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Archive for the Month of December, 2005.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 1 through 75 of 101.


December 1, 2005

Chávez and the New "Idiot Right" in Bolivia - Venezuela is once again at odds with other Latin American governments. This time, it’s with Bolivia, because of the general elections coming on December 18. Once again, the Latin American right is reacting with "rage" to a president who wins elections and has the support of his people. And in the middle are the Bolivian Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, a Venezuelan official, and a bunch of idiots burning a Venezuelan flag in front of that country’s embassy in La Paz. Let’s take a look at the gossip...
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The Installation of a US Military Base in Paraguay: A Wedge in Mercosur - The mystery about the installation of a United States military base in Paraguay begins to clear: The purpose is to drive a wedge into the Mercosur trade bloc and to control the region, objectives that contrast with the passivity of governments that should have reacted long ago.
(1791 views)

Free Speech Is For Everyone - Even David Irving - Should historic inquiry cease, because the UN and the courts of Austria and Germany have stated their position on the Holocaust? That is no way to suppress fascism. It is fascism.
(1858 views)

Resisting the New Conquistadors - Salvadorans Mobilize Against Gold Mining
(1855 views)


December 2, 2005

National Guard begins exchange with Israeli forces - National Guard leaders visited Israel last week to forge a new relationship with that country’s Home Front Command ...
(1718 views)

Give Up Your Rights Because Girl Next Door is an al-Qaeda Suicide Bomber - ...the British people have but two choices—either they surrender their civil liberties or fall victim to evil terrorists. It’s so simple—and very Manichean. Never mind that the alleged "mastermind" behind the London bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is a British intelligence asset.
(1801 views)

Australian government insists on sedition clauses in new terrorism legislation - Its central aim is not to combat terrorism, but to hand the government and its security agencies unprecedented powers to silence political dissent. The sedition measures make this clear, allowing for organisations to be outlawed and individuals jailed for "urging disaffection" with the government or expressing sympathy for resistance to Australian military interventions, such as the one currently underway in Iraq.
(1780 views)


December 3, 2005

US "national security" favors Indonesian thugs - You'd think it impossible for US policymakers to be so foolish and cavalier about a key region, until you look at the mother of all Bush failures, Iraq, and see that similar ignorance and arrogance created that debacle.
(1723 views)

Haiti is "fixed" - Recent Canadian policy in Haiti has been remarkably successful, having achieved most of its objectives. This is the case in much the same way that US policies in places such as El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s were smashing successes – quite literally.
(1687 views)

Sharon: Military option against Iran - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday Israel and other countries couldn't accept an Iran with a nuclear bomb, adding Tehran's program could be stopped by military means.
(1797 views)

Venezuelan President Accuses US of Masterminding Opposition Election Boycott - "Another conspiracy is being acted out against Venezuela, and I am not going to blame the dogs but the masters, the government of the United States," said Chávez.
(1934 views)

US backed invasion of East Timor: documents - The United States knew well in advance of and explicitly approved Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975, which led to a brutal 24-year occupation of the former Portuguese colony, according to newly declassified documents.
(1929 views)


December 4, 2005

Europe plans to track all emails and phone calls - European ministers have agreed on plans that will force telecommunications companies to retain phone and email logs for at least six months, to help investigations into terrorism and other serious crimes.
(1669 views)


December 5, 2005

Netanyahu hints could consider Iran nuclear strike - Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that he could consider a pre-emptive air strike against Iran's nuclear installations if he were to be re-elected. Netanyahu, who is widely expected to regain the leadership of the right-wing Likud party later this month, said Israel needed to "act in the spirit" of the late premier Menachem Begin who ordered an air strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981.
(1286 views)

Chavez’s Party Wins 68% of Seats in Venezuela’s Parliament - The President of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), Jorge Rodriguez, said that with 79% of the voting center results examined, voter turnout so far was at 25%.
(1509 views)

Suicide shoots himself three times - As oil-rich Kazakhstan went to the polls Sunday police declared that a prominent Kazakh politician had committed suicide by shooting himself three times.
(3341 views)

Nuclear Iran? You bet! - Is there a case to be made for allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons in the interests of peace? Or has all the air been sucked out of the debate by American and Israeli demagogues who dominate the airwaves?
(1322 views)


December 6, 2005

Anti-terror laws rammed through - minus debate - Controversial anti-terror laws which will allow police to detain terror suspects without charge were last night rammed through Parliament.
(1376 views)


December 7, 2005

U.S. gives Israel a large new camp - The United States Tuesday delivered a sprawling storage base it has built for the Israeli army.
(2389 views)


December 8, 2005

Mayor of London Calls Bushies "A Gang of Thugs" - Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, England, threw a bash for anti-war activists this evening and denounced the Bush Administration as "a gang of thugs."
(1272 views)


