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American leadership is good for America and for the world.”
So reads the introduction to the Project For The New American Century (PNAC), perhaps the most important document ever ignored by so many impacted millions-the neocon blueprint for American “full-spectrum domination” of the world. “Benign global hegemony” is their tender euphemism for it, and the hegemony business is not going as planned. American leadership for America hasn’t been so good, either.
Commonly accepted accounting (…)

They’re back. The winter session of the state legislature is upon us. Bills have been presented, in both Senate (SB831) and House (HB1320) before the opening session, to re-introduce the nuclear power business to Oklahoma. This will, if the sponsor and his backers prevail, bring jobs and cancer to our state.
We’ve got a problem. We humans interpret the world and have survived by our five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. They have served us well; they guide our (…)

By William Pfaff
The American participants in this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have been the first to confront the full international blowback to the U.S.-created world economic crisis. The crisis has devastated America’s reputation for intellectual innovation and practice in global finance, its business leadership and its domination of applied and academic economics—all promoted at the Davos forum for decades. Last Friday, a Wall Street Journal front-page headline (…)

By Chris Hedges
The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a matter of time. And not much time. When things start to go sour, when Barack Obama is exposed as a mortal waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States could plunge into a long period of precarious (…)

A New Film By Alex Jones
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-27530712.html

Prosecutor looks at ways to put Israeli officers on trial for Gaza ’war crimes’
Times Online, February 2, 2009 By Catherine Philp in Davos and James Hider in Jerusalem
The International Criminal Court is exploring ways to prosecute Israeli commanders over alleged war crimes in Gaza.
The alleged crimes include the use of deadly white phosphorus in densely populated civilian areas, as revealed in an investigation by The Times last month. Israel initially denied using the controversial (…)

Global Energy War: Washington’s New Kissinger The appointment of US Marine General James Jones
by Rick Rozoff
Global Research, February 2, 2009 Stop NATO
Lost amid the national and international fanfare accompanying the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States is attention to the person who is slated to be the next major foreign policy architect and executor, retired US Marine General James Jones.
In nearly identical phraseology that cannot be construed as either (…)

Israeli warplanes have attacked the northern town of Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip shortly after pounding the southern areas of the sliver.
Israeli warplanes attacked the city hours after striking the Rafah border region in southern Gaza Strip, according to a Press TV correspondent in the area.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who was addressing the annual Herzliya Conference at the time of the attack, informed the audience that the military "is currently operating in the Gaza Strip."
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Over the past two years, many different sources have exposed the ongoing crimes of the Kagame government and military, both before and after Kagame seized power in Rwanda in July 1994. Long a favorite of the Clinton and Bush administrations, Kagame’s crimes are reaching huge proportions that require him and his US admirers to do something to divert attention from Kagame’s own responsibility for Nkunda’s crimes, as well as many, many others committed over the past two decades including (…)

TheRealNews
28 janvier 2009
Last week President Obama introduced the new U.S. State Department, including two new special envoys - George Mitchell to the Middle East and Richard Holbrooke to Afghanistan/Pakistan. Early this week the President gave his first sit-in interview in power - to an Arab TV network. He has promised a new partnership with the Arab world based on mutual respect. As groundbreaking as this may seem - compared to the Bush administration’s approach - Pepe Escobar argues (…)