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Monday, September 22nd, 2008By Mike Adams | According to insider traders speaking to the New York Post, the global financial system was only 500 trades away from experiencing a global meltdown -- "Financial Armageddon" -- which was narrowly halted by a last-minute capital infusion by the Fed. In other words, the financial house of cards we've been warning readers about very nearly collapsed last week. Had the Fed been one hour later ...
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When Corporations Rule the World
Monday, September 22nd, 2008PCDF | Those of us who seek to intervene in policy debates in favor of economic justice and environmentally sustainability are regularly assured by the world's power brokers that they are fully committed to these goals so long as economic growth and the expansion of free trade are not compromised by governmental restraints on the market. So sacred have growth and free trade become in our modern culture that only rarely ...
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Irish politicians back calls for universal arms trade treaty
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Politicians from all the main parties have given their support to a global campaign to ban the sale of arms to conflict zones such as Darfur and Burma, where they are likely to be used for violations of human rights. Launching a report which details the catastrophic effect of unrestrained arms trading on human rights in conflict zones, Amnesty International said 56 TDs, senators and MEPs had signed a parliamentary declaration ...
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Top Ten Ways to Reduce Plastic Consumption
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008By Neil McLaughlin | By now you have likely heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a tragic byproduct of the plastics industry and consumerism that is an island of garbage floating in the northern Pacific Ocean. Originally the size of Texas and approaching the size of the Sun, this gargantuan pile of plastic is collected by currents that swirl around in a big circle. Most of the debris ...
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FIVE FORMER SECRETARIES OF STATE SUPPORT DIRECT TALKS WITH IRAN
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008National Security Network - Five former American secretaries of state all reaffirmed their support for direct talks with Iran. Henry Kissinger went as far as to say that there must be high-level talks with the Iranians "without conditions." Barack Obama has called for tough direct diplomacy with Iran, but John McCain who continues to call this approach "naïve." At the event sponsored by the Center for New American Security, George Washington ...
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Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008By Neil Mackay | THE CIA SENT ITS agents into Uzbekistan torture chambers to observe the abuse of alleged Islamic terrorists, acc-ording to a dissident member of the Uzbek security services who is now seeking political asylum in the UK after fleeing Tashkent. Ikrom Yakubov, a former major in the National Security Service (SNB), accused the CIA of involvement in torture sessions in the central Asian republic in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Herald, during which he made a series of startling claims. These include ...
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Writers, Film-makers Defy Censors
Sunday, September 14th, 2008IPS | "I don't sell cocaine," says the video vendor in Kano's Rimi market when I ask for Adam Zango's music video CD Bahaushiya. He is not referring to the white powder, but instead a new illegal substance -- Hausa films that have not passed through the Kano State Censors Board. The video CD I'm asking for is an especially hot drug: a series of six music videos satirising corrupt ...
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Howard Zinn - US ‘in need of rebellion’
Friday, September 12th, 2008Al Jazeera speaks to Howard Zinn, the author, American historian, social critic and activist, about how the Iraq war damaged attitudes towards the US and why the US "empire" is close to collapse. Q: Where is the United States heading in terms of world power and influence? HZ: America has been heading - for some time, and is heading right now - toward less and less world power, less and ...
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Journalists warned to get out of Afghanistan
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008AUSTRALIAN journalists in Afghanistan have been targeted by terrorists and were warned yesterday by the Federal Government to consider leaving the country. "Credible reports suggest terrorists may be targeting journalists, including Australians, in Afghanistan," an updated travel advisory from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says. "We continue to advise Australians not to travel to Afghanistan. If you are [there], you should consider departing." The advisory had previously warned of the continuing ...
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US military trained Georgian commandos
Monday, September 8th, 2008The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgia’s army assault in South Ossetia in August. The revelation, based on recruitment documents and interviews with US military trainers obtained by the Financial Times, could add fuel to accusations by Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister, last month that the US had “orchestrated” the war in the Georgian enclave. The training was provided by senior US ...
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Anti-Terror Laws Prone to Abuse, Amnesty Says
Friday, September 5th, 2008By Haider Rizvi | (IPS) -Numerous governments around the world are using anti-terror laws to suppress political dissent and civil liberties, according to a new report released by one of the world’s most respected human rights organisations. Amid calls for increased U.N. scrutiny, in its report, the London-based group Amnesty International raises serious questions and concerns about the impact of the so-called war on terror on human rights and freedom of ...
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Human Rights Watch: Indian forces, Maoist rebels use child fighters
Friday, September 5th, 2008New Delhi - Indian security forces and Maoist rebels should end the use of child fighters in their long conflict in the central state of Chhattisgarh, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday. The New York based rights group said both sides have long used children, some of them as young as 12, in armed operations. While the Maoist rebels admit they recruit children, India's federal Home Ministry has denied the allegations. HRW, in ...
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France marches online to protest ’security’ database
Friday, September 5th, 2008Personal privacy is, of course, a major issue these days, particularly when it comes to authorities gathering data in schemes such as the UK's proposed identity card program or France's Edvidge electronic database. Edvidge, the French government's new repository of information aimed at keeping an eye on citizens who it deems merit surveillance, is currently drawing mass protests two months after it was signed into law. Kids too Among other things, it ...
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Former Yugoslav war crimes tribunal spokeswoman indicted for contempt
Friday, September 5th, 2008By Paul Mitchell | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted Florence Hartmann, the spokeswoman of the tribunal’s former Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from 1999 to 2006, on two charges of contempt of court. Hartmann has been ordered to appear before the court on September 15, charged with revealing information relating to confidential decisions made by judges in the trial of the late Serbian ...
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Thai government tries to shut down 400 websites
Thursday, September 4th, 2008By Oliver Luft | Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Ministry sought court orders yesterday to shut down about 400 websites and advised internet service providers to block 1,200 sites it considers a danger to national security or disturbing social order. ICT minister Mun Patanotai said the department had advised ISPs to immediately block these websites, which it claimed were detected between March and August this year, ...
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