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Controversies

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


Lula da Silva kicks off campaign in the Middle East

 By Thierry Meyssan | Beirut (Lebanon) | 19 March 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s recent high-profile visit to Israel and the West Bank was undoubtedly a successful public relations and communications operation ... but to what end?

Israel in OECD: Israel Set to Join Club of Richest Nations

 By Jonathan Cook | Nazareth (Palestine/Israel) | 12 March 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | After painstaking efforts, it looks as though Israel might be admitted to the OECD this year, even though the conditions of extreme poverty in which its Arab population is kept fly in the face of the organization’s accession criteria. Tel-Aviv intends to exploit its presence in the OECD to legitimize its apartheid economy both at home and in the illegally-annexed territories.

Paul Craig Roberts Owes Iraqi People Apology

 By Qais Nawwaf | 8 March 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The author of this article, one of the millions of Iraqis displaced by the U.S. occupiers, takes Paul Craig Roberts to task over the condescending slant of his remarks concerning Iraq in a recent piece. Roberts is a widely hailed conservative columnist who opposed the Iraq War and whose criticisms of Bush and Obama often seem to align him with the political left. However, his biased reading of the situation in Iraq is way off the mark and may have rightly exasperated more than one Iraqi living under the U.S. occupation. This one has put the record straight.

Srebrenica — Neither Massacre, Nor Genocide

 By Alexander Dorin | 2 March 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Former leader Radovan Karadzic is on trial at The Hague facing eleven criminal charges, including the alleged massacre of up to 8,000 Bosniak men and youths in Srebrenica. Swiss researcher Alexander Dorin denounces the media’s distorted account of those events which prevails to this day. The facts were allegedly fixed around Washington’s policy of having to justify NATO’s military intervention in the conflict, marking the Organization’s first post-Cold War deployment and the first intervention outside its original purview.

Palestine/Israel: Rachel Corrie Gets Her Day in Court

 By Robert Naiman | 28 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | On March 10, in the Israeli city of Haifa, murdered 23 year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie will get her day in court, in what observers like Robert Naiman consider to be a test case for the power of Israel’s rule of law versus the weight of her military occupation policies.

Revealing new aerial photos of 9/11 attack released (key AE911Truth video)

 By James Fetzer | 18 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The release of photos of 9/11 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from ABC News posed a problem for the government. When they are viewed in a sequential order, they tell a story that contradicts the official account of a "pancake collapse". In fact, the towers did not collapse: tons of concrete and a major fraction of the steel columns were converted into millions of cubic yards of very fine dust. To obfuscate the evidence, the photos were released in random order. Consider what happens when Prof. James Fetzer, the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, sequences them properly.

Some thoughts on Ethan Bronner at The New York Times

 By Jonathan Cook | Nazareth (Palestine/Israel) | 17 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The fact that the son of Ethan Bronner, The New York Times’ chief correspondent in Israel, has enlisted in the Israeli army is widely perceived as constituting a conflict of interest. However, regardless of his son’s choices, the real issue is that Bonner’s news reports and analyses, with few exceptions, have generally followed what can be considered to be the overall biased policy of the NYT, and most western media, in favour of Israel. If the Times decided to reassign Bronner, his replacement would probably make no difference.

Hillary to China: Vote for Iran Sanctions, or Face Gulf Conflagration and Oil Cutoff (video)

 By Webster G. Tarpley | Washington D.C. (USA) | 10 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | In an interview with Russia Today Webster G. Tarpley talks about the growing US-China confrontation, exposing Hillary Clinton’s blackmail against China. The Iran attack scenario has been revived, but this time as a means of threatening China’s oil supply and strangling that country’s further growth.

World Social Forum, ten years on

 Barcelona (Spain) | 9 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Since the World Social Forum was launched in June 2000, at the Alternative Social Summit in Geneva, coinciding with the United Nations Assembly on Social Development, ten years have passed. In this decade, the world has changed and the context in which the World Social Forum (WSF) emerged is different from that of today. Esther Vivas reviews its achievements, the stumbling blocks and the challenges that lie ahead ... "to wage real battles and inflict real damage"?.

