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In one of the company’s most bizarre recent actions, on December 1 Blackwater paratroopers staged a dramatic aerial landing, complete with Blackwater flags and parachutes—not in Baghdad or Kabul but in San Diego at Qualcomm Stadium during the halftime show at the San Diego State/BYU football game. The location was interesting, given that Blackwater is fighting fierce local opposition to its attempt to open a new camp—Blackwater West—on 824 acres in the small rural community of Potrero, just (…)

ANOTHER VOICE
http://www.ism-france.org, December 9, 2007
On the twentieth anniversary of the first Intifada, we call for a general boycott of Israeli products.
Israel’s income from Palestine is estimated at 3 billion dollars annually. When anyone purchases Israeli products, they are funding the occupation of our land. They are funding bullets, weapons, tanks, and fighter planes which are being used to kill our family and countrymen. They are funding bulldozers to uproot the trees of (…)

Pr Michel Chossudovsky
The war on Lebanon, which has resulted in countless atrocities including the destruction of the nation’s economy and civilian infrastructure, is "a stage" in a sequence of carefully planned military operations.
Lebanon constitutes a strategic corridor between Israel and North-western Syria. The underlying objective of this war was the militarization of Lebanon, including the stationing of foreign troops, as a precondition for carrying out the next phase of a (…)

Management in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are imposing a three year pay deal on staff in their November pay-cheque. This is because they believe that staff want money for Christmas, which is true, but we must not be fooled into thinking short-term. The pay deal is being hailed as a great offer by management who, in an unprecedented move, have been putting pressure on local managers to promote the deal and sell it to staff.
This is only helping to push members into voting yes (…)

Germany Seeks to Ban Scientology
Friday December 7, 2007 12:01 PM
BERLIN (AP) - Germany’s top security officials said Friday they consider the goals of the U.S.-based Church of Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the nation’s constitution and will seek to ban the group.
The interior ministers of the nation’s 16 states as well as federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble ``consider Scientology to be an organization that is not compatible with the constitution,’’ (…)

IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran
Yaakov Katz – jpost.com December 6, 2007
Disappointed after failing to make their case on Iran and influence the outcome of the United States’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released this week, Military Intelligence will present its hard core evidence on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program on Sunday to the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff during a rare visit he will be making to Israel.
Admiral Michael Mullen will land in Israel (…)

by Rory McCarthy
Senior Israeli officials warned today they were still considering the option of a military strike against Iran, despite a fresh US intelligence report that concluded Tehran was no longer developing nuclear weapons.
Although Israel argues that it wants to see strong diplomatic pressure put on Iran, it is reluctant to rule out the threat of a unilateral military attack. Matan Vilnai, Israel’s deputy defence minister, told Army Radio today: “No option needs to be off the (…)

by Natasha Greenblatt
American college student Rachel Corrie was 23 when she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, March 16, 2003. Some of her emails home, released by Corrie’s parents after her death and serialized in The Guardian newspaper, caught the attention of British actor Alan Rickman. After receiving a large package of previously unreleased journals, emails, and to-do lists from Corrie’s parents, Rickman and journalist Katharine Vinerthey edited them into a play. (…)

Israeli avoids UK arrest threat An Israeli minister has cancelled a visit to the UK over concerns he could be arrested on war crimes charges.
The foreign ministry said an "extreme leftist" organisation was likely to file a legal complaint against Public Security Minister Avi Dichter.
He was the domestic intelligence agency chief in 2002 when Israel bombed a Hamas military leader’s house killing him, his bodyguard and 15 civilians.
British law allows private citizens to file (…)

With the use of Tasers, in the last few weeks, the police have killed the following nine people in the United States and Canada:
- Sammy Baker - Quitman, Georgia - Oct. 1, 2007 - Robert Dziekanski - Vancouver, Canada - Oct. 14, 2007 - Quilem Registre - Montreal, Canada - Oct. 17, 2007 - Jarrel Gray - Frederick, Maryland - Nov. 18, 2007 - Christian Allen - Jacksonville, Florida - Nov. 18, 2007 - Jesse Saenz - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Nov. 18, 2007 (…)