US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America

From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for ‘full-spectrum operations’ is escalating rapidly
by Hugh O’Shaughnessy
Published: Nov. 22, 2009 – The Independent
The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and [...]

Slavery or Freedom?

If history is anything to go by, just three per cent of us taking decisive action will be enough to stop dictatorship being established in Europe and the USA and resurrect the real democracy
by Jane Burgermeister
Published: Oct. 10, 2009 – The Flu Case
We have reached a fork in the road, a crossroads, and the latest [...]

Israel’s plans to Wage Nuclear War on Iran: History of Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal

Hundreds of nuclear warheads under the control of Israel’s defense establishment.
by Michael Carmichael
Published: Jan. 15, 2007 – Global Research
In 1986, an Israeli civil servant who worked in the state-owned nuclear industry flew to London where he was invited to meet with reporters working for The Sunday Times. In these press briefings, Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel’s [...]

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Kabul shootout over, 12 killed
Thu. Oct. 29 – A deadly attack on a guesthouse in central Kabul has ended with the deaths of three gunmen and six foreign UN employees staying at the hostel, an Afghan official has said.
Six dead, dozens wounded as violence rages in Iraq
Thu. Oct. 29 [...]

The IDF Violated Nuremberg Principles During Operation ‘Cast Lead’

by Cesar Chelala
Published: Oct. 15, 2009 – Information Clearing House
In what can be considered a sad paradox of history, an analysis of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) actions during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza shows that the IDF violated several of the Nuremberg Principles, as well as the principles of the Geneva Conventions.
The Nuremberg Principles [...]

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Israeli Apartheid (Last Updated: Sun. Sep. 27)
24 wounded in clashes at al-Aqsa Mosque
Sun. Sep. 27 – At least 24 people have been wounded when clashes erupted between Israeli police and Palestinians in al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli missile strike kills 3 fighters in east Gaza
Sun. Sep. 27 – At least three Palestinian fighters have [...]

Obama administration shields CIA torturers

by Tom Eley
Published: Sep. 22, 2009 – WSWS
In response to a public campaign by the CIA, the Obama administration has decided to further scale back an already narrow investigation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) torture during the Bush years that was announced last month by Attorney General Eric Holder.
In announcing the probe, Holder had made [...]

Death Squads, Disappearances and Torture in Pakistan

by Bill Van Auken
Published: Sep. 16, 2009 – WSWS
As the Obama administration prepares a major escalation of the so-called AfPak war, reports from Pakistan’s Swat Valley, near Afghanistan’s eastern border, provide a gruesome indication of the kind of war that the Pentagon and its local allies are waging.
While touted by Obama and his supporters as [...]

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Israeli Apartheid (Last Updated: Tue. Sep. 22)
Two Palestinians killed by Israeli tank shells
Tue. Sep. 22 – At least two Palestinian fighters have reportedly lost their lives when Israeli tank shells landed in the proximity of Jabaliya refugee camp, in northern Gaza.
Israel raids West Bank, fires sound bombs
Fri. Sep. 18 – Israeli soldiers, who conduct regular [...]

George Bush’s third term as president? You’re living it now

by David Swanson
Published: Sep. 02, 2009 – Stop the War Coalition
It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through [...]

New Jewish organ theft gang busted

Published: Sep. 09, 2009 – Press TV
New reports have surfaced on the arrest of yet another Jewish organ trading gang in the United States involved in the abduction of Algerian children.
Dr. Mustafa Khayatti, the head of the Algerian National Committee for the Development of Health Research, revealed on Sunday that the New York city police [...]

Neoliberalism Needs Death Squads in Colombia

by Hans Bennett
Published: Sep. 04, 2009 – Dissident Voice
In her new book Blood & Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, author Jasmin Hristov writes: “For roughly forty years, the Colombian state has been playing a double game: prohibiting the formation of paramilitary groups with one law and facilitating their existence with another; condemning their barbarities and [...]