Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
by Jeremy Scahill Global Research, August 22, 2009
In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early stages of US operations in the country. A month later, Erik Prince, the company’s owner and a former Navy SEAL, flew to Afghanistan as part of the original twenty-man Blackwater contingent. Blackwater worked for the CIA at its station in Kabul as well as in Shkin, along the (...)
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Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
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The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization
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The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization
by James Petras Global Research, August 21, 2009
Introduction
The US seven-year war and occupation of Iraq is driven by several major political forces and informed by a variety of imperial interests. However these interests do not in themselves explain the depth and scope of the sustained, massive and continuing destruction of an entire society and its reduction to a permanent state of war. The range of political forces (...) -
Afghans "Sandwiched" between Taliban and US-NATO backed Warlords
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Afghans "Sandwiched" between Taliban and US-NATO backed Warlords Malalai Joya’s "Raising My Voice"
by Julien Mercille Global Research, August 22, 2009
Malalai Joya’s central message in Raising My Voice is that “today the Afghan people are tragically sandwiched between two enemies-the Taliban on one side and the US/NATO forces and their warlord friends on the other” (pp. 5, 246).
The book contains some autobiographical chapters, but is mostly an analysis of the problems faced by (...) -
China’s Miracle Economy: Have the Chinese Become the World’s Greatest Capitalists?
20 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentChina’s Miracle Economy: Have the Chinese Become the World’s Greatest Capitalists?
Ellen Brown: Author, "Web of Debt" August 17, 2009
I don’t care if it’s a white cat or a black cat. It’s a good cat so long as it catches mice." — Deng Xiaoping, who opened China to foreign investment after 1978 China is being called a "miracle economy." It seems to have decoupled from the rest of the world, preserving an 8% growth rate while the rest of the world sinks into the worst recession since the (...) -
Chinese Stocks: massive losses - 20% ... and so it begins again ...
20 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Chinese Stocks: massive losses - 20% ... and so it begins again ... From Jochen Steffens Thursday, 20 August 2009
It is interesting that the markets in China is already massively burglarize. Here are the first indexes in losses of up to 20% can be reported. We remember, China has responded to the recent downward movement also much earlier and much more violent!
It is slowly being critical. The U.S. economic data deteriorate even clearer now. I had you already weeks before the first (...) -
Icelanders march against Icesave deal
18 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsIcelanders march against Icesave deal
Published: 14 August 2009 16:27 | Changed: 14 August 2009 17:19
By our news staff About 3,000 Icelanders took to the streets on Thursday to protest against a proposal to repay the losses sustained by Dutch and British investors in the Icesave bankruptcy. The legislative proposal has been stuck in the Icelandic parliament for months, where it is being blocked by a majority of members of parliament.
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Essay: Uranium contamination of the civil population, especially by the US-NATO-Israel led wars
18 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Essay: Uranium contamination of the civil population, especially by the US-NATO-Israel led wars
Depleted Uranium – Far Worse Than 9/11 Depleted Uranium Dust – Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan
by Doug Westerman
In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. (...) -
Losing the Plot – Britain’s losses in Afghanistan
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Losing the Plot – Britain’s losses in Afghanistan
by Lesley Docksey
Global Research, August 17, 2009 So far, the cost to the British taxpayer of our current ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan is £12 billion(1). If only our eight years there had cost nothing but money. Leaving aside the horrendous cost to the Afghan people and their land, Britain’s forces have suffered loss, not least, because of the muddle, ignorance and incompetence of those who sent them to war, a loss of face. As it (...) -
Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know
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Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know
by Jean MacKenzie Global Research, August 17, 2009
U.S. soldiers (L) and an Afghan policeman keep watch near a building which is held by the Taliban in Logar, south of Kabul August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
KABUL — It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country. (...) -
Terrorist attack in Ingushetia: President Jewkurow scents US, Britain & Israel interests behind
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Terrorist attack in Ingushetia: Republic Chief Jewkurow scents U.S., Britain and Israel interests
17 / 08 / 2009
MOSCOW, 17 August (RIA Novosti). The U.S., Britain and Israel are involved in a destabilization of the situation in North Caucasus interested. It said Yunus-Bek Jewkurow, president of the northern Caucasian Republic of Ingushetia, on Monday in the Russian radio station RSN.
In its opinion on the recent terror attacks in the inguschetischen city Nasran, where a suicide (...)