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Archive for the Month of March, 2006.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 1 through 73 of 73.
- Bush ride: six doors, missile-proof
- by - Ken Livingstone - I was elected mayor by the people of London and only they should have the power to remove me - Marines produce road map to ethnic strife - Washington bankrolls separatist groups
- Avi Dichter, former Shin Bet boss, who will become defense minister of Israel when the "centrist" Kadima party wins Israel’s election later this month, has promised to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the Palestinian Authority, Ismail Haniyeh... - Préval’s Victory and the UN’s Disgrace - Venezuela begins training a vast army of civilian reserves today to fight off the attack its Left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, says the United States is plotting against it. - ...only Chavez acted on the clearly subversive and radical notion that his country's vast resources should be used to benefit the country's people and even those beyond its borders.
- To be sure, U.S. intervention—military and diplomatic—will try to save its lackeys, or sacrifice them for a new set of servants who will do Washington’s bidding—U.S.-tutored military officers and unscrupulous business technocrats tied to transnational financial-corporate interests. - The corporate media won't tell you this -- but the Bush trip to South Asia was nothing less than a disaster, according to direct and uncensored reports from India and Pakistan. Street protests against Bush in India were not in the "thousands," as reported by the media, but in the "hundreds of thousands." - Almost half the aid Bolivia will get this year will be used to send military officers to the School of the Americas in Georgia. - The four following tried and true ingredients from Grandma's Cookbook of Explosive War Tactics are a recipe for disaster: a preemptive nuclear strike on Iran, possibly in the spring of 2006.
- Bush’s neocon handlers no longer care to hide the fact U.S. foreign policy is designed to make a "safer neighborhood for Israel" and this project has so far cost the lives of around 250,000 Iraqis, a few thousand Americans, and billions of U.S dollars... - After all it's failures in attempted assassinations, attempts to beat Chávez in democratic elections in Venezuela and it's most recent rigging (by opposition abstentia) of the December National Elections in Venezuela - the U.S. is going to attempt to overthrow the duly elected president of Venezuela in the upcoming December, 2006 elections - by any means necessary. - The importance of UAE as a staging area for future hostilities cannot be overstated. No military strategy can hope to succeed without first establishing a beachhead across the strait in Iran, so that the danger of blowing up oil tankers and blocking passage is removed. This tells us that plans for an attack may be on track for late March as originally threatened by Israel. - The Prime Minister claims to be defending liberty but a barely noticed Bill will rip the heart out of parliamentary democracy
- In order to achieve the destruction of socialism in Yugoslavia, Western powers pursued a "divide and conquer" strategy, encouraging the piecemeal breakup of the country. Could the same plan be in the works for Venezuela? - Gangland violence is making us safer. That's the message we hear today from Israel's Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, who not only defended the practice of "targeted assassination" but threatened to use the controversial tactic against Palestine's new Prime Minister-designate, Ismail Haniya. - ...we have the eight-year-old child and the unknown fourth person, killed for the unpardonable sin of being close to some people who were close to a place where other people had done something.
- While the world turns its eyes again to the Middle East and watches a buildup to a war created by the U.S. over a mythical atomic bomb, there is one country in the neighborhood that actually has hundreds of atomic weapons; "poor beleaguered Israel"...
- A red herring to distract from real long term agenda of full spectrum dominance - As it now stands, we are but a few weeks away from total disaster... - From the same snake oil salesmen that brought you 45 minute attack claims, dodgy dossiers and weapons bunkers that were bakeries, comes the shocking new threat that could knock America back into the stone age, Iran's deadly EMP weapons.
- In the last 48 hours all the major players in the Bush administration have issued statements warning of the impending danger of Iran - People from the Marshall Islands plan to seek one billion dollars in compensation this year for damage to their health and environment caused by 67 US nuclear tests during the Cold War. - Belarus's government will be targeted if the west doesn't get the result it wants in this month's elections
- The government wants the residents out so the U.S. military eventually can triple Camp Humphreys’ size, making it the main U.S. installation on the peninsula.
- ...the Israelis understand they cannot shock awe Iran on their own—and in due course, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and even mega-populated Egypt—and that is why they have spent years infiltrating the United States government, particularly the Pentagon. - Traces of a drug used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis were found in a blood sample taken in recent months from former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic...
- Tinpot dictator blew the whistle on the New World Order - Britain has been secretly designing a new nuclear warhead in conjunction with the United States, provoking a legal row over the proliferation of nuclear weapons... - The new flag's horse gallops to the left instead of the right - Mr Berlusconi effectively owns three private TV stations in Italy while his supporters run two of the three Rai, or state, TV channels. - Not a hint of the central role played by US imperialism and other Western powers in the breakup of Yugoslavia and the resulting carnage is to be found in the media’s reaction to Milosevic’s death
- What the corporate media overwhelmingly ignores in Milosevic's death is what they ignored in his life as well – his intimate knowledge of U.S. war crimes in Yugoslavia. - If U.S. troops go to Africa, it won't be for a humanitarian intervention; it will be to protect American oil interests in the troubled Niger Delta.
- Has nobody questioned whether Canada's Prime Minister should be making "surprise" trips to Afghanistan? Since when are foreign policy decisions in a democratic country conducted in secrecy and revealed as surprises, like sexy underwear or chocolates on your birthday? - Slobo death media spin intensifies, speculation rife that Milosevic was going to call Clinton as witness
- The Israeli attack was coordinated with Washington and London, which withdrew their monitors stationed at the facility only minutes before Israeli troops backed by tanks and armored bulldozers stormed into Jericho and attacked the prison...