Embracing Israel Costs Merkel Clout

By Judy Dempsey | 8 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Angela Merkel, who claims to be more Zionist than any other German Chancellor before her, is pursuing a personal policy of unconditional support to the State of Israel which is at variance with the official stance of her country in favour of an equitable peace between Palestinians and Israelis. This attitude is paralyzing the European Union in the Middle East, observes the New York Times correspondent in Berlin.

China-USA
The Dalai Lama and Obama: a meeting between two Nobel laureates in deceipt

 By Domenico Losurdo | 6 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The time when Obama spoke of a G2 relationship between the United States and China to rule the world is behind us. In just a matter of days, the Obama administration proliferated its provocations against China: arms sales to the separatist region of Taiwan, the announcement by the Director of National Intelligence of an imminent cyberwar against China, compounded by the announcement that the chief of Tibetan separatists will be received by the White House. In this article, Professor Domenico Losurdo takes a new look at the desire of the United States to dismantle China.

UNESCO calls for ban on trade in Haitian artefacts

 Paris (France) | 2 February 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | UNESCO is launching a campaign to protect Haiti’s moveable heritage, notably art collections in the country’s damaged museums, galleries and churches, from pillaging.

Haiti : Letters to the Editor

 30 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | In response to the following articles: « Was the earthquake in Haiti caused by the United States? »  and « Haiti and the seismic weapon ».

The U.S. and its unruly Latin American ’backyard’

 By Eric Toussaint | 26 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | U.S. aggressiveness towards the Venezuelan, Bolivian, and Ecuadorian governments has increased in response to diminishing U.S. influence over the Latin American and Caribbean area, which Washington has been blaming on Hugo Chávez, in particular, and also on Cuba ... but Cuba is a much older story.

More Global Warming Scandals Implicate IPCC Climate Scientists

By F. William Engdahl | Frankfurt (Germany) | 22 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Only days after the failed Copenhagen Global Warming Summit, yet a new scandal over the scientific accuracy of the UN IPCC 2007 climate report has emerged. Following the major data-manipulation scandals from the UN-tied research center at Britain’s East Anglia University late 2009, the picture emerges of one of the most massive scientific frauds of recent history.

Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux

 By Cynthia McKinney | 19 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | George W. Bush, massive military deployment, logistical snags and slow aid delivery are evocative of the Hurricane Katrina debacle. Cynthia McKinney draws attention to the construction of the U.S. fifth-largest embassy in the world in Port-au-Prince, the discovery of oil resources in Haiti, the existence of decade-old plans to exploit Haiti’s deep water ports for oil-related activities. From the beginning, in fact, U.S. assistance to Haiti has looked more like an invasion than a humanitarian relief operation.

Black is Back!

 Washington D.C. (USA) | 16 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Nearly 42 years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, "Black is Back" announces the return of black activism to the political arena. In commemoration of MLK’s birthday on January 15, 1929, Voltaire Network is publishing the following statemtent which was made by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on November 5, 2009.

Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

 By Paul Craig Roberts | Washington D.C. (USA) | 11 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | 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 scenario.

"What is the lesson to be learned from the Holocaust?": an interview with Hedy Epstein

By Silvia Cattori | Lausanne (Suisse) | 9 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | 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 Cattori.

Open Letter: Support Iceland Against the Financial Blackmail of the British and Dutch Governments and the IMF

 By Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Reykjavík (Iceland) | 7 January 2010 | Voltaire, édition internationale | 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.

Obama, US Continue To Reap Trillions and Condemn Africa To Climate Catastrophe

 By Glen Ford | New York (United States) | 29 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | With humanity at risk and Africa facing “incineration,” the United States opted for “disaster capitalism” at the global climate conference, last week. “President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Copenhagen to end any possibility of a global agreement on greenhouse gasses that the rich nations would be bound to respect", claims BAR Executive Director Glen Ford.

Guantánamo, Illinois

 By Margaret Kimberley | New York (United States) | 27 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | President Barack Obama’s first year in office has many elements of déjà vu and feels much the same as a year of George Bush. Wars metastasize, bankers get richer and prisons migrate from Cuba to Illinois ... changing venues as policies remain in place.