December 9, 2005

British BP Employees Caught Suspected of Bioterrorism in Azerbaijan - Were discovered trying to poison water supply
(1337 views)

78 journalists die in Iran crash - A military cargo plane attempting an emergency landing Tuesday in Tehran clipped an apartment building and crashed short of the runway, killing at least 115 people, including 78 journalists who were en route to cover military maneuvers in southern Iran.
(1453 views)

The Special Relationship’s Dirty Secret - Forget Iraq’s weapons of mass non-existence, the lies about torture and other facts fixed around policies cooked up in Washington: nothing demonstrates British subservience to the United States quite as blatantly as the theft of Diego Garcia.
(1306 views)


December 10, 2005

Syria Attacks Evidence as U.N. Case Turns More Bizarre - The United Nations investigation into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri, is beginning to show some cracks: one witness is dead, another is in jail and still another has recanted his testimony with a fantastic story of abduction, drugging and bribery.
(2112 views)

UK "covered up" Israeli nuke deal - ...fresh evidence shows the UK knew the ingredient it sold to Norway would be subsequently sold on to Israel for nuclear weapons.
(1307 views)

Rogue State? US Spurns Treaty After Treaty - ...the United States, especially in recent years, is increasingly being seen in the world as a lone state, thumbing its diplomatic nose at international pacts on everything from banning the use and production of landmines to curbing global warming.
(1269 views)


December 11, 2005

CIA "plot to kill Chavez" - Venezuelan politicians claim that the CIA plotted to kill Hugo Chavez, the president, in an attempt to derail the country's legislative elections on 4 December.
(1339 views)

Blair's Britain 2005 - where peaceful protest can be costly - Detained for throwing a tea party...Apprehended for "offensive" T-shirt...Held for shouting "nonsense" at Jack Straw...
(1167 views)

Bibi’s Election Bluff: Iran Attack - Netanyahu, affectionately nicknamed Bibi, tells us if he "succeeds in becoming Israel’s next prime minister … he will not hesitate to order a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program in order to safeguard his nation from annihilation"...not only does Netanyahu take for granted Iran has nuclear weapons (or is about to have them), a less than factual assertion, but he also believes if Iran possesses nukes it will most certainly annihilate Israel. Netanyahu would have us believe Iran is not only genocidal and insane, but suicidal as well.
(1543 views)

Israel readies forces for strike on nuclear Iran - Israel's armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed.
(1237 views)


December 12, 2005

Tracking the Bloody Footprints in the House of Death: Part I - A Diary of U.S.-Backed Mass Murder in Mexico
(1949 views)

Tracking the Bloody Footprints in the House of Death: Part II - How the Informant’s Role and U.S. Law Enforcers’ Complicity Were Exposed
(1715 views)

Bolivian leftist candidate vows to be 'nightmare' for U.S. - It's not hard to see why. The 46-year-old candidate is a staunch leftist who counts Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez among his close friends. Moreover, he's a coca farmer, promising to reverse the U.S.-backed campaign to stamp out production of the leaf that is used to make cocaine.
(1308 views)

The Syrian Gambit Unravels - U.S. troops are waiting just across the Syrian-Iraqi border, ready for the command to cross in full force – or perhaps as part of a scouting expedition in hot pursuit of "terrorists," who will then be set upon by Syrian troops in a Middle Eastern remake of the Tonkin Gulf incident. Coming soon to a theater of war near Iraq…
(1435 views)


December 13, 2005

Sydney police "to get new powers" - Police in Sydney will be given tough new powers to crack down on rioters, the New South Wales premier has said.
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Racial violence continues in Sydney - As Australian media covers up Howard’s role
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Horror at U.S. border - "Ever since 9-11 it's been far tougher to get into the U.S. They think everyone's a terrorist or something."
(1493 views)

100,000 Irish Workers Take To The Streets - ...tens of thousand of workers brought the main cities and towns across the country to a complete stand still as they took to the street both in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers and against the wide spread exploitation of migrant workers. Workers are outraged at the use of migrant workers particularly from Eastern Europe to undermine the wages and conditions of all workers.
(1544 views)


December 14, 2005

Tracking the Bloody Footprints in the House of Death: Part III - The Bodies Are Uncovered, A Rogue Cop Gets Away, and a Cover-Up Begins
(1981 views)

How free speech was quietly abolished - How could Parliament pass such a law, when it is so patently inimical to the freedom of speech that this country once considered fundamental? Why did MPs, who are meant to be the custodians of our values, let it happen?
(1314 views)

