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  • Never forget why we are in Iraq, or what is happening there: 911 and some of its ramifications
    6 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In early May of 2006, the president of the United States, George W Bush, stated that the attacks on 11 September 2001 were the beginning of World War III. If 911 started World War III isn’t about time we found out which parties committed this crime, especially since Osama Bin Laden is NOT wanted by the FBI for 911.
    The Elephant In The Room (1:32:24)
    As for Iraq, even if you were living under a rock for the last 5 years you would have heard by now that the Bush administration lied us (…)

  • AFGHANISTAN: THE ’GOOD’ WAR TURNS BAD
    5 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    AFGHANISTAN: THE ’GOOD’ WAR TURNS BAD
    The situation in Afghanistan is reaching breaking point. Civilian and military casualties have risen sharply over the last few months. The death of another British soldier this week brings to 200 the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year.
    The level of NATO bombing is up 40% on last year’s levels and the mainstream press here has had to start reporting on the innocent dead as a result. Two weeks ago a raid in (…)

  • Reinventing the Evil Empire by Stephen Lendman
    4 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CounterPunch
    For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little different.
    Russia is back, proud and reassertive, and not about to roll over for America. Especially in Eurasia. For Washington, it’s back to the future, the new Cold War, and reinventing the Evil Empire, but this time for (…)

  • Nicaragua prepares to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia
    4 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Nicaragua prepares to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia
    04/ 09/ 2008 MEXICO, September 4 (RIA Novosti) - Nicaragua is preparing to officially recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a Nicaraguan deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.
    Russia recognized South Ossetia and Georgia on August 26, two weeks after it had concluded its operation "to force Georgia to peace." The operation came in response to an attack by Georgian forces on breakaway South Ossetia on August 8.
    Nicaraguan (…)

  • What Happens When Superpower Air Defenses Really Fail
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Eleven years ago yesterday the trial against Matthias Rust began in Moscow. A few months earlier, on May 28, 1987, the 19-year-old German had landed his single-engine Cessna about 100 meters from Red Square. There are still unanswered questions about how this amateur pilot was able to penetrate what Bill Keller of the New York Times called “the world’s most vaunted air defenses” (NYT, June 7, 1987).
    There is no question, though, about the aftermath:
    “With surprising speed and openness, (…)

  • The Afghan War’s Heavy Toll On Children
    3 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Brian McAfee
    Again today reports coming out of Afghanistan indicate more dead children. Three were killed and seven injured when western troops fired artillery shells at a civilian house in western Afghanistan. This occurs in the wake of the August 22 bombing that resulted in the deaths of 90 people, 60 children, 15 women and 15 men. Afghans and UN officials have confirmed the numbers but the U.S. insists there were only 5 dead children and 25 dead Taliban. Civilian casualties are a (…)

  • Free Gaza Boats Leave Gaza With Palestinians On-Board
    29 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Free Gaza Boats Leave Gaza With Palestinians On-Board
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    SS FREE GAZA & SS LIBERTY TO LEAVE FOR CYPRUS WITH PALESTINIANS ON-BOARD
    For More Information, Please Contact: (Gaza) Paul Larudee: +972 598 765 370 (Gaza) Huwaida Arraf: +972 599 130 426 (Cyprus) Osama Qashoo: +357 97 793 595 / osamaqashoo@gmail.com (Jerusalem) Angela Godfrey-Goldstein: +972 547 366 393 / angela@icahd.org
    (GAZA CITY, 28 August 2008) - After having shattered the Israeli blockade of Gaza (…)

  • South Ossetia, manipulation: Images of war, war of images
    28 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A few days after these pictures had been analyzed by the Russian blog Russia Inside Out and the Serbian blog Byzantine blog as fake ones, staged by the photographer David Mdzinarishvili, some of them have been simply removed from the website of Reuters. Here the deconstruction made by Byzantine blog
    This photo was first published by the Reuters as an image of a "dead woman being carried from the town of Gori". But this "dead woman", incredibly, is clutching the nurse’s arm.
    This man (…)

  • Taliban win over locals at the gates of Kabul
    25 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Taliban win over locals at the gates of Kabul
    Jason burke – The Observer August 24, 2008
    Ismatullah stood at the crossroads in the dusty Afghan town of Maidan Shah, squinted in the blinding noon sun and stroked his long, grey beard. ’What the governor said in our meeting was very good,’ he said diplomatically. ’He quoted the Koran very correctly. But I am not sure how much power he has. Now I am going home - and the Taliban control my district, not him.’
    The tribal elder lives only a (…)

  • The Taliban: A product of the West
    23 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Creating a monster
    The CIA’s shenanigans By Sanjay Suri
    London: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) worked in tandem with Pakistan to create the "monster" that is today Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a leading US expert on South Asia said here.
    "I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on "Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia."
    Harrison (…)