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Musharraf declares state of emergency
Troops surround Bhutto’s home; U.S. calls developments ‘regrettable’ BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC News Services updated 12:45 p.m. ET Nov. 3, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, ahead of a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, thrusting the country deeper into political turmoil as it struggles to contain spreading Islamic militancy.
Seven Supreme Court judges (…)

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Posted on October 30, 2007, Printed on November 2, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/66433/
Photo : http://www.whatreallyhappened.com 01/19/03
DC PROTEST SEEN FROM THE TOP OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT
As I was heading out into a dark, drippingly wet, appropriately dispiriting New York City day, on my way to the "Fall Out Against the War" march — one of 11 regional antiwar demonstrations held this Saturday — I was thinking: then and now, Vietnam and (…)

by Mohammed Alatar (2007, 57’)
In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote:
"Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population - behind an The Iron Wall , which the native population cannot breach." First published in Russian under the (…)

Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
Soaring crop prices and demand for biofuels raise fears of political instability John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian Saturday November 3 2007
Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to (…)

Iraqi weapons ’expert’ unmasked as a fraud
By Sadie Gray
Published: 03 November 2007
The Iraqi defector whose claims regarding Saddam Hussein’s biological warfare capabilities were central to the US government’s case for the 2003 invasion, despite repeated warnings that they were dubious, has been unmasked by a television documentary.
The informer, codenamed Curveball was Rafid Ahmed Alwan who, in 1999, turned up at a refugee centre in Germany seeking political asylum. He went on (…)

Australia is in the middle of a Federal Election campaign but to the best of my knowledge the Australia-complicit carnage in Occupied Iraq – the Iraqi Holocaust, the Iraqi Genocide - has not simply NOT been aired by Australian Mainstream media, the ABC or politicians in a process of egregious and remorseless holocaust-ignoring and genocide-ignoring. This holocaust ignoring in Australia (the Land of Lies and Flies) is so sustained and comprehensive that it amounts to utterly repugnant (…)

Mexican floods leave 300,000 stranded
Haroon Siddique and agencies Friday November 2, 2007
Rescuers were today racing against time to evacuate 300,000 people trapped by the worst floods to hit the Mexican state of Tabasco in 50 years, ahead of further predicted rainfall.
Military trucks delivered bottled water, food and clothing as health officials warned of the threat of cholera and other waterborne diseases.
A week of heavy rains, which caused rivers to overflow, has left at least (…)

UK navy warship to head for Gulf A Royal Navy aircraft carrier is to head to the Gulf next spring, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
HMS Illustrious will be in waters near Iran alongside the destroyer, Edinburgh, and a frigate, Westminster.
Earlier this year, 15 British service personnel were captured by Iranians as they searched a cargo boat in the Gulf.
The ships, accompanied by two minesweepers and three support vessels, will spend six months in the Gulf, the Indian Ocean (…)

How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Narrated by Sean Penn
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media (…)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is at her mushroom-cloud hyperbolic best, and this time Iran is the target. Her claim last week that "the policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge to American security interests in the Middle East and around the world" is simply too much of a stretch.
To gauge someone’s reliability, one depends largely on prior experience. Sadly, Rice’s credibility suffers in comparison with Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic (…)