Thursday 24th July 2008
"The heavily militarized and nuclear armed state of Israel is entirely dependent upon US military aid, economic support, and political patronage. Israel is the direct recipient of more than six billion US tax dollars annually. Israel could not continue its brutal annexation policies, its militarized wall, its “settlement” of Palestinian lands or any of its other objectionable policies without the complete and bipartisan support of US ruling circles. For the US, Israel is a kind of offshore military base, a nuclear-armed white enclave in the middle of millions of brown people who sit atop a large share of the world’s most accessible oil", writes Bruce Dixon.
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Thursday 24th July 2008
Two leading lights of Washington's so-called "realist" foreign-policy establishment have called on the George W Bush administration to drop demands that Tehran freeze uranium enrichment as a precondition for further talks. The joint statement seems timed to show strong bipartisan support for enhanced US engagement.
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Thursday 24th July 2008
Despite reports that the company is leaving the mercenary business, Blackwater's future is secure. After all, Blackwater has long been a key part of the illegal US occupation of Iraq and has been at the centre of several high-profile scandals and deadly incidents. Add to that its owner's ties to the White House and the radical religious right in the US and it is clear why this is news.
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Thursday 24th July 2008
The past five years of record oil prices and shifting development priorities have created a sustained period of investment that HSBC, with its 100-year history in the Middle East, hopes to help along. The bank’s regional predecessor famously financed the dredging of Dubai creek which allowed the city to develop into the Gulf’s trade hub and foreshadowed its emergence as a tourist destination and financial centre.
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Thursday 24th July 2008
Europe needs a complete break from the Likudnik neocon agenda that is driving Washington's position in the Middle East. Apologists for ethnic cleansing in Palestine and shock and awe barbarity in Iraq have to be consigned to the dustbins of history and a new consensus reached for the disestablishment of the state of Israel and a move towards a one state solution.
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Thursday 24th July 2008
Theories abound for the cause of the US subprime crisis, with the alleged culprits ranging from greedy corporations to rating agencies. Yet fraud lies at the core of the crisis, with the firms now being blamed as primary perpetrators actually being among the victims.
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Thursday 24th July 2008
Bitter memories linger in the settlements and villages surrounding the site of the Srebrenica massacre. Old enemies may now be neighbours but they are not friends. If there is a monument to the life and work of Radovan Karadzic, then it is three miles outside Srebrenica at Potocari. Line after line of tall, thin gravestones in the Muslim style march across the valley floor until they meld into a solid, light grey blur of gleaming marble.
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Thursday 24th July 2008
Rising food prices are putting millions of people in East Africa at risk of severe hunger and destitution, the UK-based charity Oxfam has warned. Droughts, war and poverty have put an estimated nine to 13 million people in the region in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, it says.
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Thursday 24th July 2008
Mayor Boris Johnson has strengthened his regime by appointing another Islamophobe. Anthony Browne of the neocon Policy Exchange first came to prominence when he was denounced by then home secretary David Blunkett for "bordering on fascism" after a series of articles on immigration. Mr Browne's Islamophobic rantings were prevalent in an article headlined "the Muslims are coming – there's no plot: Islam really does want to conquer the world" in The Spectator.
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Wednesday 23rd July 2008
A plan by the Pakistan government, with connivance from Saudi Arabia, to split the Taliban operating in Pakistan's tribal areas has failed spectacularly, with the "renegade" Taliban leader and his network wiped out by al-Qaeda-backed militants. The incident has consolidated the hold of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, while al-Qaeda is benefiting through a sharp increase in jihadis from around the world heading for the tribal regions
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