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Archive for the Month of June, 2005.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 1 through 71 of 71.
- A bizarre revolutionary army supported by British politicians who want more "regime change" in the Middle East, has been accused of torture and brainwashing. - Almost 1,000 Palestinians face the prospect of losing their homes in one of the biggest planned demolitions in Jerusalem since Israel annexed the Arab eastern sector of the city during the Six Day War in 1967. - Military action would not stop Iran’s nuclear programme but could be a last resort to delay any quest for an atomic bomb, the mastermind of Israel’s 1981 air strike on the Iraqi reactor at Osiraq said on Monday.
- "Cheney is hated as the most cruel monster and bloodthirsty beast, as he has drenched various parts of the world in blood," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency.
- Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for Jews and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories?... Did you know that Palestinian license plates in Israel are color coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews?....
- Authorities in Scotland were being forced to draw up contingency plans in response to Sir Bob Geldof's call for a million protesters to "descend on Edinburgh" for a mass rally to coincide with the G8 summit.
- President Hugo Chavez warned Thursday that his opponents are allegedly plotting his assassination and urged supporters to implement "revolutionary" changes in Venezuela if they succeed.
- Eighteen Palestinians were killed in various retaliatory attacks, including eight policemen shot while manning their checkpoints near Ramallah and Nablus.
- A commission investigating torture of political prisoners during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship delivered a report including the cases of 87 children, some of whom were tortured, President Ricardo Lagos announced today.
- Tough talk from Cheney as we cozy up to bin Laden's pals in Khartoum - "Well that's another very real danger. There's no way we can legislate for that but we we must be on guard. We need a vigilant citizenry." - Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature flag portraits of US President George W. Bush into piles of dog poo in public parks. - Taking aim at the United States, Russia's defense minister Thursday threatened retaliatory steps if any country puts weapons in space and said Moscow won't negotiate controls over tactical nuclear arms with nations that deploy them abroad. - North Korea on Thursday said the deployment of 15 US F-117 Stealth bombers to South Korea was part of preparations for a preemptive nuclear strike on the country. - Iran poses absolutely no nuclear threat to the United States, let alone Israel. Yet many Washington bureaucrats are calling for military strikes on the sovereign country. - The document names only Israel and France as the two countries the CIA was convinced had already made a decision to go nuclear at that time.
- Military officials say new weapon uses voice frequencies; troops use weapon for first time during violent anti-West Bank separation barrier rally
- The Palestinian National Information Center reported that the Israeli army killed since the beginning of the Intifada in September 29, 2000, 4032 residents, and injured 44666. - Haiti, a country that under the current circumstances can not feed it's population, spends millions on "voter-registration", the contract of which conveniently goes to a company in the country from which the original occupying force hails.
- Life savings have been reduced to black, acrid smoke rising in columns across the town. “That is how we get rent, that is how we get food,” she said. - Fanatical rebels have terrorized northern Uganda for years, enslaving and torturing those who seek safety in squalid camps and at town facilities
- He said the US, not Venezuela, should face scrutiny by the Organisation of American States.
- Even its recent "democratic" repackaging cannot halt the headlong slide of the American imperium and its legitimacy. - The 2002 coup d'état, in fact, bore all the hallmarks of past U.S. interventions in Latin America. A popular president, struggling to change the situation of social exclusion and poverty in his country, and reassert local sovereignty at the expense of U.S. political and economic interests, was forced out of office by high-ranking members of the military and representatives of the country's oligarchy. Hours after it had taken control, the U.S. State Department praised the new regime. - THE personal computer of Syria’s British-born first lady was bugged by Israeli military intelligence to build up a profile of her husband, President Bashar al-Assad, it emerged last week. - The Central Intelligence Agency gave ex-Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos at least $10 million in cash over the last decade, as well as high-tech surveillance equipment that he used against his political opponents, the Center for Public Integrity has learned.
- The current American administration, with its neo-conservatives and their dangerous ideologies (that match the myths of Israel’s ideologues), declared war on our region and its nations. This war targets the forces that disagree with their plans for domination, influence, and colonization. Two projects are in the forefront: The Zionist “Greater Israel” and the American “Greater Middle East.”
- Famine and malnutrition in Niger have reached critical levels while appeals by both the country's prime minister and the UN have failed to garner a response.
- Witnesses to the May 13 killings say Uzbek troops opened fire without warning on a crowd of unarmed demonstrators, among them women and children, who were protesting about poverty and government repression. - The Colombian inspector general is demanding that Congress review a diplomatic treaty with the United States that shields US soldiers operating on Colombian soil from local prosecution for misdeeds committed here.
- Bolivian President Carlos Mesa was driven out of office yesterday, following weeks of escalating protests demanding nationalization of the country’s natural gas resources.
- The scale of Israel's illegal land grab in the occupied territories was disclosed yesterday when the government's own investigation found at least £9 million of taxpayers' money was recently used for illegal Jewish outposts.
- US influence in Indonesia through economic and business ties over the past few decades has also been mirrored in the military field as well.
- Zimbabwe is preparing for a two-day general strike called by opposition groups in protest at a huge number of arrests across the country's cities
- The opening of the new oil pipeline from Azerbaijan, through Georgia, to Ceyhan, Turkey represents a triumph for U.S. imperial policy over Russian ambitions in the southern Caucasus - and the culmination of a 13-year campaign to open up the Caspian region to Western oil multinationals. - After years of suffering under U.S. backed dictatorships, the majority of the people in South America have rejected neo-liberal policies and have voted for left-leaning governments in the most recent elections. SOA Watch, the organization started by Bourgeois, now has the chance to ask the elected leaders of these countries to pull their troops out of training at the school.
