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China-USA

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

by Domenico Losurdo

6 February 2010

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 (...)

UNESCO calls for ban on trade in Haitian artefacts

Paris (France) | 2 February 2010

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

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 Éric Toussaint

26 January 2010

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

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 (...)

Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux

by Cynthia McKinney

19 January 2010

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, (...)

Black is Back!

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 16 January 2010

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 (...)

Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

by Paul Craig Roberts

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 11 January 2010

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 (...)

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

by Silvia Cattori

Lausanne (Suisse) | 9 January 2010

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. (...)

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

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 (...)

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

by Glen Ford

New York (USA) | 29 December 2009

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 (...)

Guantánamo, Illinois

by Margaret Kimberley

New York (USA) | 27 December 2009

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

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 (...)

Liberation Theology

The Kairos Palestine Document

by Lucy Thaljieh, Nora Kort, Rev. Dr. Rafiq Khoury , Rev. Fadi Diab , Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb , Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek , Rev. Dr. Jamal Khader , Rev. Dr. Yohana Katanacho , His Beatitude Michel Sabbah , His Grace Bishop Dr. Munib Younan , His Eminence Archbishop Atallah Hanna , Cedar Duaybis, Geries S. Khoury, Nidal Abu El Zuluf, Rifat Kassis, Yusef Daher

Betlehem (Palestine) | 14 December 2009

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, (...)

Surprising Results of CFR Survey

What the U.S. Elite Really Thinks About Israel

by Jeffrey Blankfort

San Francisco (USA) | 10 December 2009

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 (...)

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