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Robert Fisk: Welcome to ’Palestine’ Published: 16 June 2007
How troublesome the Muslims of the Middle East are. First, we demand that the Palestinians embrace democracy and then they elect the wrong party - Hamas - and then Hamas wins a mini-civil war and presides over the Gaza Strip. And we Westerners still want to negotiate with the discredited President, Mahmoud Abbas. Today "Palestine" - and let’s keep those quotation marks in place - has two prime ministers. Welcome to the Middle (…)

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WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base By Joanne Laurier 20 June 2007
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For more than 30 years, residents of Camp Lejeune, a US Marine Corps base in North Carolina, were exposed to contaminated water. From 1957 to 1987, Marines/Naval personnel, family members and civilians drank and used water (…)

WSWS : News & Analysis : Middle East : Iraq US military launches massive assault in Iraq By Bill Van Auken 20 June 2007
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Backed by armored columns and helicopter gunships, some 10,000 US troops have launched a massive assault on the provincial capital of Baquba and other areas north and east of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
The operation, dubbed Arrowhead Ripper, is one of the largest since the US invasion of Iraq (…)

FED looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU
GEAB N°16 is available! Global systemic crisis / Summer 2007 : Fed looses control on US interest rates and crisis reaches China and EU Public announcement GEAB N°16 (Special Summer 2007 issue - 23 pages!)
This second quarter’s fundamental event about to shove most players’ anticipations over the coming months, is certainly the final and simultaneous failure of the two key-strategies defined by US leaders, i.e.:
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Wall Street, Iraq and the declining dollar
19/06/2007 10:30:00 AM GMT
The Bush Administration’s response to 9/11 has weakened the position of the dollar in the world.
A mismanaged war, the oil crisis and a flood of U.S. currency are setting the stage for economic disaster.
A mismanaged war, the oil crisis and a flood of U.S. currency are setting the stage for economic disaster, investment banker Ken Miller reports. The disastrous impact on the economy of George W. Bush’s response to (…)

U.S. Is ‘Really in Trouble,’ Says Bloomberg
By DIANE CARDWELL Published: June 19, 2007
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 18 — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, sounding every inch the presidential candidate he insists he is not, brought his message of pragmatic, nonpartisan leadership to California on Monday, telling a crowd of Google employees that the nation was “really in trouble.”
In unusually stark terms, Mr. Bloomberg expressed his frustration with the state of the nation, touching on (…)

Stephen King: A crisis of faith among central bankers
Published: 18 June 2007 http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/article2670015.ece
I’ll begin with a statement of the bleeding obvious. There are lots of things we simply don’t know. Those, in turn, can be split into the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns, to use the terminology famously employed by Donald Rumsfeld. Although he was ridiculed for his apparently unusual take on epistemology, his comments were, (…)

Denis Robert Support Committee calling all journalists.
We’re missing one thing: A massive, straight-up, protective support drive from the journalist community as a whole.
In 2006, there was a dozen of us telling ourselves: What is happening to Denis is inadmissible and frankly unbelievable! Back then, a war was being waged between Sarkozy (Minister of Home Affairs) and De Villepin (Prime Minister), and Denis’s book on the Clearstream scandal had just been banned from sale, in a (…)

THE BIG LIE ABOUT AIDS
By Gary Null Penthouse April 1994
Ten years ago Dr. Duesberg was a lone voice in the world of AIDS research. At that time, the molecular biologist, world renowned virologist, and U.C.L.A. professor began asking a question that seems like heresy to this day: Is it possible that we were wrong when we equated HIV with AIDS? While any scientific discussion should allow such a challenge, others have tried to silence Dr. Duesberg. AIDS research continues to be driven by (…)

Interview :Brian Campbell. Attorney with the International Labor Rights Fund. AMY GOODMAN: Brian Campbell is an attorney with the International Labor Rights Fund. He joins us from Washington now. We did invite a representative from the Chocolate Manufacturers Association to join us, but they declined our Valentine’s Day invitation. Brian Campbell, lay out the chocolate landscape.
BRIAN CAMPBELL: Well, in Cote d’Ivoire, as you mentioned before, there is estimated between 100,000 and (…)