Fugitive pleads with US to 'liberate' IranFOR almost eight months, Amir Abbas Fakhravar was held in solitary confinement in a soundproof cell in Iran. His bare, constantly lit surroundings were all a creamy white — the walls, the floor, his clothes and the door, with a slit through which white rice would be delivered in a white bowl by guards wearing slippers to muffle their footfall.
Amnesty International calls his case the first known example of “white torture” in Iran and it nearly drove Fakhravar mad... (more)
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Bilderberg to Meet in CanadaThe secretive group known as Bilderberg will hold its annual secret meeting at the posh Brook Street Resort a few miles from Ottawa, Canada, June 8-11.
The location and part of the agenda was disclosed to American Free Press by a source inside Bilderberg’s inner circle.
High on the Bilderberg’s secret agenda this year are oil prices and the political upheaval in Latin America. When meeting last year in Rottach-Egern, Germany, Bilderberg called for dramat... (more)
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U.S. intelligence loses track of N. Korea nukesThe U.S. intelligence community has conceded that it has lost count over North Korea's nuclear program.
Government sources said the intelligence community has concluded that Pyongyang has produced at least a dozen nuclear weapons. But the sources said the nuclear facilities are so far underground that they can't even venture a credible estimate of the production rate.
"Everybody's talking about Iran," a source close to the intelligence community said. "Iran is the... (more)
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US wants new base in Europe to counter possible missiles from IranTHE Bush Administration is moving to establish a new anti-missile site in Europe that would be designed to stop attacks by Iran against the United States and its European allies.
The Administration's proposal, which comes amid concern about Iran's suspected plan to develop nuclear weapons, calls for installing 10 anti-missile interceptors at a European site by 2011. Nations under consideration include Poland and the Czech Republic.
A recommendation on a European sit... (more)
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Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes holdAcross central Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian assassins and death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale.
The state of Iraq now resembles Bosnia at the height of the fighting in the 1990s when each community fled to places where its members were a majority and were able to defend themselves. "Be gone by evening prayers or we will kill you," warned one of four m... (more)
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North American Union to Replace USA?President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.
Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA to include Canada, setting the stage for North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement ... (more)
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Iran denies non-Muslim badge plan AUSTRALIA, the US and Canada lost little time in blasting Iran for a report, quickly denied, that Tehran may force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public.
While acknowledging they had no details beyond a report in a Canadian newspaper, the three countries went on the offensive in separate statements, with Washington and Ottawa evoking the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
"If you did have such an occurrence, whether it was in Iran or elsewhere, it would certainly ... (more)
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Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrueSeveral experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the country’s Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.
The Iranian embassy in Otttawa also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.
A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterday’s National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new la... (more)
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Hemingway papers link Cuba and USCuba is sending the US copies of more than 20,000 papers relating to the Nobel Prize winning American writer Ernest Hemingway.
The move is part of a deal on restoring Hemingway's legacy that, correspondents say, has united the usually feuding governments of Havana and Washington.
The papers sent to the US Library of Congress include copies of Hemingway's letters and some of his famous novels.
Hemingway spent much of his time living in Cuba between 193... (more)
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Cuban and Venezuelan intelligence conclude 9-11 was an "inside job"(WMR) -- Add Cuba and Venezuela to the list of countries that knew of and informed the Bush administration about a "major terrorist attack" prior to 911.
In addition to Russia, Jordan, France, Germany, and other nations, Venezuelan and Cuban intelligence picked up chatter about a "major terrorist attack" on the United States prior to 911.
Cuban intelligence, which has an extensive network in Florida -- a home base of the hijackers and their handlers -- initially pic... (more)
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Doubts over Iran nuclear capacityDoubts have been raised about how technically advanced Iran's nuclear programme is, after it emerged Tehran may have used material from China.
Western diplomatic sources told the BBC the material used in Iran's recent uranium enrichment experiments probably came from materials supplied in 1991.
That was before China joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and before it was bound by its export controls.
Iran recently announced it had been able to produ... (more)
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U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in SomaliaMore than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa policy say the United States has returned to the African country, secretly supporting secular warlords who have been waging fierce battles against Islamic groups for control of the capital, Mogadishu.
The latest clashes, last week and over the weekend, were some of the most violent in Mogadishu since the... (more)
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Kissinger: World Faces Nightmarish Prospect "The world is faced with the nightmarish prospect that nuclear weapons will become a standard part of national armament and wind up in terrorist hands," warns former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Writing in Tuesday's Washington Post, Kissinger insisted that the current standoff about nuclear weapons between the United States and Iran and the United States and North Korea "is a nuclear test for diplomacy."
Observing that the negotiations on Korean and Iranian ... (more)
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Venezuela 'may swap oil currency'Venezuela has hinted it could price its oil exports in euros rather than US dollars, further weakening its links to the US.
President Hugo Chavez said he was considering taking the step following a similar declaration by Iran.
Earlier this month, Iranian authorities gave backing for the launch of an oil exchange that traded solely in euros.
Some reports have suggested Iran's move may be part of a bid to undermine the importance of the dollar.
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The Real Libya ModelHere is the official story on Libya, which Washington removed from its list of terror-sponsoring states this week. As the Bush administration likes to tell it, Muammar Kaddafi was scared straight by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. On Dec, 19, 2003, just six days after Saddam Hussein was hauled from his spider hole, Kaddafi gave up his life's work as an international terrorist, renouncing both his weapons of mass destruction program and his terror tactics. Shocked by the fall of his fellow dictator, K... (more)
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Iran shuns EU 'reactor incentive'Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed a possible European offer of incentives to induce Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme.
He likened the incentives, which European negotiators are said to be considering, to the offer of "walnuts and chocolates" in exchange for gold.
France, Germany and the UK are thought to be discussing plans to offer Iran a light-water reactor.
Iran denies accusations among Western powers that it is see... (more)
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US spells out plan to bomb IranTHE US is updating contingency plans for a non-nuclear strike to cripple Iran's atomic weapon programme if international diplomacy fails, Pentagon sources have confirmed.
Strategists are understood to have presented two options for pinpoint strikes using B2 bombers flying directly from bases in Missouri, Guam in the Pacific and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
RAF Fairford in Gloucester also has facilities for B2s but this has been ruled out because of the UK's opp... (more)
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US, Israel Operate in IranBehind the increasingly shrill rhetoric and saber rattling over Iran’s nuclear ambitions America and Israel are engaged in a secret war against Iran that has echoes of the years when the CIA supported the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union.
This time, the United States and Israel are running covert operations with the help of Kurdish militias and rebel Iranian fighters. For some observers, training and arming Islamic fighters smacks of the days of Soviet rule in Afg... (more)
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