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Haiti and America’s Historic Debt

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2010

Robert Parry

Middle East Online

16th January, 2010

Announcing emergency help for Haiti after a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake, President Barack Obama noted America’s historic ties to the impoverished Caribbean nation, but few Americans understand how important Haiti’s contribution to US history was.

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Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253?

Posted by seumasach on January 17, 2010

Patrick Martin

WSWS

16th January, 2010

Nearly a week ago, on January 10, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz carried a news article by correspondent Yossi Melman pointing out the role of an Israeli security firm, International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS), in the failed attempt to detonate a bomb on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253.

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Nobel Peace Price winner scorns North Korean peace offer

Posted by seumasach on January 14, 2010

Stephen Gowans

What’s Left

12th January, 2010

North Korea recently let Washington know that it will dismantle its nuclear weapons if the United States signs a formal peace treaty ending the Korean War. This, offered Pyongyang, could be negotiated through bilateral talks between the United States and north Korea.

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The Weird Factor- The panty bomber mystery deepens

Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2010

Justin Raimondo

antiwar.com

11th January, 2010

What I call the Weird Factor, for lack of a better name, seems to have become a permanent feature of our post-9/11 world, a dark and sinister leitmotif that plays in the background. On 9/11, of course, the Factor was on full display as a whole string of unusual events and unexplained phenomena were visited on us. The 9/11 Commission did little to clear these matters up, for the most part because they didn’t address them. Just a few for the record: Bush reading My Pet Goat to schoolchildren after being told of the attacks, the sudden appearance of the “Israeli art students” – and their buddies, the “laughing Israelis” – in the months and weeks leading up to the attacks, and the apparent passivity of US air defenses on that fateful day.

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Phone Calls from the 9/11 Airliners

Posted by seumasach on January 12, 2010

David Ray Griffin

Global Research

12th January, 2010

On November 27, 2009, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Fifth Estate program aired a show entitled “9/11: The Unofficial Story,”1 for which I, along with a few other members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, was interviewed. In the most important part of my interview, I pointed out that, according to the FBI’s report on phone calls from the airliners provided in 2006 for the Moussaoui trial, Barbara Olson’s only call from Flight 77 was “unconnected” and hence lasted “0 seconds.” Although this Fifth Estate program showed only a brief portion of my discussion of alleged phone calls from the 9/11 airliners, its website subsequently made available a 22-minute video containing this discussion.2

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In time of crisis, barter works and may have saved Russia in 1998

Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2010

Richard C.Cook

richardccook.com

After the collapse of the Soviet Union caused it to split up into its components, the newly-established nations each faced an economic crisis. In Russia the crisis lasted for a decade. Inflation had destroyed the currency. There was no banking sector to speak of. And the central government had failed to monetize the nation’s potential production through a functioning monetary system.

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Was the attempt to blow up Detroit bound plane a false flag? Part 3 (Final)

Posted by seumasach on January 10, 2010

NW_Flt_copy_copyUS, January 7, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – The dust has now settled but the mass hysteria continues as the US and the UK pull in their best media experts to blind us with political spin. It is time to reflect on this so called failed attempt to blow up Northwest/Delta Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.

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The airplane bomb plot: Obama continues the cover-up

Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010

Patrick Martin

WSWS

8th January, 2010

The statement made by President Barack Obama Thursday about the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit is a continuation of a government-wide cover-up, aided and abetted by the media, of the actions of US intelligence and security agencies in the period leading up to the failed terrorist attack.

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Karzai: I don’t need foreign forces in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010

“The president’s remarks come after thousands of Afghan people took to the streets to protest the rising civilian death toll by the US-led forces in the country.

Afghans have held several anti-occupation demonstrations in different cities in the past month to show their anger towards the issue. Protesters in Kabul and several other major cities have burned effigies of US President Barack Obama”

PressTV

8th January, 2010

Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai says he does not need anymore ‘the favor’ of the US-led foreign forces in his war-weary country.

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Obama’s Yemeni odyssey targets China

Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010

“Besides, history has no instances of a declining world power meekly accepting its destiny and walking into the sunset. The US cannot give up on its global dominance without putting up a real fight. And the reality of all such momentous struggles is that they cannot be fought piece-meal. You cannot fight China without occupying Yemen”

M. K. Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

8th January, 2010

A year ago, Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh made the startling revelation that his country’s security forces apprehended a group of Islamists linked to the Israeli intelligence forces. “A terrorist cell was apprehended and will be referred to the courts for its links with the Israeli intelligence services,” he promised.

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Obama Flubs His First Bay Of Pigs Moment As Terror Moles Escape Purge

Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2010

Webster Tarpley

tarpley.net

5th January, 2010

Washington DC , January 5, 2010 — Obama’s speech this afternoon was an incongruous performance. On the one hand, he angrily detailed a catastrophic breakdown in US intelligence procedures leading to the near-massacre of hundreds of airline passengers in the skies over Detroit on Christmas Day. On the other hand, there was no purge of the corrupt, complicit, and incompetent officials who had made this incident possible. No firings were announced. No heads rolled. The rogue network or invisible government of treasonous and subversive moles inside the US government which is behind the Detroit incident, and so many other incidents, remained untouched once again.

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