U.S. military expert: Israel Did 9-11 (plus 96 more items)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:42 PM PDT

Mark Glenn: Dr. Sabrosky, welcome to the programme.

Dr. Alan Sabrosky: Thank you very much, Mark. A pleasure to be here.

MG: Well, believe me, the pleasure is ours. As I said, this article that you wrote this week - there are very few articles that really catch my attention these days, as you can understand, Dr. Sabrosky, because there's just so much information out there and so many people talking. But this one particularly caught my interest and held my interest throughout the duration of reading this article - which I will be reading here in just a minute. But before I jump into that I'm just going to go ahead and give you the floor here, and let you say some things that I think need to be said.

Lebanon files complaint with UNSC

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:36 PM PDT

Lebanon complains to the UN Security Council about Israel's move to inaugurate a memorial on Lebanese land, which Beirut says is an act of territorial violations.

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry on Friday reported the complaint, calling the ceremony "a flagrant violation of international law and UN Security Council Resolution 1701," the AFP reported.

Brazil arrests 'pedophile' priest

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:33 PM PDT

A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested in Brazil after a video captured on a hidden camera depicted him as sexually abusing a choir boy.

Two other clerics also face similar charges as three former choir boys say they have been abused by them.

SEC Republicans 'against' Sachs case

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:02 PM PDT

Republican members of the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) are not in favor of the legal case against the Goldman Sachs, a report says.

According to the report by the Washington Post on Friday, Kathleen L. Casey, a former senior aide at the Capitol Hill, and Troy A. Paredes, a high-profile law professor, have expressed skepticism over the evidence showing a fraud case committed by the Wall Street giant.

Iran FM to meet IAEA chief: Report

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 11:58 AM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will hold talks with Director General of the UN nuclear watchdog Yukiya Amano, an Iranian diplomat says.

The Iranian minister will arrive in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Sunday on an official day-long visit, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted Iran's Ambassador to Vienna Ebrahim Sheibani as saying on Friday.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 11:52 AM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has officially opened the 2010 Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in the second-largest Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo.

The multi-sector and multi-national trade exhibition was opened on Friday in the presence of President Ahmadinejad and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe.

'IRGC lays naval mines in PG drill'

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 11:45 AM PDT

Iranian armed forces display the country's military prowess on the second day of major drills held in the Persian Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Naval, air and ground units from Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) took part in the three-day military exercise dubbed 'The Great Prophet V,' carrying out complicated operations involving mine-carrying divers and rocket-launching vessels.

NATO raid kills 5 Afghan civilians

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 11:25 AM PDT

The US-led forces in Afghanistan have killed at least five civilians and injured several others in the war-torn country's eastern province of Logar.

The fatal incident happened during a pre-dawn raid on Friday against Afghan homes. Two NATO forces were also killed in the attack.

Iran questions UNSC 'credibility'

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 10:58 AM PDT

Iran says the future credibility of the 15-member UN Security Council is hinged on a series of sweeping reforms within its structure and course of action.

Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaei challenged the bedrock of the UNSC on Friday, saying that it is in urgent need of serious reform.

Iran cleric shrugs off nuclear threats

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 10:42 AM PDT

A senior Iranian cleric has played down threats against the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, saying Iran is pioneering in nuclear disarmament.

Tehran's interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati pointed to the recent nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran and said "It gave a crushing response to those who accuse Iran of producing and using nuclear weapons."

US death toll doubles in Afghanistan

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 10:25 AM PDT

New data from the US government shows that the number of American contractors killed in Afghanistan has increased by more than 100 percent.

The US Labor Department says it received at least 141 insurance claims for contractor deaths in Afghanistan last year, up from 55 in 2008, the USA Today reported.

Thailand's political crisis intensifies

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 08:06 AM PDT

Tensions are running high in Bangkok after deadly grenade attacks as riot police are facing down thousands of anti-government protesters.

