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- According to Jordan’s King Abdullah II, "The crime that happened won’t push us to become a police state, but there will be a balance between freedom and security in a way that will comfort our people and guests." Guests, surely, since they often bring revenue, but not subjects of the monarchy. - The Imperial President and the Bolivarian Democrat
- The...brief report contradicts all the stories about "suicide bombers" but is substantiated by the photo... - Rumors of an American base raise fears that the United States is there to stay. - The real reason for the IAEA Iran resolution - As more details about the Amman bombings emerge, the corporate media has gone into heavy-duty spin mode to shape events to the liking of the Bushcons ...
- American officials demand Israel provide explanations for how U.S.-made choppers sold to Israel ended up in service of Columbian drug cartel. - "How do we know that the CIA was behind the coup that overthrew Hugo Chávez?" asked historian William Blum in 2002. "Same way we know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. That’s what it’s always done and there’s no reason to think that tomorrow morning will be any different."
- There are currently 34 presidential candidates in the race the electoral body (CEP) has not issued an official list yet - but in reality the upcoming selection is between two U.S.-backed candidates... - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has described his Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox, as a puppy dog for United States imperialism. - Does anybody see a pattern here? - Once again, the usual suspects are to blame for the bombings. - A number of Israelis staying yesterday at the Radisson SAS were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.
- ... the point here is not to capture territory outright but rather to pitch the Muslim Middle East into chaos, thus eventually balkanizing the entire area and making it more amenable to rule along ethnic and tribal lines and thus easier pickings for carpetbagging and loan sharking neolibs.
- These aren't "riots". This is social rebellion, directed at decades of French imperial rule, and ultra-capitalist and racist policymaking at home.
- Iran has found the wreckage of two U.S. unmanned spy planes on its territory in recent months, Tehran said on Monday, accusing Washington of violating its sovereignty through illegal overflights. - That whirring sound you hear are the spinmeisters of the Bush administration trying to prettify the outcome of the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas into something suitable for U.S. public consumption. - What is happening in France has all the signs of yet another possible neo-con "false flag" operation in the same category as the Niger fraudulent uranium documents, the provocative actions of Israeli agents in New Jersey who were dressed up as Arabs during the morning of 9-11, unexplained Spanish and British government activities surrounding the train bombings in Madrid and London, and recent deadly bombings in Delhi during Hindu and Muslim holidays attributed to a previously unknown Kashmiri group….
- Caging up the Palestinians in the occupied territories is not a temporary but a permanent Israeli policy, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank. - During five hours of intense and heated negotiations, President Hugo Chavez says, he and four other Latin American leaders rejected the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Agreement of the America’s and, according to this article from Argentina’s Clarin newspaper, delivered a stinging defeat to George W. Bush, sending him scurrying out of the country. - The US war drill in the Gulf of Oman could take place around February 2006 and there is a possibility that some Nato members may send their warships and troops to join. - The death of Ojeda Ríos, who was cornered in a farmhouse, was a revivifying jolt to an independence movement that had seemed all but dead. - To understand the origins of this profound crisis for France, it is important to step back and remember that the ghettos where festering resentment has now burst into flames were created as a matter of industrial policy by the French state. - ...as the massive anti-Bush reaction in Argentina seems to prove, more and more people are starting to link the US with suffering around the world.
- The event was framed as a "showdown" between Chavez and Bush. Even on this superficial level the corporate media demonstrated its deftness at tip-toeing around what really took place. As Reuters pointed out, the strutting Texan, who exudes confidence and courage behind a phalanx of security guards and concertina wire, "carefully avoided" Chavez while the world waited with baited-breath. "Carefully avoided"!?! - When the U.S. military handed over control of the Panama Canal in 1999, it left behind thousands of unexploded weapons strewn across jungle firing ranges that are still killing people. - The Web document alleges that a massive police operation was deliberately designed to exacerbate the conflict with the youth on the estate after initial riots following the deaths of the two teenagers had subsided. - The Iranian government has approved plans to offer share options to low-income families...
