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Transport workers strike over fuel shortages
Azzaman, February 15, 2007
Taxi and bus drivers are staging a strike in the northern city of Mosul over fuel shortages.
The strike has almost brought life to a standstill in the city home to nearly two million people.
Drivers taking part in the strike said they had not received their share of subsidized petrol for more than a month.
Iraq’s fuel crisis started shortly after the U.S. invasion and has since aggravated and is felt across the (…)

February 16, 2007 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
In reviewing reports from our Kremlin sources today I could not help but call to mind the words of the great German scientist Albert Einstein, and who when asked what kind of weapons World War III would be fought with, Einstein responded, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
These thoughts of mine were due to the information (…)

Committees to Support Resistance – for Communism (CARC) - Italy
Via Tanaro 7, 20128, Milano
Tel. +39 0226306454 e-mail resistenza@carc.it
website www.carc.it
National Direction - International Relations Department
e-mail carc.ri@libero.it 12/02/07
National Direction’s Statement
On 12th February at dawn, the repressive forces attacked several comrades and organizations of the Communist movement of our country. The repressive operation has been carried out in Padua, Milan, (…)

Many people I speak with around the world, friends or casual acquaintances, have expressed what might best be described as feelings of cognitive dissonance when I have attempted to explain how bad things are in today’s Denmark. It just doesn’t match the fairy-tale picture of a modern, progressive, peace-loving, little country which most people have acquired throughout the previous decades. This problem has been particularly acute when I’ve had to explain what currents underlay the rather (…)

Interview by Rosa Moussaoui ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE :
Nicolas Sarkozy shaking the hand of a George W. Bush caught up in the Iraqi mess, Ségolène Royal posing for photographers on the Great Wall of China…These pictures cannot be a substitute for a foreign policy programme. In the context of international tensions, where globalisation blurs the boundaries between domestic and foreign matters on a daily basis, Pascal Boniface (1), director of the Institute of International Relations and (…)

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 15 (APP): Two-thirds of the world’s population may be living in areas where there are water shortages by 2025...
– http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?...

UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism - by Stephen Lendman
The world community calls them "Blue Helmets" or "peacekeepers," and the UN defines their mission as "a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace" by implementing and monitoring post-conflict peace processes former combatants have agreed to under provisions of the UN Charter. The Charter empowers the Security Council to take collective action to maintain international peace and security that includes (…)

SAN FRANCISCO — In a truly bizarre development, the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, in Livermore, California, has gotten underway even larger nuclear radiation open air explosive detonations at "Site 300" near Tracy, California.
Tracy is on the South end of the Bay Area. The High Explosive detonations are to widely distribute radioactive poison gas [uranium oxide gas and aerosols] over the unsuspecting seven million residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, water supplies, (…)

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02122007.html
February 12, 2007
Dump the Dollar!
How the World Can Stop Bush
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
What would be the consequences of a US or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear energy sites?
At the 2006 Perdana Global Peace Forum, Australian medical scientist Dr. Helen Caldicott provided an authoritative analysis of the devastating impact on human life that would result from the radiation release from such an attack.
Dr. Caldicott described the (…)

Voice of the White House February 10, 2007
TBR News.org – February 10, 2007
“Today, the entire staff here is being fascinated by the comic drama being played out over at the DoD concerning the so-called “Iranian Roadside Bombs.” U.S. Defense chief Robert Gates would like the sheepies to believe that ‘some serial numbers’ and ‘markings’ on ‘projectile fragments’ they found in Iraq, implicate Iran. Their invented serial numbers and markings on explosives used in Iraq provide ‘pretty good’ (…)