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Just two months after U.S. aerial bombardments began in Somalia, the Bush administration solidified its militaristic engagement with Africa. In February 2007, the Department of Defense announced the creation of a new U.S. Africa Command infrastructure, code name AFRICOM, to “coordinate all U.S. military and security interests throughout the continent.”
Ezekiel Pajibo and Emira Woods | July 26, 2007 Editor: John Feffer http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4427
“This new command will strengthen (…)

Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
Graham Paterson – Sunday Times September 16, 2007
America’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.
In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies. (…)

ACORN member featured on ABC’s "World News Tonight"
As the subprime mortgage crisis threatens to displace millions of families from their homes, Bridgeport resident and ACORN member Donna Pearce described her harrowing struggle to keep her own house on a Sept. 10 episode of ABC’s "World News Tonight with Charles Gibson" (view the segment "The Mortgage Mess: Unscrupulous Lenders, Unsuspecting Borrowers").
Pearce said she makes $2,100 per month as a nanny, but New Century said her income (…)

Debt storm likely to head west and engulf Japan
By Damian Reece, City Editor Last Updated: 12:10am BST 16/09/2007
The global credit crisis has hit our high streets again. Having seen mortgage rates rise this week, people were left standing in Depression-era queues waiting to get their cash out of Northern Rock, now being shored up by the Bank of England.
Predators circle ailing lender Northern Rock
But the focus of this debt storm rolling round the world’s financial system will shift (…)

En Français,
Yet another case of a Pakistani Muslim being tried for thought-crimes is taking place, this time in Scotland which appears to be new ground for the British state’s phony ’War on Terror’.
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, from Alva in Clackmannanshire, faces several terrorism charges, including providing instructional material for bomb-making, and collecting and distributing terrorist propaganda. So far, the jury has been unable to make up its mind but the prosecutor, calling (…)

World War III has already started.
On April 17 2006, Seymour M. Hersh, “an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC”, reported in ‘The New Yorker’ that the United States is considering the use on “bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites” in Iran. This story was also carried on CNN.
It was reported that on January 7 2007, an Israeli attack squadron comprising of three IAF F-16s, each (…)

Were War Critic Soldiers Killed To Send Message?
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Friday, September 14, 2007
Two soldiers who wrote op-ed that contradicted Patraeus report die in strange accident, while another is shot in the head in case that bears chilling resemblance to Pat Tillman story
The mother of a soldier who died in an apparent vehicle accident shortly after writing a New York Times op-ed critical of the war in Iraq is demanding to know the truth about what happened to her (…)

In the spirit of Ramadan I as an American citizen wish to apologize to the Iraqi people for your insurmountable loss you have felt since my government chose to invade your country back in March of 2003. I know that these are but words, but words are all I have at this point to offer you.
Many like me have called upon our elected representatives to end this war and all it does is fall on deaf ears. At times, I feel as if we are just as helpless as you are.
I have never seen you as my (…)

Sworn to tell the truth, not these guys...
House Joint Hearing on the Petraeus Report - Part One Gen. David H. Petraeus, commanding general, Multi-National Force, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker discuss the details of their report on conditions in Iraq. They testify before a joint hearing of the House Armed Services Cmte. & House Foreign Affairs Cmte. 9/10/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. 41 min.
Another...
Senate Foreign Relations Cmte. Hearing on the Petraeus Report - Part 1 Gen. (…)

"Bwaa! Freedom to Shit in Public! Bwaa!"
CHIMES OF FREEDOM
Despite all the pre-demonstration bragging of Islamophobic groups like the SIOE the much-vaunted demo against the "Islamization of Europe" (sic) came to naught. It was a wash-out with just a few dozen groups daring to break the law and show their hate-filled faces. The BBC, always favouring the Right, reported attendance at around two hundred. 24 Heures reported it as much less.
Even if we were to be naive enough to believe (…)