Haiti: U.S. Puppets, Intrigues and Dreams of Sweatshops
Mike E.
January 17, 2010 – We need to talk about Aristide — the Haitian political leader associated with the poor and with radical change. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the tragedy of this earthquake was that Haiti had been doing so well. What she referred to was an imperialist campaign (spearheaded by her husband Bill Clinton) to consolidate a conservative Haitian government and prepare the workforce for sweatshop investments. A key part of that “improvement” was the crude, U.S. supported exclusion of left-leaning forces from the Haitian electoral process…

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Why is the American press silent on the Israeli role in NW Flight 253?
Patrick Martin
January 17, 2010 – Nearly a week ago, on January 10, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz carried a news article by correspondent Yossi Melman pointing out the role of an Israeli security firm, International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS), in the failed attempt to detonate a bomb on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253. ICTS subsidiaries I-SEC and PI are responsible for security screening of passengers at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, where accused suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded the Detroit-bound jet. The company uses screening technology to profile passengers and identify security risks, based on the experience of the Israeli intelligence services. Former El Al Airlines and Shin Bet security personnel established ICTS in 1982 to market their expertise, and many US airlines use their services or technology…

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Disgusting War Criminals Peddle “Humanitarian” Aid for Haiti
Kurt Nimmo
January 17, 2010 – On Sunday, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush mounted the corporate media propaganda platform and complained about the politicization of the Haitian relief effort. Clinton said the devastating earthquake offers a chance to put aside politics and help people in despair. “I’d say now is not the time to focus on politics,” said Bush in an interview taped Saturday for CBS’ “Face the Nation” when the ex-presidents’ visited the White House in response to Obama’s call for a “bipartisan effort” to help Haiti…

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US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti
Priority landing for Americans forces flights carrying emergency supplies to divert to Dominican Republic
Rory Carroll and Daniel Nasaw
January 17, 2010 – The US military’s takeover of emergency operations in Haiti has triggered a diplomatic row with countries and aid agencies furious at having flights redirected. Brazil and France lodged an official ?protest with Washington after US military aircraft were given priority at Port-au-Prince’s congested airport, forcing many non-US flights to divert to the Dominican Republic. Brasilia warned it would not ?relinquish command of UN forces in Haiti, and Paris complained the airport had become a US “annexe”, exposing a brewing power struggle amid the global relief effort. The Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières also complained about diverted flights…

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The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian Holocaust
Blackwater before drinking water
by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post
January 17, 2010 – 1. Bless the President for having rescue teams in the air almost immediately. That was President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland. On Wednesday, the AP reported that the President of the United States promised, “The initial contingent of 2,000 Marines could be deployed to the quake-ravaged country within the next few days.” “In a few days,” Mr. Obama? 2.There’s no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster. 200,000 Haitians have been slaughtered by slum housing and IMF “austerity” plans…

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Traces in the Sand…
Layla Anwar
Have they managed to bury you,
bury you alive
in desert sands,
in the middle of an orange
colored night
in the midst of a
desert storm…
Erase you,
erase you and erase your traces
erase your name
your origins
and your ID

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The Origin of The Palestine-Israel Conflict
Jews for Justice in the Middle East
January 17, 2010 – As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational “terrorists” who have no point of view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during the creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes – on both sides – inevitably follow from this original injustice. This paper outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the region’s problems should consist of. If you care about the people of the Middle East, Jewish and Arab, you owe it to yourself to read this account of the other side of the historical record.

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Video: Saddam’s Spider Hole Fact
FirasAlkarradi
January 17, 2010 – We were told by the American adminstrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer, that Saddam was captured on Dec 13 2003 and the army found him hiding in an underground hole in a farmhouse near Tikrit. Actually the story was fabricated.

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Tariq Aziz suffers severe stroke
Aljazeera.net
January 17, 2010 – Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former deputy prime minister, has been hospitalised after suffering a severe stroke. Ziad, Tariq Aziz’s son, said on Sunday that his father had lost the ability to speak after falling ill on Friday. He was rushed to a hospital in Balad, north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on Thursday. “He fell to the floor in his jail cell and we were told afterwards that he lost his speech completely,” his son told the Associated Press news agency…

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Diskin to Abbas: Defer UN vote on Goldstone or face ‘second Gaza’
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz
January 17, 2010 – The request by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations Human Rights Council last year to postpone the vote on the Goldstone report followed a particularly tense meeting with the head of the Shin Bet security service, Haaretz has learned. At the October meeting in Ramallah, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told Abbas that if he did not ask for a deferral of the vote on the critical report on last year’s military operation, Israel would turn the West Bank into a “second Gaza.”

