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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 1 through 75 of 107.
- After the global outcry over comments by President Ahmadinejad that "Israel should be wiped off the map" and "the goal of a world without the United States or Zionism is attainable," Tehran has gone on the diplomatic offensive. It argues, according to this article from the Islamic Republic News Agency, that it has been under threat from Israel and the United States for years. - Why a nuclear attack is on the neocon agenda - The inter-agency effort, which also involves the Defense Department, recognises that the Cuba transition may not go peacefully and that the US may have to launch a nation-building exercise.
- President Hugo Chavez has warned the US he could give some of his country's F-16 fighter jets to Cuba or China. - The response could include the deployment of three U.S. Army divisions backed by fighter-jets and airborne early-warning and alert aircraft. In all, the U.S.-led mission could include up to 300,000 troops.
- Two reports last week announced with great sound and fury that they had the "smoking gun" linking Respect MP George Galloway to the payroll of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime. In fact both signified nothing more than another desperate attempt to distract from the real criminals in Iraq — and to smear those who have campaigned against Bush and Blair’s war. - Blair's former spy bosses are trying desperately to help him in the face of a Commons revolt and personal scandals derailing his police state agenda by bullying the British public into submission. - Palestinians describe the sound as an earthquake or huge bomb. They liken the effect to being hit by a wall of air that is painful on the ears, sometimes causing nosebleeds and "leaving you shaking inside".
- U.S. mafia hit squads may again have their ugly hands in the car bombing of Lebanese President. U.S. Intelligence reports were quick to finger Syria, but critics contend the killing was U.S. backed in order to justify a future Syrian invasion. - The number of Chinese billionaires has more than doubled in the past year, according to a survey. - Protestors swarm streets of Argentine resort - 10,000 Argentinians would like to welcome you to Argentina, Mr. Bush...
- The Iranian government has approved plans to offer share options to low-income families... - The Web document alleges that a massive police operation was deliberately designed to exacerbate the conflict with the youth on the estate after initial riots following the deaths of the two teenagers had subsided. - When the U.S. military handed over control of the Panama Canal in 1999, it left behind thousands of unexploded weapons strewn across jungle firing ranges that are still killing people. - The event was framed as a "showdown" between Chavez and Bush. Even on this superficial level the corporate media demonstrated its deftness at tip-toeing around what really took place. As Reuters pointed out, the strutting Texan, who exudes confidence and courage behind a phalanx of security guards and concertina wire, "carefully avoided" Chavez while the world waited with baited-breath. "Carefully avoided"!?!
- ...as the massive anti-Bush reaction in Argentina seems to prove, more and more people are starting to link the US with suffering around the world. - To understand the origins of this profound crisis for France, it is important to step back and remember that the ghettos where festering resentment has now burst into flames were created as a matter of industrial policy by the French state. - The death of Ojeda Ríos, who was cornered in a farmhouse, was a revivifying jolt to an independence movement that had seemed all but dead. - The US war drill in the Gulf of Oman could take place around February 2006 and there is a possibility that some Nato members may send their warships and troops to join. - During five hours of intense and heated negotiations, President Hugo Chavez says, he and four other Latin American leaders rejected the U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Agreement of the America’s and, according to this article from Argentina’s Clarin newspaper, delivered a stinging defeat to George W. Bush, sending him scurrying out of the country. - Caging up the Palestinians in the occupied territories is not a temporary but a permanent Israeli policy, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank.
- What is happening in France has all the signs of yet another possible neo-con "false flag" operation in the same category as the Niger fraudulent uranium documents, the provocative actions of Israeli agents in New Jersey who were dressed up as Arabs during the morning of 9-11, unexplained Spanish and British government activities surrounding the train bombings in Madrid and London, and recent deadly bombings in Delhi during Hindu and Muslim holidays attributed to a previously unknown Kashmiri group…. - That whirring sound you hear are the spinmeisters of the Bush administration trying to prettify the outcome of the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas into something suitable for U.S. public consumption. - Iran has found the wreckage of two U.S. unmanned spy planes on its territory in recent months, Tehran said on Monday, accusing Washington of violating its sovereignty through illegal overflights.
- These aren't "riots". This is social rebellion, directed at decades of French imperial rule, and ultra-capitalist and racist policymaking at home.
- ... the point here is not to capture territory outright but rather to pitch the Muslim Middle East into chaos, thus eventually balkanizing the entire area and making it more amenable to rule along ethnic and tribal lines and thus easier pickings for carpetbagging and loan sharking neolibs.
- A number of Israelis staying yesterday at the Radisson SAS were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel. - Once again, the usual suspects are to blame for the bombings. - Does anybody see a pattern here? - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has described his Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox, as a puppy dog for United States imperialism. - There are currently 34 presidential candidates in the race the electoral body (CEP) has not issued an official list yet - but in reality the upcoming selection is between two U.S.-backed candidates...
- "How do we know that the CIA was behind the coup that overthrew Hugo Chávez?" asked historian William Blum in 2002. "Same way we know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. That’s what it’s always done and there’s no reason to think that tomorrow morning will be any different." - American officials demand Israel provide explanations for how U.S.-made choppers sold to Israel ended up in service of Columbian drug cartel.
- As more details about the Amman bombings emerge, the corporate media has gone into heavy-duty spin mode to shape events to the liking of the Bushcons ... - The real reason for the IAEA Iran resolution - Rumors of an American base raise fears that the United States is there to stay. - The...brief report contradicts all the stories about "suicide bombers" but is substantiated by the photo...
