Iran successfully tests Sejjil 2 missile
The Islamic Republic of Iran has successfully test-launched its new deterrent missile, Sejjil 2, pushing forward its long-term defense program. The 2000-km-range surface-to-surface missile was launched in the central Iranian province of Semnan on Wednesday.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95359§ionid=351020101
===
Ahmadinejad: Iran will turn enemy bases into hell
===
CIA: Israel knows it can't mess with Iran
CIA Director Leon Panetta says Israel knows the fact that launching a military attack on Iran would mean "big trouble". Panetta also said that Israel is aware that it needs to coordinate its strategy on Iran with other nations, The Jerusalem Post reported.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95435§ionid=351020104
===
Condemning Torture, Condoning Mass Murder
By Charles Davis
The idea that war crimes and civil liberties violations are strictly conservative affairs is particularly comforting to wide-eyed Democrats in awe of America's First Black President ™, and it affords the heirs to the same liberal establishment which brought us Vietnam and Hiroshima another opportunity to grandstand about their commitment to human rights even as the noble humanitarian Barack Obama continues to extra-judicially murder foreigners with unmanned drones.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22644.htm
===
The Disease of Permanent War
By Chris Hedges
The hollowness of our liberal classes, such as the Democrats, empowers the moral nihilists. A state of permanent war means the inevitable death of liberalism. Dick Cheney may be palpably evil while Obama is merely weak, but to those who seek to keep us in a state of permanent war it does not matter. They get what they want.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22646.htm
===
Obama's Animal Farm
By James Petras
The Democratic Pigs are now pursuing the same brutal, military policies of their predecessors, the Republican Porkers, only now it is in the name of the people and peace. Orwell might paraphrase the policy of President Barack Obama, as 'Bigger and bloodier wars equal peace and justice'.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22642.htm
===
Buyers Remorse
Is It Too Late To Swap Obama For McCain?
By Mike Whitney
I don't know about you, but I believe that America is based on the idea that every man has certain basic rights, and the most fundamental of all those rights is the right to know why the state has thrown your ass in jail. That's numero uno! It's called habeas corpus and the whole judicial system rests on that one foundation stone. People like Obama, who don't believe in habeas, shouldn't even call themselves "American" in my book because they don't believe in the underlying principles.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22640.htm
===
Obama Must Cow Netanyahu
Obama-Netanyahu must not be Kennedy-Khrushchev
By Juan Cole
If Netanyahu comes away thinking he can thumb his nose at Washington, the whole Middle East could be in flames by the end of Obama's first term.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22647.htm
===
One State the Alternative to Two-State Solution
By Hani Hazaimeh with agency dispatches
"If Israel continues not to accept solving the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution, then the other option before us is one democratic state in which Muslims, Christians and Jews live side by side enjoying the same rights," Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa said on Sunday.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22648.htm
===
The Almighty Renminbi?
By Nouriel Roubini
Traditionally, empires that hold the global reserve currency are also net foreign creditors and net lenders. The British Empire declined - and the pound lost its status as the main global reserve currency - when Britain became a net debtor and a net borrower in World War II. Today, the United States is in a similar position.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22643.htm
===
US Chiefs Can't be Sued for 'Terror Torture'
By Robert Barnes
The court ruled 5 to 4 that the top officials are not liable for the actions of their subordinates absent evidence that they ordered the allegedly discriminatory activity. The decision followed the court's ideological split between conservatives and liberals, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy siding with the conservatives and writing the opinion.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22645.htm
===
Health Care's Enigma in Chief
By David Sirota
The most stunning and least reported news about President Obama's press conference with health industry executives this week wasn't those executives' willingness to negotiate with a Democrat. It was that Democrat's eagerness to involve those executives in a discussion about health care reform even as they revealed their previous plans to pilfer $2 trillion from Americans.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22641.htm
===
U.S. Health Care Lies About Canada
Greed, U.S. Politics, Dysfunction
By Diane Francis
I am an American who has lived in Canada for more than 35 years. I can vouch that the system is more than adequate and is not run by civil servants but by doctors who are able to treat everyone, rich or poor.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22649.htm
===
27 militants killed in NW Pakistan operation:
Twenty-seven militants were killed during the last 24 hours in various areas in northwestern Pakistan, said the Pakistani military Monday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/18/content_11397538.htm
===
Pakistan fighting displaces 1.45 million civilians: UN:
UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond says that is in addition to the more than 550,000 people who were displaced earlier by the military offensive in northwest Pakistan, meaning the total is now more than 2 million.
http://snipurl.com/iacec
===
Demonizing Pakistan? Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says:
Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan's nuclear program.
http://snipurl.com/iackx
===
Manufacturing Consent For Attacks On Pakistan?
