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Turkish Doctor Describes Treating Israeli Commandos During Raid on Mavi Marmara
by Robert Mackey and Sebnem Arsu
Global Research, June 20, 2010 Future FastForward - 2010-06-18
In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Hasan Huseyin Uysal, a Turkish doctor, said that he treated Israeli commandos who were captured and briefly detained during the initial stages of a raid on a ship challenging Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza last week.
Dr. Uysal’s account seems to be supported by two (…)

Boarding party troops in deadly flotilla raid confiscated cards and spent on them, claim campaigners who were on board
Israeli troops have been accused of stealing from activists arrested in the assault on the Gaza flotilla after confiscated debit cards belonging to activists were subsequently used.
In their raid of 31 May, the Israeli army stormed the boats on the flotilla and, as well as money and goods destined for the Palestinian relief effort in Gaza, the bulk of which have yet to (…)

Egypt opposition angered at government for allowing the fleet of more than 12 ships to cross Egyptian manned waterway, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports.
More than twelve United States Naval warships and at least one Israeli ship crossed the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea on Friday, British Arabic Language newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Saturday.
According to the report, thousands of Egyptian soldiers were deployed along the Suez Canal guarding the ships’ passage, which included a U.S. (…)

The dollar, not the euro, is threatening a major crisis
F. William Engdahl
We have at this point already explained in detail how the Wall Street and Obama’s finance minister, together with the U.S. credit-rating agencies since the December attack on Greece and the weaker countries to ride the euro zone. This cash warfare - it is war in the truest sense of the word - if the pressure of a far more serious problem to be taken, namely the stability of the U.S. dollar and its future as a (…)

The 2010 Bush-Cheney Gulf Coast Oil Spill
by Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research, June 17, 2010 The New American Empire
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will be in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams (1722-1803), statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1776
“America is addicted to oil.” President George W. Bush, State of the (…)

Methane is 72 times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas (GHG) on a 20 year time scale and industrial leakage of methane (1.5% to 2.2%) has led Professor Robert Howarth, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to conclude that "A complete consideration of all emissions from using natural gas seems likely to make natural gas far less attractive than oil and not significantly better than coal in terms of the consequences for global warming."
Yet President Barack Obama has (…)

Global systemic crisis / Second half of 2010: The global system’s four single points of failure Public announcement GEAB N°46 (June 16, 2010) -
Each day the news confirm the extent to which the global systemic crisis has now entered into the phase of global geopolitical dislocation, even if the media only timidly begin to interpret the historic upheavals which unfold before our own eyes. For LEAP/E2020, the second half of 2010 will thus correspond to a new step in the global geopolitical (…)

Ann Wright Denounces Israel’s Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla! from William Hughes on Vimeo.
Former U.S. Diplomat and U.S. Army/Army Reserve veteran, Ann Wright, a retired Colonel, spoke on June 16, 2010, at the Potter’s House restaurant in Washington, D.C. Col. Wright was on one of the vessels in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, when it was attacked, on May 31, 2010, by the Israeli military, in international waters, in the Mediterranean Sea. She shared her strong feeing about that blood (…)

On Tuesday, June 8 at noon, I wrote the Reflection “On the Threshold of Tragedy” Later, I watched Randy Alonso’s TV program, Roundtable, usually aired at 6:30 pm.
That day, outstanding and prestigious Cuban intellectuals taking part in the program answered pointed questions raised by the moderator with eloquent words that showed great respect for my views, but they did not think there was any reason for Iran to reject the likely decision – already known- that would be adopted by the (…)

The following Open Letter has been sent to the Australian Government and to Australian Mainstream Media and MPs because of the failure of the pro-war, pro-occupation, pro-Zionist Australian Labor Government to taken any meaningful action against Israeli terrorism, even when such terrorism is against Australian citizens e.g.
1. Massive Israeli theft of billions of dollars worth of property of Palestinian Australian citizens.
2. Israeli bombing of 25, 000 Australian citizens in Lebanon (…)