JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Jewish settler leaders on Tuesday shrugged off U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for Israel to halt settlement building in the occupied West Bank, saying Palestinians needed to “halt terror first”.
Dani Dayan, chairman of the West Bank settlers’ umbrella organisation Yesha Council, said he felt assured that domestic political support would allow settlers [...]
May 20, 2009
Israeli settlers reject Obama call to halt building…
May 20, 2009
Hezbollah: IDF drill may be cover for launching new war…
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah declared on Monday that an upcoming Israel Defense Forces drill could be a cover for launching a war against his Lebanon-based militant organization.
“There is a possibility, albeit small, that Israel may be preparing to launch a new surprise war and is readying its people for such an eventuality,” AFP quoted Nasrallah [...]
May 20, 2009
Three dead in Iraq unrest…
BAGHDAD (AFP) – Three Iraqi civilians were killed and 10 wounded in violence on Tuesday while police also found the body of man who had been stabbed to death at an unknown date.
Two of the civilians were killed and five wounded in a roadside bomb in Taji, 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Baghdad, an [...]
May 20, 2009
NATO: Airstrike kills 8 Afghan civilians…
KABUL – The NATO-led force says an airstrike by one of its warplanes has killed eight civilians in southern Afghanistan.
The military alliance says in a Wednesday statement the air raid was launched following a clash with a group of 25 insurgents in Helmand province.
The statement says the militants used the civilians as human shields during [...]
May 20, 2009
Our man at Bilderberg: Let’s salt the slug in 2010…
by Charlie Skelton
Source: guardian.co.uk
Publicity is pure poison to the world’s global power elite. So we should all turn up to its next annual meeting with a few more tubs of the stuff, writes Charlie Skelton…
Ten years ago, when Jon Ronson dared to report on Bilderberg, he found himself “chased by mysterious men in dark glasses [...]
May 20, 2009
Army paid millions in bonuses to corrupt contractor…
The U.S. Army paid “tens of millions of dollars in bonuses” to KBR Inc, its biggest contractor in Iraq, even after it concluded the firm’s electrical work had put U.S. soldiers at risk, according to a source close to a U.S. congressional investigation.
The Senate Democratic Policy Committee plans to hold a hearing on Wednesday to [...]
May 20, 2009
US ‘will’ deploy missiles in Poland…
US is to go ahead with deploying interceptor missiles in Poland even if it scraps plans to set up anti-missile defense apparatuses in Eastern Europe, says Warsaw.
“Regardless of the decision (on missile defense), President Obama has said other cooperation with Poland, including strategic projects such as modernization of our armed forces, will definitely be continued,” [...]
May 20, 2009
Panetta and Washington’s endless war…
by Bill Van Auken
Source: wsws.org
After a week of bitter recriminations between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi over what she was told about torture, CIA Director Leon Panetta sought to put a stop to this public discussion, employing language that echoed the rhetoric of the Bush administration.
Giving his [...]
May 20, 2009
UK medics go on hunger strike after being refused entry into Gaza…
Three British medics began a hunger strike in Egypt today to protest against being refused entry into Gaza for a humanitarian mission.
Their aim is to establish a cardiac surgery unit at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which currently has no such facility, and to help train medical students and junior doctors there. But the British [...]
May 20, 2009
Hundreds of Irish Catholic priests ‘to be implicated in child abuse report’…
The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse has spent nine years looking into allegations from thousands of former pupils of state schools and orphanages, some which date back more than 60 years.
It is due on Wednesday while a second report looking into how sex abuse complaints were handled by the Catholic Church will be published [...]
May 20, 2009
Prosecutor: Gaza probe goes on without Israeli OK…
Former international prosecutor Richard Goldstone said Wednesday he will go ahead with his U.N. investigation into possible war crimes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Gaza, even though Israel has withheld its approval over what it calls an “intrinsically flawed” probe.
Goldstone said the U.N. investigators would enter Gaza through Egypt if necessary, but they had wanted [...]
May 20, 2009
Barack Obama: Iran must meet nuclear deadline…
Speaking after talks with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday, Mr Obama said that the US wants to bring Iran into the world community.
But he added: “We’re not going to have talks forever.”
Israel is deeply concerned about Iran’s perceived attempts to build a nuclear weapon, assuming that the anti-Israeli government in Tehran might [...]
May 20, 2009
U.S. military: Heavily armed and medicated…
by Melody Petersen
Source: msnbc
Prescription pill dependency among American troops is on the rise…
Marine Corporal Michael Cataldi woke as he heard the truck rumble past.
He opened his eyes, but saw nothing. It was the middle of the night, and he was facedown in the sands of western Iraq. His loaded M16 was pinned beneath him.
Cataldi had [...]
