8th July,
2008
PRAGUE, July 8 (Itar-Tass) — About 1,500 citizens are protesting against the Czech-U.S. agreement on the deployment of a missile defense radar station on the Czech territory in downtown Prague.
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Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China
1,500 citizens oppose Czech-US ABM deal in downtown Prague
Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2008
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The Shift- Is the tide turning against the War Party?
Posted by seumasach on July 9, 2008
Justin Raimundo(antiwar.com)
9th July, 2008
The tectonic plates of the geopolitical landscape are shifting, visibly, as the consequences of our crazed foreign policy are being felt at home and abroad. That alarming crunching sound you hear is the impact of the sudden realization that, in Iraq, the government our troops are fighting and dying for is openly demanding that we leave.
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We’ve won the “War on Terror”!
Posted by seumasach on July 6, 2008
It was always inevitable that the defeat in Iraq would be declared a victory and that the charge would be trumpeted amidst retreat . Now the project initiated by General Fallon can be resumed with Martin McGuinness helping out with a bit of “conflict resolution”. However, constructive reengagement with Iran, Syria and Russia would be indispensable as well as a clipping of the wings of Israel.
Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda
Marie Colvin in Mosul(Sunday Times)
July 6, 2008
American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.
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Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism
Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2008
Western intervention against Robert Mugabe’s ‘evil regime’ put Zimbabwe into an economic straitjacket and disempowered its people
Brendan O’Neil (Spiked)
3rd July, 2008
‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’, said a frontpage headline in the London Evening Standard yesterday. Only there were no quote marks around the words ‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’, which made it difficult to tell if the paper was reporting the thoughts of Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) upon its electoral victory over Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF Party, or its own back-slapping relish at the thought that its journalism may have played a part in toppling Mugabe. Indeed, ‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’ could be the slogan of political and media operators in Britain and elsewhere in the West, who like to fantasise that Mugabe is ‘Africa’s Hitler’, that his Zimbabwe was ‘more evil than, for example, China and Saudi Arabia’, and that it is up to the West to ‘put pressure on Zimbabwe to change’ (1).
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Hunkering Down in Afghanistan with Field-Marshall Obama
Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2008
Mike Whitney(ICH)
3rd July, 2008
Afghanistan was supposed to be the “good war”; a “just response” to the attacks of September 11. It was supposed to bring Bin Laden to justice “dead or alive” and quash terrorism in the places where it originated. 95 per cent of the American people supported the invasion of Afghanistan. Now less than half think the U.S. will prevail. The war was promoted as a way to replace a repressive fundamentalist regime with a democratic government based on western ideals. The Bush administration promised to rebuild war-torn Afghanistan, transform its feudal system into a free market economy, and liberate its women from the oppression of Islamic extremism.
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Justice for Iraq
Posted by seumasach on July 5, 2008
A day conference
Saturday 19 July, London
Justice for Iraq is a call to action – a campaign that demands a complete policy reversal of those countries who have invaded and occupied Iraq since 2003. Ending the military occupation remains the most urgent priority. But Iraq will remain a broken nation without urgent measures aimed at delivering lasting peace and justice for its people and healing some of the wounds caused by this disastrous war.
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Is Zimbabwe Violence a British Operation?
Posted by alfied on July 5, 2008
By Douglas De Groot
African military intelligence sources have told EIR that the brutality and professional, execution-style nature of the killings and violence during the period leading up to the June 27 Presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe were obviously not the actions of misguided youth, but reminded him of the British-style special-forces counterinsurgency operations that were used against the freedom fighters in Zimbabwe before independence, which were carried out by the Rhodesian Selous Scouts. Reports indicate that the gruesome violence, unprecedented since independence (in 1980), that the London-based Anglo-Dutch financial cartel-dominated international press is using to work world opinion into a frenzy against Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, is controlled top-down as a high-level British-run counterinsurgency operation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Robert Mugabe: Victim or Villain?
Posted by smeddum on July 4, 2008
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When sharks smell blood, they go into a feeding frenzy and attack relentlessly. There is feeding frenzy about Zimbabwe preceding the run-off elections scheduled for 27th June. Thwarted in their bid to install their man, Tsvangirai in power, the forces of Western neo-colonialism are ratcheting up media pressure. Some African leaders seem to have bought into this propaganda campaign.
Stories in the Western press about ‘government-sanctioned violence’ in Zimbabwe focus on lurid details quoting one-sided and opinionated anonymous sources without much verifiable data. Remember the gory reports about Saddam’s troops in Kuwait during the first Gulf War bayoneting babies in their incubators? Many of these stories later turned out to be fabrications.The same type of campaign is operating in Zimbabwe now. Read the rest of this entry »
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Stephen Gowans on Zimbabwe election
Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2008
Click here to listen to this interview.
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Sadrists outraged
Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2008
3rd July, 2008
As if to make it clear how important elections are, the Iraqi government forces, as has been widely reported, yesterday “arrested” the head of the Maysan provincial council, and two other council members, and broke into the home of the provincial governor, “arresting” 30 of his security people. All are members of the Sadr trend. No reasons were given for any of these “arrests”.
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Poland Denies US Reports on Missile Defense Shield Deal
Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2008
3rd July, 2008
Negotiations between Poland and the United States over the location of the proposed missile defense shield will continue, despite reports suggesting an agreement had already been reached
After a senior US State Department official stated on Wednesday, July 2, that a “tentative agreement” had been reached after two days of talks between Polish and US officials, Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich revealed that no consensus has been reached on plans to station the US missile shield in Poland.
“The negotiations have not ended — another round of talks was concluded — for the time being we are not at the finish line,” Klich told Poland’s private Radio Zet. “We completed an important, a significant, round of talks two days ago but the finish line of talks is still ahead of us,” he said, adding that “July is a long month.”
Daniel Fried, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs and a former ambassador to Poland, told reporters that the last round of talks between the US and Poland had made real progress but refused to confirm that an agreement had been reached.
The United States wants to base 10 interceptor missiles on the territory of the ex-communist NATO member and a radar facility in the neighboring Czech Republic to ward off potential attacks by so-called “rogue” states, notably Iran.
A deal under which the Czech Republic would house the missile shield’s radar base was concluded in April.
Lithuania alternative seen as a bargaining chip
The proposed missile shield system has angered Russia, which fears it may actually be one of the countries in the cross-hairs, while public opinion in Poland and the Czech Republic is broadly opposed to the defensive system.
Talks between Poland and the United States over the missile shield began in May last year but after initial progress the negotiations have dragged over Poland’s demands for substantial US aid to modernize its armed forces in return for its cooperation.
The impasse has allegedly led the US to consider Poland’s northern neighbor Lithuania but Bogdan Klich said such reports were simply pressure tactics during the negotiations with Poland.
“In my opinion this was a pressure tactic used by the US on Poland and it would not at all be so easy for the Americans to locate the missile shield in Lithuania … because of stronger protests by Russia against this location instead of Poland,” Klich said. “The Americans are endeavoring to maintain good relations with Russia.”
Senior officials in Lithuania, like Poland a member of the European Union and NATO, have flatly denied talks were underway with Washington.
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