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Archive for April, 2011

Putin: Who gave NATO right to kill Gaddafi?

Posted by seumasach on April 26, 2011

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Lies about the war on Libya

Posted by seumasach on April 26, 2011

Thierry Meyssan

Voltairenet

20th April, 2011

While Thierry Meyssan supports the Libyan insurrection against the Muammar Gaddafi regime, he doesn’t approve of Resolution 1973 and is opposed to the war. In previous articles, he pointed to the imperialist objectives behind this operation. In this essay, he exposes the main lies of Atlanticist propaganda.

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Britain’s Royal wedding fiasco and its “dirty little secret” in Bahrain

Posted by seumasach on April 26, 2011

Finian Cunningham

Global Research

26th April, 2011

The British royal wedding is turning swiftly into a public relations disaster, with news that Bahrain’s Crown Prince is respectfully turning down his invitation to the event because of the “situation reigning” in the Persian Gulf kingdom.

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Egyptians want to end deal with Israel

Posted by seumasach on April 26, 2011

PressTV

26th April, 2011

The results of the poll, which was conducted by the United States-based Pew Research Center, came out on Monday, pointing to a 54% lean towards the scrapping of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, the Associated Press reported. The poll surveyed 1,000 Egyptians countrywide between March 24 and April 7.

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UN embarrassed by forecast on climate refugees

Posted by seumasach on April 25, 2011

Canada Free Press

19th April, 2011

By Axel Bojanowski, Speigel

Six years ago, the United Nations issued a dramatic warning that the world would have to cope with 50 million climate refugees by 2010. But now that those migration flows have failed to materialize, the UN has distanced itself from the forecasts. On the contrary, populations are growing in the regions that had been identified as environmental danger zones.

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Confiscating Libya’s sovereign wealth funds

Posted by seumasach on April 25, 2011

Manlio Dinucci

Global Research

24th April, 2011

The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500 billion cubic meters. In the crosshairs of “willing” of the operation “Unified Protector” there are sovereign wealth funds, capital that the Libyan state has invested abroad.

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Pakistanis to block NATO supply trucks

Posted by seumasach on April 23, 2011

PressTV

23rd April, 2011

The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party (Justice Movement) organized a sit-in in the Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to cut off the supply line of US-led troops in protest against the killing of people in the non-UN-sanctioned US drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a Press TV correspondent reported Saturday.

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El Baradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team

Posted by seumasach on April 23, 2011

San Francisco Chronicle

22nd, April, 2011

AP-Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the “shame of a needless war” in Iraq.

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Libya death toll climbs as UN tells NATO to stick to no-fly zone plan

Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2011

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Dr. Alexey Yablokov – Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe

Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2011

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The health outcome of the Fukushima catastrophe

Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2011

The health outcome of the Fukushima catastrophe

Initial analysis from risk model of the  European Committee on Radiation Risk, ECRR

Prof Chris Busby

Next-up.org

30th March, 2011

Read study here

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