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Controversies

Controversies provides necessary elements in order to understand international endgames and gives a tribune to high political personalities.


The Election of Barack Obama Has Paralyzed Progressive Forces in US Politics (Video)

 2 July 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Speech delivered by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford at African Liberation Day 2009 in Washington, DC on May 24, 2009, which highlights the paralysis of black and progressive leadership and the dead end in which progressive forces in the U.S. find themselves as a consequence of Barack Obama’s election.

June 30: Iraq withdrawal deadline for American troops?

 30 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | At the last count which took place nearly three years ago, the U.S. military had already built no less than 55 fully functional military bases in Iraq, with funding in place to build many more. At the end of 2006, they were still there. If they were planning to leave Iraq, why were they building permanent bases?

Reporters Without Borders’ lies about Venezuela

 By Salim Lamrani | Paris (France) | 26 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | With the advent of a new U.S. Administration and the appointment of a new director, one would have expected Reporters Without Borders to desist from their propaganda campaign against Venezuela and Cuba. But nothing of the sort. Salim Lamrani relates the latest episode of this never ending war.

Why should I look down on the Iranian people’s choice?

By Thierry Meyssan | Beirut (Lebanon) | 23 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Many readers have reacted angrily to Thierry Meyssan’s latest article. It is his duty to reply to them. Incorrigible and far from apologizing, he sticks to his guns.

Kurt Sonnenfeld: an inconvenient 9/11 witness

 Buenos Aires (Argentine) | 22 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Kurt Sonnenfeld’s statement at the presentation of his book El Perseguido (The Persecuted) on May 8, 2009, at the 35th Annual Buenos Aires Book Fair in Argentina, where he lives in exile since 2003. In it, Sonnenfeld tells the history of his persecution at the hands of U.S. authorities over the course of more than seven years after his official mission to Ground Zero as FEMA’s videographer ... an experience that turned him into an inconvenient witness.

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

 By Marjorie Cohn | 16 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | More than 30 years afte the end of the Vietnam War, it is time to make good on Nixon’s promise and remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam . Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. Vietnam veteran victims. However, as Agent Orange continues to take its toll, the United States is employing other chemical weapons against civilian populations in its war-driven agenda.

June 8, 1967: USS Liberty attacked by Israel in international waters (Video)

 9 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | A deadly Israeli attack on a US ship — an incident largely kept in the dark by Washington — receives new attention with survivors reliving the painful memory. USS Liberty survivors gathered in Washington on Monday to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the incident and expound on how they were sprayed with bullets by America’s "closest ally and beneficiary".

How the other 0.00000003 percent lives

 8 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Adam Turl examines the lives of the 10 richest people in the U.S.—and uncovers a rogue’s gallery of serial polluters, budget-slashers, CIA contractors, union-busters and right-wing nuts, concluding that we live in a society of obscene inequality! Could this account for the alleged swing to the left by the majority of American people - according to a recent report?

A Bush in sheep’s clothing

 5 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | A reaction by Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, to Barak Obama’s June 4 speech in Cairo addressing the Muslim world: "Obama’s speech shows little real change. In most regards his analysis maintains flawed American policies."

Obama Speech In Cairo: Video, Full Text

 Le Caire (Égypte) | 4 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Barack Obama’s Cairo speech heralds a shift from the Islamophobic rhetoric of the Bush regime, but not from the long-term aims of the U.S. empire.

Grand Theft Auto: How Stevie the Rat bankrupted GM

By Greg Palast | 3 June 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Steven Rattner, Barack Obama’s ’Car Czar’ - the man who pushed General Motors into bankruptcy - has a different plan for GM: grab the pension funds to pay off Morgan and Citibank. Cash in the insurance fund would be replaced by GM stock. There is only one problem: seizing workers’ pension fund money in a bankruptcy is illegal, as President Barack Obama should know.

How MI5 blackmails British Muslims

 30 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants: ’Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist’

Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?

 By Vandana Shiva | 23 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The factors that have caused 200,000 suicides in India are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalization which ensnare farmers in a spiral of indebtedness, generating despair.

The Pope’s Pilgrimage

17 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Was Pope Benedict XVI naive to accept Israel’s invitation to tread such a politically-charged terrain? Israel’s attempts to stagemanage the visit were largely successful and the Pope’s own agenda made him wary of antagonising his hosts. The visit offered no novelty except perhaps the de facto legitimation of an extreme right-wing government.

"Al Nakba"—The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948 (videos)

 15 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | On May 15th, sixty-one years later, Palestinians throughout the world commemorate the Nakba, "the catastrophe". The narrative of the Jewish state began with an ethnic cleansing in 1948, which aimed to erase the history of an entire people and falsely create that of another. We hear how the Palestinian suffering caused during the Gaza war invokes memories of the first Nakba.