- A London-based Israeli couple are at the centre of one of the world's largest industrial espionage and computer hacking scandals. - The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked on Thursday a peaceful demonstration organized by a number of disabled Palestinians in wheel-chairs in support of the people of Bil'in village's anti-wall rallies.
- India's economic boom is causing unsustainable environmental damage and is blinding people to the misery of hundreds of millions of poor, prize-winning author and activist Arundhati Roy said.
- "Capitalism is the road to destabilisation, violence and war between brothers."
- Is it possible the MEK—with a track record for violence against not only Iranians but Americans as well—is responsible for the deadly attacks inside Iran? Nobody knows for sure but with the Strausscon's well-advertised desire to foment chaos and bring down the mullahocracy, it should not be overlooked. It should also not be overlooked that Scott Ritter and others have predicted something would happen in Iran this month. - The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem. The Prime Minister's Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a "bonus" the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram.
- Britain is among international arms suppliers fuelling serious human rights abuses in Nepal and the conflict there between the army and Maoist rebels, says Amnesty International.
- Why the neocons want the moderates to lose - The conflict in Nicaragua is now as it has always been: a class and race conflict. Nostalgic for the days when their white-skinned class held sway undisputed, Enrique Bolaños and his colleagues are determined to hang on to the vestiges of power so as to continue to sell out their country in the style to which they are accustomed. - Very few people realize that Israel has turned life in the occupied territories (Israeli settlers excluded) into complete misery without any need to fire a single bullet. - Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin's espionage case has uncovered a spy nest at the top
- More than a thousand young men face prison for failing to fulfil Italy's recently abolished military service. - Manganese for steel, cobalt for chrome and alloys, gold, fluorspar and germanium for industrial diamonds – Africa remains a treasure trove for the world’s sophisticated economies. The US continues to rely on Africa for raw materials, and for American companies there are tremendous profits in the current trade agreements that continue the age-old exploitation of the continent by the rich world.
- Board members of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency approved a deal Thursday that exempts Saudi Arabia from nuclear inspections, despite serious misgivings about the arrangement in an era of heightened proliferation fears.
- The video shows a gang of young men armed with pipes and shovels as they charge a huddle of peasant protesters who have refused to abandon their land to developers. - Keep them behind the war curve. The less that Americans really know about Iran, the easier it will be to launch the missiles.
- A Niger court has freed on bail two anti-slavery campaigners who had been held for six weeks on charges of fraud. The appeals court in the capital, Niamey, said there were insufficient grounds to continuing holding the men.
- Israel is planning to build a sea barrier as an extension of its border with Gaza to prevent attackers from entering the country from the sea. - The Scheme to Infiltrate Cuba's Libraries
- President Bush has taken advantage of the sweeping powers granted to him in the aftermath of 11 September 2001, to wage a global war against terror and to initiate several covert offensive operations inside Iran.
- Rights campaigners accused the U.S. administration of going along with genocide Wednesday after a top diplomat told lawmakers the White House maintains an intelligence-sharing relationship with the very government of Sudan it has assailed for a massive extermination of people in Darfur.
- The Palestinian Authority has welcomed a report by Human Rights Watch that accuses the Israeli occupation army of failing to prosecute soldiers involved in killing and wounding innocent Palestinians. - US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is considering provoking a military confrontation with Syria by attacking Hizbullah bases near the Syrian border in Lebanon, according to the authoritative London-based Jane's Intelligence Digest.
- Ecuador will not sign a pact to grant U.S. military personnel special immunity from the International Criminal Court, even if that means more aid cuts from Washington, the foreign minister said Thursday. - Lebanese Deputy Marwan Fares has stressed that Israel is standing behind the recent assassination of the former Secretary General of the Lebanese Communist Party, George Hawi, pointing out to the similarity with the other previous assassinations committed by the Israeli Mossad in Beirut southern suburb against leaders of Hizbullah. - Israel has confirmed it tried to assassinate a militant from the Islamic Jihad group in a targeted air strike
- Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero may want to watch his back.
- As a UN envoy arrives to investigate Mugabe's 'Operation Drive Out Trash', thousands of people are dying in rural poverty
- Former soldiers in the Israeli Defence Force have come forward with claims of widespread abuses against the Palestinians amid what they say is a growing climate of "moral corruption".
- Washington's decision to send food aid to North Korea, rather than a purely humanitarian act spurred by deep sentiments of benevolence, brotherhood and care for one's fellow man, is a cold, calculated decision to further its political, economic and military interests - U.S. President George W. Bush has been significantly exaggerating the amount of money his administration has provided in aid to sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new study released here Monday.
- Activists across Latin America are taking a stand against devastating mining plans. If CAFTA passes, they won't stand a chance. - Bolivia's government has ordered the armed forces to take 'physical control' of oilfields in a politically charged move amid continuing demands for full nationalization of the industry in South America's poorest country.
- The United States is increasingly unpopular in much of Latin America and presidents that were US allies have recently been forced from office. Carlos Mesa of Bolivia is the latest to be pressured into resignation because he could no longer govern the country. - The president of Venezuela, at a summit of leaders from neighboring Carribbean nations, hinted that supplying oil to the U.S. was a task he would rather not have, and indicated that the days of cheap oil - and oil discounts for the United States - were over.
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