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Source : Frontline Volume 26 - Issue 09 :: Apr. 25-May. 08, 2009 INDIA’S NATIONAL MAGAZINE
“Omission is the most powerful form of lie.”
– George Orwell
“During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.”
– Joseph Goebbels
First Bush then Obama and their NATO allies have been killing twice as many civilian women and children than civilian men in America’s Afghan war.
– Marc W. Herold
On March 31, 2009, Jon Stewart, in his “Daily Show”, announced (…)

On May 13, the University of Alberta plans to open their new School of Public Policy with an opening gala at which the guest of honour is Condoleezza Rice. Rice has emerged as a central figure in the developing US torture and war crimes scandal. "This is your baby. Go do it," Rice is reported to have said authorizing waterboarding by CIA.
Regrettably there has been little protest from the academic community in Canada, or the national student organizations who have been aware of Rice’s (…)

So, we are able to go to the horn of Africa, bring back 16-year old children and put them on trial as adults for piracy, but we succumb to the demands of the Wall Street pirates within our midst?
"Sure, the pirates are like a small-time, entrepreneurial version of the big-time crooks on Wall Street. The financiers and investment bankers hijack the economy for their own quick profit, and then when they’re caught, they hold the economy’s future hostage while they demand humongous amounts (…)

Obama and Netanyahu: Storm Clouds Ahead?
by Helena Cobban
Global Research, April 25, 2009 Inter Press Service (IPS)
A big confrontation is brewing between the United States and Israel’s new government over the Palestine issue. Since his first days in office, President Barack Obama has expressed clear support for speedy action toward the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Since then, he and his key advisers — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and special envoy (…)

The Calais No Border camp is a joint venture between French and Belgian activists and migrant support groups and the UK No Borders Network. It aims to highlight the realities of the situation in Calais and Northern France; to build links with the migrant communities; to help build links between migrants support groups; and lastly, but not least, to challenge the authorities on the ground, to protest against increased repression of migrants and local activists alike. This camp calls for the (…)

US to abandon Israel over Iran?
Global Research, April 25, 2009 Press TV
As Israeli threats of war against Iran encounter stiff opposition in the US, the new administration mulls over imposing sanctions on Tel Aviv.
US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are mulling over a plan to impose sanctions against Israel if the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu implements its long-sought policy of countering Iran’s nuclear activities by taking military action (…)

China’s GDP to overtake U.S. by early 2020s, says Deutsche Bank analyst
Mainland to become world’s largest in about a decade, says Deutsche Bank
By Chris Oliver, MarketWatch
Last update: 9:15 a.m. EDT April 23, 2009Comments: 310
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — China will overtake the U.S. in terms of economic output within a decade, according to estimates released Thursday by Deutsche Bank, which said it had to accelerate its forecast of the mainland’s leadership in the global economy in (…)

Nuclear weapon free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East/World? What about that?
reposted of Mark Gaffney
Friends, we must work together to prevent a catastrophe. We must stop the next Middle East war before it starts.
The US government must turn over to the United Nations the primary responsibility for resolving the deepening crisis in Iraq, and, immediately thereafter, withdraw US forces from the country.
We must also prevail upon the Israelis to sign the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) (…)

Alphabet of global downturn: Economics and the coming crisis
Financier-turned-economic pundit Jim Mellon sees no reason to be optimistic about the world’s financial future
Sunday September 25, 2005 The Observer
The unwelcome arrival of Katrina and Rita in the US has swept away illusions about American society. The competence of the authorities, the standard of living of many of its people, the fabric of the country’s infrastructure - all have been cast in doubt by the storms’ effects. (…)

USA Bars Robert Fisk From Entering Country
by Doug Ireland September 23, 2005
The internationally renowned correspodent for The Independent the great British journalist Robert Fisk has been banned from entering the United States. Fisk has been covering war zones for decades, but is above all known for his incisive reporting from the Middle East for more than 20 years. His critical coverage of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, and the continuing occupation that has followed it, has (…)