Hundreds of riot police armed with batons and shields sought Friday to repel "Red Shirts" from Bangkok's financial hub.

Two US troops killed in Afghanistan

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 08:04 AM PDT

Two US troops have been killed in a gun battle with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, says NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

"The pair were injured during the battle and subsequently died of their wounds," ISAF said in a statement on Friday.

Muslim woman fined for wearing veil

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 07:59 AM PDT

Traffic police in France have fined a Muslim woman for wearing Islamic face veil while driving, according to her lawyer Jean-Michel Pollono.

The woman was fined $29 in early April in the western city of Nantes, her lawyer said on Friday.

15 militants killed in Pakistan clashes

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 07:47 AM PDT

At least 15 militants have been killed in fierce clashes with Pakistani forces in the country's northwestern region, a Press TV correspondent reported.

In one of the incidents in the Orakzai Agency on Friday, security forces overpowered militants who had attacked a military checkpoint in the Ferozkhel area near Kalaya.

US oil rig sinks into Gulf of Mexico

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 07:29 AM PDT

A US oil platform that was burnt after a massive explosion has sunk into the Gulf of Mexico dashing any chance of survival for the 11 missing workers.

The Deepwater Horizon burnt on throughout Tuesday night until the gulf itself extinguished the fire and the rig sank on Thursday.

Mitchell in talks over ME peace

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 07:15 AM PDT

US peace envoy George Mitchell has started his meetings with Israeli officials over stalled Middle East peace talks, as Israel rejects US demand on settlement expansions.

Envoy George Mitchell began his three-day talks in the region by meeting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv on Friday over the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:45 AM PDT

China describes diplomacy as "the best way to resolve Iran's nuclear issue" amid a loudening drumbeat for crippling sanctions against the country.

In a Thursday press conference in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said her country is still committed to breaking the logjam over Iran's enrichment activities through diplomacy.

Scores killed in Iraq blasts

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:42 AM PDT

At least 60 people have been killed and scores more wounded in a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.

Two car bombs exploded at a market in Sadr City killing at least 39 people and injuing 56 others, while three separate car bombs and an improvised device killed 11 in the west and east of Baghdad, officials said on Friday.

Alleged Mexican drug dealer captured

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:16 AM PDT

Mexican military officials have announced the capture of top drug trafficker Jose Gerardo Alvarez Vazquez on the outskirts of Mexico City.

Vazquez is suspected by the authorities of being responsible for the recent spike in violence in states near the capital.

Greece's debt clouding global recovery

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 06:12 AM PDT

With Greece's debt crisis lingering, Asia's major global stock markets have gone on a downward slide, signaling an adverse outlook for the world economy.

As Moody's Investor Services downgraded Greece's credit rating and data indicated an underestimated budget deficit for the last year, investors' concerns exacerbated over the country's financial woes.

Seven dead in Iraq blasts

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:57 AM PDT

Six roadside bombs have exploded in Iraq's western al-Anbar province, leaving seven people dead and ten others wounded, police say.

The bombs were placed near the houses of a judge and police officers in the town of Khalidiya, about 83 km (50 miles) west of Baghdad.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:57 AM PDT

Seven local youth were injured at the village of Nil'in, central West Bank during the weekly anti wall protest on Friday.

Villagers along with international and Israeli supporters held the midday prayers at lands near the Israeli wall which army announced a closed military zone.

Thai army rules out crackdown

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:49 AM PDT

Thailand's army will not crack down on anti-government protesters camped out in the capital, Bangkok, a spokesman for the country's army chief has said.

Colonel Sirichan Ngathong, a spokesman for General Anupong Paojinda, said the army chief met with his top military officials on Friday and told them a crackdown would do more harm than good.

Kenya road crash kills 10, injures 45

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:39 AM PDT

At least 10 people have been killed and 45 others seriously injured when a bus collides with a truck 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of the Nairobi, police said.

