JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
Let’s assume that the group of people who planned and executed the September 2001 attack on America’s institutions of finance, the military and an unknown third target (I would have thought the CIA in Langley, Virginia) were something more capable than idiots. Let us assume they had at least a notion of a plan that went beyond hitting us where it hurts.
The American response to such an attack was not difficult to predict: We would identify a (...)
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THE AFGHAN TRAP REVISITED: COMPOUNDING OUR MISTAKES
7 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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Natural Disasters In Asia: Harbinger Of Things To Come?
6 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
In a span of 5 weeks and one day earthquakes, floods, mudslides, typhoons and tsunamis swept through 10 nations leaving thousands of people dead and rendering millions more homeless.
The first of the natural disasters struck Manila and the surrounding area on September 26 causing massive floods and mudslides and forcing thousands to flee their homes. Tropical storm Ketsana left hundreds dead and thousands displaced. On October 3rd this happened again with Tsunami Parma.
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Video: Mohammed Omer on the Hell that is Gaza
6 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
On Nov. 5, 2009, at the Palestine Center, in Washington, D.C., an award-winning journalist, Mohammed Omer, discussed the desperate human rights situation in Gaza—the result of Israel’s recent siege and military offensive. His presentation included his personal observations, interviews with the people of Gaza, his photographs and a video. Mr. Omer, now 25 years of age, was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp. He spoke for over an hour, including the Q&A session. For more about the (...)
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His Brother’s Keeper
2 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
by D.B. Grady
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother to Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai, is on the Central Intelligence Agency payroll. While the explanations are not expressly damning (C.I.A. and U.S. Special Operations forces rent a compound from him, and often use him as an intermediary to communicate with the Taliban), it’s clear how the news will be received in the region. Theories that Afghanistan is a puppet state of the West are confirmed. (...) -
Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.
2 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN
KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.
The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s (...) -
John Burns on Ahmed Wali Karzai and the C.I.A.
2 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
John Burns, the chief foreign correspondent for The New York Times, is answering questions about an article in Wednesday’s paper about Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Ahmed Wali Karzai, who is accused of having ties to the nation’s opium trade, has been on the C.I.A. payroll since 2001, according to the article.
By John F. Burns
For those charged with finding a path for America through the political and military minefield of Afghanistan, it has been a (...) -
US Congress to become a voice for AIPAC
1 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Congress to weigh in on U.N.’s Gaza report House resolution calls the findings ’irredeemably biased’ By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 31, 2009
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday is poised to pass a nonbinding resolution condemning a controversial U.N. report on alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip that has become a major complication in Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s diplomacy in the Middle East this weekend.
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China to use ASEAN meet to make Yuan an international currency
23 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentChina to use ASEAN meet to make Yuan an international currency
Saibal Dasgupta , TNN 23 October 2009, 07:03pm IST BEIJING: China is set to use the ASEAN meet to sell the idea of making the Yuan an international currency. It is using the sense of uncertainty over the US dollar to sell a new dream of enlarged regional trade, financial support from Beijing and reduced dependence on the volatile dollar.
China has also offered to contribute nearly one-third of the $120 billion economic (...) -
Israel wants the laws of war changed.
21 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentRON BOUSSO
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his government to draw up proposals to amend the international laws of war after a damning UN report on its war in Gaza.
NO AFP on BELLACIAO please AFP don’t want...
read :
– http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-...
"What peace process are they talking about? There isn’t one."
"What peace process are they talking about? There isn’t one."
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Seymour Hersh: US Training Jundullah and MEK for Bombing Preparation in Iran
18 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentSeymour Hersh: US Training Jundullah and MEK for Bombing Preparation in Iran
According to an interview with Seymour Hersh, the US is training terrorist groups to cause chaos inside Iran, provoking an aggressive reaction from the Iranians, which will serve as a pretext for military action from the US.
Source: CASMII
Seymour Hersh: US Training Jondollah and MEK for Bombing preparation
In an interview with NPR on his latest New Yorker Article, titled ‘Preparing the battlefield’, the (...)