Moscow, Beijing to sign declaration on world order

Chinese leader Hu Jintao will arrive here Thursday to sign a joint declaration on world order in the 21st Century, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry wrote in an article published in the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta Wednesday.

"This is a crucial document that reflects the convergence of Russia and China's fundamental positions on key issues in modern world order - our common view for the outlook of the development of humankind," Alexander Yakovenko wrote.

Iraqi Resistance Replies To Bush Speech: Sets Terms For U.S. Surrender

Rafidan-The Political Committee
The Mujahideen Central Command (MCC)
Baghdad- The Republic of Iraq

Why the US and Iran love to hate each other by Scott Peterson

"If the Americans have the right to become emperor of the world, Iranians think they have the right to be the emperor at least of their region," says Vaeidi. "If we can find the best way to bring these two hegemons together, it will be good.

The UN "Reform" Bandwagon by William F. Jasper

"All of the so-called UN reform proposals are dangerous traps that, ultimately, would cause great harm to America," warns the Birch Society's Vance Smith. For 60 years the UN's founders and their one-world successors have been trying to build the UN into an all-powerful world government. "There's no honest way of getting around the fact that the UN is UNAmerican, UNacceptable, UNrepentant, UNregenerate, and UNreformable," says Mr. Smith. "That is why we are more determined than ever to continue pressing and expanding our decades-long campaign to 'Get US out!' of the United Nations, and get the United Nations out of the U.S."

The Saudi oil bombshell by Michael T Klare

Essentially, Simmons' argument boils down to four major points:

Most of Saudi Arabia's oil output is generated by a few giant fields, of which Ghawar - the world's largest - is the most prolific.

These giant fields were first developed 40 to 50 years ago, and have since given up much of their easily extracted petroleum.

To maintain high levels of production in these fields, the Saudis have come to rely increasingly on the use of water injection and other secondary recovery methods to compensate for the drop in natural field pressure.

As time goes on, the ratio of water to oil in these underground fields rises to the point where further oil extraction becomes difficult, if not impossible. To top it all off, there is very little reason to assume that future Saudi exploration will result in the discovery of new fields to replace those now in decline.

Trade Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by Sheldon Richman

Has it occurred to our (mis)leaders that Chinese entrepreneurs have done more to raise the living standards of low-income Americans than all the welfare-state bureaucrats, anti-poverty workers, and their trillions of dollars combined? Speeches about the minimum wage, Medicaid, and food stamps amount to nothing compared to the mass production of low-priced goods. Worse than nothing — because the welfare state stunts economic growth, hurting low-income people far more than the middle and upper classes.

Iran: The living fossils' vengeance by Spengler

Ahmadinejad's victory leaves American policy in an untenable position. To the extent that the United States enhances the military prowess of Iraq's Shi'ites to the level required to suppress Sunni insurgents, Iran may harvest the political benefits. Iraq is now led by Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Da'wa party, which operated in exile out of Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War. At a Baghdad news conference with Iran's foreign minister on May 18, al-Jafaari said in English, referring to the 138,000 American troops in Iraq, "Let me add that the party that will leave Iraq is the United States, because it will eventually withdraw. But the party that will live with the Iraqis is Iran, because it is a neighbor to Iraq."

Negotiations with Iraqi Rebels Are a Good Start But Not Enough by Ivan Eland

Despite these challenges, however, a negotiated U.S. withdrawal and agreement among Iraqi groups for a decentralized solution are the best hope for salvaging Iraq. Because the U.S. public will eventually demand a U.S. withdrawal, a controlled decentralization of Iraq is better than one arrived at later in chaos or civil war.

Bush and Putin - For Life? by William Norman Grigg

Reported Newsday on June 24: "A senior member of [Putin’s] United Russia party … submitted a legislative amendment Thursday that would allow Putin to stand for re-election if he stepped down before the end of his second term … in March 2008, and if the next presidential poll held without his participation is declared invalid – for example, because of low turnout."

Last February, five Republican congressmen introduced House Joint Resolution 24, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution." The 22nd Amendment, limiting U.S. presidents to two full terms (or ten years’ total service in the office), was enacted in the wake of Franklin Roosevelt’s four-term presidency.

