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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008By Stephen Lendman - RINF | Prior to entering WW II, US strategists had a clear aim in mind at its conclusion - to hold unchallengeable power in a new post-war global system: military, economic and political in a "Grand Area" encompassing the West and Far East. Essentially most parts outside the communist bloc and exploiting it under disarming rhetoric like being "selfless advocates of freedom for colonial peoples (and ...
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‘US troops are committing war crimes’
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008By Parwiz Shamal | AN AFGHAN human rights organisation has accused the United States army of committing war crimes in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said on Tuesday that, according to their own investigations, civilians are killed in most operations conducted by US forces. AIHRC expressed strong concern about the death of innocent Afghans during military operations and urged those responsible for the killings to face trial. "According to our ...
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Information on use of Shannon ‘rendition’ sought
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008THE GOVERNMENT has been asked for information relating to the use of Shannon in the “extraordinary rendition” of a Guantánamo Bay detainee who could face the death penalty. The request was sent to the Taoiseach on Friday last by lawyers representing Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and held in Guantánamo Bay. He has been charged there before the US Military Commission with terrorist offences which carry the ...
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More People are Catching on to Corporate Media Lies
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By Michael Cambray | It seems that most people are finally awakening to the fact that it is not a good idea to blindly accept the manipulating lies with which we are daily brainwashed, particularly by the communications media. It is totally acceptable and sensible nowadays to be cynical and critical of any source of information, particularly when associated with politics, big business and the media. The 'information' age has ...
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Blackwater-linked firm to train Canadian troops
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By Allan Woods | OTTAWA–Canadian soldiers could get training from a U.S. company closely linked to Blackwater USA, a private security firm implicated in the killings of hundreds of Iraqi civilians, if the Department of National Defence has its way. The military gave notice this week of its intention to award an $850,000 contract for advanced counterinsurgency training to the Terrorism Research Center, a Virginia-based firm that specializes in ...
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Manufactured Famine
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By George Monbiot | In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The hunger began when a drought, caused by El Nino, killed the crops on the Deccan plateau. As starvation bit, the viceroy, Lord Lytton, oversaw the export to England of a record 6.4 million hundredweight of wheat. While Lytton lived in ...
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US attacks China’s human rights record
Sunday, August 24th, 2008ABC | The United States has launched a strongly-worded attack on China's human rights record just hours before the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics. In a written statement from its ambassador to China, the United States has attacked China's human rights performance during the Olympic Games. The statement also called for the immediate release of eight American pro-Tibet demonstrators who have been sentenced to ten to fourteen days detention for protesting ...
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Doctors say ex-Bangladesh PM’s son crippled by torture
Sunday, August 24th, 2008The eldest son and heir apparent of two times former Bangladeshi premier Khaleda Zia was partially paralysed when tortured in custody, doctors said Sunday. Tareque Rahman was strung up blindfolded in a dark room, then dropped down and struck against a wall, fracturing two bones in his back, a doctor who treated him quoted from his medical report. Rahman was partially paralysed by the impact of the fall, which has resulted in ...
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Madrid plane crash: Pilot’s union warned months before that cut-backs placing passengers at risk
Sunday, August 24th, 2008By Marcus Morgan | After the worst Spanish air tragedy in 25 years on Wednesday, accident investigators have begun examining the wreckage of the plane that crashed at Madrid’s Barajas airport, killing 153 passengers. Just 19 passengers have survived the crash, 5 of whom are said to be in a critical condition, with horrific injuries. The captain and co-pilot are confirmed among the dead. Flight JK5022 was bound for Las ...
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Wasted Food Is Also Wasted Water
Friday, August 22nd, 2008The world's growing food crisis -- which triggered riots and demonstrations in over 30 developing nations early this year -- is being aggravated primarily by wastage and overconsumption. IPS | "Obesity is a much bigger problem than undernourishment," said Professor Jan Lundqvist of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). He pointed out that there are 850 million people worldwide who suffer from hunger and starvation daily compared with over 1.2 billion ...
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US oil pipeline politics and the Russia-Georgia conflict
Thursday, August 21st, 2008By Alex Lantier | US media claims about Georgian democracy notwithstanding, a key factor in US backing for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in his conflict with Russia has been the emergence of Georgia as a key transit country for oil and gas exports from the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea basin. The August 7 outbreak of hostilities between Georgia and Russia, as Georgia bombarded Russian peacekeepers in the breakaway Georgian ...
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Libby questioned on forged letter linking Saddam to 9/11
Thursday, August 21st, 2008House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued letters of inquiry Wednesday to Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, regarding a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. The Michigan Democrat also sent letters to senior former Bush intelligence officials, including Robert Richer, former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations, who claimed that Cheney's office pushed the CIA to develop a phony letter to aid their ...
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Elderly women sent to labour camp over homes protest
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Two elderly Chinese women who applied during the Olympic Games to protest over the loss of their homes have been ordered to spend a year in a labour camp, a relative said, while police squelched a pro-Tibet demonstration early Thursday. The women were still at home three days after being officially notified they would have to serve a one year term of re-education through labour, but were under surveillance by a ...
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US pledges to support new government
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008By Erika Niedowski | WASHINGTON // Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, effectively bade farewell yesterday to a critical ally in the US war on terrorism, Pervez Musharraf, and pledged US support to the new government in Pakistan and to bolstering the country’s democratic reforms. Ms Rice called Mr Musharraf, who resigned rather than fight impeachment proceedings even though he denied the charges against him, “one of the world’s ...
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Greg Palast: Chewing the Buddha Bush at the Olympics
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Lhasa, Tibet - China's secret police are just terrible at keeping themselves secret. The detective, dressed in her business suit and pumps appropriate to urban Lhasa, did not expect to be trailing my wife and me up the steep hillside to a monastery 15,000 feet up an ice-crusted ridge. Even at 200 yards behind us, I could see her shivering in the thin, frozen air, trying, absurdly, to look like just ...
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