Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
A setback for Obama’s plans
By Jim Lobe
Asia Times
6th January, 2009
WASHINGTON – Israel’s massive week-long aerial assault on Gaza and subsequent ground invasion are likely to complicate president-elect Barack Obama’s hopes of aggressively pursuing Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, and risk inflicting greater damage to Washington’s standing in the Arab world, according to most analysts in Washington.
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Posted by seumasach on January 5, 2009
But at a heated public meeting on Friday, it was clear many locals thought that, rather than being the ground-breaking wireless internet service it was supposed to be, it was putting public health in jeopardy.
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Posted by smeddum on January 5, 2009
| Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims Sun, 04 Jan 2009 Press TV |
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Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gaza residents wounded in Israel’s ground offensive on the strip. Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on December 27 have traces of depleted uranium in their bodies. Read the rest of this entry » |
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
4th January, 2009
GORDON BROWN’S “DECISIVE” strategy to recapitalise Britain’s banks and get them lending again with a £37 billion bail-out, which he claimed has been copied all over the world, has not worked – and the Treasury has no plan B yet.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
Eric Walberg
24th December, 2008
2008 will be remembered as a turning point in Russia’s relations with the West. It was a tumultuous year, with Kosovo, missiles in Europe and NATO’s seemingly relentless march eastward like thunderclouds gathering on Russia’s horizon, which finally burst 8 August over South Ossetia, bringing tragedy to Georgians, triumph and tragedy to Ossetians and Russians, as the Russian army stopped short of Tbilisi in their defence of the plucky Ossetians.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
But electoral benefits will only come with military success and that seems most unlikely. What has undoubtedly been achieved by this invasion is to compromise Obama, to lock him in to the neo-con agenda of endless conflict in the Middle East at a moment when he showed clear signs, under his mentors Brzezinski and Soros, of wanting diplomacy in the Middle East with a view to refocusing US aggression against Russia and China. His agenda is in ruins and the US remains hitched to an Israel veering out of control.
Mike Whitney
31st December, 2008
Barack Obama has passed his first test with flying colors. He’s made himself disappear so Israel can continue its killing spree in Gaza. The last time a president shrunk this small was when Ariel Sharon took his wrecking-ball through Jenin during the second intifada. Bush slipped down a mouse hole so Israel’s “Man of Peace” could finish his dirty work unopposed. Now Obama has taken refuge in that same dark hideaway. What a relief it must be for his critics at AIPAC and the far-right think tanks to know that the next Commander in Chief will be every bit as compliant as the last. That’s “continuity they can believe in”.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
4th January, 2009
A quarter of all British families will have no disposable income in 2009, dealing yet another blow to the beleaguered retail sector.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
25th December, 2008
South Asians will watch the year end in a pall of gloom. The region is fast getting sucked into the vortex of terrorism. The Afghan war has crossed the Khyber and is stealthily advancing towards the fertile Indo-Gangetic plains.
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Posted by smeddum on January 4, 2009
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Governors of five U.S. states urged the federal government to provide $1 trillion in aid to the country’s 50 states to help pay for education, welfare and infrastructure as states struggle with steep budget deficits amid a deepening recession. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
12th Decemeber, 2008
A DISTURBING new report claims that mobile phones could cause serious long-term damage to the heart and kidneys.
Scientists found that exposing red blood cells to low-level radiation caused them leak a subsance called haemoglobin.
The iron-based part of a red blood cell is vital because it carries oxygen around the body.
But if the haemoglobin leaks from the cells then it accumulates in the kidneys and heart, which could seriously damage your health. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on January 4, 2009
Interview with Norman G. Finkelstein:
The First Goal of Israel Is to Restore the Fear of Israel in the Arab World
by Press TV
The whole world — including Hamas and Iran — support a two-state solution, but Israel rejects it.
Press TV: In a week of violence in the Gaza Strip we’re witnessing, what do you make of the situation? Read the rest of this entry »
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