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<span class="references"
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2009 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;">One
year after Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, the
conditions of Palestinians in Gaza have not
improved; in many respects things may seem even
more dire, as hopes of a serious peace effort have
been dashed. However, it would be a mistake to
miss the more dynamic situation that suggests
Israel’s power and impunity are not as
invulnerable as they might appear. Ali Abunimah
focuses on the silver lining around the cloud, not
least that of the unbroken and still vibrant
resistance of the Palestinian (...)</span>
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<span class="references"
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2009 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;">This
is probably the most well-rounded and complete
article by James Petras on the configuration of
Zionist power - at all levels of the US political
system and society - that far outweighs its
numerical strength. More than a lobby, the ZPC
has acted over the past fifty years as an agent in
the interest of a foreign military power. Its
influence is already deeply entrenched in many
other regions of the world, denoting a trend that
Petras describes as the globalization of Zionist
power. However, support may be falterning, as
divisions among the US policy elite
over (...)</span>
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<span class="discret">Twice as many U.S.
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<span class="discret">With only a restricted
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either from Israel or Egypt, hundreds of tunnels
have been dug under the Egyptian border to bring
in (...)</span>
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The price of NATO membership was letting US
trample national sovereignty
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President Rolandas Paksas at 2003 NATO press
conference.
Lithuania provided all the necessary conditions
for operating a CIA secret prison for
terror (...)</span>
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a Russian software programme, available for $25.99
on the internet, through which they can
intercept (...)</span>
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<span class="discret">Whereas Nobel Peace
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decision to send more troops to Afghanistan and
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<span class="references"
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bold;">by Glen Ford | 29 December
2009 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;">With
humanity at risk and Africa facing
“incineration,” the United States opted for
“disaster capitalism” at the global climate
conference, last week. “President Obama and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to
Copenhagen to end any possibility of a global
agreement on greenhouse gasses that the rich
nations would be bound to respect", claims BAR
Executive Director Glen Ford.</span>
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<span class="references"
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font-size: 10px; color: #B91111; font-weight:
bold;">by Margaret Kimberley | 27 December
2009 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration:
none;">President Barack Obama’s first year in
office has many elements of déjà vu and feels
much the same as a year of George Bush. Wars
metastasize, bankers get richer and prisons
migrate from Cuba to Illinois ... changing venues
as policies remain in place.</span>
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<span class="references"
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font-size: 10px; color: #B91111; font-weight:
bold;">by Robert Parry | 24 December
2009 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration:
none;">Myths can be innocuous enough, providing
pleasure and comfort to believers: for instance,
the Jesus birth stories that are celebrated at
Christmas or the legends of Abraham and Moses
conveying God’s promised land to the Israelites.
But myths can have a darker side when they are
embraced as religious or ideological truths. In
this article, Parry revisits the historic trail of
the Diaspora myth and dissects the "abandonment"
myth, which is buried in the rationale for an
escalated war in (...)</span>
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