Archive for July, 2009
Video:Bolivia in Transition
Posted by smeddum on July 18, 2009
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Video: Jon Stewart takes on Goldman Sachs
Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2009
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Fifteenth day of constant protests against coup d’état-Honduras
Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2009
HONDURAS
13/7 /09
Fifteenth day of constant protests against coup d’état
• Telesur and Venezolana de Televisión journalists deported
• Popular leader killed
THE Honduran people’s organizations returned to the streets of Tegucigalpa on Sunday to express their rejection of the June 28th military coup and to demand the restoration of democratic law, PL reports.
The demonstrators came together in the central park located in the city’s historic quarter, where theater troupes, singers and speakers all called for the return of the constitutional president, Manuel Zelaya.
In an earlier event, Juan Barahona, president of the United Workers Federation, confirmed the will of the National Front against the coup to continue its acts of peaceful resistance. Read the rest of this entry »
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Medvedev Charms Merkel at Munich Summit
Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2009
For several minutes Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel slide a piece of paper back and forth across the table, scribbling enthusiastically. Then Medvedev lifts the paper up a little, so Merkel can read it better. The chancellor chuckles. Read the rest of this entry »
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Germany becomes Russia’s closest partner in Europe and whole world
Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2009
16.07.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru URL: http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/108189-russia_germany-0
The ninth meeting of the Russian-German Forum, Petersburg Dialogue, which was set up eight years ago under the initiative of then-president Vladimir Putin and then-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, took place in Munich on July 14-16. Read the rest of this entry »
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Video: Madsen: ‘Swine flu virus began life in lab’
Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2009
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US: Iraq’s Nabucco chances better than Iran’s
Posted by seumasach on July 17, 2009
“I don’t think there would ever be an agreement at this point among the Nabucco consortium for Iranian participation at this time,”
Can the English language survive the twists and turns of an increasingly disorientated US foreign policy? Never, or, at least, not at the moment.
16th July, 2009
Richard Morningstar, the US State Department’s Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy.
A senior US official rules out the possibility of Iran’s participation in Nabucco, saying the gas pipeline consortium would reject Tehran’s involvement.
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US diplomacy leaves Kurds adrift
Posted by seumasach on July 17, 2009
So little news comes out of Iraq that we need to look for clues as to what is actually happening. Here’s a very big clue. How has the US managed the relative stabilisation of Iraq? By conceding ground on the central issue, the integrity of Iraq. All the indications were that the US wanted to partition the country: then, under pressure from the resistance they were forced into a complete about turn.
Mohammed A Salih
17th July, 2009
WASHINGTON – The indefinite postponement of a referendum on Iraqi Kurdistan’s controversial draft constitution just days after a visit by United States Vice President Joe Biden has given rise to speculation that Washington may have played a role in the delay.
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Max Keiser on Goldman Sachs
Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2009
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L’« Axe du Mal » de l’administration Obama
Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009
Iran/Nicaragua : nouveau mensonge d’Hillary Clinton
Thierry Meyssan
16th July, 2009
La secrétaire d’État Hillary Clinton s’est publiquement inquiétée de la construction d’une méga-ambassade iranienne au Nicaragua. Sur les plateaux de télévision US, des « experts » ont disserté sur les opérations militaires secrètes que les Gardiens de la Révolution iranienne prépareraient en Amérique latine contre les intérêts états-uniens et israéliens. Mais quelle est la base factuelle de ce tintamarre médiatique ?
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Reinvestigate 9/11 Breaks Into Parliament
Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009
Reinvestigate 9/11
In a breakthrough for campaigners, a meeting has been held in the new
Parliamentary extension Portcullis House at which speakers challenged
the official story of the 9/11 attacks. This was the first time since
the attacks nearly eight years ago that MPs and Peers heard – on
their own premises – the widespread view outside it: that 9/11 might
have been an inside job.
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In These New Times 