It was an accident between a bus travelling en route from western city of Busia towards Nairobi and a trailer truck on the busy Naivasha-Mai Mahiu road in Rift Valley province. It happened at 5 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) on Friday, Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper reported.

Belgian bishop quits over sex abuse

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:25 AM PDT

A Belgian bishop has resigned after admitting he sexually abused a young boy more than two decades ago.

Roger Vangheluwe, 73, is the first bishop to have been directly implicated in a church since a string of abuse cases and subsequent cover-ups began to emerge last year.

Nine killed in Pakistan violence

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:59 AM PDT

At least nine people, including two women, have lost their lives during a number of incidences of violence in Pakistan, a Press TV correspondent says.

Officials say local tribesmen recovered four dead bodies from the Kadi area of the Mirali-Miranshah road in North Waziristan Agency on Friday.

Greece requests financial bailout

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:59 AM PDT

George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, has asked for the activation of financial aid package, designed to help pull the euro zone member out of its debt crisis.

The request on Friday followed negotiations with European Union and International Monetary Fund officials over the details of the $60bn emergency rescue package.

Russia to invest $5bn in Malaysia

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:48 AM PDT

A Russian aircraft maker has decided to build a five billion dollar research facility for the defense and aerospace industries of Malaysia.

Malaysia's Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says the facility would be built by aircraft maker Irkut.

Bakiyev blames Russia for overthrow

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:46 AM PDT

Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the deposed Kyrgyz president, has said that Russian anger at his decision to extend the lease on a US air base was a factor in his overthrow.

Speaking from the Belarussian capital of Minsk, where he is in exile, Bakiyev said he had annoyed Russia by allowing the air base, which is crucial for supplying the war in Afghanistan, to continue operating.

US report zeroes in on Iran gas trade

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:32 AM PDT

Washington pinpoints the country's foreign fuel suppliers in a recently-published report to further tighten broad-based energy sanctions against Iran.

Congressional investigators at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) have so far identified more than 41 foreign companies that helped Iran develop its oil and gas sector over the past five years, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

Peru to buy Russian helicopters

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:26 AM PDT

In a new campaign to battle drug traffickers, the Peruvian government has decided to buy eight Russian-built helicopters.

Defense Minister Rafael Rey announced on Thursday that the helicopters were to support military operations "in the fight against narcoterrorism."

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:20 AM PDT

The new head of Afghanistan's main electoral body has warned western countries against meddling in domestic affairs of the war-stricken country.

During a swearing-in ceremony in Kabul on Thursday, Fazel Ahmed Manavi said that the donor countries should not dictate Afghan national policy.

NATO 'must retain nuclear capability'

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:16 AM PDT

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has announced that the Western alliance needed a credible nuclear deterrent.

"NATO should play its part and we will discuss (exactly what that should be) based on the clear principles of solidarity, shared burdens and the need to ensure deterrence in an uncertain world," he said.

Nato discusses Afghan exit

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:14 AM PDT

Nato leaders have met to discuss their exit strategy for the war in Afghanistan, stating that they are on track to reduce their involvement in the country next year.

The meeting of the 28-member states in Tallinn, the Estonian capital, on Friday, delegates talked about strengthening Afghan forces in order to allow international troops to withdraw during 2011.

'Haiti quake may have killed 300,000'

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:12 AM PDT

The United Nations mission head in Haiti estimates the death toll from the January 12th Port-au-Prince earthquake at 250,000 to 300,000.

The Haitian government had previously announced a projected figure of over 220,000.

Liberté, Enlightenté, Entitleté

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:47 AM PDT

Warning: Reading the following may be hazardous to your mental health. The material herein has caused readers to experience Cognitive Dissonance (CD).

CD is the discomfort felt at the discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation that contradicts a strongly held belief system – It's that queasy feeling that rises in your gut and screams, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT!

Because, if you accepted the new information, you would have to admit you been "had," or "conned," in this case into shopping for stuff to trash the planet.

