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Jun 29 2009
Color Revolutions, Old and New
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By Stephen Lendman   

In his new book, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order," F. William Engdahl explained a new form of US covert warfare - first played out in Belgrade, Serbia in 2000. What appeared to be "a spontaneous and genuine political 'movement,' (in fact) was the product of techniques" developed in America over decades. 

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Jun 28 2009
Between Tel Aviv and Tehran
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By Uri Avnery   

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Iranian citizens pour into the streets in order to protest against their government! What a wonderful sight! Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz that he envies the Iranians.

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Jun 25 2009
America's 'Bases of Empire'
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By Stephen Lendman   

Besides waging perpetual wars, nothing better reveals America's imperial agenda than its hundreds of global bases - for offense, not defense at a time the US hasn't had an enemy since the Japanese surrendered in August 1945. 

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Jun 19 2009
When He Says Yes - What Does He Mean?
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By Uri Avnery   

“You must be celebrating,” the interviewer from a popular radio station told me after Netanyahu’s speech. “After all, he is accepting the plan which you proposed 42 years ago!” (Actually it was 60 years ago, but who is counting?)

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Jun 19 2009
Iran's Election and US-Iranian Relations
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By Stephen Lendman   

In the run-up to Iran's June 12 presidential election, early indications suggested the media's reaction if the wrong candidate won. On June 7, New York Times writer Robert Worth reported "a surge of energy (for) Mir Hussein Mousavi, a reformist who is the leading contender to defeat Mr. Ahmadinejad (and) a new unofficial poll (has him well ahead) with 54 percent of respondents saying they would vote for him compared with 39 percent for Mr. Ahmadinejad." No mention of who conducted the poll, how it was done, what interests they represented, or if Mousavi winning might be the wrong result.

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Jun 15 2009
New UN Report Denounces America's Human Rights Record
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By Stephen Lendman   

On May 26, the UN Human Rights Council issued a report titled "Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development - Report of the Special Rapporteur (Philip Alston) on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions."

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Jun 13 2009
Avnery on diplomacy of winks
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By Uri Avnery   
Obama won’t wink back

Netanyahu’s biggest problem is to make believe that the old is new. To make yesterday’s tired old clichés sound like the rallying call for tomorrow. But how to do that without using winks?

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Jun 12 2009
Israeli War Crimes Against Children During Operation Cast Lead
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By Stephen Lendman   

Following Israel's Operation Cast Lead, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the toll on Gaza's children and published it in May. It did so "in response to the unprecedented number of children who were killed (and injured) by (the Israeli Defense Forces) during the offensive on Gaza." According to international standards, the Convention on the Rights of the Child's (CRC) definition was used to apply to anyone under age 18.

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Jun 08 2009
Obama's Outreach to Muslims: Empty Rhetoric, Same Old Policies
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By Stephen Lendman   

As well as anyone, Edward Said understood the West's long-standing antipathy to Islam - reflected in Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations" article in the summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs and later a 1996 book. 

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Jun 06 2009
Israeli choice between Obama or Massada
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By Uri Avnery   
The Tone and the Music

WHILE OBAMA proclaims the 21st century, the government of Israel is returning to the 19th.
 
ONE MAN spoke to the world, and the world listened.

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