Secret CIA Camp in Polish Training Center? - The secret service camp Kiejkuty is about 10 kilometers from the Szymany airport in Northeast Poland. In 1968 the Soviet army planned the quashing of the "Prague Spring" at this camp.
(1359 views)


December 15, 2005

UN: Palestinian poverty worsening - Poverty is worsening in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories because of continued Israeli military activities and the closure of border crossings between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, a UN report said.
(1313 views)

Enemies of the state? Police fail even to question men held as a terror threat - Suspected of plotting terror, a group of men have been held for four years but never charged. Now, in their first testimonies, they reveal the authorities have not even questioned them since their arrests.
(1473 views)

The Rise of Islamophobia in "White Australia" - Islamophobia in Australia is not something suddenly appeared over the horizon because of the weather. To the contrary, racism against Muslims has always been part of Australia’s psyche. Whether it is against neighbouring Indonesia, Malaysia or Muslim Australians; the pall of racism is permanently hovering over Australia. Government policies, including the criminal war against Iraq and the introduction of the so-called "anti-terrorism" laws have legitimised racism against Arab and Muslim Australians.
(2180 views)

Bolton leading the charge against Syria. - According to informed sources in the Middle East and in Washington, unconfirmed US ambassador to the UN John Bolton is personally leading the effort to pin Syria with a series of political assassinations in Lebanon ultimately aimed at bringing Israeli ally General Michel Aoun to power in Beirut and topple the Bashar Assad regime in Damascus and replace him with an Ahmad Chalabi-like political figure tied to neo-con interests in Washington and Israel.
(2610 views)


December 16, 2005

Australian state government prepares savage attack on democratic rights - In response to racial violence last weekend in Sydney, state Labor Premier Morris Iemma yesterday called an emergency session of the New South Wales (NSW) parliament for Thursday to pass a series of repressive measures that will allow police to declare “lockdown zones” throughout the city. The laws will provide extensive new powers to police who are already engaged in sweeping and unprecedented operations.
(1284 views)

Nuclear Deployment for an Attack on Iran - And the nuclear hitmen behind it - Are U.S. tactical nuclear weapons deployed in the Persian Gulf, on hair-trigger alert, and ready to be launched against Iran at a moment's notice?
(1594 views)

U.S. Arranges "Pre-Deployment" Training for Haiti-Bound Private Police - State Dept. Will Send DynCorp Hired Guns to Assist "Peacekeeping" Efforts
(1533 views)

Misery in the Name of Democracy: The US Works Elections in Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti - In Latin America and the Caribbean, popular movements are demanding that the United States' "gift to the world" make good on its promise of majority rule. That would likely disrupt a system-otherwise known as "free-market democracy"-that has benefited a small elite and worsened poverty for most people. The possibility has so alarmed CIA Director Porter Goss that he recently labeled the spate of upcoming elections in Latin America as a "potential area of instability."
(1613 views)


December 17, 2005

Goss warns Ankara to be ready for a possible U.S. aerial operation against Iran - During his recent visit to Ankara, CIA Director Porter Goss reportedly brought three dossiers on Iran to Ankara.
(1481 views)

In Iran, the neo-cons got what they hoped for - Iran is not Iraq and the neo-cons cannot sell us a new (and costlier) war based on the same old tired rhetoric and myopic viewpoints.
(1370 views)

N.Irish spy revelations spark public inquiry calls - Northern Ireland's unionist politicians have demanded a public inquiry into revelations that a senior member of Sinn Fein was a British spy for more than 20 years.
(1454 views)


December 18, 2005

Hong Kong protesters to be tried - Hong Kong's leader has vowed to punish protesters who attacked policemen outside world trade talks on Saturday.
(1457 views)

Iran: The Israeli Factor - Iran is being pressurized to abandon its nuclear programme. Tel Aviv and Washington are behind this. London has joined the duo. Paris and Berlin are lending their support just as some other Western capitals are also "concerned" about Iran.
(1359 views)

Argentina to Pay Entire IMF Debt 4 Years After Default - Kirchner said today the IMF advice and loans in the 1990s helped lead to the country to "failure" and said the fund has neglected to help since the default when they most need the help. He said the IMF's demands acted as constraints that impeded the economic recovery...
(1757 views)


December 19, 2005

Castro's "miracle" cures the poor of blindness - Cuba's comprehensive, free healthcare system has a ratio of one doctor for every 170 Cubans, compared with 188 in the US and 250 in the UK.
(2150 views)

Morales wins Bolivian presidency - Evo Morales, who challenges US anti-drug policies, is to be Bolivia's first Indian president and join Latin America's shift to the left after winning a large majority in Sunday's elections.
(1380 views)