Series of blasts rock Iraq's Anbar

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:36 AM PDT

At least seven people have been killed and 18 others wounded after six roadside bombs exploded in Iraq's western Anbar province, police said.

The bombs went off near the houses of a judge and police officers in the town of Khalidiya, about 83km west of Baghdad, the capital.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:20 AM PDT

Israeli forces abduct Palestinian man in Safa village

In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that during the week of 15-21 April 2010, a member of the Palestinian resistance was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 02:29 AM PDT

Israeli Interior Minister, Elie Yishai, issued a decree on Thursday preventing Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the Imam of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and head of the Higher Islamic Committee from leaving the country until September 27, 2010.

Yishai claimed that Sabri's travel harms the security of Israel, and accused him of incitement.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 02:00 AM PDT

Israeli sources reported that this coming Sunday could witness an official declaration for the beginning of American-mediated indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. The sources expressed optimism that the mission of U.S. Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell, have a good chance to succeed while Israel will not be asked to declare settlement freeze.

N Korea seizes South-owned property

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:25 AM PDT

North Korea has said that it has seized five South Korean-owned buildings in a jointly-operated mountain resort amid rising tensions between the two neighbours.

Pyongyang said on Friday that it had seized the property at the Mount Kumgang resort, criticising Seoul for suggestions that the North was involved in the sinking of a South Korean warship last month.

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:18 AM PDT

Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, stated Thursday the resuming peace talks with Israel provides another cover-up for what he described as the

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:13 AM PDT

steve lendman For many years, Israel's open secret is that it's one of eight known nuclear powers, including America and Russia with about 97% of the world's arsenal according to Helen Caldicott in her book "Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer." The others are Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, and Israel - North Korea a declared but unverified one.

In her January 20, 2009 Canadian Medical Association Journal article titled, "Obama and the opportunity to eliminate nuclear weapons" Caldicott wrote:

China orders monks from quake zone

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:57 AM PDT

Chinese authorities have said that Buddhist monks were advised to leave the earthquake zone in western Qinghai province in order to allow "specialised personnel" to carry out reconstruction work.

Officials on Friday denied accusations that the monks had been urged to return to their monastries for political reasons, saying that their continued presence would get in the way of efforts to help survivors.

John S. McCain, Will You Please Go Now?

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 12:00 AM PDT

I need a Dramamine to cover GOP Sen. John McCain's re-election bid. With his desperate lurch to the right, he's inducing more motion sickness than a Disney Land teacup. McCain's campaign represents the same self-serving political cynicism that American voters have grown tired of stomaching from the current White House. We need choices, not carbon copies.

Bolivia ends climate change confab

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:40 PM PDT

The three day "People World Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth" has ended in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Organizers have called the summit an alternative to last year's failed Copenhagen Climate Change talks.

Mexico arrests suspected drug boss

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:37 PM PDT

One of Mexico's most wanted men has been arrested after a shootout on the outskirts of Mexico City that left at least three people dead.

The United States had offered a $2m reward for information leading to the arrest of Gerardo Alvarez Vasquez and is now seeking his extradition.

Zimbabwe supports Iran's nuclear rights

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:33 PM PDT

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has vowed "continues support" for Iran's nuclear program in the face of Western powers mulling new sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

"Be also assured, comrade president, of Zimbabwe's continuous support of Iran's just cause on the nuclear issue," Mugabe told Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a dinner in Harare.

More bodies exhumed in Nigeria

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:28 PM PDT

Nigerian police have dug out eight more bodies near the central city of Jos, which has been a scene of clashes between Christians and Muslims.

Over the past three days sniffer dogs have found 15 bodies buried in shallow graves in Rahoss village, a senior police officer said Thursday, AFP reported.

Palestinian prisoner beaten to death

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:23 PM PDT

The Palestinian Authority's (PA) Minister of Prisoners Affairs, Issa Qaraqi, holds Israel responsible for the death of Raed Abu Hammad, 27, who was in an Israeli jail for 18 months.