Questions following not guilty verdicts in July 2005 London bombing case (video)

 13 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | At the end of April, following a retrial ordered by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), three men were found not guilty at Kingston Crown Court of helping to plan the London terrorist bombings in July 2005. If anything, the verdicts have further clouded the issue, leaving fundamental questions unanswered. If the three defendents did not help plan and organise the bombings, then who did? And, given the available intelligence, why were the bombings not prevented?

Criminalizing criticism of Israel is the end of free speech

 By Paul Craig Roberts | 13 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | As everybody was being distracted by the swine flu hysteria, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. As soon as it is approved by the Senate, it will serve as a mechanism to undermine free speech making it a crime, inter alia, for any American to criticize Israel’s colonialist policies and brutal treatment of Palestinians.

Jesse Ventura talks about CIA implanted in State Government, his CIA interrogation and trip to Cuba! (video)

 11 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Former Governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, expounds on his personal experiences and knowledge of such facts!

US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to "hunt people for Jesus... so we get them into the kingdom" (video)

 By Jeremy Scahill  | 8 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The British imperial army was often preceded by Christian missionaries in its African conquests. As the following shows, the US has evolved a more efficient system integrating the missionary function into the military itself.

Chrysler bankruptcy sets stage for assault on GM workers

 6 May 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Last week’s decision by the Obama administration to drive Chrysler into bankruptcy was a deliberate political action aimed at ratcheting up the pressure on General Motors workers to accept even deeper job cuts and wage and benefit concessions. This fact has been acknowledged by administration officials, news commentators and the United Auto Workers president himself, in the days following the bankruptcy announcement by the third largest US automaker last Thursday.

Exposing the Truth on NATO-US Agression against Yugoslavia (video)

 By Diana Johnstone | 30 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The Centre for Research on Globalization presents Diana Johnstone, filmed in Belgrade, Serbia at the 24 March 2009 tenth anniversary commemoration of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia. The following text was prepared by Diana Johnstone and presented in Montreal as part of the "Humanitarian Intervention Challenged" Conference held at Vanier College. The Conference was organised by Vanier College and the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

The Torture Issue That Won’t Go Away

 26 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | On April 23, 2009 President Obama rebuffed calls for a commission to investigate alleged abuses under the Bush administration in fighting terrorism. No matter how much Obama and the rest of the establishment in both parties want to “move forward,” the damage done to America’s reputation as a bastion of liberty that “does not torture” has been irrevocably destroyed by embracing a policy of torture and calling it euphemistically, “Enhanced Interrogations”.

Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Speech at U.N. Conference on Racism

 By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Geneva (Switzerland) | 22 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the International Durban Review Conference (Durban II) on Monday that United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has in the past 60 years supported the occupier Zionist regime and given it the liberty to commit any crime.

Americas Summit: ALBA Nations Condemn Capitalism

 21 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The following statement was issued on April 17 by six of the seven governments of the ALBA economic and social alliance in Latin America. (The seventh member, Ecuador, was unable to attend the meeting.) The ALBA countries declare that an entirely different approach to the world’s problems is required.

How can you trust the cowardly BBC?

 By Robert Fisk | 21 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | BBC Special Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen was censured for a piece which he wrote for the BBC website last June under the headline "Six days that changed the Middle East", attempting to give context to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by analysing the events of the 1967 Six Day War. Bowen referred to "Zionism’s innate instinct to push out the frontier" and wrote that Israel showed a "defiance of everyone’s interpretation of international law except its own".

Not a Word About the Blockade

15 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Fidel Castro’s response to Obama’s "largesse": Cuba has resisted; it will continue to resist and will never beg for alms.

’We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible’

 12 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Notwithstanding the confrontational tone of the interviewers, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke with Spiegel about what he expects from US President Barack Obama, why America’s new Afghanistan strategy is wrong and why Iran should have a spot on the UN Security Council.

Haiti: Uncovering U.S. Involvement in Aristide Coup

9 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | More than four years after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide went into exile, questions linger about Washington’s involvement.

A G20 Meeting for Naught

By Éric Toussaint, Damien Millet | 9 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Those who were hoping the G-20 would result in concrete measures to resolve the world ecomic crisis will have been disappointed. The Summit prioritized finance capitalism and decided to provide increased funds to the IMF so that it may pursue its exploitative policies vis-à-vis the Third World. By breaking down resistance, the crisis offers an unexpected "opportunity" for the advocates of capitalism to accelerate the system’s globalisation process. Damien Millet and Eric Toussaint offer us their assessment.

Fake faith and epic crimes (video)

 By John Pilger | 6 April 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | In his latest column, John Pilger describes a worldwide movement that is ’challenging the once-sacrosanct notion that imperial politicians can destroy countless lives and retain an immunity from justice’. In Tony Blair’s case, justice inches closer.

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