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  • Pak : Resumption of Isaf supplies likely today
    17 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "The Dawn"
    By Ibrahim Shinwari and Syed Irfan Raza
    LANDI KOTAL/ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The government is likely to allow resumption of supplies to International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan and reopen the Peshawar-Torkham highway on Monday.
    An official said on Sunday that security forces would escort convoys carrying fuel and other goods from Tahkt Bai to the border town of Torkham.
    On Nov 10, a group of militants hijacked 13 trucks carrying supplies for Nato (…)

  • Pak : War escalation, 12 killed in NW drones strikes
    15 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    20 militants die in Shabqadar operation
    Source: "Pakistan Observer"
    Peshawar—Once again ridiculing all international norms and laws, the US drones on Friday wee hours fired more missiles into tribal regions of Pakistan and killed upto 12 innocent people and injured several others in North Waziristan agency. Some reports put the death toll at 15
    Sources and the military officials said the attack targeted a house in a remote village on the border between North and South Waziristan. “We (…)

  • Obama, Rahm-bo and the End of the New American Century
    13 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America’s wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama’s choice of foreign and economic policy advisors? Indeed, Obama’s selection of Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff is a signal that change ended with Obama’s election. The only thing different about the new administration will be the faces.
    Rahm Emanuel is a supporter of Bush’s invasion of Iraq. (…)

  • Disaster of Israel’s Making
    13 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The illegal settlement movement, supported by every Israeli administration to date, has burgeoned out of control and its right wing leaders are vehemently opposed to negotiating land for peace.
    We will probably see the present Foreign Minister and Kadima party leader, Tzipi Livni - if she forms the next government and takes over from Ehud Olmert, now interim PM - use the same stalling tactics with the Palestinian Authority that have, up until now, allowed land grabs from the Palestinians (…)

  • US Issues Uprecedented DEFCON 1 ALERT
    12 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Issues Uprecedented DEFCON 1 ALERT Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that the United States Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has alerted his World-Wide military commands to begin preparations for the raising of America’s Defense Condition (DEFCON) “on or about” October 7th to their highest status DEFCON 1.
    United States ally Israel has, likewise, raised its alert status to their highest level, and as we can read as reported by the World Tribune News (…)

  • Ronald Reagan: B Film Actor, Ladies’ Man and FBI Snitch
    12 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Hughes
    “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” - Arthur Miller (1)
    If you are a Hollywood film buff and a political junkie, too, as I am, you will just love Marc Eliot’s latest book, “Reagan: The Hollywood Years.” The author touches on Ronald Reagan’s early days in Dixon, Illinois, but mainly focuses on his film career in which he was cast in one bad B movie after another. The main expose in this absorbing tome is that during the days of the “Red Scare,” late 40s through (…)

  • Pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel CENSORSHIP by UK Guardian re US & Israeli War Crimes
    12 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The UK Guardian’s “Comment is Free” has just published an article by a former British member of the US-funded Israeli Defence Force, one Seth Freedman. I commented on what I described as a “thoughtful article” which simply made the point that in remembering the Allied war dead in World War 1 on Remembrance Day (11 November) one should give pause to think of the Other Soldiers in that conflict and indeed in what the author euphemistically describes as the “Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio” ( in (…)

  • Today is the day that we remember the victims of those who profit from war: Remembering ’Remembrance Day’
    11 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Remembrance Day (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom), also known as Poppy Day (Malta and South Africa) and Armistice Day (France, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries; and the original name of the day internationally) "is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918.”
    How unfortunate that we have a need (…)

  • Pakistan : Militants raid Nato supplies, hijack 13 military trucks
    11 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Source : "The Dawn"
    By Ibrahim Shinwari
    LANDI KOTAL, Nov 10: Militants hijacked 13 containers carrying supplies for Nato forces from the highway linking Pakistan with Afghanistan after a brazen attack on Monday, as paramilitary personnel watched from the nearby Jamrud Fort.
    The containers were ambushed by dozens of heavily armed men from Wazir Dhand, Teddi Bazaar and Sur Qamar on the Peshawar-Torkham highway. Several Khasadar checkpoints are located nearby.
    “It happened on the (…)

  • Obama has to pay for eight years of Bush’s delusions
    11 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    How is Barack Obama going to repair the titanic damage which his vicious, lying predecessor has perpetrated around the globe and within the US itself?
    He will have to get out of Iraq, and he will have to tell Israel a few home truths
    Saturday, 8 November 2008
    American lawyers defending six Algerians before a habeas corpus hearing in Washington this week learned some very odd things about US intelligence after 9/11. From among the millions of "raw" reports from American (…)