- The Imperial President and the Bolivarian Democrat - According to Jordan’s King Abdullah II, "The crime that happened won’t push us to become a police state, but there will be a balance between freedom and security in a way that will comfort our people and guests." Guests, surely, since they often bring revenue, but not subjects of the monarchy. - ...if Chavez continues to assert hegemony over its oil, continues to grow his influence amongst other Latin American leaders, and continues to be a thorn in the side of the Bush Administration, the U.S. could again turn its attention south. - A Cuban scientist who helped develop a low-cost synthetic vaccine that prevents meningitis and pneumonia in small children says he was offended the U.S. government denied his request to travel to the United States to receive an award.
- Since the Palestinian Intifada or Uprising broke out nearly five years ago, 35,000 Palestinians, including 3,000 children, have been detained by the Israelis, according to MIFTAH, a Palestinian peace and justice group. - Once again, the corporate media fails to mention the obvious, taking us for fools and chumps... - The imposition of a state of emergency by the French government of President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin gives the minister of the interior Nicolas Sarkozy the right to impose police-state conditions wherever he sees fit. - The Rendon Group is perhaps best known for its part in the controversy that surrounded the Pentagon's short-lived Office of Strategic Influence nearly four years ago. A February 2002 New York Times article disclosed the office's existence and reported that the company was part of the effort, which possibly included attempts to plant false new stories abroad. - Under a land redistribution campaign led by President Hugo Chavez, thousands of rural poor like Antiaga are being granted rights to farm arable land traditionally concentrated in the hands of wealthy landowners. - In a concerted effort to put forward the fanciful suicide bomber story, the Jordanians paraded an Iraqi woman on television. - ...the global neo-con media could hardly contain their glee over the violence in France - Mexico and Venezuela have recalled their ambassadors amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries - European probes of the CIA's alleged covert transfers of Islamic terror suspects have spread to Spain, where a court said Monday it has received a prosecutor's report on allegations that the agency used a Spanish airport on the island of Mallorca.
- Fake terrorism leading to the dismantlement of civil liberties is the raison d’être of all authoritarian governments, from Hitler’s "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich" (the Enabling Act, dismantling civil liberties in Germany after the torching of the Reichstag, an act of arson claimed by Hermann Goering, Hitler’s deputy and legal heir) to Bush’s contrived war on terrorism in the wake of the nine eleven inside job. - Ariel Sharon's two terms as prime minister have been marred by scandals over shady campaign financing and real estate deals, but the prime minister himself has escaped indictment. - Multinational oil companies were ordered by Nigeria's highest court this week to stop engaging in a decades-old process that indigenous and environmental rights groups say has been poisoning the oil-rich area where Africa's Niger River meets the Atlantic Ocean.
- The Jordanian government is a client state of the US and its intelligence agency and security forces are completely controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency. - ...news reports have been indicating that the Radisson SAS was specifically attacked because it is an American hotel and has hosted Israelis. I want to make it clear that the Radisson SAS is a Scandinavian chain and owned by Palestinian-Jordanians. - Canadian Government says its time to play catch up - · Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified· Defence says "confirming the kill" standard practice - ...lights in sections of both the Radisson and Hyatt hotels went out just before the near simultaneous blasts in—apparent—co-ordinated fashion….
- Sweeping Surveillance Bill introduced in the Canadian Parliament - Hugo Chávez is on the neocon death list and he knows it. - Their hands are covered in blood and there is no water, there is no river or ocean able to clean them. No matter how powerful they are, the fancy parties they go, the elegant houses and the expensive dresses, no matter their smiles and the lies they hide behind. They are miserable gangsters, bloody war criminals, responsible for unspeakable atrocities. They belong to jail and deserve our deepest contempt.
- All cellphone, Blackberry, Net subscriber info available without warrant. - The historian David Irving has been arrested while on a one-day visit to Vienna. An expert on Hitler's Third Reich, he had been invited by courageous students to address an ancient University association in the Austrian capital. - Israeli ex-nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu has been held for allegedly violating restrictions imposed after his release from prison in 2004.
- Thousands of Venezuelans have joined a march against the economic policies of US President George Bush and his Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox. - Ministers have been accused of turning a blind eye to "torture flights" refuelling at UK airports, despite warnings that they may breach international law. - Plane allegedly linked to CIA front landed in Canada: records
- As the "leader of the free (trade) world," Bush occasionally makes trips abroad, visiting far-flung outposts of the neoliberal empire, most recently Mongolia, a small land-locked nation of debatable significance, except for the fact it is a textbook case in globalism. It also helps that Mongolia is strategically placed in regard to China. - Bush has reinforced the feudal system of upward redistribution, creating even greater structural injustices that are hurting those who are least able to protect themselves. Chavez’s generosity shines a light on a voracious system that is increasingly turning inwards and wreaking havoc on the poor. - The serendipitous discovery of an Iranian laptop full of incriminating details about a nuclear warhead will eventually take its place in the same intel hall of BS as the yellowcake from Niger, Saddam's aluminium tubes and those funny vials Colin Powell held up before the Security Council in January 2003. - While he may be dead in the corporal sense, the spirit of Simon Bolivar continues to wage the struggle for freedom from oppression.
- "In both countries, the United States should stop its risky attempts to create a strong national government and allow genuine self-determination." - The desperate situation of the people of imperialist-occupied Haiti has grown worse. Hunger and random brutality, according to a report produced by the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights and the Latin American office of UNICEF, are the daily fare of children and teenagers in Haiti. - Vanunu said authorities are looking for "any little thing" to put him back in jail after serving 18 years for blowing the whistle on Israel's nuclear stockpile.
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