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Israel Arrests Palestinians While Releasing Others
by Stephen Lendman
In mid-October, Netanyahu's cabinet agreed to free 1,027 Palestinian political prisoners in two waves (including 27 women and nearly 300 children) in return for Hamas releasing Gilad Shalit after over five years in captivity.
Wave one is completed, freeing 477 Palestinians. In two months, phase two will release another 550. According to terms, 203 will be deported, 40 exiled overseas, and 163 expelled to Gaza.
Currently, Israel still holds over 5,000 detainees. As a result of torture, medical neglect, or assassinations, over 200 died martyrs in captivity. Another 302 are called "veteran detainees," serving 17 years or longer.
Canada Pursues U.S.-Style Security and Foreign Policy
By Dana Gabriel
In the last number of years, there has been a dramatic shift in Canadian security and foreign policy with regards to continental, hemispheric and global issues. While Canada is working with the U.S. on a North American security perimeter deal, there are also efforts to strengthen defense relations with Britain and other allies. Canada has also elevated its status in NATO and is playing a more prominent role in military operations overseas.
“Champion of Israel” in UK Cabinet self-destructs, Drove coach and horses through government’s Ministerial Code for mysterious buddy
Stuart Littlewood
The dodgy relationship between Britain's defence secretary, Dr Liam Fox, and his friend Adam Werrity has been entertaining the media and public here for the last several days.
Werrity, a onetime flat-mate of Fox's and best man at his wedding, has been traipsing around the world after the defence secretary, popping up "by amazing coincidence" in the same cities and organising and appearing at meetings where Fox discussed state business. And he turned up at Fox's London office so many times that tongues began to wag.
Class War in America
by Stephen Lendman
Class war raged for decades. Business and America's super-rich always win. In his 1925 short story titled "Rich Boy," F. Scott Fitzgerald said:
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early...They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we.."
"Even when they enter deep into our world....they still think that that they are better than we are. They are different."
In his article, titled "The Truth About 'Class War' in America," economist Richard Wolff said:
"The last 50 years have indeed seen continuous class warfare in and over federal economic policies."
Corporate giants and America's super-rich waged war against working Americans and won. Notably since the 1970s, "(b)usiness and its allies shifted most of its federal tax burden onto individuals."
Gaddafi: Dead or Alive?
by Stephen Lendman
Either way he became a legend in his own time. Thursday on the Progressive Radio News Hour, James Petras reported information he received from a reliable Argentina source saying he's dead.
If so, he explained, he'll be Africa's greatest martyr since Congo's Patrice Lumumba. After leading its independence struggle successfully in June 1960, a CIA coup ousted him 10 weeks later.
A Call for a Moratorium on Open-Pit Mining
Anne Orlando
Hundreds of open-pit mines are operating in Armenia. Mining activity, such as blasting or carving the mountain slopes, also dumping the wastes generated from mining, rock processing and ore-extraction activities, into gorges (into riverbeds and/or on riverbanks), are all unregulated activities in Armenia. Open-pit mining has a very high waste-to-product ratio (roughly 99 tons of waste to each ton of copper, and even far more waste in gold mining), making waste the major product of the mining industry.
A recent article - http://www.armenian
reporteronline.am/go/article/2011-01
-25-mining-industry-causes-lasting-
damage-to-syunik-environment - describes in detail the destruction inflicted upon agricultural land, the damage caused to human health, to forests, to precious water resources and to entire village communities as a result of mining activity and the large volumes of generated toxic slurry - the mine tailings.
Let Them Worry About Us
By Timothy V. Gatto
I’ve been silent as these Occupy protests have been taking place, not only at Wall Street (the root of it all), but around the country including Greenville, SC, my adopted hometown. The reason I’ve been silent is because everything I’ve heard people say is what I have been writing about for the last seven years. I really don’t have much to add. I was planning to go to DC but my family was dead set against it. I take over 12 medications a day and can’t afford a hotel room at this time. They were afraid I’d get too caught up in what was happening there and forget to take my medicine and end up as a casualty. Probably in my heart of hearts I believe they were right. Knowing myself, I probably would have left in a stretcher. 60 isn’t that old, but with a heart bypass and being a recovering Cancer patient, maybe I erred on the right side for once.
Hillary Clinton in Tripoli
by Stephen Lendman
Obama is an unindicted war criminal. So is Clinton. More on her staged photo-op theater below.
On October 18, NATO deputy spokesperson Carmen Romero said:
"We are very close to (ending the Libya operation), but there are still threats to the civilian population and as long as these threats persist we will continue" the campaign.
Fact check
Libya's only threat is NATO's presence with its army of paid mercenaries. The country was mostly calm and peaceful until terror bombing began on March 19. It's been ongoing daily for seven months.
Widespread areas have been ravaged. Tens of thousands have been killed, many more injured and displaced.
About 100,000 residents once called Sirte home. Under intense daily bombardment and shelling, it's in ruins. Remaining inhabitants are now homeless refugees.
Unfolding a plot: Mossad at work
By Dr. Ismail Salami
Despite its evidently make-believe facade, the cooked-up story of the Saudi envoy assassination plot does not seem to be something which can be easily banished from the minds of the American powers that be.
The heat over Iran in the US government is growing rapidly. Some Republican congressmen have expressed their interest in waging an all-out war against Iran, a threat they keep refreshing every time they have an excuse. They have clearly stated that Washington should not dismiss the idea of resorting to military force against Iran, an idea which is being strengthened in Congress.
Britain, France , US: ‘And the winner is ...’
Eric Walberg
In the lifestyle sweepstakes, the answer is “none of the above”.
The economic and social experiments in the past three decades by British governments from left to right have left the plucky Brits reeling, as this summer's unprecedented bread and ipod riots showed all too conclusively. For a year now, fiscal austerity and financial chaos have sent Britain’s economy into a nasty cycle of low growth and rising unemployment.
But unlike Greece, which was forced into recession by misguided EU taskmasters, Britain has inflicted this on itself. Austerity was a deliberate choice by Prime Minister David Cameron’s ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. Britain’s jobless numbers are the highest in more than 15 years, with unemployment 8.1 per cent, as the government continues to slash public-sector jobs -- more than 100,000 have been lost in recent months.
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