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<span class="references"
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2010 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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extensive social network and a large popular base.
It derives its legitimacy from the Palestinian
people. It is also a rational actor that has moved
closer to a vision of peace consistent with
international law and consensus. Hamas’
political evolution and deepening moderation stand
in stark contrast to the rejectionism of the
Netanyahu government and call into question which
parties are ’hardline’ and which are
’extremist’, notes Fawaz A. (...)</span>
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2010 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;">The
orchestrated stunt of the Christmas pseudo-bomber
cropped up right on cue to provide an alibi for
the military attacks against Yemen that had
started months earlier. As always, ubiquitous Al
Qaeda and the synthetic "war on terror" serve as
Washington’s trump cards to promote its global
geopolitical ambitions. In parallel with the
escalation of the war in South Asia –
counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and
drone missile attacks in Pakistan – the United
States and its NATO allies have laid the
groundwork for increased naval, air and ground
operations in the (...)</span>
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2010 </span>
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recent UNAMA report blaming Afghan insurgents for
the dramatic increase in the death of innocent
civilians in the first 10 months of 2009, appears
to be at variance with the facts and figures laid
out in this article by Rick Rozoff. Insurgent
forces critized the UN chief for his ’false
statement’ on Afghan civilian casualties,
intimating that the US State Department may have
pushed Ban Ki-moon to make the statement to create
animosity between local populations. With the
upsurge of U.S. and other NATO nations’ and
partners’ troops to over 150,000 in the near
future, the (...)</span>
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2010 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;">On
December 25, US authorities arrested a Nigerian
named Abdulmutallab aboard a Northwest Airlines
flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of
having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled
explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast
from CNN, the New York Times and other sources
that he was "suspected" of having been trained in
Yemen for his terror mission. What the world has
been subjected to since is the emergence of a new
target for the US ‘War on Terror,’ namely a
desolate state on the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen. A
closer look at the background suggests
the (...)</span>
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2010 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration:
none;">President Chavez’s election in 1998
marked a decline of US hegemony in Venezuela and
throughout Latin America. In this study, James
Petras reminds us that Washington’s chief
interest in overthrowing Chavez was political, not
economic, and revolved around his steadfast
opposition to the Bush administration’s "War on
Terror" doctrine. Washington feared that
Chavez’s dissent might provide an alternative
pole for the newly emerging ‘center-left’
regimes on the continent. Today, Petras
reconceptualizes US-Venezuelan relations in light
of declining US economic power and
rising (...)</span>
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2010 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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technique of a coup d’état, more recently also
referred to as "coloured revolution", finds its
origins in abundant literature dating back to the
beginning of the 20th century. It was
successfully applied by the U.S. neo-conservatives
to set the stage for "regime change" in a number
of former Soviet republics. However, the
technique backfired when it was tried in a
different cultural environment (Venezuela,
Lebanon, Iran). John Laughland, who reported on
some of these operations for the Guardian, sheds
new light on this (...)</span>
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Stockwell tube station where he was killed on 22
July 2005, two weeks after the London bombings of
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font-size: 10px; color: #B91111; font-weight:
bold;">by Paul Craig Roberts | 11 January
2010 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;">By
stitching together a string of "terrorist" events,
Paul Craig Roberts zooms in on a modus operandi of
false-flag and cover up operations stretching back
to the Cold War period and the NATO/CIA-sponsored
Operation Gladio with tentacles across Western
Europe, but most famously in Italy. The bombings,
which were blamed on communists to discredit them
politically, were also used to create a climate of
fear prompting the population to turn to the state
for greater security, in an all-but-too-familiar
present-day (...)</span>
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none"><b>"What is the lesson to be learned from
the Holocaust?": an interview with Hedy Epstein
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2010 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration:
none;">85-year old Hedy Epstein is back in the
limelight. Last week in Cairo, she embarked on a
hunger strike to protest the ongoing blockade of
Gaza. A Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents
perished in Auschwitz in 1942, she emigrated to
the US in 1948 and first visited Palestine in
2003. Revolted by the Israeli Government’s
oppression of the Palestinians, she has devoted
her life to drawing public attention to this
reality. Back from a visit to Palestine in January
2008, she was interviewed by
Silvia (...)</span>
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Financial Blackmail of the British and Dutch
Governments and the IMF</b></a><br>
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<span class="references"
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font-size: 10px; color: #B91111; font-weight:
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2010 </span>
<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;">A
group within the Icelandic Parliament, called The
Movement, has emerged from the mass struggle of
Icelanders against the financial blackmail brought
to bear against their country by the governments
in London and The Hague, with the backing of the
IMF, in the wake of the insolvency of three large
Icelandic banks linked to the Lehman Brothers-AIG
world financial panic of September-October
2008.</span>
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2010</span><br><a
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<span class="references"
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<span class="texte2" style="font-family:
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10px; color: #5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;">The
Future Belongs to Lean Organizations like European
Freetrade Association (EFTA). Respect for the
dignity and independence of all member states has
paid off, by Dr Werner Wüthrich / Be Grounded in
Deep Soil, where no Frost of the World can Touch
your Roots”. An encouragement to upright gait in
threatened situations – about a brochure* by
Rudolf Burger on the current situation of
Switzerland / “Wolli in Winterland”. A small
Valais Blacknose sheep conquers hearts / Future
for Sheep and Goat – and for our Compatriots in
the Mountains / Switzerland, of course!, by
Reinhard Konradi / “In my View the Doha Round
Failed”. Interview with Hansjörg Walter /
“Swiss (...)</span>
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<span class="discret">The White House,
January 7, 2010
Good afternoon, everybody.
I just concluded a meeting with members of my
national security team, including those from our
intelligence, (...)</span>
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