27th September, 2009
A United Nations report has noted that a total of 1,500 civilians have lost their lives in insurgency-hit Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August.
UN: 1,500 Afghan civilians dead in 8 months
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
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Honduras:A revolution is being born there
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Fidel Castro
25th September, 2009
ON July 16, I stated textually that the coup d’état in Honduras “was conceived of and organized by unscrupulous individuals on the extreme right, dependable officials of George W. Bush and promoted by him.”
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US braced for surge of protest over war in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Paul Harris
27th September, 2009
At his home in Richmond, Virginia, Larry Syverson spends part of every day worrying there will be an unwanted knock on the door. Syverson’s son, Branden, is an American soldier serving in Afghanistan, conducting dangerous patrols in an area infested with Taliban.
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Iran’s not so secret, secret fuel plant
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Stephen Gowans
27th September, 2009
The construction of a uranium enrichment facility by Iran outside of Qum, which Tehran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency of days ago, has been seized upon dishonestly by Washington “as a chance to…persuade other countries to support the case for stronger sanctions” against Iran. [1]
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The rise and rise of Brazil: Faster, stronger, higher
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
The Brazilians used to say that “Brazil is the country of the future and always will be”: now the future is arriving.
Hugh O’Shaughnessy
27th September, 2009
God may not be Brazilian, as many of the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro proudly boast, but The Almighty seems to be swinging His or Her not inconsiderable influence towards the Cidade Maravilhosa, the Marvellous City on the South Atlantic ocean, as it pitches strongly for the chance of staging the 2016 Olympic Games. Its three rivals, Tokyo, Madrid and Chicago, seem to be fading as they turn into the home straight towards O Day in five days’ time. On 2 October the victorious city should be announced in Copenhagen, watched by a billion television viewers from across the world.
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki call for nuke-free world
Posted by seumasach on September 26, 2009
26th September, 2009
The mayors of Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only cities in the world subjected to nuclear bomb attacks, have praised a UN resolution for a nuclear-free world.
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Israeli offensive causes birth defects in Gaza
Posted by seumasach on September 26, 2009
26th September, 2009
Palestinian officials have warned about the spike in the number of birth defects in babies born in Gaza following the Israeli offensive on the coastal strip.
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As Required, Iran Informs IAEA About New Enrichment Site
Posted by seumasach on September 26, 2009
Jason Ditz
25th September, 2009
Western leaders reacted with a combination of indignation and outrage todaywhen the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that Iran had informed them it was in the process of constructing a second uranium enrichment facility.
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The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Seven
Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2009
Why NIST’s Final 9/11 Report is Unscientific and False
David Ray Griffin
14th September, 2009
At 5:21 in the afternoon of 9/11, almost seven hours after the Twin Towers had come down, Building 7 of the World Trade Center also came down. The collapse of this building was from the beginning considered a mystery. [1]
The same should have been true, to be sure, of the collapse of the Twin Towers. But they had been hit by planes, which had ignited big fires in them, and many people assumed this combination of causes to be sufficient to explain why they came down.
But WTC 7 had not been hit by a plane, so it was apparently the first steel-framed high-rise building in the known universe to have collapsed because of fire alone. New York Times writer James Glanz quoted a structural engineer as saying: “[W]ithin the structural engineering community, [WTC 7] is considered to be much more important to understand [than the Twin Towers],” because engineers had no answer to the question, “why did 7 come down?” [2]
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Iran announces nascent nuclear enrichment plant
Posted by seumasach on September 25, 2009
25th September, 2009
In line with its guarantee to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for clarity on its nuclear activities, Iran has informed the agency that it is constructing a second plant for uranium enrichment.
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Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Area
Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2009
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In These New Times 