Hammad was reportedly beaten by Israeli prison guards to death. He was found dead in his solitary confinement cell. Qaraqi said on Thursday that the cause of death was from "a blow to the lower spinal cord with a direct hit."

Bomb explodes in N Ireland

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:19 PM PDT

A car bomb has exploded outside a police station in Northern Ireland, just days after a failed bid to attack the same target, police said.

A spokeswoman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said that the blast in Newtownhamilton, County Armagh, happened at around 11:25 pm (2225 GMT) Thursday. There were no reports of any injuries.

Oil spill fears after US rig sinks

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:18 PM PDT

An offshore oil rig where fired raged for more than 24 hours following a massive explosion, has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.

The rig's sinking on Thursday raised fears of a major oil spill and dimmed hopes of finding alive 11 workers who are still missing after the blast.

Pope sued in priest sex abuse case

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:17 PM PDT

An alleged sex abuse victim of a pedophile priest, who is accused of molesting 200 deaf boys at a Wisconsin school in the United States, has sued the Pope and the Vatican.

Identified in the lawsuit as "John Doe 16" of Illinois, he wrote a March 5, 1995, letter to then-Vatican Secretary of State Angelo Sodano alleging that Rev. Lawrence Murphy molested him for years.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:10 PM PDT

Iran's oil minister says the country has taken a number of measures to attract $200 billion worth of foreign and domestic investments in its oil industry over the next five years.

Seyyed Masoud Mirkazemi noted that with 138 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and 29 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, Iran is one of the biggest holders of energy resources in the world.

Israeli tanks destroy Gaza farm lands

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:04 PM PDT

Israeli tanks and bulldozers have invaded the Abassan al-Mubra village in the southern district of Gaza Strip, destroying a number of Palestinian farm lands.

The tanks also opened fire at residential homes on Thursday as bulldozers uprooted trees and destroyed farm lands owned by local Palestinian farmers, witnesses told Palestine's Maan news agency.

Afghan police arrest 4 militant leaders

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:01 PM PDT

Four militant commanders have been arrested by Afghan and foreign forces, which also regained control of a key district in southern Afghanistan, an official says.

"The Afghan National Police backed by the NATO-led troops, during an operation, recaptured Gizab district late Wednesday," Matiullah Popal, the police commander of Uruzgan-Kandahar highway, was quoted by Xinhua as saying on Thursday.

Israeli PM firm on settlements

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:00 PM PDT

Israel's prime minister has again rejected US calls to halt illegal settlement construction in East Jerusalem, as Washington's Middle East envoy began a fresh attempt to relaunch peace talks.

Binyamin Netanyahu's comments were broadcast on Israeli television on Thursday, shortly after George Mitchell, the US representative to the region, arrived for his first visit in six weeks.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 10:59 PM PDT

A senior military commander says the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) can now cover the expanse of the Persian Gulf waters with its new fleet of high-speed vessels.

"Today, on the first stage of the war games, the IRGC successfully covered the expanse of the Persian Gulf waters using native high-speed boats," Rear Admiral Ali-Reza Tangsiri, commander of the First Marine Division of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, told Fars news agency on Thursday.

Tensions high after Bangkok attacks

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 10:38 PM PDT

Tensions were high in the Thai capital a day after at least one person was killed and 86 wounded in grenade attacks linked to a weeks-long anti-government protest.

Hundreds of riot police and so-called red shirt protesters faced off at a major intersection in Bangkok's financial district on Friday morning before the police pulled back without incident.

Burning US oil rig sinks

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 09:58 PM PDT

An offshore oil rig where fired raged for more than 24 hours following a massive explosion, has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.

The rig's sinking on Thursday raised fears of a major oil spill and dimmed hopes of finding alive 11 workers who are still missing after the blast.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 09:02 PM PDT

nasa So much progress …

When I hear the word "progress," the mental image of advanced technology comes to mind, in particular that which relates to space exploration. I think of future generations of White men expanding out into the inner solar system: landing on Mars, colonizing the moon, mining the asteroid belt, etc.

