Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
Turkish diplomacy could be an new element in the Middle East crisis.
8th January, 2009
Another humiliation for the so called “moderate” Arabs in the Security Council, with Al-Arabiya reported in advance that the Security Council will never pass the Arab initiative.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
“Great Britain does not meet the entry criteria for the euro,” said Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, the ECB’s board member in charge of international affairs.
“The public deficit will rise to around 6pc (of GDP) in 2009 and even higher in 2010. Sterling’s exchange rate is not yet sufficiently stable,” he told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
One absolutely key element is missing from this analysis: by keeping the bulk of the US army, sworn to defend the constitution, engaged abroad the way is left clear for Northern Command, a special and unconstitutional force, to seize control inside the USA.
Prof. Peter Dale Scott
8th January, 2009
Paulson’s Financial Bailout
It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
Co-sponsor and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican said before the vote: “The Israelis … are responding exactly the same way we would.”
The Senator has correctly identified the affinity between Us and Israeli foreign policy
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voiced strong support on Thursday for Israel’s battle against Hamas militants in Gaza, while urging a ceasefire that would prevent Hamas from launching any more rockets into Israel.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Israel’s war on Gaza has left more than 700 Palestinians dead – nearly a third of them women and children – and more than 3,000 injured. But at the organisation’s headquarters in Damascus, 100km miles from the territory, Musa Abu Marzouq, the deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau, told Al Jazeera why he believes his organisation is on the verge of victory against Israel. |
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
Gaza, January 8, 2009 (AFP photo/Mahmud Hams)January 8, 2009, 5:00
While politicians and diplomats continue to call the shots in the Gaza conflict, it’s ordinary people who suffer – from fear, deprivation and grief.Journalists are not being allowed into Gaza, but RT’s sister Arabic news channel Russiya Al Yaum is there.
According to their report, four people died when Beit-Lahia, a town north of Gaza City, was shelled recently. During a short period of calm which lasted for three hours, numerous casualties were found. Rescuers took them to the northern part of Gaza. Bodies were also found in the eastern part of Gaza. Entire families were found dead under the ruins of houses. Kassam and Grad rockets were fired at Israeli territory in response, according to Russiya Al Yaum.
Meanwhile, Palestinian citizens at the border with Egypt are in a deadlock, the report says:
“They have nowhere to go after receiving letters urging them to leave this territory and warning of upcoming shelling. More than 15% of Rafah City has been razed to the ground. There isn’t a single house left near the border. We know that more than 1,700 houses have been destroyed there as a result of this intifada. The question is what happens to those who live in the centre of Rafah City and where they will go when their houses are destroyed”.
People are trying to escape the shelling to save their lives. “But we also met people who’d prefer to die under the ruins of their own homes,” RT’s sister channel correspondent Saed Suerki said. “We talked to the elderly, children and women. They all said if death is even happening in schools and mosques, then where is there to find rescue? They’d prefer to die in their homes. They said it would be more honourable for them.”
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Posted by alfied on January 8, 2009
Police in Turkey have detained three retired generals and dozens of others in raids across the country, as they broadened their investigation into an alleged plot by secularists to overthrow Turkey’s government. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
“Remember, he was supposed to change the mood, tone, music with respect to America in the Arab and Muslim world,” said Miller, now apublic policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Institute.
“Well, guess what? This guy is coming into office against a backdrop of incredible bitterness and anger against Israel and, by implication, the United States,” Miller said
8th January, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) – When he becomes president in two weeks,Barack Obama will have little breathing room to deal with “the horrible mess” left by his predecessor George W. Bush over Israel’s war inGaza, analysts say.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Gaza – A driver bringing humanitarian supplies from the northern crossing point of the Gaza Strip into the territory was killed when the aid convoy was fired upon, a spokesman for the United Nations said.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
8th January, 2009
Thousands of demonstrators marched to Parliament in Cape Town on Thursday to call for an end to Israel’s offensive in Palestine’s Gaza Strip.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
Abelardo Moreno, Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations expressed this Wednesday at the Security Council the strong condemn of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) to Israel for its attacks to the Gaza Strip.
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 7(acn) — Abelardo Moreno, in his speech in an open debate on the Middle East situation, highlighted the profound disappointment of the organization he represents for the incapacity of the Council to fulfil its responsibility of keeping international peace and security.
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In These New Times 