and Somalia, establishes that under an order (…)

  • War Escalation : "Operation Lion Heart" in Pakistan and Afghanistan
    20 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aamir Latif, IOL Correspondent
    Six people were killed in the Bannu strike, the first US missile attack outside the rugged tribal regions. (Reuters)
    ISLAMABAD — American, Pakistani and Afghan troops are conducting a coordinated operation to hunt down Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants along the Afghan border.
    "Pakistan doesn’t have the drone technology. Therefore, we have to depend on them (US forces)," a senior Pakistani government official told IslamOnline.net, requesting anonymity (…)

  • US seeks alternative supply routes to Afghanistan
    20 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "The Dawn"
    By Our Correspondent
    WASHINGTON, Nov 19: The United States is seeking alternative supply routes for Nato troops in Afghanistan, including a tortuous overland journey from Europe, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
    The United States currently uses the Karachi-Khyber Pass route for supplying 67,000 foreign troops stationed in Afghanistan, including 32,000 Americans. Nearly half of US forces operate under Nato command.
    About 75 per cent of Nato and US (…)

  • DR Congo’s Historic Urgency.
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    The conditions in the democratic republic of Congo are dire for millions of its people despite the fact that the Congo has more mineral wealth than any other part of the African continent. Over a quarter of a million people are displaced because of the civil war currently raging in the eastern part of the country. Women and children have been primary targets of both sides in the conflict with rape used as a weapon by both sides. The war between the government forces and (…)

  • Bowles on Palestine / media coverage
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.creative-i.info/?p=2196
    by Sarah Meyer, UK researcher
    http://indexresearch.blogspot.com
    "Cowardice asks the question, ’Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ’Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ’Is it popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ’Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • US to send more copters to Iraq, Afghanistan
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Seoul—The United States will withdraw about 20 Apache attack helicopters from South Korea for redeployment in Iraq and Afghanistan next year, the U.S. military said Sunday.The U.S. has notified South Korea of its plan to re-station one of the two Apache battalions in South Korea to make the unit available for rotational deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military command in Seoul said in a statement.Each Apache battalion is comprised of some 20 helicopters, according to U.S. (…)