November 2009

Manufacturing a Terror Threat in Latin America
Posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009

¤ U.S. Military Operations in All Major Regions of the World
On January 20, a changing of the guard occurred in the United States White House with two-term president George W. Bush being replaced by former freshman senator Barack Obama. Bush had continued the policies of his predecessor Bill Clinton in relation to the Balkans, Iraq and Latin America - with troops and a massive military base in Kosovo, regular bombings of Iraq and a monumental expansion of military aid to Colombia - and in addition launched two wars of his own, those against Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq two years later.

¤ China govt pleased but ordinary folk cool on Obam
¤ Commodity Rally Drives Mining Stocks Higher as Dollar Drops

¤ Manufacturing a Terror Threat in Latin America
Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, held a hearing on Oct. 27 to investigate his "serious concerns about expanded Iranian influence in the region.” Engel believes Iran's diplomatic and commercial relations with a number of Latin American countries is a threat to the region's, and more importantly the U.S.´s security and stability. Testimony heard at the hearing repeatedly singled out Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and to a lesser extent Brazil.

¤ Palestinians seek UN endorsement of statehood
¤ Should Palestine Declare Itself a State?
¤ Would Israel accept a state-and-a-half solution?
¤ Bolivia re-invents democratic socialism
¤ Free The Forgotten Bird Of Paradise

¤ The annexation of Colombia to the United States
Anyone with some information can immediately see that the sweetened ‘Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States’ signed on October 30, and made public in the evening of November 2, amounts to the annexation of Colombia to the United States.

¤ Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists
¤ China Signals That It May Allow Currency to Rise Against Dollar

¤ Simon Mann’s coup plot: nasty, brutal and posh
There is a tendency to portray the British ruling class as a somewhat buffoonish collection of toffs, removed from the realities of life.
And there is some truth in it. The establishment in Britain is indeed an inbred collection of incompetents. But they are also an incredibly nasty and dangerous bunch of people. Last week we got an insight into their world. British former special forces officer Simon Mann was released from Equatorial Guinea, in central Africa, where he had been sentenced in July 2008 to just over 34 years in jail.

¤ Official US Air Force Document Reveals the True Intentions Behind the US-Colombia Military Agreement
An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with "...an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America..." This information contradicts the explainations offered by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the US State Department regarding the military agreement signed between the two nations this past October 30th. Both governments have publicly stated that the military agreement refers only to counternarcotics and counterterrorism operations within Colombian territory.

¤ From Gitmo to Palau: Who are the Uighurs?
¤ Why and To What End in Afghanistan
¤ Colombia "Hands Over Its Sovereignty" to U.S. with Military Accord, Says Chavez
¤ Venezuela: Colombians Massacred Near Border Were Paramilitaries
¤ Democracy, East Germany and the Berlin Wall
¤ Playing with weather stirs debate in China
¤ Sniper John Allen Muhammad executed
¤ Honduras deal collapses, and Zelaya's backers blame U.S.
¤ Gorbachev Says Obama Should Start Afghan Withdrawal
¤ Guantanamo conditions 'deteriorate'

¤ What Will It Take to Break Our Trance?
We are rapidly returning to the uncivilized Law of the Jungle. We will soon live in a world where brute force rules. It is not only the disabled, widows, children and orphans who are vulnerable to the cruelties of this jungle. We all are. We have been brainwashed with incessant slogans like “Get the government off your back,” and “Keep more of your own money… oppose all tax increases.”

¤ Another blast rocks Pakistan
¤ Pakistani Taliban vow tough guerrilla war
¤ Man trapped in 23-year 'coma' reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was conscious

¤ Gang 'killed victims to extract their fat'

Opium, Rape and the American Way
Posted: Tuesday, November 10, 2009

¤ Honduras deal collapses, and Zelaya's backers blame U.S.
¤ Saudi to continue bombing Yemen rebels
¤ Pakistani Taliban vow tough guerrilla war
¤ Another blast rocks Pakistan
¤ What Will It Take to Break Our Trance?
¤ Guantanamo conditions 'deteriorate'
¤ Gorbachev Says Obama Should Start Afghan Withdrawal

¤ Honduras: The day Washington underhandedly forced an accord
One doesn't have to be very shrewd to realize that the accord signed by the legitimate president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and the putschist Micheletti seems to do away with a good part of what the people defended in the street during more than four months. And this is the way it is, even beyond the joy that may ensue upon seeing Zelaya go back into the place from which he was violently thrown, and beyond a fortuitous recycling of the Resistance into an electoral front for the elections on November 29.

¤ U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report
¤ Unemployment rises to 10.2 percent; black unemployment rises to 15.7 percent
¤ Suspect in Orlando shooting spree charged with first-degree murder
¤ Major Nidal Malik Hasan: Soldiers' psychiatrist who heard frontline stories
¤ Co-Worker: Ft. Hood Suspect Made ‘Outlandish’ Comments Condemning US Foreign Policy
¤ Gunman kills 12, wounds 31 at Fort Hood

¤ Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.