US Image Abroad Still Sinking by Jim Lobe

Similarly, majorities in all 15 countries, ranging from 51 percent (Canada) to 85 percent (France), said the world would be better if a group of countries emerges as a rival to US military power. By contrast, 63 percent of US citizens said the world would be better off if Washington remained its only military superpower.

The Real News in the Downing Street Memos by Michael Smith

But another part of the memo is arguably more important. It quotes British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon as saying that "the U.S. had already begun 'spikes of activity' to put pressure on the regime." This we now realize was Plan B.

Put simply, U.S. aircraft patrolling the southern no-fly zone were dropping a lot more bombs in the hope of provoking a reaction that would give the allies an excuse to carry out a full-scale bombing campaign, an air war, the first stage of the conflict.

Report: Rumsfeld considers striking Hizbullah to provoke Syria by Douglas Davis

In an article to be published on Friday, the journal said multi-faceted US attacks, which would be conducted within the framework of the global war on terrorism, are likely to focus on Hizbullah bases in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon.

It noted that the deployment of US special forces in the Bekaa Valley, where most of Syria's occupation forces in Lebanon are based, would be highly inflammatory and would "almost certainly involve a confrontation with Syrian troops."

The pawns who pay as powers play by Syed Saleem Shahzad

In the complex undercurrents that dictate the ebb and flow of Pakistani politics and policy, yesterday's hero can very quickly become today's scoundrel. Just ask Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.

'Mossad Attack Upon The United States Imminent' by Sorcha Faal

Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the United States Military Forces operating in the Iraqi War Theater have come under sophisticated bombing attacks utilizing Laser Technology known only to exist in Israel's vast arsenal of weapons, and as we can read as reported by the New York Times News Service in their article titled "Redesigned bombs pushing U.S. toll higher" and which says:

Can the UN Really be Reformed? by Ron Paul

America has nothing to show for our 60 years in the UN except for tens of thousands of dead or injured soldiers, and hundreds of billions of wasted tax dollars. The 20th century – the UN century – was the bloodiest in the world’s history. We must stop fooling ourselves that the UN is an instrument of world peace.

Confronting Israeli Myth-making by KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON

Propagandists on behalf of Israel have held a corner on public discourse about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for the nearly six decades of Israel’s existence, but these purveyors of the Israeli line have become increasingly deceptive and malign -- and increasingly effective – with time. The propaganda machine serving Israel disseminates a steady stream of talking points and argumentation that today effectively controls all public discourse, so that in media arenas large and small throughout the country there are always grassroots propagandists available to put out a uniformly favorable twist on Israel’s actions and always to paint the Palestinians in black colors.

It's OK to Be "Anti - Jewish Politics" -- Really! by Wendy Campbell

Unfortunately, the racist ideology of Zionism far overshadows religious Judaism these days. Not all Jews are Zionists, as one of my documentaries reveals (“Neturei Karta: Jews Against Zionism”), but the bulk of collective Jewish action is overwhelmingly political and in favor of military force with regards to the Palestinians and using American military force to fight Israel’s self-made enemies, as well as preserving Israel as a Jewish supremacist state.

AIPAC can place you by the elbow of the president by Ahmed Amr

"AIPAC is already flexing its muscle to diminish the impact of the Franklin case. Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman were taken off the payroll. The New York Times and The Washington Post have made an executive decision that this espionage trial is unworthy of their attention. If you expect any bulletins on this story from CNN or FOX, don’t hold your breath. Most Americans don’t have a clue that another Pollard has been caught in the act of passing classified information to Israeli spies. In all, it is a very impressive display of AIPAC’s media clout."

British Intelligence Iraq Dossier Relies on Recycled Academic Articles by Glen Rangwala

A close textual analysis suggests that the UK authors had little access to first-hand intelligence sources and instead based their work on academic papers, which they selectively distorted. Some of the papers used were considerably out of date. This leads the reader to wonder about the reliability and veracity of the Downing Street document.

