Mirage Of Improvement In Iraq The November 19 New York Times announces, “Baghdad’s Weary Start to Exhale as Security Improves.”
The Washington Post on November 23 reports, “Returnees Find a Capital Transformed.”
People in the US are willing to believe the establishment media telling them that refugees are returning to their homes in Baghdad in an environment of improved security and new hope.
It is true that there have been fewer American soldiers kil... (more)
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GMO Seeds: 'MNCs Gaining Total Control Over Farming' Food security campaigners are now more concerned than ever that farmers are turning dependent on large multinational corporations (MNCs) for seeds, fertilisers, pesticides and other inputs while also becoming more vulnerable to pressures to produce genetically engineered crops.
Gathered here over the weekend, for the Pesticide Action Network (PAN)'s 25th anniversary, many expressed concern over the predatory nature of corporate agriculture and its attempts to corner the entire ch... (more)
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Seventy-three per cent of Britons want a vote on the EU treaty More than two thirds of voters want Britain to either renegotiate the new European treaty or pull out of the union, a poll will show today.
The survey is a blow to Gordon Brown's attempts to play down the significance of the constitutional agreement.
It will also revive debate over the UK's role in Europe 72 hours before the reform treaty is signed in Lisbon.
The ICM poll for Global Vision, a eurosceptic campaign group, shows that 73 per cent of vote... (more)
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EU chaos as heckling British MEPs chanting 'referendum' ordered to leave ParliamentBritish Euro MPs led a noisy protest yesterday at a signing ceremony for a new EU rights charter. Around 100 heckling Eurosceptics from Britain, France, Poland and Italy wrecked what was supposed to be a solemn event at the Strasbourg Parliament.
They waved placards and banners, stamped, booed and chanted "referendum". Opponents called them "hooligans" who shamed Britain.
The 50-article charter of fundamental rights will be attached to the EU's new Reform Treaty, to... (more)
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World 'divided' on press freedomWorld opinion is divided on the importance of having a free press, according to a poll conducted for the BBC World Service.
Of those interviewed, 56% thought that freedom of the press was very important to ensure a free society.
But 40% said it was more important to maintain social harmony and peace, even if it meant curbing the press's freedom to report news truthfully.
Pollsters interviewed 11,344 people in 14 countries for the survey.
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Bush handed blueprint to seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal· Architect of Iraq surge draws up takeover options
· US fears army's Islamists might grab weapons
The man who devised the Bush administration's Iraq troop surge has urged the US to consider sending elite troops to Pakistan to seize its nuclear weapons if the country descends into chaos.
In a series of scenarios drawn up for Pakistan, Frederick Kagan, a former West Point military historian, has called for the White House to consider various opti... (more)
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Iran completes enrichment processDirector of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization says Tehran has completed the enrichment process and can produce its own nuclear fuel.
Gholam-Reza Aqazadeh said the pellets applicable in the 40-megawatt Arak heavy water research reactor meet international standards.
He added that the fuel manufacturing plant would be ready by September 2008 to provide fuel for the Arak research reactor.
Aqazadeh dismissed reports indicating a slow down in Iran's uranium... (more)
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Pak nukes already under US control: ReportWASHINGTON: Pakistan's nuclear weapons are already under American control even as analysts are working themselves into a lather on the subject, a well-regarded intelligence journal has said.
In a stunning disclosure certain to stir up things in Washington's (and in Islamabad and New Delhi's) strategic community, the journal Stratfor reported on Monday that the "United States delivered a very clear ultimatum to Musharraf in the wake of 9/11: ... (more)
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US Military Weaknesses: Top Pentagon Brass Reluctant to Wage War on IranWhile US attack plans against Iran are in an advanced state of readiness, there are growing divisions between the military and the White House regarding these attacks.
"U.S. defense officials have signaled that up-to-date attack plans are available if needed in the escalating crisis over Iran's nuclear aims, although no strike appears imminent .... Among the possible targets, in addition to nuclear installations like the centrifuge plant at Natanz [are] Iran's ballistic mis ... (more)
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Flashback: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.
The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a for... (more)
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'Mystery' US base causes confusion among LebaneseAkkar, Lebanon - The people of the Akkar region, north Lebanon, were busy Sunday discussing the veracity of local news indicating that the United States may be planning to build a military base in their area.
Worries increased after former pro-Syrian Member of Parliament (MP) Nasser Kandil appeared on television Sunday revealing a document he claimed was issued by the Bureau of 'Dangerous Zones' which is affiliated with the US Department of Defense.
Kandil said the ... (more)
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Journalist killed in IraqA correspondent for the Washington Post has been shot dead in Baghdad.
Salih Saif Aldin, 32, an Iraqi who sometimes wrote under the name Salih Dehema for security reasons, was killed yesterday while reporting on the violence in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadiyah, according to a statement from the newspaper.
The newspaper said that Aldin's wounds appeared to indicate he was shot at close range. His body was later found on the street, covered with newspapers.
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Airline meal ‘used to kill activistThe former head of Indonesia’s national airline faces 20 years in jail over the killing of an outspoken human rights activist whose in-flight meal was laced with a massive dose of arsenic.
The poisoning of Munir Said Thalib in 2004 silenced one of the most ardent critics of Indonesia’s military, a lawyer who, at 38, had spent much of his life exposing the corruption and human rights abuses wrought by its officers.
Before his agonising mid-flight death sh... (more)
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Google Earth provides bird’s eye view of Israeli reactorJERUSALEM – When Google Earth first came along, the company went to some lengths to address the security concerns and restrictions in various countries, including Israel, where images of this nation were often blurry and you couldn’t zoom in to find your house in Jerusalem.
Well, good-bye to all that.
“Sensitive installations, Air Force bases with their planes and helicopters, missile bases and even the nuclear reactor in Dimona have never been pho... (more)
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Iraq Insurgents Unite To Fight U.S. (CBS/AP) - Nearly two dozen previously unknown Iraqi insurgent groups announced a new coalition to fight foreign occupation but it also set conditions for talks with the U.S. in a statement on a Web site affiliated with the country's deposed Baath party.
The 22 groups said their leader is Izzat al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's former ruling party still at large.
In the nearly half hour video message, an unidentified man, face blurred, was sho... (more)
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150,000 Costa Ricans March against CAFTAIn a country of less than 5 million citizens, 150,000 turned out to protest against CAFTA. The trade pact, which passed the US Congress by a single vote after midnight in July 2005, has still not been approved by the second largest participant in the scheme.
COMMENTARY:
More than 150,000 Costa Rican citizens flooded downtown San Jose, Costa Rica on Sunday to protest the much delayed CAFTA trade pact. Costa Rica is the second largest economic party... (more)
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Chinese buy into conspiracy theory The Battle of Waterloo. The deaths of six US presidents. The rise of Adolf Hitler. The deflation of the Japanese bubble economy, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and even environmental destruction in the developing world.
In a new Chinese best-seller, Currency Wars , these disparate events spanning two centuries have a single root cause: the control of money issuance through history by the Rothschild banking dynasty.
Even today, claims author Song Hongbing, the US... (more)
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Attack on Iran Said To Be Imminent UNITED NATIONS — In a sign that U.N. Security Council-based diplomacy is losing steam, a number of sources are reporting that a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities may be imminent. France and America also are pushing for tighter economic sanctions against Tehran, without U.N. approval.
Yesterday's edition of Le Canard Enchaîné, a French weekly known for its investigative journalism, reported details of an alleged Israeli-Ame... (more)
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