June 24, 2009

Destabilization 2.0

Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran…

by James Corbett
Source: The Corbett Report
It’s the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other [...]

June 24, 2009

Israel defies US with plan for 240 new homes on Palestinian land…

Israel’s defence ministry has proposed legalising 60 existing homes at a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, and building another 240 homes at the site, despite US calls for a halt to settlement growth.
Construction at the outpost, known as Water Reservoir Hill, near the Talmon settlement, north of Ramallah, would “greatly damage” the freedom [...]

June 24, 2009

Iraq: At least 56 people have been killed in Baghdad bombing…

Iraqi police said the bomb went off in a market place in the predominantly Shia area of the Iraqi capital.
At least 104 people were also reported to have been injured in the blast, one of the worst in Iraq this year.
It comes less than a week before US soldiers pull out of all Iraqi cities [...]

June 24, 2009

At Least 80 Killed as US Drones Attack South Waziristan Funeral Procession…

On Thursday, US drones launched an attack on a compound in South Waziristan, and when locals rushed to the scene to rescue survivors, they launched more missiles at them, leaving a total of 13 dead. The timing and target of the attack were controversial, as was the tactic of luring locals in with a first [...]

June 24, 2009

Ron Paul: Obama’s ‘goal’ is economic collapse…

Ron Paul, the popular Republican Congressman from Texas, is ripping into the president and Congress for what he sees as their “goal” with round after round of stimulus: complete economic collapse.
“From their spending habits, an economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress and this administration,” he said in his June 22, 2009, weekly [...]

June 24, 2009

Bagram detainees allege abuse by US soldiers…

More than 20 former prisoners at a US detention centre in Afghanistan have alleged they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs, according to a BBC report.
The BBC interviewed 27 people who were held at the Bagram military base between 2002 and 2008. None of them was ever charged or tried.
The former inmates [...]