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The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine/Israel |
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Written by Noam Chomsky
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
22 Minute Video
Chomsky says U.S. backing of continued Israeli occupation and annexation of Palestinian land is the biggest obstacle to peace. Video found and forwarded by Information Clearinghouse .
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America's "Divide and Rule" Strategies in the Middle East |
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Written by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
The Presidential Tour of George W. Bush to the Middle East: A New Cold War?
In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech in Missouri that
helped set the rhetorical stance for the rivalry between the two camps or poles
respectively formed by the Soviet Union and the United States after the Second World
War.
Starting in 2006, the Middle East has been depicted in a similar way by the White
House and 10 Downing Street. In the end, history will decide and give its verdict on
the miniature version of the Cold War now unfolding in the Middle East. Global Research
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What the CIA Had to Destroy |
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Written by Nat Hentoff
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
The many reasons this torture evidence was too hot to handle
17/01/08 Village Voice -- - So what was on those videotapes destroyed by the CIA? Let's put a face to it. Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and, after being shot in the groin while trying to escape, was sent to recover in a CIA secret prison. He would be the first of the CIA's many "ghost prisoners"—and also the first to test the value of what the president has often described as an "alternative set of [interrogation] procedures . . . that are safe and necessary."
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Written by Tom Feeley
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
First published December 24, 2002
9/11 has taught us nothing. We have become narcissistic and self centered; like the drug addict who refuses to look at himself, we rage on about how everyone is against us, and use our denial to continue our self destructive behavior. In search of another fix we roar across the world dropping bombs on anyone who may try to point out that our sickness is self-imposed. Information Clearinghouse
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Written by Ayesha Ijaz Khan
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
How the American Media Enables Bush
16/01/08 "Counterpunch" -- -- President George Bush has a few months left in office. Many analysts have believed for some time now that before he retires from that position, he will have orchestrated an attack either against Syria or Iran. Counterpunch
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Bush in the Middle East: Iran Over Palestine, Israel Over-All |
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Written by Phyllis Bennis
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
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Bush's current visit to the Middle East, despite the official central message of supporting an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has far more to do with Iran. ZNet Commentary
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Pakistan and the "Global War on Terrorism" |
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Written by Michel Chossudovsky
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
Part II of a Two Part Article, published by Global Research (see the intro to Part One below, The Destabilization of Pakistan, or click here to read Part One.)
The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto must be understood in a historical context. Since the late 1970s, successive US administrations have contributed to repealing the Rule of Law, destroying Pakistani institutions of civilian and secular government and instating military rule.
(Also see the Global Research article 'A Heartbeat Away' From War With Iran and Pakistan by Justin Raimondo.)
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Bush's Mideast Pipe Dream |
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Written by Pierre Heumann
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Saturday, 12 January 2008 |
OPINION
The American president came to the Middle East in an attempt to deliver peace. Instead, George W. Bush's visit to the Holy Land has only deepened the divide between the Israelis and Palestinians. Spiegel Online International (Thanks to Information Clearinghouse for forwarding this and other articles.)
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Bagram detention centre now twice the size of Guantanamo |
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Written by Andrew Gumbel
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
Published: 08 January 2008
The United States has quietly expanded the number of "enemy combatants" being held in judicial limbo at its Bagram military base in Afghanistan, a facility which has now grown to more than twice the size of the controversial and much more widely discussed military
prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. -- The Independent
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US Military Escalation Gets Underway In Pakistan |
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Written by Tom Hayden
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
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The US government is considering direct military intervention in the tribal areas of Pakistan, risking an escalated conflict with Pashtun nationalism in the name of crushing al Qaeda. An essay in last week’s Washington Post, a front page story in today’s New York Times and reports from the Real News Network all confirm that a decision to intervene is near. The Times confirms that as many as 50 American personnel, whether special forces or CIA, already operate clandestinely inside the Pakistani border. Common Dreams
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Why I Believe Bush Must Go |
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Written by George McGovern
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
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. . . A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law — and repeatedly violates the law — thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors. Washington Post
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For Sale: West’s Deadly Nuclear Secrets |
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Written by The Sunday Times
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
01/05/08 "Sunday Times" -- - - A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.
Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office. The Sunday Times (If you have a dial-up connection or don't like popup ads, you might want to read this article at Information Clearinghouse.)
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Bhutto’s Assassination: Who Gains? |
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Written by F. William Engdahl
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
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Assassination of prominent political leaders, presumably protected by the best security, is no easy thing. It requires agencies of professional intelligence training to insure that the job is done and that no person is caught alive who can lead to those behind. Typically, from the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo in July 1914 to JFK, the person pulling the trigger is just an instrument of a far deeper conspiracy. So too in the assassination on December 27th, of Pakistani former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. Cui bono?. Global Research, January 4, 2008
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Written by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
After The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran: Let The Great Debate Begin!
"Preemptive surgical strike by the intelligence community against the war party"
The issuance of the National Intelligence Estimate on Dec. 3, could be compared to
the historic "shot heard round the world;" but, perhaps the characterization given
by Barbara Slavin, author of a new book on Iran, is more to the point. As she put it
in mid-December at a conference of the Center for American Progress in the U.S.
capital, the NIE report was " a preemptive surgical strike by the intelligence
community against the war party" of Dick Cheney et al, those who have been building
for a military attack against Iran. Global Research , January 3, 2008
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Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime |
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Written by Paul Craig Roberts
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Saturday, 05 January 2008 |
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... The assault on the US Constitution by the Democratic Party is as determined as the assault by the Republicans. On October 23, 2007, the House passed a bill sponsored by California Democratic congresswoman Jane Harman, chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee, that overturns the constitutionally guaranteed rights to free expression, association, and assembly. Information Clearinghouse
(For another Information Clearinghouse article on H. Res. 1695, 1955 & S.1959, see Social Repression and Internet Surveillance by Nikki Alexander, Jan. 4. 2008)
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Fascist America, in Ten Easy Steps |
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Written by Naomi Wolf
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Saturday, 05 January 2008 |
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It is my argument that, beneath our very noses, George Bush and his administration
are using time-tested tactics to close down an open society. It is time for us to be
willing to think the unthinkable -- as the author and political journalist Joe
Conason, has put it, that it can happen here. And that we are further along than we
realise. Guardian (Thanks to GlobalNetNews for emailing the article.)
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American, Pakistani officials reject report about US special squad alert |
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Written by APP
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 2 (APP): A United States embassy official on Wednesday dismissed reports of a Special US Squad, put on alert to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, saying it does not go with the US policy towards Pakistan. “Any such action would be contrary to our long standing military and diplomatic cooperation with Pakistan,” said the US embassy official. Associated Press of Pakistan
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The Destabilization of Pakistan |
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Written by Michel Chossudovsky
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Tuesday, 01 January 2008 |
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a Nation.
The process of US sponsored "regime change", which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken. Discredited in the eyes of Pakistani public opinion, General Pervez Musharaf cannot remain in the seat of political power. But at the same time, the fake elections supported by the "international community" scheduled for January 2008, even if they were to be carried out, would not be accepted as legitimate, thereby creating a political impasse. Global Research
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Written by Mary Olivella, Joan Blades, and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
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“Employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children. The term has been popularized by members of MomsRising, an advocacy group promoting the rights of mothers in the workplace.” -- Moms Rising
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The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis |
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Written by Richard K. Moore
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 |
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It turns out—and informed people should already know this—that the U.S. is essentially owned and managed by a small clique of wealthy families—the ones who own and control the Federal Reserve. The Rockefellers are the obvious and well-known members of this clique, but there are others less well-known, not all American, and some whose identity remains to this day a carefully guarded secret. Global Research
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