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Archive for the Month of June, 2006.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 1 through 52 of 52.
- McGovern: Staged terror attacks across Europe, US "probable" in order to justify invasion - Bolivian President Evo Morales said the U.S. organized teams to track down and kill him, according to a note published on the Bolivian presidential Web site.
- ...though the Nigerian federal government was trying to secure the area, the U.S. ships were in the region as a result of their concern for Nigeria, and their dependence on its oil. - Somalia is on the verge of sinking deeper into the abyss of anarchy and perpetual bloodshed and the Bush administration might have a role. - He "received" a gunshot wound? They make it sound like it was delivered anonymously by mail. - The Real US Intentions Toward Iran Unreported in the Wall Street Journal and the Rest of the Dominant Corporate Media - Will there be a war with Iran?
- Bush wants Chile to shun Venezuela
- Political activist Cathy Alcantara was gunned down by unidentified assailants last December 5, outside the resort where she had helped to organize a conference on farmers' rights. - It's hard to believe that Garcia won Peru's presidential election after being pegged as a long-shot just a few weeks ago. Indeed, it reminds me of another president whose unlikely re-election left the world reeling not too long ago. Perhaps the two victories have more in common than is apparent. - Leftist President Evo Morales launched a sweeping land reform plan on Saturday by handing over roughly 9,600 square miles of state-owned land to poor Indians. - The elevated social position of the CEOs and the union bureaucracy is itself a feature of the widening social divide. The extraction of profits, which is the hallmark of “good company performance”, has its objective basis in the intensifying exploitation of the working class, through a relentless assault on wages, conditions, living standards and basic rights.
- Here's a little of that "Cuban-Venezuelan imperialism" at work...
- On May 28, we're supposed to believe the Colombian people rejected a more moderate or democratic alternative and instead chose to reelect right wing hard-liner and close Bush ally Alvaro Uribe Velez who had to arrange for the constitution to be changed to allow him to run in the first place. - Neocon Foreign Policy Architect Richard Perle reveals US War Plans in the Iranian Theater
- Menachem Begin killed far more people than Abu Samhadana, who rained Katyusha missiles on the Israelis, and yet Begin was awarded a peace prize, thus demonstrating the double standards (and racism) of the supporters of the ruling Likud government in Israel and the United States. - Even children playing on a beach are open game for Israelis. Unbelievable. - The dominant characteristic of the coverage of East Timor in the past two weeks has been utter confusion, both inside and outside the country.
- LIKELY U.S. PLANS FOR REGIME CHANGE IN VENEZUELA - Pause a minute. We now live a country where, on the say-so of one so-called "informant" you can get shot at, dragged out of your home, arrested, smeared all over the press, and see your next-door-neighbours beaten. This is the stuff of witch-trials that the "war on terror" has produced.
- Torture and Dehumanizing Treatment in Britain's Immigration "Detention Centres" - The Numbers Don't Lie
- It's hard to comprehend what goes through their minds as they fire into a crowd of civilians based on suspicions that one of them "may" be on his way to fire a rocket.
- JI served its purpose. "Reminiscent of Operation Northwoods, the Bali attack served to trigger ‘a useful wave of indignation.’ They contributed to swaying Australian public opinion in favor of the US invasion of Iraq, while weakening the anti-war protest movement..."
- "Anything...even if it’s a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over."
- The poppy harvest in a British-controlled area of Southern Afghanistan called Helmand province will double this year keeping the Crown's coffers overflowing with loot from the global narcotics market. - ...how do we know the neocons are behind the impending shock and awe campaign against Iran? Go to the window and see if the sun came up this morning.
- Question is, will the American people buy into the lies and disinformation? But of course. - The desperate conditions affecting the rural as well as the urban poor in India are forcing growing numbers of children to toil often in subhuman conditions.
- Though tribal people comprise only 8 percent of the population, they constitute at least 40 percent of those ousted from their homes to make way for industries, mines, and dams.
- From character assassination to physical assassination, the Lobby and its agents ruthlessly pursue their agenda. - Israel doesn’t bother with low-intensity warfare anymore. It goes straight for the jugular. Day after day they’ve pounded away at the Palestinian areas barely pausing long enough to assemble the lies needed to fend off the media.
- We also have laws protecting people. But, apparently THAT does not phase you.
- ...there indeed are many parallels in what the Nazis did to the Jews and what the Zionist Jews have been doing to the Palestinians. - Bush tells North Korea "Don’t shoot – or I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll..." - According to World Wealth Report 2005, the number of Israeli millionaires per capita is twice world average. - Having established an army of occupation in East Timor, the Australian government is engaged in ongoing political warfare on several fronts to ensure its predominance over the half-island. - Bolivian President Evo Morales Accuses U.S. of Sending in Soldiers Disguised As Students, Tourists
- The president will want to burnish his image as "war president" again...Hold onto your hats. - Dismantling Market Democracy, Creating Market Dictatorship
- Almost three times as many Palestinian civilians have been killed in Gaza in the past nine days as Israeli civilians in Sderot killed by Qassam rockets in the past five years.
- The Hong Kong Journalists Association has condemned China's plans to tighten controls on the mainland's media, with the introduction of fines for reporting unauthorised information. - What's Next for the Palestinians?
- Not that Israel is doing anything the United States didn't perfect in its bombing of Yugoslavia and Iraq... - Military officials said the warplanes flew over President Assad's palace...Television reports said the Syrian President had been at home during the pre-dawn flights. - Venezuela’s information minister said Monday that U.S. officials were urging opponents of President Hugo Chavez to boycott a December presidential vote.
- Now that Israel has attacked Gaza and the West Bank and kidnapped members of the democratically elected government there, it will be interesting to see if the United Nations condemns these criminal acts and moves to pass another worthless resolution. - General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s US-backed military strongman, has signaled that he will orchestrate a bogus presidential election next year in a bid to cling onto power until 2012. - The North Korean "missile crisis" serves a number of purposes for the Bush administration - The Insulting Logic of Tel Aviv
- Israel last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed - Vicente Fox brought the Mexican right wing into government after several decades in the shadows
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