Posts Tagged ‘Italy’
Asif Zardari Richer than Queen Elizabeth II
The Independent | By David Usborne | 19 May 2010 Rich and powerful: Obama and the global super-elite The US President's bank balance has been buoyant since he took office. But he is still some way short of rivalling the very richest world leaders Now the nation knows. That doggy in the White House window is worth $1,600 (£1,100). Pretty [...]
Sometimes conspiracy theories are true
The American Conservative | By Alexander Cockburn | 1 July 2010 Unlike the French or the Italians, for whom conspiracies are an integral part of government activity, acknowledged by all, Americans have been temperamentally prone to discount them. Reflecting its audience, the press follows suit. Editors and reporters like to offer themselves as [...]
A Serbian View of Kosovo
Antiwar | By Nebojsa Malic | 20 February 2010 The State That’s Still A Lie: 'Independent' Kosovo Turns 2 Two years have passed since the Albanian provisional government in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence, and was quickly recognized by the Empire and its clients. The powers that have invoked the specter of [...]
The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan
Foreign Policy in Focus | By Nick Terse | 11 February 2010 In the nineteenth century, it was a fort used by British forces. In the twentieth century, Soviet troops moved into the crumbling facilities. In December 2009, at this site in the Shinwar district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, U.S. troops joined members of the Afghan [...]
One Holocaust Justifies Another
Haaretz | By Gideon Levy | 28 January 2010 Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda Israel's bigwigs attacked at dawn on a wide front. The president in Germany, the prime minister with a giant entourage in Poland, the foreign minister in Hungary, his deputy in Slovakia, the culture minister in France, the information minister at [...]
“Italy needs to deal with its racism” — Vatican
Daily Mail | By Nick Pisa | 12 January 2010 Vatican condemns Italy for 'weeping sore of racism' just days after immigrant riots Italy was condemned as racist today by the Vatican in a hard-hitting editorial in its official newspaper, just days after a wave of rioting by African workers. Hundreds went on the rampage after two were shot by [...]
Italy convicts former CIA agents in renditions trial
Reuters | Article | 4 November 2009 MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a landmark ruling against the "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. government. Judge Oscar Magi dropped the case against another three American [...]
Italian Forces Buying Protection from Afghan-Taleban
Time | By Tom Coghlan | 15 October 2009 French troops were killed after Italy hushed up ‘bribes’ to Taleban When ten French soldiers were killed last year in an ambush by Afghan insurgents in what had seemed a relatively peaceful area, the French public were horrified. (more...)
“The troops are tired; the American people are tired.” — Gates
WSWS.org | By James Cogan | 22 July 2009 July casualties highest of Afghan war The determination of the Obama administration to escalate its neo-colonial war in Afghanistan has led to a sharp increase in the casualties for both US and NATO troops. The Taliban and other insurgent movements are responding with daily guerilla attacks on the [...]
Le Monde: The Diplomatic “Philosophy” of Barack Obama
Translated from the French LE MONDE | 13.07.09 | 15h26 • Updated 13.07.09 | 15h26 WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT His advisers speak less of an Obama doctrine than an Obama "philosophy". With the Accra speech delivered on Saturday July 11 in Ghana before a Parliament that was turbulent, sometimes facetious, with opinions expressed loudly as [...]
