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Wednesday 10th March 2010
Israel has put the cards on the table. The West must unconditionally back and be criminally complicit in the brutal ethnic cleansing in Palestine. The Obama administration tried, genuinely or rhetorically, to convince the Muslim world that this unjust barbarity was not a value it shared. These illusions were soon shattered when Obama could not even "persuade" its client to temporarily freeze illegal settlement activity. Now Israel has laid down a further marker demanding continuing criminal complicity in the ethnic cleansing. No wonder vice-President Biden is angry at having been stripped naked in full view of the world. Ironically the rabidly Likudnic neocon Congress is expected to side with barbaric ethnic cleansing rather than any semblance of justice!
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
As the land of the "free" turned into a continent blighted by gulags and torture chambers, Washington's Blairite cheer leaders are said to have been left in the dark about the decent of the West into barbarity. Britain's ex M15 boss tries to salvage a semblance of credibility after David Milliband's verbal contortions trying to defend the indefensible. However, Milliband's recent tussle with the Judges, on revealing his department's documented collusion with torture, shows that Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller may still be a voice from the recent past rather than a depiction of current British take on the barbarity rife and thriving again under Obama in Washington.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
The lure of the oil moolah triumphs over greed-infested western morality yet again. Washington suddenly discovers that "Jihad" is a benign term! The US state department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for jihad against Switzerland. Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the dismissive comments, said they did not reflect US policy and were not intended to offend. "I regret that my comments have become an obstacle to further progress in our bilateral relationship," Mr Crowley said. Last week, Libya's National Oil Corporation warned US oil firms of possible "repercussions" over Mr Crowley's reaction. The Libyan ambassador to the US sought to clarify Col Gaddafi's remarks saying the Libyan leader meant an economic boycott not "an armed attack". "I should have focused solely on our concern about the term jihad, which has since been clarified by the Libyan government," Mr Crowley added.
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Monday 08th March 2010
Washington rhetoric, echoed by the stenographers of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) over the past eight years, has brought a veneer of respectability to the international crime of aggressive war, as long as it is launched or sanctioned by the United States. With nodding approval from the FCM, Bush and Cheney sold the notion that such attacks can be justified to "prevent" some future hypothetical threat to the United States or its allies. This provided a thin, fig-leaf rationale for invading Iraq seven years ago this month. The Obama administration has not fully backed away from such thinking. War monger Benjamin Netanyahu is supremely confident of the solidity of his position with the movers and shakers in Congress, Washington opinion makers, and even within the Obama administration. And he gives off signs of being singularly underwhelmed by the President. These factors enhance the possibility Netanyahu will opt for the kind of provocation that would confront Obama with a Hobson's choice regarding whether to join an Israeli attack on Iran.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
The West may "adore" him to bits to gain access to Libya's oil moolah. Libya's despot remains a despised figure everywhere else. This month's Arab League summit hosted by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli has hit a snag. Lebanon is threatening a boycott over the mysterious disappearance of a renowned Lebanese political and religious figure 32 years ago. The inscrutable Gaddafi may have skeletons in his cupboard on this controversy
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, shot back Wednesday at American allegations that Iran was providing support to Afghan insurgents, accusing the United States of playing its own "double game" in the country and warning that the occupation was doomed to fail. During the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, the United States provided money and weapons to jihadi fighters, support critical to defeating the Soviet military. But in the aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal, the country plunged into a civil war that resulted in the Taliban ultimately taking over much of the country, whose leaders in many cases had been the beneficiaries of American support a decade earlier. Ignoring this hostory US Defence Secretary was mud racking in accusing Iran of supporting the Taliban. Asked about the American allegations, President Ahmadinejad responded: "What are you doing in this region? You are 12,000 kilometers away from here, your country is the other side of the world, what are you doing here? This is a serious question."
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
With President Hosni Mubarak holding the dubious title of Likudnic neocons most acceptable face of Islam, clerics appointed by him also loose credibility. Meanwhile, a disillusioned Egyptian society is turning inwards at a rapid pace.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
Mandating one-third female representation in India's parliament, the women's reservation bill will push political change worldwide. The question remains though: in its many years of life, why was the bill not redrafted to adjust for caste and religion? A redraft on these lines would truly make India a trail blazer in advancing citizens' rights regardless of caste, creed or gender.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
Wall Street and the City did little to deserve their record profits. A Robin Hood tax is the only fair solution. As always, the poorest have borne the brunt of financial misdeeds and watched the brazenness of bank bonuses alongside broken promises of global assistance. Pledging part of the tax to development aid would help to harmonise the aid burden. Several European governments, including Germany and France, have endorsed this view. Oddly, the Obama proposals neglected this, but the oversight is sadly consistent with the US not pulling its fair share of development aid. Earmarking part of a globally harmonised bank tax would help to assure donors everywhere that the US and other laggard donors would live up to international standards of burden-sharing. Since Wall Street caused this crisis, the case for this fair sharing is even stronger.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
Soldiers were out in force last night in the troubled Nigerian city of Jos where aid workers were still counting the dead after a sectarian massacre in which hundreds of villagers were hacked to death or burned in their homes. Jos has become an explosive fault line between the country's Muslim dominated north and predominantly Christian south. Sunday's killings left Nigeria's already embattled acting-President Goodluck Jonathan scrambling to avoid a full scale conflict in a state that has been rocked by religious violence in recent years.
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Wednesday 10th March 2010
Despite all the diplomatic disquiet over Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, actions speak far louder than words when it comes to Israel's international status. Shamefully the OECD is giving a gleeful nudge to brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestine as a shared goal of the developed economies. In May, the country seems set to be ushered into the OECD, following years of campaigning from successive Israeli governments. Such a move would be another step in welcoming Israel in from the cold, and demonstrates certain states' willingness to overlook Israel's questionable behaviour as an occupier in favour of enhanced fiscal and political ties.
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