Smoking Signposts to Nowhere by Tom Engelhardt and Mark Danner

Consider the strong warning put forward in a recently released British Cabinet document dated two days before the Downing Street memo (and eight months before the war), that "the military occupation of Iraq could lead to a protracted and costly nation-building exercise." On this point, as the British document prophetically observes, "US military plans are virtually silent." So too were America's leaders, and we live with the consequences of that silence. As support for the war collapses, the cost will become clear: for most citizens, 1,700 American dead later – tens of thousands of Iraqi dead later – the war's beginning remains as murky and indistinct as its ending.

Classic Bait And Switch Enacted As Downing Street Memos Called Possible Hoax

Article: Are Downing Street memos authentic or elaborate hoax?
Blogs question credibility of reporter who typed copies, destroyed originals

This has all the hallmarks of a classic sting operation

How much proof needed before the truth comes out? by Kevin Zeese

What do all these leaked, confidential British memos point to? The Bush administration had decided to go to war at least one year before doing so and many months before seeking a resolution from Congress. The invasion of Iraq was illegal under international law so they tried to create legal justification through manipulation of the United Nations in order to trap Saddam into violating UN resolutions. This also provided the side benefit of making it look like they were seeking a peaceful resolution while at the same time putting in place the machinery for a massive US/UK invasion. The case for war was weak—the link to terrorism particularly al Qaida was poor; Iraq was no more dangerous than other 'axis of evil' countries; Iraq's weapons program for nuclear, bio and chemical weapons was no greater than prior to deciding to go to war and intelligence needed to be 'fixed' in order to justify the war to the public and international community. Finally, these memos indicate that the US planned poorly for the post-invasion occupation of Iraq, greatly underestimating how difficult this part of the military activity would be.

Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem, Israeli Style by Paul Findley

It stands as a cynical reversal of Israel's long-proclaimed guarantee that all people will have free access to religious places in Jerusalem. A civil rights attorney, Eliahu Abrams, put it bluntly: " It is a true crisis in human rights. Israel is forcibly getting rid of Palestinians not by pulling them out by the hair, but by quiet, slow, sophisticated deportation."

PIC Reports Mossad Assassinated 530 Iraqi Scientists, Professors In 7 Months by Muhammad Abu Nasr

There have been persistent reports for many months that Zionist hit squads have been active in Iraq assassinating Iraqi scientists and intellectuals. The latest chapter in that continuing story appeared on Tuesday, 14 June 2005, when the Palestine Information Center posted information that it said came from a report compiled by the United States Department of State and intended for the American President.

The report stated that agents of the Zionist foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, in cooperation with US military forces in Iraq had assassinated 350 Iraqi scientists and more than 200 university professors in scientific and other disciplines.

Guiding hand in India, China ties by Ehsan Ahrari

Two recent reports about China-India interactions deserve the attention of the countries of Asia-Pacific and the United States. The first one is about a meeting of the foreign ministers of China, India and Russia in Vladivostok, Russia. In that meeting, the countries agreed to "synchronize policies or security and economic issues, with an unstated aim of creating a counterweight to US influence in Asia". The second story is about China's strong opposition to a G-4 resolution (that includes India, Brazil, Japan, and Germany) that would create six new permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council. If China intends to cooperate with India by synchronizing its policies, then why not support a permanent UN seat for India? The reasons are complex, and reflect the increasingly paradoxical relations between the two "rising powers".

US dragged down by news from Iraq by Jim Lobe

Indications that this is indeed beginning to happen are becoming more plentiful. Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives voted 300-128 to defeat a resolution that would have required the president to present a plan for withdrawal from Iraq, but a 122-79 majority of Democrats voted for it, along with five Republicans, including three who had supported the original decision to go to war.

End of the U.S.-Turkey alliance: Ties 'more allergic than strategic'

"Turkish-American relations have been in a process of erosion for a long time," Kemal Koprulu, chairman of the Ari Movement, said. "The strategic partnership is long over. And after it ended, unfortunately no effort was made to redefine our relations."

Israel tries to defuse arms sale dispute with U.S. by Megan Goldin

Israel's Haaretz daily reported the United States recently suspended several weapons and technology projects with Israel, moves which the newspaper said deepened the dispute that erupted last year over Israeli-supplied Harpy attack drones to China.

Israeli defense officials denied the report but said that Washington, seeking better supervision of Israeli arms sales to countries the United States deems problematic, now wants Israel to obtain advance approval for any weapons deals with India.

