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  • What Happens When Superpower Air Defenses Really Fail
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Eleven years ago yesterday the trial against Matthias Rust began in Moscow. A few months earlier, on May 28, 1987, the 19-year-old German had landed his single-engine Cessna about 100 meters from Red Square. There are still unanswered questions about how this amateur pilot was able to penetrate what Bill Keller of the New York Times called “the world’s most vaunted air defenses” (NYT, June 7, 1987).
    There is no question, though, about the aftermath:
    “With surprising speed and openness, (…)

  • THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David R. Hoffman
    Over ten years later, I still remember the lecture. My law professor had drawn two squares on the chalkboard and labeled them A and B.
    “These squares,” he explained, “represent two neighboring factories that manufacturer the same product. The product is of the same quality and sold for the same price. It is manufactured for export only, so all profits come from overseas markets.”
    “The problem,” he continued, “is that manufacturing this product is environmentally (…)

  • The Afghan War’s Heavy Toll On Children
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Brian McAfee
    Again today reports coming out of Afghanistan indicate more dead children. Three were killed and seven injured when western troops fired artillery shells at a civilian house in western Afghanistan. This occurs in the wake of the August 22 bombing that resulted in the deaths of 90 people, 60 children, 15 women and 15 men. Afghans and UN officials have confirmed the numbers but the U.S. insists there were only 5 dead children and 25 dead Taliban. Civilian casualties are a (…)

  • NATO’s secret armies linked to terrorism?
    30 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniele Ganser
    At a time when experts are debating whether NATO is suited to deal with the global “war on terror”, new research suggests that the alliance’s own secret history has links to terrorism.
    ISN Editor’s Note:
    This report written by Daniele Ganser is based on excerpts from his newly released book, “NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe”, released this week by Frank Cass in London.
    The book describes NATO’s clandestine operations during the (…)

  • Free Gaza Boats Leave Gaza With Palestinians On-Board
    29 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Free Gaza Boats Leave Gaza With Palestinians On-Board
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    SS FREE GAZA & SS LIBERTY TO LEAVE FOR CYPRUS WITH PALESTINIANS ON-BOARD
    For More Information, Please Contact: (Gaza) Paul Larudee: +972 598 765 370 (Gaza) Huwaida Arraf: +972 599 130 426 (Cyprus) Osama Qashoo: +357 97 793 595 / osamaqashoo@gmail.com (Jerusalem) Angela Godfrey-Goldstein: +972 547 366 393 / angela@icahd.org
    (GAZA CITY, 28 August 2008) - After having shattered the Israeli blockade of Gaza (…)

  • South Ossetia, manipulation: Images of war, war of images
    28 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A few days after these pictures had been analyzed by the Russian blog Russia Inside Out and the Serbian blog Byzantine blog as fake ones, staged by the photographer David Mdzinarishvili, some of them have been simply removed from the website of Reuters. Here the deconstruction made by Byzantine blog
    This photo was first published by the Reuters as an image of a "dead woman being carried from the town of Gori". But this "dead woman", incredibly, is clutching the nurse’s arm.
    This man (…)

  • Taliban win over locals at the gates of Kabul
    25 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Taliban win over locals at the gates of Kabul
    Jason burke – The Observer August 24, 2008
    Ismatullah stood at the crossroads in the dusty Afghan town of Maidan Shah, squinted in the blinding noon sun and stroked his long, grey beard. ’What the governor said in our meeting was very good,’ he said diplomatically. ’He quoted the Koran very correctly. But I am not sure how much power he has. Now I am going home - and the Taliban control my district, not him.’
    The tribal elder lives only a (…)

  • The Taliban: A product of the West
    23 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Creating a monster
    The CIA’s shenanigans By Sanjay Suri
    London: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a leading US expert on South Asia said here.
    "I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on "Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia."
    Harrison (…)

  • CIA : The Afghan wars
    23 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The continuing conflict on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is a war in which the United States is paying for both sides
    BY J. SRI RAMAN
    That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap… The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its Vietnam war." So said Zbigniew Brzezinski in a media interview in 1998.
    A decade later we can look (…)

  • Arundhati slammed for Kashmir’s freedom
    22 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Friday, August 22,2008 NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Thursday slammed writer Arundhati Roy for her comments in Srinagar where she reportedly demanded ’azadi’ for Kashmir during a rally at the UN office. "It is preposterous for anyone to say so. It deserves to be rejected with contempt," Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said.
    “We are a constitutional democracy and what is against the constitution has to be strongly condemned. One must remember in our country, (…)