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Experts: Egypt’s wall will destroy Gaza’s aquifer
Ma’an News
January 17, 2010 – Experts in Gaza determined on Sunday that Egypt’s underground steel wall will lead to the destruction of Gaza’s aquifer, during a symposium entitled The Metal Wall between Egypt and Gaza: Impacts, Environmental and Human Consequences, held in Gaza. Experts and specialists called on universities and research centres to partake in studies of the impact of Egypt’s steel wall on the Gaza border…

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Ministry of prisoners: IOA trying to recruit Gazan fishermen as agents
Palestinian Information Center
January 17, 2010 – The ministry of prisoners in the Gaza Strip on Sunday charged that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was repeatedly trying to recruit agents in lines of the needy Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Riyadh Al-Ashqar, the ministry’s spokesman, said in a press release that the Israeli navy boats on Saturday night abducted six Palestinian fishermen along with their boats while fishing off the Rafah beach…

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION ON FILM… JANUARY 2010 … WHAT THE ZIONISTS DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE
Steve Amsel, Desertpeace
January 17, 2010 – Watch these before YouTube pulls them ‘off the shelf’…

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NATO troops kill Afghan civilian
Pakistan Observer
January 17, 2010 – NATO-led troops shot dead an Afghan civilian whose vehicle approached a convoy on Sunday in an area that has seen violent civil unrest over the past week in Afghanistan, the alliance said. It was at least the third time in a week that either NATO or Afghan troops had shot civilians in Helmand Province’s Garmsir district, raising the political temperature in an area mostly seized by US Marines from the Taliban last year…

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Video: Disputes emerge over Haiti aid control
Aljazeera.English
January 17, 2010 – It is five days since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, spreading fear and misery across an already fragile nation. After a relatively slow start, US forces appear to be taking the lead in organising international aid efforts on the ground. But there is a long way to go. Residents outside the capital complain they have been forgotten. In rural towns and villages survivors have largely been left to fend for themselves…

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FBI uses Spanish MP’s photo for Bin Laden
Aljazeera.net
January 17, 2010 – A Spanish MP has been horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like in the present day. The image using Gaspar Llamazares’ photo appeared on a wanted poster updating the US government’s 1998 photo of the al-Qaeda leader. Llamazares, a former leader of the United Left party who was elected to Spain’s parliament in 2000, said he would no longer feel safe to travel to the United States after his hair and facial wrinkles appeared on the bin Laden image…

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Jewish settlers beat up Palestinian child
Palestinian Information Center
January 17, 2010 – Tens of fanatic Jewish settlers on Saturday night assaulted a Palestinian child in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem under the very eyes of the Israeli occupation police who did nothing to stop the assault. Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the settlers severely beat up Amna Al-Nashashibi, 16, during their provocative march, adding that they pulled her from her hair…

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Israeli Navy Kidnaps Six Palestinian Fishermen In Southern Gaza
Saed Bannoura
January 17, 2010- The Israeli Navy kidnapped on Sunday at dawn six Palestinian fishermen in Palestinian territorial waters in the Rafah area, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Navy also opened fire at the fishermen and boarded two boats. Local sources reported that the Navy opened fire at the Palestinian fishing boats before the army boarded them and kidnapped six fishermen…

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Shell signs Iraq oil field deal
BBC News
January 17, 2010 – Oil giant Shell and Malaysia’s state-run Petronas oil company finalised a contract on Sunday to develop Iraq’s giant Majnoon oil field. In December Shell and Petronas beat a rival bid from France’s Total and China’s CNPC to develop the 12.6bn barrel field in southern Iraq. The field currently produces just 46,000 barrels per day…

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Two Palestinians beaten by Israeli forces near settlement
Ma’an News
January 17, 2010 – Israeli forces attacked two Palestinians near the Betar Elite settlement near Husan village west of Bethlehem on Sunday morning. Both were hospitalized for serious injuries. Security sources said that Israeli soldiers stopped and beat Muhammad Halahleh, 35, and Mahmoud Ramadan, 15, both from Kharas in the Hebron governorate…

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US drone kills dozen in Pakistan
Aljazeera.net
January 17, 2010 – A raid by a US drone in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 12 suspected opposition fighters, Pakistani officials have said. The attack took place on Sunday in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan, close to the Afghanistan border. “The target was a militant compound,” a senior military official said of the raid, which occurred about 40km southeast of Miranshah, the primary town in North Waziristan…

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