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Prof. David Ray Griffin on 9/11 tour of various European cities: "Time for a Second Look"
31 MARCH 2009 Professor David Ray Griffin, renowned author of a series of eye-opening books that recount his painstaking research into the attacks of September 11, 2001, begins his new European tour in London on 14th April. Stressing the fact that the time has come for a second look at the events of that fateful day, the tour will include stops in Paris, Brussels and Madrid, and several other (…)

Daniele Ganser: «President Sarkozy has accepted the dominance of the United States»
by Sandro Cruz*
In view of Albania’s and Croatia’s recent admission to NATO and on the occasion of the Alliance’s 60th anniversary celebrations in France and Germany on April 3 and 4, Voltaire Net has asked Professor Daniele Ganser to give his assessment of this organisation. According to this world-renowned NATO specialist, the Alliance stopped playing a defensive role after the demise of the USSR. Today (…)

EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination
by Rick Rozoff*
The 60th anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be held in France and Germany on April 3 and 4. Eighteen years after the end of the Cold War, NATO has increased its membership to 26 countries, mostly European including numerous former Soviet republics. In Afghanistan NATO is waging its first armed conflict outside of Europe and its first ground war with the participation of armed units (…)

Fake, Faith and Epic Crimes
by John Pilger
Global Research, April 2, 2009 newstatesman.com
These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the Nazis at Nuremberg. This defined rapacious invasion as "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the (…)

Chas Freeman slams ’destructive’ Israeli policies Charles W. Freeman
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:20:20 GMT
Former US diplomat Charles W. Freeman says he doubts whether the current Israeli policies can guarantee the regime’s survival in the Middle East.
"I don’t see how Israel can continue to survive in the long term as a state in the Middle East if it is not prepared to deal with respect and consideration with its Arab neighbors specially the Palestinians," Freeman, a former US ambassador to (…)

Fed under fire Friday, 3 April 2009
U.S. central bank put politicians under pressure. Senate wants the number and cost of the twelve regional Fed offshoot checked. Comprehensive accounts of funds to commercial banks.
The distrust of many U.S. politicians over "their" bank grows. More and more senators are calling for greater transparency. The focus of the criticism, the lending practices of the Fed.
This has been one of the best-kept secrets. The only thing so far is known, is the (…)

James Petras’ New Book: The Power of Israel in the United States
by Stephen Lendman
Global Research, October 29, 2006
James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He’s a noted academic figure on the US Left and a well-respected Latin American expert and longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles. He’s also an advisor to the landless workers in Brazil and the unemployed workers movement in Argentina. Along the way, he managed to find (…)

Procuring Academics for Empire: The Pentagon Minerva Research Initiative
by Prof. James Petras
Global Research, April 2, 2009 The Pentagon’s military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. US military support for the Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Gaza, the US-sponsored Ethiopian occupation of Somalia, the coup attempts in Venezuela (2002) and Bolivia (…)

The G20 Summit has no doubt largely organized a final public relations communiqué of solidarity for the thieves, liars, human rights abusers, war criminals and climate criminals running the world - but there will be not a word about the ongoing “financial crisis” for the 16 million mostly non-European people who die avoidably each year (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: ).
There may be weasel words about “banking regulation” and notional constraints (…)

Did the ECB Save COMEX from Gold Default?
April 02, 2009
On Tuesday morning, gold derivatives dealers, who had sold short in the face of a fast rising gold price, faced a serious predicament. Some 27,000 + contracts, representing about 15% of the April COMEX gold futures contracts remained open. Technically, short sellers are required to give “notice” of delivery to long buyers. However, in reality, buyers are the ones who control the amount of gold to be delivered. They “demand” (…)