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  • Israel’s Settlement on Capital Hill
    30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Israel’s hilltop settlement in our nation’s capital (must be) dismantled.’
    "With [traditional Israeli defense strategists] it’s all about tanks and land and controlling territories... and this hilltop and that hilltop. All these things are worthless." - Incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Soon after the sand settled following the Six Day War in 1967, Jewish settlements began dotting the hills in the occupied territories. These settlements are typically located on the high (…)

  • The Oil Connection: Afghanistan and Caspian Sea oil pipeline routes
    30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Oil Connection: Afghanistan and Caspian Sea oil pipeline routes
    Don’t think there is a connection between Afghanistan and the oil monopolies? Think again. The information contained in these partial Department of Energy reports are current as of September 2001. You can read the complete texts at http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/caspian.html and http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html (For more links, also see http://www.mujahideen.fsnet.co.uk/afghanistan-oil.htm ) This story could (…)

  • India’s 9/11. Who was Behind the Mumbai Attacks? Washington is Fostering Political Divisions
    30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    India’s 9/11. Who was Behind the Mumbai Attacks? Washington is Fostering Political Divisions between India and Pakistan
    by Michel Chossudovsky
    Global Research, November 30, 2008 2008-11-29
    The Mumbai terror attacks were part of a carefully planned and coordinated operation involving several teams of experienced and trained gunmen.
    The operation has the fingerprints of a paramilitary-intelligence operation. According to a Russian counter terrorist expert, the Mumbai terrorists "used (…)

  • Video / Prof. Avi Shlaim: Settlements turned Israel into apartheid state
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video / Prof. Avi Shlaim: Settlements turned Israel into apartheid state
    By Haaretz Staff and Fora.tv
    Tags: Avi Shlaim, Zionism
    British-Israeli Professor Avi Shlaim joined a handful of academics in London earlier this month to debate the future of Zionism, in a panel entitled "Israel at 60: What happened to the Zionist dream?"
    Shlaim, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict at Oxford University, made headlines last year when he decided to speak at an Oxford Union debate in favor of (…)

  • UN General Assembly President Calls for Boycott of Israel
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN General Assembly President Calls for Boycott of Israel
    Al Manar TV http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=65253&language=en
    The UN General Assembly president sparked Jerusalem’s ire after calling for international boycott on Israel.
    Israel filed a formal complaint with the United Nations on Tuesday over statements made by UN General Assembly President, Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua, who called for an international boycott of Israel after accusing (…)

  • Divide and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Divide and Conquer: The Anglo-American Imperial Project
    by Andrew G. Marshall
    Global Research, July 10, 2008
    Establishing an "Arc of Crisis"
    Many would be skeptical that the Anglo-Americans would be behind terrorist acts in Iraq, such as with the British in Basra, when two British SAS soldiers were caught dressed as Arabs, with explosives and massive arsenal of weapons.[1] Why would the British be complicit in orchestrating terror in the very city in which they are to provide (…)

  • Global Crisis. International Trade in Potential Jeopardy: Shipping continues it’s Downward Plunge
    29 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Crisis. International Trade in Potential Jeopardy: Shipping continues it’s Downward Plunge. Denial of Letters of Credit
    by Andy Hughes
    Global Research, November 28, 2008
    The Baltic Dry Index continues to lower as the demand for raw materials continues to drop to unseen levels.
    "Capesize Vessels" weigh from 175,000 tons to 400,000 tons and count as some of the largest craft in the World. They typically carry raw materials such as Iron ore, Steel, Coal and other raw commodities. (…)

  • Regarding the events in India: The only question we should be asking ourselves, by Arundhati Roy
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the following short video, Arundhati Roy, “an Indian writer and activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize,” explains what occupies her thoughts during these unsettling times:
    “I think, the thing that I’m thinking the most about, the question that occupies me a lot these days is, what kind, what form of resistance is effective, and acceptable to us?
    “Because, I see all over and all around us, (…)

  • Indian Army takes control of financial capital
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Gunmen attack Mumbai, 80 killed
    Source : "Pakistan Observer"
    Mumbai—Gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India’s financial capital, killing 80 people and wounding 250, officials and media reports said.
    The Press Trust of India said at least 80 people were killed in the attacks that began late Wednesday and continued into Thursday morning.
    Johnny Joseph, chief secretary for Maharashtra state, of which (…)

  • China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. New US Military Command
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. New US Military Command
    by F. William Engdahl
    Global Research, November 26, 2008
    Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing with the Republic of Congo, the oil-rich Gulf (…)