Web of cold-blooded lies by ERIC MARGOLIS

In retrospect, former president Richard Nixon's misdeeds appear trivial compared to Bush's illegal, unnecessary and catastrophic war against Iraq, which has so far killed some 100,000 Iraqis and Americans, cost $275 billion US, and made America's name mud around the globe.

Ministers were told of need for Gulf war 'excuse' by Michael Smith

AfterDowningStreet.org, another website set up as a result of the memo, is calling for a congressional committee to consider whether Bush’s actions as depicted in the memo constitute grounds for impeachment.

It has been flooded with visits from people angry at what they see as media self-censorship in ignoring the memo. It claims to have attracted more than 1m hits a day.

Exit strategy: Civil war by Pepe Escobar

The Bush administration though is pulling no punches with Iraqification. It's a Pandora's box: inside one will find the Battle of Algiers, Vietnam, El Salvador, Colombia. All point to the same destination: civil war. This deadly litany could easily go on until 2020 when, in a brave new world of China emerging as the top economy, Sunni Arabs would finally convince themselves to perhaps strike a deal with Shi'ites and Kurds so they can all profit together by selling billions of barrels of oil to the Chinese oil majors. If, of course, there is any semblance of Iraq left at that point.

Is Israel Unique by Mazin Qumsiyeh

But is Zionism monolithic and is there anything to point out as a positive aspect of it? To my knowledge all branches of political Zionism believed in a “Jewish political sovereignty” defining Judaism not as a religion but a national group in need of separation. Relying on “us here them there” programs necessitated removing natives to have a “comfortable” Jewish majority which by consensus was “set” at 80% (laws are constantly being tweaked to ensure Jerusalem is 70-80% “Jewish”).

The US and that 'other' axis by Jephraim P Gundzik

Beijing's increasingly close ties with Moscow and Tehran will thwart Washington's foreign policy goal of expanding US security footholds in the Middle East, Central Asia and Asia. However, the primacy of economic stability will most likely prevent a proxy-style military confrontation, in Iran or North Korea, between China and the US.

CAFTA: An Outsourcing and Foreign Aid Pact by William Norman Grigg

Taken together, the nations of the proposed Central America Free Trade Agreement — Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua — “accounted for just 1.4 percent of all U.S. information-technology exports in 2004.” Pro-CAFTA information industry groups claim that the agreement would translate into a $75 million annual savings on export tariffs. However, notes the WATW report, that would “not even be a blip on the radar screen of the U.S. information-technology industry — much less the boon that would lead to increased U.S. high-tech employment levels.”

The world in the palm of their hands: Bilderberg 2005, Part II by Daniel Estulin

Through lies and obfuscations, Bilderbergers are desperately trying to foist onto the unwilling world population a totalitarian, one-world government, a single global currency and a syncretic universal religion.

Those of us who care deeply about the future of politics, domestic and international, cannot afford to ignore the fact that the grimly political One World Government is no longer merely a shadow subculture. It has, in fact, emerged as the dominant force in world affairs.

If Pinochet Is Guilty, so Is Bush by Paul Craig Roberts

What is interesting about the Pinochet case is that everything the former president of Chile is accused of, George W. Bush and his cronies are guilty of. Indeed, why are Senate staff wasting their time on 30-year-old alleged crimes of an elderly Chilean when the president of the United States ought to be in the dock? The prosecutor's brief – the Downing Street Memo – is already written.

Why were AIPAC and Israel so desperate for a list? By Terry Thurber

So with things admittedly better for Israel - now - than before the phenomena of 9-11, why did Israel and AIPAC and their rent-a-patriot lackeys in the DOD risk so much on an espionage operation whose product was merely lists of “terrorist” groups operating in Iraq. Were they worried that a connection was being made between the so-called Iraqi terror cells and Israeli operatives in Iraq? Do they worry some will blame Israeli ethics for US occupation atrocities?

Plagues and Evils Ravaging America Since 1948: by Texe Marrs

Review the shocking list below of plagues and evils that have furiously raked this country since we helped found and began actively supporting wicked, earthly Israel ("Sodom and Egypt"—see Rev. 11:8) in 1948. Decide for yourself. Has America been blessed—or cursed—by God for its support of Israel for over 50 years?

