Pentagon list claiming former GITMO detainees becoming ‘terrorists again’ is totally unreliable

Lia Tarachansky speaks to Nancy Youssef, Pentagon Correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Youssef speaks about a list recently released by Pentagon, identifying that 14% or 74 former detainees of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detention center are “confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terrorist activities.” Following to story [...]

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Israeli soldiers’ revelations from Gaza

Israeli soldiers involved in the attacks on Gaza at the start of this year claim that they were ordered to fire, regardless of the risk to civilians. Israel banned journalists from its invasion of Gaza in December and January, making it hard to verify allegations of indiscriminate firing, the use of phosphorous bombs, and forcing [...]

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Noam Chomsky: season of travesties – freedom and democracy in mid-2009

Noam Chomsky’s ZSpace Page / ZSpace
June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.
The election in Lebanon was greeted with euphoria. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that he is [...]

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests Iran’s politcal system is illegitimate (part 2)

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Part 2 of Nader Hashemi on Iranian Grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s fatwa in which the Ayatolla suggests that the country’s Supreme Leader, its government and some of its institutions are illegitimate, and calls on Iranians to fight oppression. Nader Hashemi in this video [...]

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests Iran’s politcal system is illegitimate (part 1)

Iranian Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests that Iran’s Supreme Leader and the country’s government and institutions are illegitimate, and he urges Iranians to fight oppression.

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What ethics? Julia Gillard’s unquestioning love for Israel

There’s nothing clean about the business of politics, and certainly ethics play no part part in it – unless they can be exploited for personal gain. Julia Gillard, this slow-speaking nasty piece of Labor conservatism, camouflaging as deputy prime minister of Australia (hard to believe she’s been a student activist once representing the political left), [...]

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Ship Carrying Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Seized by Israel

Interview with Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish solidarity activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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On June 30, an unarmed boat, named “Spirit of Humanity,” carrying 21 international peace activists was seized in international waters by the Israeli Navy, as it attempted to sail from Cypress to Gaza with relief supplies and messages of solidarity for Palestinians living [...]

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Questions & answers on the Iran crisis

July 08, 2009
By Stephen Shalom, Thomas Harrison, Joanne Landy, and Jesse Lemisch
Source: Campaign for Peace and Democracy
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(July 7, 2009) — Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support for the masses of Iranians protesting electoral fraud and our horror at [...]

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Was the recent uprising in Iran a “colored revolution,” a genuine movement for democracy – or both? (Full Spectrum Dominance and Iran Part 2)

It’s hard to know what’s going on behind the scenes of governments; given Seymor Hersh’s 2008 New Yorker article though on US$400 billion put aside by the US to destabilise the Eurasian region, I would not be surprised if the CIA had some influence of significance in the recent events in [...]

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Analysis of the Iran uprising and its aftermath

The Iranian uprising crosses all classes, and it’s neither the result of internet access (especially Twitter) nor CIA involvement, argues Reese Erlich, journalist and author of The Iran Agenda.

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Can the Taliban be defated in Pakistan?

Preventing A Taliban Victory
By Pervez Hoodbhoy
Pervez Hoodbhoy’s ZSpace Page
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(Dawn, 20 June, 2009) — Now that the army has turned serious, Baitullah Mehsud cannot expect to stroll down Constitution Avenue any time soon, nor hope to sit in the presidency. A few thousand mountain barbarians, even if trained by Al Qaeda’s best, cannot possibly seize power [...]

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Weekly list of articles on topics from the financial crisis to Iranian elections

F. William Engdahl, Larry Everest, Catherine Lutz and Cynthia Enloe, and Ellen Brown are guests on The Global Research News Hour
Host: Stephen Lendman, June 22-26
- 2009-06-26

Obama’s Financial Reform Proposal: A Stealth Scheme for Global Monetary Control
- by Stephen Lendman – 2009-06-24

Peruvian government forced to repeal Amazon free trade decrees
- by Luis Acre – [...]

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To the question of “natural growth” of Israeli settlements

Israeli settlement construction, including “natural growth” makes an advancement of two-state solutionimpossible, and Israel knows that – which is why they continue with the settlments’ expansion. So far they already have annexed 50% of the Westbank; their aim therefore can only be to incorporate the whole of this Palestinian land into [...]

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Israel, selling lies and barbarism to a world that doesn’t ask question anymore

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually you will believe it” …
The Israeli Regime has been selling nothing but lies and delusions, and after decades of repeating them, the world has stopped questioning. Intelligence, wisdom, justice and compassion have been almost [...]

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A history of CIA coups and atrocities

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American [...]

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The other voices: links to non-mainstream press information on Iran

The following links all point to different publications and their authors on Pak Alert Press – in an attempt not to simply promote another view but to encourage the ascendancy of critical reflection – at a time when the West dominated world press produces nothing but one-sided propaganda.

CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran [...]

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The Secret Government – Bill Moyers on the CIA

Where the trouble in Iran started: the overthrow by the CIA of the democratically elected, popular Iranian prime minister Mossadeq in 1953. It’s an old video, but nothing much has changed in the last twenty or so years since Bill Moyers recorded this episode.

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Iran Falls to US PSYOPS

The protests have the hallmarks of the CIA orchestrated protests in Georgia and Ukraine. It requires total blindness not to see this.
Reposted from Pak Alert Press
By Paul Craig Roberts
June 22, 2009 “Information Clearing House“ — -President Obama called on the Iranian government to allow protesters to control the streets in Tehran. Would Obama or any [...]

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The oppressive regime in Iran is bad, but so is the CIA

I’m no supporter of oppression or any other form of state violence and brutality. But let’s stop being hypocritical and become fair instead: while the Western world is rightly up in arms against state sponsored ruthlessness and barbarity in Iran, let’s ask the question: where is the same outcry and fervour [...]

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Strong evidence for Israel trying to destabilise Iran through using Twitter

On June 16, Pak Alert Press reported of having done some digging on the Iran Twitter campaign after having felt suspicious about its sudden explosive occurrence on June 13. The result of the research strongly indicates that at least some of the major Twitter accounts were set up by the same source. And even more [...]

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