In the Bush years, I was excited by the Mars rovers and the Cassini mission which discovered seas on Titan. Along with the National Park Service, I counted NASA among the handful of things that gave me some lingering sense of pride in America.

Goodbye, America! (Part 1)

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:58 PM PDT

Kevin MacDonald's review of Wilhelm Marr's pamphlet, Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum, 1879, ("The Victory of Judaism over Germanism") is a fascinating compendium of pessimistic quotations in which German political pundit Marr concludes gloomily that there was no hope left for Germany. It was finished — yes, as early as the 1870s. The Jews, he lamented, were simply too formidable a foe.

NATO foreign ministers meet In Estonia

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:40 PM PDT

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) foreign ministers from 28 countries have gathered in Estonia's capital for a two day meeting.

On the agenda is Turkey's proposal on Iran's nuclear program. Ankara opposes sanctions against its Eastern neighbor and has expressed willingness to broker a deal for a low enriched uranium swap.

Politician assassinated in Pakistan

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:24 PM PDT

Militants have gunned down five people, including a politician, near a police station in the Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province.

Aalam Zaib Umar Zai, the provincial president of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and former member of the Provincial Assembly, was traveling in the town of Charsadda when the incident happened, local media reports said.

Israel rejects US on settlements

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:09 PM PDT

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects United States' demand for a freeze on settlement expansions in East Jerusalem (al-Quds).

"No way; there will be no freeze on construction in Jerusalem," Netanyahu told Israel's channel two television. "Everyone knows it."

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 06:43 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama has told members of New York City's financial sector to stop fighting his pending banking reform legislation.

"We do not have to choose between markets that are unfettered by even modest protections against crisis, or markets that are stymied by onerous rules that suppress enterprise and innovation," Obama told members of the banking sector in his speech at New York's Cooper Union, not far from the Wall Street. "That's a false choice."

Israel not to attack Iran: Biden

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:42 PM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden dismisses the notion that Israel might attack Iran, saying that Tel Aviv has agreed to await the outcome of new sanctions against Tehran.

"Everyone from the Israeli prime minister straight through to the British prime minister to the president of Russia, everyone agrees the next step we should take is the UN sanction route," Biden told a program on ABC television on Thursday.

Targeted Citizen

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:40 PM PDT

The film "Targeted Citizen" (15 minutes), produced by filmmaker Rachel Leah Jones for Adalah, surveys discrimination against the Palestinian citizens of Israel. With the participation of experts Dr. Yousef Jabareen of the Technion and Dr. Khaled Abu Asbeh of the Van Leer Institute, as well as Adalah attorneys Sawsan Zaher, Abeer Baker and Hassan Jabareen, inequality in land and housing, employment, education and civil and political rights are eloquently addressed. These interviews are reinforced by the contrasting informality of on-the-street conversations conducted by Palestinian comic duo Shammas-Nahas and punctuated by the hard-hitting rhymes of Palestinian rap trio DAM. The film's theme song "Targeted Citizen," written and recorded by DAM especially for Adalah, tells it like it is without missing a beat.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:33 PM PDT

Israeli Soldiers, File - Image news.gov.kw

Thursday witnessed several attacks carried out by Israeli soldiers and policemen leading to the kidnapping of 58 Palestinians in the West Bank and in the 1948 areas, while one fisherman was wounded in Gaza and 70 Dunams of farmlands were flooded by Israeli Sewage.

The Arabs48 news website reported that Israeli policemen arrested on Thursday at dawn 34 Palestinians in the 1948 areas, and 24 Palestinian in several West Bank areas.

Iceland volcano plume at low levels

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:22 PM PDT

Tremors coming form Iceland's volcanic eruption stay strong, while the smoke and fumes have much less ash and the plume has stayed at low levels.

