Daily Archives: February 21, 2008 »

Oil, Gas and the New World Order

Mick Meaney February 21, 2008 4

Large Potential Albanian Oil and Gas Discovery Underscores Kosovo’s Importance By Stephen Lendman RINF Alternative News On January 10, Swiss-based Manas Petroleum Corporation broke the news. Gustavson Associates LLC’s Resource Evaluation identified large prospects

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Stop The War – Mass Demo 15 March

Mick Meaney February 21, 2008 9

Stop the War: a mass movement to celebrate and defend Socialist Worker The 15 February 2003 demonstration reminds us of the strength of the anti-war movement and shows the importance of the upcoming 15

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How the C.I.A. Played Dirty Tricks With Culture

Mick Meaney February 21, 2008 0

By LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN New York Times Many people remember reading George Orwell’s ”Animal Farm” in high school or college, with its chilling finale in which the farm animals looked back and forth at the

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Ex-spy chief denies group killed Diana

Mick Meaney February 21, 2008 1

By Robert Barr ASSOCIATED PRESS The former head of MI6 denied yesterday that the British intelligence agency killed Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, in 1997. Sir Richard Dearlove, who was MI6′s director

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US judge blocks CIA flight case

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BBC A US judge has dismissed a case alleging that a subsidiary of Boeing illegally helped the CIA fly terror suspects abroad on rendition flights. The American Civil Liberties Union brought the case against

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CIA Flights Landed on British Island

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CIA And Britain Admit U.S. Rendition Flights Used British Territory In 2002 Reversing an earlier claim, the CIA has acknowledged that two U.S. rendition flights carrying two alleged terrorists refueled on a U.S. base

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Israel is stealing Palestinian land, private or not

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By Amira Hass Not long ago the greengrocer in Ramallah recalled – between weighing locally grown zucchini and stripped hyssop leaves – that his family owns the land on which the gas station at

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UK in Israel WMD cover up

Mick Meaney February 21, 2008 1

Independent Online An early draft of a pre-war British weapons dossier on Iraq included concerns over Israel’s nuclear capability, but the government fought to suppress the reference before publication, The Guardian reported on Thursday.

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Has Homeland Security Gone Too Far with Surveillance?

Mick Meaney February 21, 2008 2

Normally, I’m all for what Uncle Sam needs to do in order to maintain National Security … so long as it doesn’t go too far. The question is, with this story in Hack N

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Assembly says no to ID card proposals

Mick Meaney February 21, 2008 0

The London Assembly has called on the Government to abandon controversial plans to introduce ID cards and instead spend London’s share of the costs of the proposed scheme on tackling crime. Jenny Jones AM,

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