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Friday 05th September 2008
Britain needs a nuanced language to debate race, class and culture, away from headline-grabbing, superficial provocations. The most dangerous element of such remarks is the way in which they naturalise intolerance and hostility as essential human traits. This is the kind of spurious legitimation that underlies the "us and them" thinking of the Bush administration and bogus theories of the "clash of civilisations" which produces unbridled western-led shock and awe barbarity. The troubling collaboration between parts of the media and some budding and tested neocon academics and writers has fanned the flames of Islamophobia which has been met with a condemnable silence.
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Friday 05th September 2008
Nouri al Maliki has become an itch in Uncle Sam's nether regions and Washington's only remedy is to use its age old potion - regime change. Maliki has outflanked Washington and has put Bush and the warmongering McCain on to the back foot. Any attempts to rein in or remove Maliki on a neocon whim and fancy could see an even more rapid departure of the illegal invaders. With troop casualty figures under-reported, but reaching new levels, Washington's new rulers could head for the exit doors sooner than expected.
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White House spied on Iraq leaders, says Bob Woodward book
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Friday 05th September 2008
Fraudulent biblical notions of exceptionalism has legitimised Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Until these dodgy theological justifications and their defenders are exposed for the frauds that they really are, the ultimate disestablishment of the apartheid state, will be met with resistance from the messianic right-wing christian evangelicals and their political allies in the burgeoning Likudnik neocon brigade.
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Friday 05th September 2008
Indonesia’s corruption court delivered its heaviest sentence to date by sentencing a senior prosecutor to 20 years’ imprisonment and a $54,300 fine for taking bribes in return for dropping a multi-billion dollar graft investigation. Senior prosecutor, Urip Tri Gunawan, was caught coming out of a house owned by tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim with $660,000 in cash shortly after his team dropped a probe into whether the businessman had abused $2.5bn loaned by the central bank in 1998 to prop up his bank, Bank Dagang Nasional Indonesia, during the Asian financial crisis.
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Friday 05th September 2008
Indian opposition parties are once again calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that a secret letter from the State Department shows he lied about a controversial deal that would allow India to buy nuclear fuel and technology on the world market to generate nuclear power. The State Department's letter to Congress said that the United States could immediately halt nuclear sales to India if India conducted any nuclear tests and that the United States planned to withhold technology that poses a security risk. Manmohan had assured the Indian Parliament that this was not the case and the country was free to conduct tests if needed.
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Devastating blow to nuclear deal
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Friday 05th September 2008
The displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians and suffering caused by US-led bombing operations and untold brutality conducted by Ethiopian forces and their client, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), have justifiably angered rather than pacified Somalis. Tomahawk missile attacks, AC-130 gunship attacks, "snatch-and-grab" operations targeting non-existent terrorists, renditions of Somali suspects from Kenya for interrogation and Predator drone strikes are morphing innocent Somalis into ticking timebombs with blowback the only option.
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Friday 05th September 2008
Congressional Democrats have issued a flurry of subpoenas this year to senior Bush administration aides as part of a broad inquiry into the authorisation of torturous interrogation tactics used at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Three Bush White House veterans have been held in criminal contempt of congressional committees for refusing to respond to subpoenas in an inquiry on the firing of federal prosecutors: former counsel Harriet Miers, former political adviser Karl Rove, and current chief of staff Josh Bolten. The battle over Miers's and Bolten's testimony is currently before a federal court. It is about time that Bush and his cronies are charged for the greater crime of the illegal invasion of Iraq.
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Iraq dossier memos 'must be released'
Obama’s Zionist Wannabe Veep
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Friday 05th September 2008
Yemen is projected to be the first Arab country that will use up all of its groundwater, but no-one knows exactly when the water table will dry out or fall beyond a viable level for human use. In a race to shape public opinion, the government has developed a national mascot to encourage water conservation. Rowyan is an animated raindrop, a cheery cartoon character with moustache and headdress. His wife, Rowyana, has curling eyelashes. She carries a handbag and wears a veil and full-length black robes.
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Friday 05th September 2008
"Remember the 1990s when the U.S. was hailed -- or perhaps more accurately, Washington hailed itself -- not just as the planet's "sole superpower" or even its unique "hyperpower," but as its "global policeman," the only cop on the block? As it happened, our leaders took that label seriously and our central police headquarters, that famed five-sided building in Washington D.C, promptly began dropping police stations -- aka military bases -- in or near the oil heartlands of the planet (Kosovo, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait) after successful wars in the former Yugoslavia and the Persian Gulf. As those bases multiplied, it seemed that we were embarking on a new, post-Soviet version of "containment." With the USSR gone, however, what we were containing grew a lot vaguer and, before 9/11, no one spoke its name. Nonetheless, it was, in essence, Muslims who happened to live on so many of the key oil lands of the planet", writes Tom Engelhardt.
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Thursday 04th September 2008
In light of the Georgia visit this week by chief psychopath in team-Bush, Dick Cheney, reviled by Premier Vladimir Putin as directly responsible for triggering the Georgia crisis for election purposes, the growing rift between the US and Russia simultaneously represents an opportunity for Tehran both to neutralize UN Security Council efforts to impose tighter sanctions on Iran over the nuclear program and explore further, and more meaningful, strategic cooperation with Russia and the Latin left vis-a-vis the common threat of US unipolarism. On balance, the post-Cold War record of US unipolarism has been less than desirable. There are many examples of blatant interventionism, bullying and war-mongering that have risked world peace. And now with both the US presidential candidates, Democratic Senator Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, sold on the notion of maintaining the US's pre-eminence in global politics, there will be continuity with the pattern of post-Cold War policies having the upper hand, albeit with new nuances if Obama wins.
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