Archive for April, 2010
Gun-Site Video of Americans Killing Reuters Journalist, Among Others
Wikileaks | 5 April 2010 Collateral Murder Overview 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of [...]
Is Karzai a Drug Addict? Did Galbraith Make Money in Afghanistan Too?
NBC News & MSNBC | 6 April 2010 Ex-U.N. envoy: Karzai may have drug problem Peter Galbraith questions Afghan leader's mental stability NEW YORK - A former U.N envoy to Afghanistan on Tuesday questioned the "mental stability" of Hamid Karzai and suggested the Afghan president may be using drugs. In an interview on MSNBC's "The [...]
Thailand Crisis Worsens
Xinhua | 3 March 2010 Rally to continue until PM dissolves House: red shirts BANGKOK, April 3 (Xinhua) -- The "red shirts" announced Saturday evening they will continue their mass protest at the center of Bangkok until the prime minister dissolves the lower House of parliament. The announcement at 6:00 p.m. after the "red-shirts" [...]
Occupied Afghanistan: World’s Top Producer of Opium and Hashish
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 1 April 2010 NATO’s Afghanistan: The Champion of Drugs Production We really have to take our hats off to NATO. This clique of arms lobbyists and defender of jobs for the boys invaded Afghanistan in 2001 on the pretext that Osama bin Laden was using the country to attack western interests. Almost a [...]
Gorbachev’s Apologia
Russia Beyond the Headlines | By Mikhail Gorbachev | 30 March 2010 Perestroika at 25 "Perestroika, the series of political and economic reforms I undertook in the Soviet Union in 1985, has been the subject of heated debate ever since" -- Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union Perestroika, the series of political and economic [...]
Mumbai Attacks Were a ‘False Flag’ Operation — Congress Functionary
The Milli Gazette | By Amaresh Misra | 28 March 2010 Headley Saga: Mumbai attack was a joint IB-CIA-Mossad-RSS project With the row over India getting access to David Headley growing acrimonious each day, the CIA's double agent saga seems all set to open up a can of incredible worms. First, the case unmasks the pro-US face of the Indian [...]
Tariq Ali on Yemen
London Review of Books | By Tariq Ali | Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010 (pages 31-33) Unhappy Yemen I left for Yemen as Obama was insisting that ‘large chunks’ of the country were ‘not fully under government control’, after Senator Joseph Lieberman had cheerfully announced that it was a suitable target for war and occupation. The sad [...]
Massacre of Muslims and Democracy in Thailand
London Review of Books | Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010 (pages 42-44) | By Joshua Kurlantzick Red v. Yellow Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand by Duncan McCargo Cornell, 227 pp, £12.95, ISBN 0 8014 7499 X In recent decades, Thailand has been running one of the world’s most successful national [...]
“Pakistani” is Now a Race in America
American Racism: U.S. Census 2010 Invents a New Race The ongoing census in he United States sheds light on the essential racism of American thought, outlook, and public policy. In what is billed as the "shortest forms in history" the 9th of only 10 questions to be asked in the ongoing 2010 census concerns the "race" of the respondent (see the [...]