- We are always watching a rigged game. - US-Backed Repression Soars Under President Gloria Macapagal - A spoof John Howard website that featured a soul searching "apology" speech for the Iraq war has been shut down under orders from the Australian Government. - It’s impossible to understand the goals of the Bush administration without looking at a map.
- When the mainstream media only provide government information and rely on government links and officials for the whole story, they are no longer objective, independent, or critical.
- Wheat-flour stocks have run out in the Gaza Strip, with most bakeries closing and the United Nations warning of a looming humanitarian crisis after a nearly two-month commercial closure of Gaza imposed by Israel. - When he told his MI5 handlers about the mission, they arranged with the FBI to procure the detonators - Are certain people worried about losing Scotland and losing Scotland's gas and oil? - Let me ask you a question: If you were running Iran, would you try to develop nuclear weapons? I would. - The insidious erosion of our civil liberties will accelerate dramatically if the government wins the battle over identity cards. - Something smells funny about the recent denunciation of maverick Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala for alleged human rights violations. - One of the main questions raised in the discussions was whether Israel would inform the U.S. ahead of the attack, and when would an advance notice be given. - "As I gather, the idea was to fund and train activists to be agents provocateurs along the lines of the Otpor movement in Serbia. Their job was to utilize various techniques, such as anti-government graffiti etc, to embolden the student movement and provoke a general government crackdown, which could then be used as a pretext to 'spark' a mass uprising in Iran that appeared to be spontaneous and indigenous."
- An estimated 1,500,000 people demonstrated across France on Saturday against the Gaullist government’s "First Job Contract" (CPE) legislation. The national day of action was the third mass protest held this month against the destruction of young workers’ conditions. - As the Bush administration and its functionaries ratchet up pressure on Iran with renewed waves of propaganda and hate, it is no surprise that Iran is emerging as the new home of US military-intelligence asset/construct "Osama bin Laden" (replacing “the mountains along the Pakistan border” and other such versions). - "The route of the wall matches that of water resources, the latter being conveniently located on the Israeli side." - President Hugo Chavez called U.S. President George W. Bush a "coward," a "donkey" and a "drunkard" Sunday, unleashing a torrent of insults days after Bush labelled him a demagogue.
- It comes as no surprise two "of America’s top scholars," having released an article criticizing the hijacking of American foreign policy by AIPAC, the neocons, and the tiny outlaw state of Israel, are unable to get a hearing in the corporate media. - ...opposition forces have openly worked with Washington to oust Lukashenko, who runs an economically nationalist government that resists privatization, imposes conditions on foreign investment, and nurtures domestic industry behind tariff walls, while presiding over the region’s lowest unemployment rate, highest rate of economic growth, and flattest distribution of income.
- If he is exiled to to Venezuela, he will spill the beans on the Bush Crime Family. If he is extradited to France, he will get the "Milosevic treatment." - It must be noted that the "failing" of the state was largely incubated by the "helpers", for years, until it could be portrayed as the very problem to rush in to help with.
- Harvard Backs Away from "Israel Lobby" Professors; Removes Logo from Controversial Paper
- The Canadian government’s most recent vote on a non-binding resolution put forward by South Africa in the UNESCO committee, as the sole supporter of the United States against 41 other member-states, plumbs new previously-unknown depths in Ottawa’s sordid game-playing with the lives and livelihood of the Palestinian people. - Despite the region's oil wealth, seventy percent of people living in the Niger Delta survive on less than $1 US a day. - Could it be possible that the Israeli army raid on a Jericho prison on March 14 was done without careful coordination between Israel, the United States and Britain? Could it also be possible that the timing of the onslaught was equally innocent, of no political consequence, and not linked in any way to the Palestinians' ability to withstand Israeli blackmail, US threats and European intimidation following the Hamas election victory in January 2006? - The U.S. has been helping Colombia wage war against FARC for many years with its "Plan Colombia." But now a dangerous escalation is occuring.
- The recent elections in Belarus have been condemned by the U.S. and the European Union (EU). Both sides state they will impose sanctions and travel restrictions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Sound familiar? It should because this is yet another hypocritical action taken by the U.S. in its quest to democratize the world. - ...the Straussian neocons have it out for a large number of nations, most notably in the Islamic Middle East, but also in Latin America. North Korea, China, and Russia also figure prominently on the neocon lit list. - The shocking conditions of Chinese toy workers bring to mind the life of the working class of the nineteenth century, at the beginning of the industrial revolution.
- The U.S. overshadows every aspect of Colombia’s war. Whether through Plan Colombia, the war on drugs, or the war on terrorism, whatever they call it, the U.S. funds, organizes and orchestrates a war against the poor, and actively enforces the massive displacement of people on behalf of its multinationals, particularly its oil companies, under the so-called "Free Trade Agreement of the Americas."
- An estimated 2 to 3 million striking workers and students demonstrated in cities and towns throughout France yesterday in opposition to the Gaullist government’s "First Job Contract" (CPE—Contrat première embauche) legislation, which permits employers to dismiss young workers without cause or compensation during their first two years on the job. - We are thrilled to tell you that in the past week the government of Argentina decided to stop sending soldiers to train at the School of the Americas, and the government of Uruguay affirmed that it will continue its current policy of not sending soldiers to the SOA/ WHINSEC!
- ...the system in the advanced countries has been rejigged since the 1960s to take wealth from workers, and from the funding of government, and transfer it to stockholders and corporate executives. - Since the government of Ariel Sharon came to power in 2001, Britain has exported around £70 million worth of military equipment to Israel.
- The Bush administration is getting desperate for good news out of Colombia.
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