¤ Is This as Good as It Gets From Obama?
Yeah, I'm disappointed, too. I thought we were sweeping into power; I thought change meant Change. I believed all that talk about another First 100 Days, a la Roosevelt. Well, that didn't happen. The question is, is this as good as it gets from Obama, or is he pacing himself? He may have a four and eight-year plan and they included a first year of just gettin' to know you and not gonna rock the boat too much. Well, Mission Accomplished on that.

¤ One year on, Obama cites struggle with Bush legacy

¤ Paid Lying - What Passes For Major Media Journalism
Today's major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It's misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on vital issues lie about or suppress uncomfortable truths to provide unqualified support for state and/or corporate interests - to the detriment of the greater good that's always sacrificed for profits and imperial aims.

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Fort Hood Cover-Up: A Dozen Tales of Disinformation
¤ Black Ops and the Massacre at Fort Hood
¤ Fort Hood tragedy rocks military as it grapples with mental health issues

¤ Fort Hood Murders: What Won’t Be Discussed
On Thursday, November 5th, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan used handguns to fire upon fellow soldiers at Fort Hood Texas, killing 13 and wounding 30. The base commander says soldiers who witnessed the shooting reported that Major Hasan shouted "Allah Akbar!" (God is great) before opening fire. Hasan, an American citizen and a practicing Muslim, himself was shot four times, and is presently hospitalized in stable condition. Originally it was thought that Hasan was killed, but later his survival was confirmed.

¤ Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III
¤ "For God Sakes, strap on a pair and get to it"
¤ America Owned by Its Army

¤ Paid Lying - What Passes For Major Media Journalism
Today's major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It's misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on vital issues lie about or suppress uncomfortable truths to provide unqualified support for state and/or corporate interests - to the detriment of the greater good that's always sacrificed for profits and imperial aims.

¤ Pakistanis confront Clinton over drone attacks
¤ Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan: Hillary Clinton
¤ Hillary Clinton: Afghanistan Vote Legitimate Even if Abdullah Boycotts
¤ Castro: more US visitors mean more Cuban swine flu
¤ The Vietnam moment
¤ The heart of India is under attack
¤ UN Assembly Draft Urges Action on Gaza 'War Crimes'
¤ Saudi court upholds child rapist crucifixion ruling

¤ Haiti: consitutional coup #2?
In what the foreign “assistance” community that controls Haiti right now are calling a troubling, but constitutional, move, the Haitian Senate’s sacked Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis and her cabinet. While it appears that either the lower or upper house of the Haitian Parliament can remove the government at will, there are questions about the legality of the move. During a nine hour Senate session, lawmakers continually walked out (or ran out) accusing each other of being armed. In the end, 18 of the 29 Senators voted for sacking the government.

¤ The Delegitimization of Karzai
¤ The Little Coup that Couldn't
¤ Police discover at least 10 victims at Anthony Sowell's home

¤ Why and To What End in Afghanistan
Matthew P. Hoh, a former U.S. combat marine captain and Department of Defense civilian in Iraq starting in 2004 and until September a political officer in the Foreign Service stationed in Afghanistan is giving some consternation to President Obama’s advisors as the Commander in Chief considers sending more soldiers to that war-torn country next to Pakistan.

¤ Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy

¤ Opium, Rape and the American Way
The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban. The moral lines we draw between us and our adversaries are fictional. The uplifting narratives used to justify the war in Afghanistan are pathetic attempts to redeem acts of senseless brutality. War cannot be waged to instill any virtue, including democracy or the liberation of women.

¤ Unnatural Gas: The Inflated Promise of a Not-So-Clean Fuel

¤ When Is It Legitimate For The Oppressed To Take Up Arms? Video
We meet Arundhati Roy, the Indian writer and activist. For years she has been known as one of the world's most vocal advocates of freedom and social justice. She has earned the wrath of her fellow countrymen for her vehement criticism of India's nuclear weapons.

¤ "Blood price" paid to prop up Afghan government
¤ The U.S. and Colombian Roles in the Honduran Crisis

Noam Chomsky: no change in US 'Mafia principle'
Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Top American intellectual sees no significant change of US foreign policy under Obama.

By Mamoon Alabbasi - LONDON

As civilised people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington's foreign policy under President Barack Obama.

During two lectures organised by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, Chomsky cited numerous examples of the driving doctrines behind US foreign policy since the end of World War II.

"As Obama came into office, Condoleezza Rice predicted that he would follow the policies of Bush's second term, and that is pretty much what happened, apart from a different rhetorical style," said

"But it is wise to attend to deeds, not rhetoric. Deeds commonly tell a different story," he added.

"There is basically no significant change in the fundamental traditional conception that we if can control Middle East energy resources, then we can control the world," explained Chomsky.
Full Article : middle-east-online.com

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