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  • Uribe’s Illegal Cross-Border Raid Colombian Deaths in Ecuador
    6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By RICHARD GOTT
    The deaths of Raúl Reyes and Julián Conrado, two senior figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Farc, is clearly a serious blow to the guerrilla organisation. It will also call a halt to the release of hostages held by the Farc in the jungle over many years, a process that had been proceeding slowly under the auspices of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Freedom in the short term for the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, in which the (…)

  • Israeli Extra-Judicial Executions, by Stephen Lendman
    6 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research March 2, 2008
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8065
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-17306950.html
    At 8:50AM on February 27, an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a civilian microbus on the coastal road near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Six members of the Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades were in it at the time. Five of them were killed. The sixth one was seriously injured.
    Twenty minutes later, another aircraft attacked (…)

  • Israel : The time for worldwide boycott is now, by Omar Barghouti
    5 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research, March 2, 2008
    On Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a "holocaust," telling Israeli Army Radio: "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves."
    This date will go down in history as the beginning of a new phase in the colonial conflict between Israel and the (…)

  • The United Nations Contributed to the Establishment (Michel Chossudovsky)
    5 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Research March 1, 2008
    International Tribunal for U.S./NATO War Crimes in Yugoslavia - 2000-06-10
    The EU, the US, NATO and the UN Mission in Kosovo bear responsibility in the criminalization of Kosovo State institutions.
    The following article, written in March 2000, focusses on the formation of a Kosovar Mafia State integrated by former members of the KLA.
    With the February 2008 declaration of Independence, this process has reached its completion. Kosovo is not a mafia state (…)

  • “Advancing the Cause of Peace” by Felicity Arbuthnot (GlobalResearch)
    4 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Research March 4, 2008
    “We have an appointment with death We have become familiar with our shores of despair ...” Ali Ahmad Said: “Victims of a Map” , Saqi Books
    The world community is encouraged to celebrate and commemorate two occasions this year: Israel’s theft of Palestine and the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights.
    As the British government announces that the educational curriculum is to now include school children visiting Auschwitz “lest we forget” the (…)

  • Exodus from Iraq : ’Not Our Country To Return To’ By Dahr Jamail/Maki al-Nazzal
    4 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail*
    DAMASCUS, Mar 3 (IPS) - More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary.
    Thousands fleeing say security is as bad as ever, and that to return would be to accept death.
    "Return to Iraq?" asks 35-year-old Ahmed Alwan, an Iraqi engineer now working at a restaurant in Damascus. "There is no Iraq to return to, my friend. Iraq only exists in our dreams and memories."
    The United Nations High (…)

  • Israel’s "Bigger Holocaust" Threat Against the Palestinians
    4 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    High Time for a Worldwide Boycott March 02, 2008 By Omar Barghouti
    Yesterday, Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a "holocaust," telling the Israeli Army Radio: "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves."[1] This date will go down in history as the beginning of a new (…)

  • The Palestinian Kristallnacht Cometh : Is Gaza Strip a concentration camp?
    4 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    There has been a lot of debate over the years as to the accuracy of comparing what is happening to Palestinians in Gaza to what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany during the 1930’s. How legitimate is this comparison? The latest remarks made by Matan Vilnai, the Deputy Defence Minister of Israel, and Ehud Barak, the Defence Minister of Israel, should answer this question once and for all.
    To be able to put the present situation into context, we must first go back to Germany during 9 (…)

  • Noam Chomsky : Why Isn’t Iraq in the 2008 Election?
    3 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The following speech, transcribed by Democracy Now!, was delivered by Chomsky in Massachussetts at an event sponsored by Bikes Not Bombs.
    Not very long ago, as you all recall, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the 2008 election, as it was in the midterm election two years ago. However, it’s virtually disappeared off the radar screen, which has solicited some puzzlement among the punditry.
    Actually, the reason is not very obscure. It was cogently (…)

  • Operation Canned Goods
    3 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Operation Canned Goods By David Glenn Cox History is written by the victors, that much is true. Not only are the valiant deeds of the victors made public but the crimes of the vanquished as well. The Spanish American War was predicated on the premise that Spanish radicals had planted explosives on the American battleship, USS Maine. The American ambassador described the negotiations, in his diary of that day, as going well and exceptional progress being made. But with the death of the (…)