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Cable damage hits one million Internet users in UAE
Asma Ali Zain (Staff Reporter)
4 February 2008
DUBAI - An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected due to the recent cable cuts, an expert said on February 4, quoting recent figures published by TeleGeography, an international research website.
Internet data was majorly affected as it is the biggest capacity carried by the undersea cables. However, all voice calls, corporate data and video traffic were (…)

CounterPunch January 29, 2008
Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and police. "The siege is total," says Dr Kamal in Fallujah Hospital as he grimly lists his needs, which include everything from drugs and oxygen to electricity and clean water.
The last time I tried to drive to Fallujah, several years ago, I was caught in the ambush of an American fuel convoy and had to crawl (…)

They accuse me of death threat and "death or destruction intent toward their organization " with a fake letter, one guy was also violently harrassed by a drunkard
I suppose also being part of a plot I was witness the police asked me to give a statement and why I didn’t react, which actually I did by calling two scienos to get to help the guy which was in big trouble they are manipulating people they do it the way some famous mediteranean criminal mobsters organization done it for years, (…)

"William Blum left the State Department in 1967, abandoning his aspiration of becoming a Foreign Service Officer, because of his opposition to what the United States was doing in Vietnam.
He then became one of the founders and editors of the Washington Free Press, the first ’underground’ newspaper in the capital.
In 1969, he wrote and published an expose of the CIA in which was revealed the name and addresses of more than 200 employees of the Agency.
Mr Blum has been a freelance (…)

By Dahr Jamail and Ahmed Ali IPS News. Posted February 1, 2008.
As in all conflict areas, women, along with children and the elderly, have suffered most in occupied Iraq
Conditions are particularly difficult for women in Baquba, despite the relative lull in violence. The city, about 40 km northeast of Baghdad, is capital of Diyala province, amongst the most troubled regions of Iraq in recent months.
As in all conflict areas, women, along with children and the elderly, have suffered (…)

Socialist Workerr 2086, 2 February 2008
Though George Bush claims the ‘surge’ brings peace in 2007 Warplanes made 1,447 Bombing Runs in 2007
by Saleh Mamon
The US has unleashed a ferocious bombing campaign on Iraq and Afghanistan, with devastating effects on the population. This surge in the “air war” is largely hidden behind talk of “recent successes” for the occupations.
According to figures released by the US military – known as “airpower summary of close air support missions” – (…)

Just when you thought you had heard it all before, you come across certain events that baffle the mind, bringing such clarity to make you want to crawl back into your hole of ignorance.
Pakistan:
At the same time that United States has revealed that they are about to ramp-up military operations in Pakistan, BBC is reporting that “thousands of Pakistanis have fled into Afghanistan” due to the security situation deteriorating in Pakistan.
This revelation is frightening on multiple (…)

By David Glenn Cox
My son is in the auto salvage business, he buys and sells wrecked Honda’s. He either strips them down for parts or rebuilds them swapping engine and transmissions from the wrecked cars into cars with blown motors. We were discussing the proposed tax rebate and I explained that since he is unmarried he will only get half the rebate that I will. He laughed and said, “Yeah but hell, I’ll be getting lots of them!”
He’s right of course, the economic stimulus will help his (…)

2nd FLAG Undersea Cable Cut, Now Between UAE and Oman
Posted: 02/02 ICT Europe Asia
Two days after the cable cut which "cut off Iran" and affected the rest of the Middle East and West Asia but left communications in Israel and Iraq "intact", another cable owned by the same British company is severed, once again plunging the region into "Internet darkness". Image: FLAG’s Europe-Asia "FEA" undersea cable network
Omar Sultan, chief executive of Dubai’s Internet Service Provider "DU", (…)

How Oil Burst the American Bubble By Michael T. Klare
The economic bubble that lifted the stock market to dizzying heights was sustained as much by cheap oil as by cheap (often fraudulent) mortgages. Likewise, the collapse of the bubble was caused as much by costly (often imported) oil as by record defaults on those improvident mortgages. Oil, in fact, has played a critical, if little commented upon, role in America’s current economic enfeeblement — and it will continue to drain the (…)