- 10,000 Argentinians would like to welcome you to Argentina, Mr. Bush... - Protestors swarm streets of Argentine resort - The number of Chinese billionaires has more than doubled in the past year, according to a survey. - U.S. mafia hit squads may again have their ugly hands in the car bombing of Lebanese President. U.S. Intelligence reports were quick to finger Syria, but critics contend the killing was U.S. backed in order to justify a future Syrian invasion.
- Palestinians describe the sound as an earthquake or huge bomb. They liken the effect to being hit by a wall of air that is painful on the ears, sometimes causing nosebleeds and "leaving you shaking inside". - Blair's former spy bosses are trying desperately to help him in the face of a Commons revolt and personal scandals derailing his police state agenda by bullying the British public into submission. - Two reports last week announced with great sound and fury that they had the "smoking gun" linking Respect MP George Galloway to the payroll of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime. In fact both signified nothing more than another desperate attempt to distract from the real criminals in Iraq — and to smear those who have campaigned against Bush and Blair’s war.
- The response could include the deployment of three U.S. Army divisions backed by fighter-jets and airborne early-warning and alert aircraft. In all, the U.S.-led mission could include up to 300,000 troops. - President Hugo Chavez has warned the US he could give some of his country's F-16 fighter jets to Cuba or China.
- The inter-agency effort, which also involves the Defense Department, recognises that the Cuba transition may not go peacefully and that the US may have to launch a nation-building exercise. - Why a nuclear attack is on the neocon agenda - After the global outcry over comments by President Ahmadinejad that "Israel should be wiped off the map" and "the goal of a world without the United States or Zionism is attainable," Tehran has gone on the diplomatic offensive. It argues, according to this article from the Islamic Republic News Agency, that it has been under threat from Israel and the United States for years.
- The populist government is reorganizing the country's colossal oil industry, taking a bigger share from private multinationals. - Syria has accused the United States of launching lethal military raids into its territory from Iraq, escalating the diplomatic crisis between the two countries as the Bush administration seeks to step up pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime. - Belgian workers have caused widespread disruption with a 24-hour national strike in protest at government plans to up the retirement age from 58 to 60. - This plan for remaking the Middle East has been around for a long time. Just as 9/11 served the interests of those who longed for changes in Iraq, the sensationalism surrounding Hariri’s death is being used to advance plans to remove Assad. - Marching alongside protesters in downtown Tehran, the 47-year-old former mayor of Tehran and one-time Republican Guard commander, renewed his criticism of the West.
- Chavez has said he looks forward to sitting at the same table with his archrival Bush during the summit at the seaside resort of Mar del Plata. - Facing a "catastrophic decline" in recruiting people for the army over fierce resistance attacks in Iraq, the British government plans to offer a £500 bounty to soldiers who recruit friends or family members. - "Canadians must "stand together shoulder to shoulder to fight intolerance and injustice in society" as the recent non-Muslim victim of no-fly listing in Canada wrote above. Hopefully, this will happen before more Canadians are victimized by our elected government." - USAID and Haiti - Does calling for the elimination of a state constitute "a crime against humanity", as Shimon Peres contends? If so, then Ahmadinejad would be joined in the dock by every Israeli official who has not only advocated but effected the policy of expansionism that continues to prevent a Palestinian nation state from emerging. - The allegations in La Repubblica's articles lead far into the murky depths of Italy's intelligence agencies, a realm of conspiracy claims and counterclaims. In Italy this netherworld is called dietrologia -- a word that loosely translates as the widespread belief that political, security and criminal forces are constantly engaged in secret plots and maneuvers... - Bush is simply recycling the threadbare lies and fabrications used against Iraq...and Bush will use likewise lies against Syria and down the road Iran. Congress has no choice but to go along. And the American people have no choice but to sit back and watch the horror unfold on Fox News.