How Myths Can Kill

 By Robert Parry | 24 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Myths can be innocuous enough, providing pleasure and comfort to believers: for instance, the Jesus birth stories that are celebrated at Christmas or the legends of Abraham and Moses conveying God’s promised land to the Israelites. But myths can have a darker side when they are embraced as religious or ideological truths. In this article, Parry revisits the historic trail of the Diaspora myth and dissects the "abandonment" myth, which is buried in the rationale for an escalated war in Afghanistan.

Liberation Theology
The Kairos Palestine Document

 By His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, His Grace Bishop Dr. Munib Younan, His Eminence Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Rev. Dr. Jamal Khader, Rev. Dr. Rafiq Khoury, Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb, Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek, Rev. Dr. Yohana Katanacho , Rev. Fadi Diab , Geries S. Khoury, Cedar Duaybis, Nora Kort, Lucy Thaljieh, Nidal Abu El Zuluf, Yusef Daher, Rifat Kassis | Betlehem (Palestine) | 14 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | A group of religious leaders representing the principal Christian denominations, with the exception of the Anglo-Saxon Evangelical Churches, are appealing to theologians not to legitimize the injustices inflicted on the Palestinians. They evoke the duty of the faithful to resist evil, entreating them to take part in the boycott of Israeli products. Moreover, they denounce the definition of Israel as a Jewish state and demand respect for the rights of all peoples.

Surprising Results of CFR Survey
What the U.S. Elite Really Thinks About Israel

 By Jeffrey Blankfort | San Francisco (USA) | 10 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The survey of CFR members taken by the Pew Research Center has exposed a surprising breach between the views of the U.S. power elite and the public when it comes to international politics. The CFR members do not perceive Israel as an ally nor do they consider Iran as an enemy, whereas the public essentially adheres to the neo-conservatist and AIPAC mindset. Should one infer that the CFR is powerless or that the AIPAC has lost its grip?

Afghanistan : Don’t Try to Arrest the Sea

 By Mehar Omar Khan | 3 December 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | In the wake of President Obama’s announcement that he will send an additional contingent of troops to Afghanistan, a Pakistani Army officer who does not dispute the political justification of the U.S. "mission" in Afghanistan, does however point out that it is a military absurdity. As it has been defined, the mission is doomed to fail and the reported mid-term withdrawal is nothing but a ploy.

Bantustans and the unilateral declaration of statehood

 By Virginia Tilley | Cape Town (South Africa) | 22 November 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The rumoured unilateral proclamation of a Palestinian State by Mahmoud Abbas has been portrayed by the media as an attempt to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by arriving at a forced conclusion. Nothing could be further from the truth, points out Virginia Tilley. In reality, the de facto President of the Palestinian National Authority is prepared to undertake what Israel wants but is unable to do: create Bantustans to bring about the realization of the apartheid system.

Iran looks to Argentina for nuclear fuel

 By Kaveh L Afrasiabi | 9 November 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | While still falsely blaming Iran for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires - thereby toeing the line imposed by the U.S and Israel - President Cristina Kirchner is more realistic when it comes to defending her country’s economic interests. Argentina is likely to supply fuel for Tehran’s nuclear reactor, resuming its earlier cooperation with Iran and filling the vacuum left by France. Whether or not the deal will go through will largely depend on Washington’s green light and on Argentina’s determination to resist pressure from Israel.

Honduras: A Victory for “Smart Power”

 By Eva Golinger | Caracas (Venezuela) | 6 November 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | The coup d’état in Honduras - instigated, executed and supported by the United States - offers a clear illustration of the new US foreign policy. Underneath nothing has changed. Washington continues to " do and undo" governments in many parts of the world, if necessary through the use of violence. But what indeed has changed is the window dressing. Washington seeks to cloud its crimes by paying lip service to human rights principles - which the US is the first to violate. It is referred to as the "Smart Power" method!

Crucial Iran nuclear evidence ’covered up’

 By Gareth Porter | 22 October 2009 | Voltaire, édition internationale | Iran has submitted solid evidence that the intelligence documents allegedly showing the existence of a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program are fabricated, yet the IAEA has consistently neglected to adress this vital issue. Could there be a ’cover up’ afoot in which the IAEA is complicit?

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