Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2010
Neil Faulkner
17th September, 2010
The aim of Operation Moshtarak in February was to capture the city of Marjah in Afghanistan’s war-torn Helmand province. Fifteen thousand troops, mainly American, British and Afghan, were to take on between 400 and 1,000 Taliban insurgents holed up in a city of 80,000 people.
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Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2010
Kaveh Afrasiabi
17th September, 2010
In a strongly-worded statement, representatives of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have supported Iran’s position on the contentious issue of IAEA inspectors and have also expressed concern that the most recent IAEA report on Iran has “departed from standard verification language”.
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Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2010
15th September, 2010
President Nicolas Sarkozy faced legal assaults on two fronts yesterday after a European Commissioner threatened action over what she called France’s “shameful” campaign against Roma gypsies.
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Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2010
12th September, 2010
Iceland’s parliament must decide whether to charge leading members of the country’s 2008 cabinet with negligence that contributed to the island’s banking collapse after a committee recommended they be indicted.
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Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2010
This looks like an outbreak of realism amongst the British elite but for the continued demonization of Iran who would be central to any resolution of the situation in Afghanistan. This could be interpreted as follows: they know the game is up in Afghanistan but they can’t do without an enemy, namely Iran and the “Islamic threat” in general. This ties in with the deployment of the imbecile Blair to hype the Iranian threat. So the message is that we have to withdraw from Afghanistan because we’re losing but the war against terror, i.e. Iran goes on. It remains to be seen whether they are mad enough to attack Iran: in all probability their bark is worse than their bite.
Eric Margolis
17th September, 2010
The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is the world’s leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defence experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia and India.
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Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2010
16th September, 2010
“Our bilateral trade ties have reached $10 billion … when we complete our preferential trade agreement we can reach a bilateral trade volume of $30 billion in five years,” Reuters quoted Erdogan as saying on Thursday.
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Posted by smeddum on September 16, 2010
11/9/2010
Economist Jeffrey Sachs calls China “the most successful development story in world history.” Since its “awakening” following Deng Xiaoping’s 1978 “black cat, white cat” speech urging the Chinese government to focus on economic development and let facts—not ideology—guide its path, China’s miraculous economic turnaround over the past three decades has awed and inspired the world. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 16, 2010
BP wants the federal government to meet its demand for continued access to oil and gas leases in the United States. If the oil giant can’t keep drilling here, its promise to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster might go unfulfilled—or so the company claims. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on September 15, 2010
Thierry Meyssan
14th September, 2010
In stark contrast with the glibness of official speeches on September 11, Thierry Meyssan offers his assessment of where we stand nine years after the attacks. His lucidity and steadfastness are bearing fruits. A large majority of people around the world no longer believe the US government’s account. In the United States itself, the most recent pole shows that 74% of the population actually doubts the official version. Even the chairmen of the presidential investigative commission now admit they are skeptical about their own report. The tenacious initiator of this debate believes that the controversy around the credibility of the official version is obsolete; it is time to urge the UN to take concrete action against the real culprits.
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2010
13th September, 2010.
Navy exposes military volunteers to microwave radiation (1972).
Among Zory Glaser’s documents, I found a newspaper article entitled: Navy Testing Microwave Risk http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Navy-Microwave-Testing-1972.pdf (United Feature Syndicate, 1972).
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Posted by seumasach on September 14, 2010
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