- Tony Blair delivered his strongest warning to Iran last night, saying Teheran would not be allowed to become a "threat to our world security". - During the president's speech on terrorism, a heckler yelled: "Mr. President, what is terrorism? What is terrorism? Step down now."
- Q: What do they call n*ggers in Canada? A: Indians. - The acquiescence of the UN to US bullying and the dissemination of disinformation and propaganda by the corporate media, a malignant exemplar being the New York Times, denigrate these institutions to the immoral status of tools of the occupiers.
- Why am I so sceptical? With all the dissemination of misinformation, forged documents and downright lies that preceded Iraq's invasion and the fact that Syria has long featured large on the neocons' "must do" list, anyone who isn't must be deluded. - The Lebanese air base is reportedly to be used as a transit and logistics hub for U.S. forces in Iraq and as a rest and relaxation location for U.S. troops in the region. In addition, the Lebanese base will be used to protect U.S. oil pipelines in the region (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Mosul/Kirkuk-Ceyhan) as well as to destabilize the Assad government in Syria.
- Iran's hard-line president called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks will destroy the Jewish state, state-run media reported Wednesday. - The UN "report" on the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese PM, bears all the hallmarks of yet another set-up, no doubt "inspired" by US pressure as part of the build-up to yet another Middle Eastern "adventure". - This plan is much further developed than the most of the disgusting American media is prepared to reveal. In what has already been compared to Kissinger's illegal war in Cambodia, the Americans are now using the ruse of pursuit of insurgents to begin to fight an actual war on Syrian territory...
- ...Aristide is not the issue; Canada's role as a junior partner to U.S. imperialism is the issue. - The news from Syria shows that the neoconservative plan for the Middle East is still in play. - Scottish police are to launch an investigation into CIA “torture flights” which fly in and out of Glasgow and Prestwick airports, ferrying kidnapped war on terror suspects around the world. - Chanting anti-U.S. slogans, tens of thousands of Syrians protested on Monday against a U.N. inquiry they say unfairly blames Damascus for the killing of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
- Mahfuz Abu al Nasr, a Palestinian farmer from the West Bank village of Salem, was grieving yesterday over the wreckage of his livelihood. Jewish settlers had come in the night and destroyed 30 olive trees he planted a decade ago, in revenge for the deaths of three young Israelis in a drive-by shooting last Sunday. - The blast not only rocked Lebanese politics. It may now give the Bush administration a new rationale for taking on another Arab adversary.
- Forty percent of the 3.6 million people living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip can't be sure of getting enough food, either because they can't get to it or because they can't afford it, the UN food agency said Thursday. - If the Bush administration wants it, they'll just take it. The threat of hurricanes and indictments isn't going to stop these crazy guys. Nor will the Democrats, France, or that fallible United Nations. Nope, nothing is going to step in their way. Even if what they want is war on Iran. - Once again, we are expected to believe whatever our rulers tell us—even if it makes absolutely no sense and it is obvious only the neocons and Israelis stand to benefit from such carnage.
- Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales denounced Wednesday that troops at the service of the US seized 28 land-air missiles supplied by China to Bolivia and sent them to the United States. - Iran's supreme leader accused the United States Friday of seeking global domination and vowed that his country would not give into demands to abandon its disputed nuclear programme. - New Tribes fundamentalist evangelic groups carried out experiments on indigenous in Venezuela that may have caused 80 people to die, Minister of Interior Jesse Chacon revealed on Thursday. The Venezuelan Government denounced that, beneath a religious façade, New Tribes has been spying for the CIA, as well as for General Dynamics and Westinghouse multinational corporations.
- Microsoft UK National Technology Officer Jerry Fishenden has warned that the UK ID card scheme could trigger "massive identity fraud on a scale beyond anything we have seen before."
- For the more than 1.4 million Palestinians who live in Gaza water shortages and water deterioration affects their health. Moreover, the water crisis creates agricultural, economic, social, and political instabilities that have regional ramifications. Most of the existing problems are a direct and indirect result of Israeli policy. << < 11 12 13 14 15 > >>
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