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The Smooth Criminal Transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama: Corrupt new administration deepens and expands systemic criminalization and war agenda
by Larry Chin
Global Research, April 4, 2009
To sober, clear-eyed observers of history and political deception, the ascension of Barack Obama held the promise for unprecedented new dangers: a revitalized New World Order, led by the Anglo-American empire’s neoliberal criminal faction and an iconic, deceptive new facilitator; and a continuation (…)

by Arundhati Roy
What is happening rightg now in Sri Lanka, and what is being so effectively hidden from public scrutiny, is a brazen, openly racist war. The world must step in. Now.
http://www.guerrillanews.com/headli...

STRASBOURG, France — Police are clashing with demonstrators in Strasbourg where the NATO summit is underway.
Several hundred protesters in eastern Strasbourg are hurling Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles as they try to push their way into the city’s centre.
Some 100 riot police bearing shields and wearing body armour are responding with tear gas in a bid to break up the melee with the demonstrators, many of whom are clad in black and wearing masks.
Across the river in the German (…)

Anti-NATO protests continue in France An anti-Nato protester hurls a stone in Strasbourg.
Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:11:35 GMT
NATO heads of state are meeting on the outskirts of French city of Strasbourg to mark the organizations’ 60th anniversary amid protests.
Anti-NATO demonstrations continue in Strasbourg and the neighboring German cities of Baden-Baden and Kehl despite the deployment of thousands of German and French troops and police forces.
Police clashed with protestors, who have (…)

Your war questions answered: Why is Obama getting a pass on Afghanistan troop increases?
by Andisheh Nouraee
Global Research, April 3, 2009 Creative Loafing
A Don’t panic! special update: What is the U.S. mission in Afghanistan?
Dear reader(s),
In recent days, I’ve experienced a surprising emotion: nostalgia for the Bush era.
It’s not nostalgia for his administration’s catastrophic pairing of cronyism and incompetence.
It’s not nostalgia for his “kinda-drunk John Wayne with a (…)

Summits Come and Summits Go As The Economy Continues Its Slide After the G-20 Summit. What was Accomplished and For How Long
by Danny Schechter
Global Research, April 3, 2009
The eyes of the world have been on the Economic Summit in London but the ideas of the world were mostly conspicuous by their absence. Here we have a global crisis. The house is on fire. Unemployment is climbing. The real estate contagion is now claiming condos and even shopping malls. It’s bad and by most (…)

Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
Global Research, April 3, 2009
Below is the Abstract, Introduction and Conclusuions of this important article. The complete article can be downloaded (pdf)
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe pp.7-31 (25) Authors: Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, (…)

Now you see them, now you don’t: Orthodox Israeli newspapers Photo-shop out female Cabinet ministers
By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE
3rd April 2009
Two women serve in Israel’s new Cabinet - but some Israelis would rather not see them.
Newspapers aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jewish readers tampered with the inaugural photograph of the Cabinet, erasing female ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver.
Ultra-Orthodox newspapers consider it immodest to print images of women.
Continue to read: (…)

Below are the beginning and end parts of the transcript of the “Occupation year 7” speech by Iraqi cardiologist Dr Omar Al-Kubaisy in the European Parliament, 18th March 2009, about the horrendous consequences of the illegal, war criminal and genocidal racist Zionist (RZ)-backed US, UK and Australian invasion and occupation of Iraq (for the full speech see: ).
This transcript was forwarded to me by the eminent BRussells Tribunal – both Dr Omar Al-Kubaisy and myself are members of the (…)

G20 summit: US and Europe paper over divisions
by Chris Marsden and Bill Van Auken
Global Research, April 3, 2009 World Socialist Web Site
The G20 summit concluded Thursday having failed to adopt the principal demands of either the US and Britain, which came to the London gathering advocating coordinated global fiscal stimulus, or a European bloc led by Germany and France, which called for international regulation of major financial institutions.
Instead, the two sides papered over (…)