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29 Aug 08

In Russia even more than in America, "Kosovo" rhymes with "I told you so"

  • Just as NATO justified its intervention in 1999 as a humanitarian defense of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians against Serbian atrocities, so Russia said it came to the defense of South Ossetia, which suffered terrible atrocities at Georgian hands in the early 1990s, after Georgian troops shelled its capital earlier this month.
  • the Bush administration’s doctrine of preemption, its invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, its silence in the face of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, and many more.
14 Jul 08

Domestic spying under Bush; Al-Haramain in Oregon, NSA warrantless wiretapping | Salon News

  • Spying on Americans without warrants, charges based on secret evidence, a small town divided by fear. Welcome to the world of Bush's "specially designated global terrorists."
28 Jun 08

How Labour used the law to keep criticism of Israel secret | Politics | The Guardian

  • Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial, now discredited Iraq weapons dossier. At the heart of it was nervousness at the top of government about any mention of Israel's nuclear arsenal in an official paper accusing Iraq of flouting the UN's authority on weapons of mass destruction

Deception: British Reporter Adrian Levy on How the United States Secretly Helped Pakistan Build Its Nuclear Arsenal

  • Adrian Levy examines how five consecutive US administrations from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush have been complicit in building and protecting Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal
21 Nov 07

The Middle East has had a secretive nuclear power in its midst for years

  • Nuclear weapons in Israel's hands are surely just as dangerous as nuclear weapons in Iran's.
  • But Israel under Olmert is also a dangerous and unpredictable state involved in acts of terror abroad.
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13 Nov 07

The Coup at Home

  • It’s been apparent for years that America was suicidal to go to war in Iraq, a country with no tie to 9/11 and no weapons of mass destruction, while showering billions of dollars on Pakistan, where terrorists and nuclear weapons proliferate under the protection of a con man who serves as a host to Osama bin Laden.
01 Nov 07

Hezbollah, PKK and American Hypocrisy

  • PJAK fighters have killed at least 150 Iranian soldiers and officials in the past three months. That’s a lot more people than the PKK have killed in Turkey in the same time, and yet neither Washington nor any other Western country has expressed sympathy for Iran. Could it be that Iranian lives are worth even less than Turkish lives?
  • which carries out attacks into the adjacent Kurdish-populated region of Iran, and the United States does not condemn the PJAK? It even sends its officials to have friendly chats with the PJAK terrorists? How odd!
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31 Oct 07

Mukasey Won’t Say Waterboarding Is Torture But in 1947 the U.S. Called It a War Crime, Sentenced Enemy Officer to 15 Years Hard Labor

  • But after World War II, the United States government was quite clear about the fact that waterboarding was torture, at least when it was done to U.S. citizens:
29 Oct 07

Iraq: US involved in terrorist acts

  • A report by Iraq's parliament confirms that the US military had cooperated with terrorists in a raid on a village in Diyala province.
  • A report by Iraq's parliament confirms that the US military had cooperated with terrorists in a raid on a village in Diyala province.

Italians 'cannot try US soldier'

  • If it had been Italian soldiers that killed a U.S. agent, would you expect a similar outcome? Of course not. The U.S. government has always considered itself above any international law as has been demonstrated in many instances.
     - kropotkin on 2007-10-29

Iran: U.S. applies 'double standards' toward terrorists

  • who are seeking to carve an independent state out of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

Freedom Writ Large

  • "The United States," said Rice, "is determined to keep an
    international focus on the travesty that is taking place in
    Burma."



    What she is less keen to keep a focus on is that the huge
    American company, Chevron, on whose board of directors she sat,
    is part of a consortium with the junta and the French company,
    Total, that operates in Burma's offshore oil fields. The gas
    from these fields is exported through a pipeline that was built
    with forced labor and whose construction involved Halliburton,
    of which Vice President Cheney was Chief Executive.
  • When did a British prime minister call for
    the European Union to plug the loopholes of arms supply to
    Burma, stopping, for example, the Italians from supplying
    military equipment?
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