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Iraq Papers Mon: Sandstorm Delays Oil Tenders
New Kurdistan Constitution "A Bomb"!
By AMER MOHSEN 06/28/2009 5:40 PM ET
al-Bayyna al-JadeedaAccording to al-’Arabiya, a freak sandstorm that has enveloped Baghdad has apparently postponed the controversial tendering process for Iraqi oil and gas fields, which was supposed to be launched over two days, starting today, by the Iraqi Oil Ministry.
In the “first round” of (…)

George Galloway, British MP, spoke out strongly in support of the cause of a free Palestine. He ripped into Israel’s military siege of Gaza, along with its ongoing blockade, which continues to put 1.7 million of its residents at grave risk to their health and safety. Galloway said the people of Gaza “are locked up.” He also traced the history of Palestine, the evils of the British Empire and the massive crime of Colonialism. He referred to Israel as “an Apartheid State.” The event, entitled, (…)

George Galloway, British MP, spoke out strongly in support of the cause of a free Palestine. He ripped into Israel’s military siege of Gaza, along with its ongoing blockade, which continues to put 1.7 million of its residents at grave risk to their health and safety. Galloway said the people of Gaza “are locked up.” He also traced the history of Palestine, the evils of the British Empire and the massive crime of Colonialism. He referred to Israel as “an Apartheid State.” The event, entitled, (…)

By Eva Golinger
President Zelaya of Honduras has just been kidnapped
Caracas, Venezuela - The text message that beeped on my cell phone this morning read “Alert, Zelaya has been kidnapped, coup d’etat underway in Honduras, spread the word.” It’s a rude awakening for a Sunday morning, especially for the millions of Hondurans that were preparing to exercise their sacred right to vote today for the first time on a consultative referendum concerning the future convening of a constitutional (…)

If anything is clear about the recent Iranian election it is that all sides have been afforded ample opportunity to get in their licks. First of course there is the mainstream media, who have been screaming fraud at the top of their hypocritical lungs while keeping steadfastly mum about massive and transparent election fraud in the US (Selection 2000 being only the most conspicuous example). Not to be outdone, "dissident" pundits of all stripes have swooped in on the opportunity to accuse (…)

George Galloway, British MP, spoke out strongly in support of the cause of a free Palestine. He ripped into Israel’s military siege of Gaza, along with its ongoing blockade, which continues to put 1.7 million of its residents at grave risk to their health and safety. Galloway said the people of Gaza “are locked up.” He also traced the history of Palestine, the evils of the British Empire and the massive crime of Colonialism. He referred to Israel as “an Apartheid State.” The event, entitled, (…)

ABC News has reported that under Obama the US will “officially” cease eradication of Taliban-destroyed, US-restored Afghan opium industry and thus, as the ruler of Occupied Afghanistan, Barack Hussein Obama (BHO) becomes the World’s #1 opium pusher, the World’s #1 heroin and the World’s #1 drug lord (see “US announces shift in Afghanistan drug policy”: ) .
Indigenous Afghan deaths from the Bush (now Obama) Afghanistan War include 3-7 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess (…)

Enver Masud was one of the speakers at a “Demand Accountability for Torture” rally, on June 25, 2009, in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. He questioned how Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was “waterboarded 183 times” by the CIA, and then confessed to being the “mastermind of 9/11,” can get a “fair trial” in this country. Mr. Masud connected the dots between 9/11, the waterboarding of a detainee, a so-called “confession,” and the Iraq War. Mr. Masud is the founder and CEO of “The Wisdom (…)

It’s high time to pay back colonial debt to African countries - Medvedev
Global Research, June 27, 2009
LUANDA: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev thinks that the states that earlier had colonies in Africa should think about paying back the debt to the African continent.
"Russia has never been a colonial power, but we think that the time has come to pay back debts," Medvedev told a news conference after talks with his Angolan counterpart in Luanda, Angola’s capital on Friday. (…)

One of the speakers at a “Demand Accountability for Torture” rally, on June 25, 2009, in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. was Marcus Raskin. He is an author and the cofounder of the Institute for Policy Studies. Check out: http://www.ips-dc.org/staff/marcus Mr. Raskin was introduced by David Swanson of afterdowningstreet.org. Mr. Raskin underscored: “The President [Barack Obama]...says he is ‘against torture.’ So, if that is the case, then he should be held to account...When do we (…)