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Archive for the Month of January, 2006.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 76 through 111 of 111.
- The wife and five children of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, have been arrested on charges of tax evasion as part of a broader investigation into fraud and secret bank accounts. - Canada holds its thirty-ninth national election today. The conspiracy angle is the way the disgusting Canadian media conspired to misuse polling data to give the radical right-wing Conservative Party - which really should be called the Republican Party North - an electoral advantage.
- Tens of thousands of international activists have gathered in Caracas for the World Social Forum, protesting against US imperialism and debating topics from fair trade to indigenous rights. - ...sounding oddly like a neocon-Likudite Chatty Cathy doll, Tony Blair has come out, as the Israelis did last week, and “accused Iran and Syria … of supporting terrorism”... - The media conspiracy to use the poll results to manipulate the election worked like a charm.
- After three years and unimaginable expense, the superpower American military has proved that it cannot disarm the recently formed Iraqi militias. Yet the idiot Bolton thinks puny Syria can disarm the Lebanese militias that defeated the brutal Israeli army! - ...figures showed nearly 36,000 people were stopped and searched under the emergency powers last year. The number of people stopped and searched each year has soared since the Act came into force in 2001, when 10,200 people were stopped. It rose to 33,800 in 2003-04. - Iran has accused the UK of co-operating with bombers who killed eight people in attacks in the restive south-western city of Ahwaz on Tuesday.
- ...the most powerful sections of Canada’s corporate elite threw their support behind the Conservatives with a view to pushing government policy sharply right. This shift was reflected in the editorial support given the Conservatives by the country’s leading dailies... - The Islamic group Hamas has won a huge majority in parliamentary elections as Palestinian voters rejected the long-time rule of the Fatah Party. - The Venezuelan government says several military officers have been caught passing state secrets to the US.
- At 450,000 excess dead per year, this constitutes one of the gravest humanitarian crises in the world. Unfortunately, it gets virtually no attention -- unlike the all-important "war on Christmas," which garnered 58 spots on Fox News in the course of a single week. - The overarching WSF theme "Another World Is Possible" and opposition to "imperialism" and war are the common denominators among the broad range of organisations and individuals gathered in Caracas this week, where one of this year's three Forums is taking place. - The Israelis birthed and nurtured their Islamist nemesis. - The Bolivian new left-wing President, Evo Morales, has cut his salary by more than a half to a little over $1,800 (£1,012) per month. - U.S.-SUPPLIED aircraft played a crucial role in enabling the Indonesian military to crush East Timorese resistance to its invasion and occupation of the territory in the late 1970s, a report by an East Timor commission has claimed. - The upcoming soccer World Cup continues to be utilized as a showcase for the police state, as all major sporting spectaculars are these days.
- Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, has warned he could jail US Embassy officials caught spying after accusing them of links to Venezuelan officers suspected of espionage for the Pentagon. - And now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party to power. - The U.S. is readying fresh sanctions against North Korea over the regime’s alleged financial crimes that will be significantly more severe than the ones already in place. - ...to object to Iran's nuclear future without pressuring and bringing Israel into open and honest negotiation about its arsenal including forthright inspections, seems either absurd or outrageously insulting not only to the Arab world but to the world in general. - Hamas capitalized on the failure of the "international community" to protect the Palestinians from Israel’s daily terror
- A Libyan official said this week he expected oil firms to help normalize US ties. - It is sincerely disgusting to read the corporate media spun "news" about the "election" victory of Hamas. First, in the occupied areas of Israel as in the occupied areas of Iraq, it is important for the criminal occupiers to hold "elections" so as to provide a patina of legitimacy for what is essentially a massive felony and crime perpetuated against humanity... - It was also disclosed that Correa was member of the Central Intelligence Agency with the highest rank in Venezuela, and was linked to the April 2002 coup. - In truth, the Palestinians represent an incredibly persistent "local difficulty"; a thorn in the side of countries interested in running the Middle East to their own advantage. While the UK pays lip service to international law, it’s actually busy helping Israel to get away with murder. - Anti-ID cards campaigners accused the Home Office yesterday of misleading parliament and the public over plans to include radio tracking devices in ID cards. - Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has appointed a coca grower to oversee his country's efforts to combat drug trafficking.
- In the past weeks media reports have speculated that Washington is "thinking the unthinkable," namely, an aggressive, pre-emptive nuclear bombardment of Iran, by either the United States or Israel, to destroy or render useless the deep underground Iranian nuclear facilities. - Vanunu is on trial again for state secret's violations, charges he says are trumped-up and make no sense. Released in 2004, he originally was jailed for trying to tell the world about Israel's 1986 nuclear stockpile... - "The Americans always give excuses for Israel," said Samir. "Israel is like a spoilt son. They never pressure them. They kill our children and no one says anything. If there is a reaction by Palestinians to these incidents they call us terrorists." - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proclaimed "socialism or death" in finishing his rousing speech to a rally of around 10,000 people at the Polihedro Stadium on January 27. The rally was a feature of the Latin American section of the Sixth World Social Forum held in Caracas on January 24-29. - Farmers in Mali, the fourth poorest country in the world, have told their government they do not want to see genetically modified crops being grown on their land, after Africa's first "farmers' jury" debated the issue.
- An informal International Women's Tribunal, meeting at the sixth World Social Forum in the Venezuelan capital, found "imperialism" and U.S. President George W. Bush guilty of violating the human rights of people in countries like Iraq and Cuba. - The 2006 federal election has set the stage for a possible dismantling of Canada's distinctive social and economic fabric. The newly evolved Conservative Party, in many respects a chilling echo of the USA's Republican Party, is poised for a two-stage attack to reshape Canada in line with its Canadian version of America's neoconservative ideology. - The coming "final status talks" on Serbia's southern autonomous province will complete the Western conquest of the Balkans.
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