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by Daniele Ganser
At a time when experts are debating whether NATO is suited to deal with the global “war on terror”, new research suggests that the alliance’s own secret history has links to terrorism.
ISN Editor’s Note:
This report written by Daniele Ganser is based on excerpts from his newly released book, “NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe”, released this week by Frank Cass in London.
The book describes NATO’s clandestine operations during the (…)

August 29, 2008
JOHN MCCAIN: A MATTER OF CHARACTER
John Chuckman
McCain does a good job with the appearance of a boyishly honest man.
He puts on his quiet voice and uses his boyish (albeit now partially fossilized) expressions and, reminding me of Richard Nixon during something like his Checkers speech, sometimes glances down at his well-shined shoes, as though wordlessly to say, see what a good boy I am.
McCain’s actual record of ethics and behavior is rather dreary, and it is a (…)

Free Gaza Boats Leave Gaza With Palestinians On-Board
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SS FREE GAZA & SS LIBERTY TO LEAVE FOR CYPRUS WITH PALESTINIANS ON-BOARD
For More Information, Please Contact: (Gaza) Paul Larudee: +972 598 765 370 (Gaza) Huwaida Arraf: +972 599 130 426 (Cyprus) Osama Qashoo: +357 97 793 595 / osamaqashoo@gmail.com (Jerusalem) Angela Godfrey-Goldstein: +972 547 366 393 / angela@icahd.org
(GAZA CITY, 28 August 2008) - After having shattered the Israeli blockade of Gaza (…)

“It would be difficult to identify a President who, facing major international and domestic crises, has failed in both as clearly as President Bush,” concluded one respondent. “His domestic policies,” another noted, “have had the cumulative effect of shoring up a semi-permanent aristocracy of capital that dwarfs the aristocracy of land against which the founding fathers rebelled; of encouraging a mindless retreat from science and rationalism; and of crippling the nation’s economic base.” (…)

A few days after these pictures had been analyzed by the Russian blog Russia Inside Out and the Serbian blog Byzantine blog as fake ones, staged by the photographer David Mdzinarishvili, some of them have been simply removed from the website of Reuters. Here the deconstruction made by Byzantine blog
This photo was first published by the Reuters as an image of a "dead woman being carried from the town of Gori". But this "dead woman", incredibly, is clutching the nurse’s arm.
This man (…)

This article is in response to Will Marshall ’s comments on National Public Radio’s (91.7 FM) Evening Edition ( August 26, 2008 ) on nuclear power that were wrong from top to bottom. He claims that it is green. However, fossil fuels and therefore, carbon dioxide production, are required for the mining, milling, and transport of uranium and for the construction, operation, and eventual decommissioning of nuclear power plants. When the richer uranium mines are used up, the poor ones remaining (…)

“The next six months are going to tell the story.” - Sen. Joe Biden pontificating on the illegal Iraq War on 12/18/05.
The Democratic Party has a death wish! There is no other rational explanation for hapless Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) ending up as Sen. Barack Obama’s VP running mate. For starters, the presidential election is about getting a majority of the electoral votes. Delaware “only” has three electoral votes! And, Biden isn’t a sure thing to carry even them for Obama. He’s a motor (…)

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Somewhere between George Bush and Noam Chomsky, who believe the 9/11 Commission Report, and David Ray Griffin, who believes "the Bush-Cheney administration orchestrated 9/11" (Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11, 2006, p. vii-viii, ), there is Peter Dale Scott.
Scott doesn’t say who did it, but as Ola Tunander puts it,
“Peter Dale Scott exposes a shadow world of oil, terrorism, (…)

Taliban win over locals at the gates of Kabul
Jason burke – The Observer August 24, 2008
Ismatullah stood at the crossroads in the dusty Afghan town of Maidan Shah, squinted in the blinding noon sun and stroked his long, grey beard. ’What the governor said in our meeting was very good,’ he said diplomatically. ’He quoted the Koran very correctly. But I am not sure how much power he has. Now I am going home - and the Taliban control my district, not him.’
The tribal elder lives only a (…)

Creating a monster
The CIA’s shenanigans By Sanjay Suri
London: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a leading US expert on South Asia said here.
"I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on "Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia."
Harrison (…)