Huge ash clouds caused by the volcanic eruption under the southwestern Eyjafjallajokull glacier disrupted flights and paralyzed airports across northern Europe.

Al-Qaeda kingpin arrested in Baghdad

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 04:19 PM PDT

Iraqi security forces have managed to arrest a senior military commander with links to the terrorist al-Qaeda network in the capital, Baghdad.

The high-level al-Qaeda militant was captured on Thursday morning in Hittin neighborhood after security agents had been tipped off by intelligence agencies.

Obama using discourse of empire

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:55 PM PDT

A prominent American journalist says US wars of aggression are a sign of the country's decline, like when Nazi Germany started World War II.

"These are aggressive wars. These are very equivalent to the Nazi invasion of Poland or France or Belgium or Holland," radio host David Barsamian said on Tuesday at the Center for Contemporary Arts.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:19 PM PDT

A 2008 amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was challenged by a collection of journalists, civil liberties advocates, and lawyers working on terrorism and detention issues in a federal appeals court late last Friday. The amendment eliminated a requirement that the government name the subjects of surveillance operations, which the plaintiffs argue increases their risk of government surveillance due to the nature of their work. However, the suit faces dismissal if the appeals court upholds a lower-court ruling that the plaintiffs must prove they are subject to surveillance -- a nearly impossible task, given the classified nature of government intelligence-gathering programs.

Jordan Confirms Grad Missile Hit Aqaba

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:12 PM PDT

The Jordanian Authorities confirmed Thursday that the explosion that took place at a cooling warehouse, north of the Aqaba coastal city was a grad missile, but added that the missile was not fired from Jordan.

The statement came after Israel stated that two missiles were fired at Eilat coastal city, and that one of them landed in Aqaba. Israel stated that the missiles were eit

UK leaders clash on foreign affairs

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:01 PM PDT

The leaders of Britain's main political parties have gone head to head over foreign policy in the second televised debate of the parliamentary election campaign.

Gordon Brown, the Labour prime minister, David Cameron, leader of the Conservative party and Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, clashed over terrorism, the future of the UK's nuclear weapons and Britain's relationship with the European Union.

Iran taekwondo claim top Asian spot

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT

Iran's national taekwondo squad has bagged five gold medals to claim the top spot in the 2nd West Asian Taekwondo Championships in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The Iranian team also won one silver and two bronze medals in the tournament.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:49 PM PDT

On Thursday evening, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told the visiting U.S. Middle East Envoy, George Mitchell, that Israel will not freeze its settlement activities in the occupied territories, including in occupied East Jerusalem.

Persian leopards face grave danger

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:44 PM PDT

Iran has reported the suspicious death of a third Persian leopard in less than a month amid rising concerns over the living conditions of the endangered species.

The Persian Leopard cal live in wide areas of Iran's Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges; however, the survival of the species is threatened due to population fragmentation and loss of habitat as a result of human population encroachment, poisoning and poaching.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:39 PM PDT

Those of us still registered as guests in the Hotel Reality note with a certain amount of amusement the growing number of people–including pretty important folks no less in stature than El Presidente Obama himself–who have figured out that there is a problem, and specifically with this creature known as Israel. More importantly, they realize that this "problem" is not some trivial, localized issue affecting only a few unimportant po' folks thousands of miles away in places such as Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, etc, but rather that the whole Israeli situation is like an inflamed appendix–tiny in its size, but deadly enough to destroy the entire body politic if not removed or dealt with rationally.

Interim Kyrgyz leaders set poll date

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:37 PM PDT

Kyrgyzstan's new interim government, led by an ex-foreign minister, Roza Otunbayeva, has promised to hold parliamentary and presidential elections on October 10.

Deputy head of the interim government, Omurbek Tekebayev also says the country is to hold a referendum on a new constitution on July 27.