From Coca-Cola to Cocaine: ‘Tis the Season for Hypocrisy in Colombia - Not only is the U.S.-supported military closely allied with right-wing paramilitaries responsible for most of the human rights abuses in Colombia, it is evidently working to destabilize the Andean region by seeking to oust Venezuela’s democratically-elected president. Which raises the question: What sort of war on terror and democracy promotion is the Bush administration engaging in?
(1307 views)

After Babylon, Persia - ...neoconservative activists inscribe the narrative of conflict in international relations; they inscribe it in institutions (e.g., the Project for a New American Century), language (e.g., the "axis of evil"), mindsets (e.g., Why do they hate us?), and policies (e.g., the doctrine of preemption). This strategy transforms other countries into replaceable variables.
(1362 views)


December 20, 2005

Venezuela gives Exxon ultimatum - Venezuela has given the world's biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, until the end of this year to enter a joint venture with the state.
(1343 views)

Persian Fire - Israel’s special forces at the "highest stage of readiness".
(1466 views)

Testing Drugs on India's Poor - The days of the Raj are long gone, but multinational corporations are riding high on the trend toward globalization by taking advantage of India's educated work force and deep poverty to turn South Asia into the world's largest clinical-testing petri dish.
(3384 views)

Indigenous Leaders Celebrate Morales Victory - The election of indigenous leader Evo Morales as president of Bolivia is being hailed by native leaders from throughout the region as a "sign of hope" for all impoverished and discriminated indigenous peoples in Latin America.
(1647 views)


December 21, 2005

Goss Tells Turks to Prepare for Iran Attack - You’d think the fact Porter Goss, head broom sweeper at the CIA, recently told the Turkish government the United States plans to attack Iran and Syria would be headline splashing news in the New York Times and the Washington Post. But although the news was carried in the Turkish press, it elicited hardly a murmur here in America...
(1351 views)


December 22, 2005

Gander Crash in 1985 Remains a Huge Cover-Up; Families Get a Bunch of Lies From U.S. and Canadian Governments - Although the truth about Gander may never be known, the evidence pointing to a government cover-up is another example in a long line of suspicious airplane accidents and other suspected terrorists events where the U.S. government frustrates an honest and forthright investigation into the causes, hiding behind what family members day is a false veil of national security.
(1611 views)

Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start - The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys, which has taken more than 25 years to develop, is only the beginning of plans to monitor the movements of all British citizens. The Home Office Scientific Development Branch in Hertfordshire is already working on ways of automatically recognising human faces by computer, which many people would see as truly introducing the prospect of Orwellian street surveillance, where our every move is recorded and stored by machines.
(1241 views)

The class issues behind Australia’s race riots - The racist violence that exploded in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla on December 11 has exposed the ugly face of Australian society. Intense social pressures generated by the prolonged assault by the Howard government and its Labor predecessors on living standards have erupted in a malignant and reactionary form. A violent and drunken mob—draped in Australian flags, singing the national anthem and chanting nationalist and racist slogans—sought out, abused and physically assaulted anyone who appeared to be of Middle Eastern origin.
(1232 views)

Who Runs Britain? - If Jesus Christ were to return to earth and the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit were to slay the greater part of mankind, the first thing the media would do would be to find out how the markets had reacted. The next would be to ring Sir Digby Jones, the head of the Confederation of British Industry, for a comment.
(1492 views)

A Syrian Chalabi? - An Ominous Neocon Gathering
(2252 views)


December 23, 2005

Iran Attack: It’s All Part of the New Zionist Century - If the Zionist state has its way, Iran will remain in the technological dark ages, or possibly share the stone age fate—as in "bomb them back to the stone age"—of Iraq in the wake of the Straussian neocon invasion.
(1753 views)

Italy warrants for 22 purported CIA operatives - ...the warrants allowed for the arrest of the suspects in any of the 25 EU member countries. Previously, Italy had issued arrest warrants for the 22 inside Italy.
(1545 views)

Castro slams "mad" US change plan - Cuban President Fidel Castro has called the US secretary of state "mad", following American moves to promote democratic change on the island.
(1256 views)

Morales to nationalize Bolivia oil, gas - The winner of Bolivia's presidential elections has repeated his vow to nationalize oil and gas and said he will void at least some contracts held by foreign companies "looting" the poor Andean nation's natural resources.
(2049 views)

British intelligence in Northern Ireland - A high-level Sinn Fein official named Denis Donaldson has admitted that he was a spy for British intelligence, thus confirming complaints made by Northern Irish republicans for years that politics in Northern Ireland was completely manipulated by London...
(1460 views)


December 24, 2005

Israeli police "tied Palestinian to galloping mule" - A Palestinian man, said to have been last seen in the custody of Israeli border police, died after being found wounded and comatose beside a mule to which he had apparently been tied and dragged along a dirt road.
(1272 views)


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