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Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist (Documentary) - 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7ZHenQnu4
This is the Prologue to the new documentary from The Corbett Report, Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist. This documentary interrogates the notion that Osama Bin Laden single-handedly runs the pervasive Al Qaeda terrorist network by examining its inception, its links to Western intelligence, the double agents and fictitious characters that populate its ranks, and the fraudulent ways the Al Qaeda myth is propagated in (…)

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:43:01 GMT By Akram al-Sattari, Press TV, Gaza Norwegian Doctor Mads Gilbert
Doctor Mads Gilbert is a member of a Norwegian triage medical team present in the besieged Gaza Strip. The team has exposed that Israel has used depleted uranium weapons in its war on the impoverished territory which is home to 1.5 million Palestinians. He described the conditions inside Gaza in an exclusive Press TV interview.
Press TV: What can you tell about the uranium (…)

Mahathir blames US for Gaza war
Global Research, January 6, 2009 Al Jazeera
Mahathir said Israel was emboldened by continuous US support [EPA]
Malaysia’s former prime minister has blamed the US for backing Israeli military aggression against Palestinians in Gaza, saying it makes the US "much more guilty than even the Israelis".
Mahathir Mohamad, long known for his anti-West views, on Monday said that no matter how clever or powerful Israel was it would not be able to carry out the (…)

By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — "The engines that have lifted the U.S. economy out of every recession since World War II will be of little help this time around.
Inventory rebuilding, household spending, home construction and payroll growth — the forces that powered, to a greater or lesser extent, each recovery since 1945 — may remain missing for much of 2009. A glut of unsold properties may keep housing depressed, while shriveled savings will (…)

Will the New GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) Single Currency Include Gold?
Gulf Cooperation Council leaders yesterday concluded their 29th annual summit meeting in Muscat, Oman with a final approval for the creation of a single currency for the six-nation economic bloc, still targeted for 2010.
Saudi Arabia is the largest economy in the GCC and boasts substantial gold reserves. But whether gold will be included in the currency basket has not yet been decided.
Golden opportunity GCC (…)

January 6, 2009
SHOULD ISRAEL TALK TO HAMAS?
John Chuckman
It is so elemental a question, yet one rarely mentioned in the mainline press. Hamas has been demonized so thoroughly and with so little genuine reason that its situation provides prima facie evidence for the immense reach of the Israel lobby.
The world is horrified by Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s densely populated area, and rightly so, but the bombing is only a more intense horror than the blockade.
The word “blockade” comes (…)

Top 5 Lies About Israel’s Assault on Gaza by Jeremy R. Hammond / January 3rd, 2009
Lie #1) Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.
The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces of property in the world. The presence of militants within a civilian population does not, under international law, deprive that population of their protected status, and hence any assault upon that population under (…)

At least five Palestinians have been killed after Israeli strikes hit two separate schools run by the United Nations in the Gaza Strip.
According to medics and UN officials, two people were killed in a strike on a school in the southern of Khan Yunis and three people were killed in an air strike on a school in Gaza City on Tuesday.
Hundreds of Palestinians have taken refuge at UN schools to escape the raining fire on Gaza.
The identities of the victims have not been revealed yet. (…)

Commondreams.org Published on Monday, January 5, 2009 by the Times Online (UK)
by Sheera Frenkel and Michael Evans
JERUSALEM - Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not illegal if used as a smokescreen.
Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the (…)

Israel collaborator recruiter punked
Transcript, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2009
The flyer sent to The Electronic Intifada.
In addition to bombs and missiles that have killed an ever increasing number of Palestinian civilians, Israel has dropped millions of flyers on the occupied, besieged Gaza Strip.
One such flyer, an image of which was sent to The Electronic Intifada, seeks to recruit Palestinian collaborators. Signed by the "Israel Defense Forces (…)