UK leaders debate foreign affairs

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:23 PM PDT

The leaders of Britain's main political parties have gone head to head over foreign policy in the second televised debate of the parliamentary election campaign.

Iran: Gasoline sanctions futile

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:18 PM PDT

Tehran describes US efforts to sanction gasoline sales to Iran as foiled, saying that the Islamic Republic enjoys enough sources to fulfill its domestic needs.

"Iran is perfectly capable of meeting its needs and, as in the past, the sanctions policy will not be effective," Iran's Economy Minister Shamseddin Hosseini told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Birth of a People, Rebirth of a Nation

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:56 PM PDT

One of the major disadvantages American white nationalists face is that American nationality can plausibly be separated from white racial identity. This is a huge difference compared to the European situation.

As Paul Gottfried notes, European countries are now defining their identity in terms of abstract human rights and some kind of egalitarian universal history.

Series of blasts hit Thai capital

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:48 PM PDT

A series of explosions have rocked the business district of Bangkok, Thailand's capital, killing at least three people.

Five blasts on Thursday in the Silom area also injured about 75 others, including foreigners, according to authorities and hospital officials.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:00 PM PDT

IMFs Global Taxes Can Only Be Enforced Through Global Government 220410IMF As you will have no doubt read in the headlines today, the IMF has proposed levying two "global" taxes on the world's banks to make sure those greedy guys don't get us into trouble again. If that sounds dubious, it's because it is. In reality what is being proposed, and has been falling into place for some time, is the framework for an unelected global authority with powers above and beyond those of sovereign governments.

Cleggmania Rising

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:59 PM PDT

Here at the Nation, we like to think that all our interns go on to accomplish great things. But all the same, it's not every day that one gets compared to Winston Churchill, Barack Obama, Princess Diana, Tony Blair, and even Jesus. But with two weeks to go before Britain's general election, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg (Nation intern class of 1990) is Britain's new political superstar. (Clegg, wisely and humbly, has said that any grand historical analogies are "daft.")

Goldstone criticises S Africa rabbi

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 09:55 AM PDT

Richard Goldstone, the judge who authored a UN report on war crimes in the Gaza Strip, has criticised South Africa's chief rabbi after being effectively banned from attending his grandson's bar mitzvah - a key religious ceremony for young Jewish boys.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 09:30 AM PDT

ADL Calls For Major Law Enforcement Operation To Deal With Obamacare Critics 220410top2

A major Anti-Defamation League report goes further than ever before in an effort to purge the Internet of all dissent, listing completely non-violent criticism of Obamacare posted on Internet forums as a reason to conduct a "major law enforcement operation" against opponents of big government and health care reform.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 09:10 AM PDT

fiatmoney It only takes a passing knowledge of current events to prompt the question of how many times the American people can be conned before they begin to wake up. Indeed, one might even ask how many times they can be conned with the same lines for the same result. Yet unfortunately, it appears that the most realistic answer is that there is in fact no limit to the gullibility of the general public. Despite the growing tea party movement as well as protests against higher taxes and bailouts, the U.S. government is gearing up yet again for another round of bailouts and the populace is geared up to accept them.

Armenia halts Turkey reconciliation

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 08:27 AM PDT

Armenia has said it is suspending ratification of a reconciliation deal with Turkey, but is not pulling out of negotiations entirely.

Serzh Sarksyan, the Armenian president, said in nationally broadcast remarks on Thursday that the halt in the reconciliation process between the two countries was due the current political atmosphere in Turkey.

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 08:15 AM PDT

At a meeting in Copenhagen June 10, 1931: Arnold Toynbee, Director of Studies for Chatham House said:

"It is just because we are really attacking the principle of local sovereignty that we keep on protesting our loyalty to it so loudly.

The harder we press our attack upon the idol, the more pains we take to keep its priests and devotees in a fool's paradise - lapped in a false sense of security which will inhibit them from taking up arms in their idol's defense....

We are at present working, discreetly with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of the world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands."

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