All options open on securing Pak nukes: Obama:
US President Barack Obama has voiced confidence in the safety of Pakistan's nuclear assets. But at the same time, he made it clear that he could consider all options to secure the nuclear weapons, if the country got less stable.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22184
===
Insurgents kill 7 in Afghan forces:
Fighting in southern Afghanistan killed six Afghan police yesterday, and a roadside bomb killed an Afghan soldier in the same region, the government said.
http://snipurl.com/iaco6
===
Afghan soldiers kill 3 civilians:
"Three soldiers of ANA opened fire at two shopkeepers in Jalalabad this morning as a result three persons were killed and another got wounded," the press release added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/18/content_11396385.htm
===
Afghan president's brother survives attack:
A younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he survived an assassination attempt Monday when gunmen sprayed his convoy with rocket and machine-gun fire, killing one of his bodyguards.
http://snipurl.com/iacqm
===
Netanyahu to tell Obama: Time 'running out' on Iran:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to stress that "time is running out" for stopping Iran's nuclear program, so Obama must not spend more than a few months on his planned dialogue with Tehran unless real progress is achieved.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086235.html
===
Obama: Iran existential threat to Israel:
With respect to concerns Israel might carry out an air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, the US president said that since Israel is "right there in the range" of Iranian missiles, "their calculation of costs and benefits are going to be more acute."
http://snipurl.com/iacsr
===
Israel begins new illegal settlement, despite U.S. opposition:
Israel has moved ahead with a plan to build a new illegal settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, pursuing a project the United States has already condemned as an obstacle to peace efforts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086339.html
===
ICC to hear Israeli war crime case:
A Human Rights group has filed a lawsuit against Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the war crimes they have committed in the Gaza Strip
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95173§ionid=351020202
===
Hamas rejects Gaza-only joint security force:
Hamas movement on Monday rejected the idea of forming a joint Palestinian security force in the Gaza Strip that would not also operate in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
http://snipurl.com/iaczv
===
Iraq: Two killed, three wounded in attacks in Mosul and Basra:
Two policemen were killed on Monday in separate bombings in the northern province Mosul and Basra in the south of Iraq, security sources said.
http://snipurl.com/iad0v
===
Fact or fiction?
Iraq: Detained Al-Qaeda leader 'funded by Arab states':
Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq relies on funding from Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, according to confessions allegedly made by its reputed leader, Omar al-Baghdadi following his arrest last month, the Iraqi military said on Monday.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3327987471
===
Sri Lanka rebel chief 'killed':
Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been killed, Sri Lankan officials and state-run media have said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/2009518133426750384.html
===
Somalia: Seven killed in renewed fighting:
Islamist militants have captured a strategic town north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, early Sunday morning, eyewitnesses have confirmed. Members of the al-Shabab, the group fighting government forces in Somalia, seized the town of Jowhar resulting in the death of at least seven people.
http://www.africanews.com/site/Somalia_Seven_killed_in_renewed_fighting/list_messages/24873
===
Somali fighters seize another town:
Hizb ul-Islam, a coalition of groups fighting Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers, have closed in on Somalia's capital, after seizing a strategically important town north of Mogadishu.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/05/200951812027981975.html
===
U.S.: Lawyers, Rights Groups Outraged by Gitmo Decision:
Human rights advocates are furious at President Barack Obama's decision to prosecute some Guantanamo detainees through the same military commissions he criticised during his campaign as a "flawed" system that "has failed to convict anyone of a terrorist act since the 9/11 attacks".
http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=46881
===
Republicans salute Obama's military tack
: Moves anger liberal Democrats
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/17/republicans-salute-obama-military-tack/
===
Brazil president arrives in Beijing:
Brazil's president has arrived in China for three days of talks expected to focus on broadening ties between two of the world's largest developing economies and moves to decrease their dependency on the US dollar.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200951841033800562.html
===
China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency:
The Chinese yuan is preparing to overtake the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, economist Nouriel Roubini has warned.
http://snipurl.com/iad6q
===
In case you missed it:
US Backing for World Currency Stuns Markets:
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shocked global markets by revealing that Washington is "quite open" to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22300.htm
===
Asia will author its own destruction if it triggers a crisis over US bonds:
Japan beware, crashes have a habit of bringing regime change
http://snipurl.com/iad7v
===
US prices fall most since 1955:
Prices in the US fell in the year to April at the fastest annual rate since 1955, labour department figures showed on Friday, as declining energy prices pulled back the cost of living.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/854d81ce-40c1-11de-8f18-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
===
General Motors follows Chrysler's route and shuts dealerships:
GM is to close about 2,300 dealerships from its 6,000-strong US network as part of last-ditch plans to avoid bankruptcy.
http://snipurl.com/iada4
===
100,000 Jobs At Risk: Industry crisis sees US car dealerships cut loose and left with nothing to sell:
The shrinkage of General Motors and Chrysler's dealer networks is putting more than 100,000 jobs in doubt at car yards in towns and cities across America
http://snipurl.com/iadbb
===
No comments:
Post a Comment