'Realists' Press for Bush to Engage Iran, North Korea by Jim Lobe

The realist offensive comes amid a growing sense that the intra-administration fights between hawks led by Vice President Dick Cheney and realists led by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell have continued unabated nearly six months into Bush's second term, albeit more recently without Powell and fewer leaks from unhappy State Department and intelligence officers who generally lined up with the realists.

The Prophecy Ignored by John Peters

For centuries, Jews lived and prospered as minority communities within the Arab and Muslim world. In the early 20th Century, the convergence of Zionism, a world war and the triumph of colonialism would lay the seeds for perpetual conflict in the Middle East . Previously healthy relationships between Arab and Jews would be poisoned as Arab lands were fractured and taken to feed the ambitions of Europeans and Zionists. Arabs aspirations were ignored not because Zionists were Jews, but primarily because early Zionists were Europeans who shared a general European contempt for the cultures of the Middle East . For this same reason, Middle Eastern Jews were treated with a similar contempt by the founders of Israel.

We are now faced with the consequences of ignoring self-determination, as King-Crane’s crystal ball sits in the dusty attic of history.

The constitution is dead. Long live proper politics by Slavoj Zizek

To put it bluntly, do we want to live in a world in which the only choice is between the American civilisation and the emerging Chinese authoritarian-capitalist one? If the answer is no then the only alternative is Europe. The third world cannot generate a strong enough resistance to the ideology of the American dream. In the present world constellation, it is only Europe that can do it. The true opposition today is not between the first world and the third world. Instead it is between the first and third world (ie the American global empire and its colonies), and the second world (ie Europe).

The post-Westphalian World and Muslims’ Will by Abid Ullah Jan

The world is in a state of total chaos. The 350-year reign of the nation-state system is coming to an end. The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty-Years War, also ended the millennial domination of the ideal of universal empire and creed, personified in the priest-king, god-king or divine emperor. In the West, the ideal was embodied for a millennium and a half in the Roman Empire in all its transformations over time, and since the fourth century AD in the Christian religion, embodied by the Papacy.

BEFORE the US attacked Iraq Facts EVERY war supporter should have known

America needs you, Deep Throat II by Ehsan Ahrari

But why can't we find out the real reason underlying the US invasion of Iraq? Maybe because it is no longer an earth-shattering question. The real truth related to that - if it were to have been unearthed before the presidential election of 2004 and were to have been disapproved by the American people - would have brought an end to another presidency, as did Deep Throat's role to the Nixon presidency.

Israel an American Value? by Laura Dawn Lewis

This year's AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) the most powerful foreign lobby in Washington's conference ran with the slogan, "Israel, an American value". Accompanying this slogan is a logo showing an American flag juxtaposed as a six-pointed star.

French and Dutch Patriots Rout the New World Order by Michael James

For both Americans and Europeans, the enemy is the same. It employs trauma-based economic terrorism under the banner of 'free markets' to demolish the nation state and our God-given rights to liberty and self-determination. It works through price-gouging, tax largesse for corporations that destroy free-enterprise, the wholesale destruction of the middle classes by encouraging the export of quality jobs abroad and the import of cheap labour to displace what few options are left. It is dedicated to the creation of artificial conflicts and trivial distractions to keep people divided and drugged, and it maintains the constant drumbeat of militarism that nuances the dance of death in which the United Nations and the United States are willing partners who fake being out of step.

Holland votes NO to European Superstate and wars by Henk Ruyssenaars

The reality is, that they now in the Netherlands live in an 'Apartheid-state', where they can get fined when they leave their houses without an ID card. ''On average a little more than 100 fines a day were issued to people who could not produce identification in January. Since a new law came into effect on News Year's Day [2005] obliging everyone above the age of 14 to carry ID, authorities have issued 3,300 fines, news agency Novum reported. The fines amount to EUR 50 and EUR 25 for those aged 14 or 15.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8gujf

French lessons for the European Union by DAVID HOWELL

The same goes for the EU. Some people hope that a new generation of European leaders, such as Nicholas Sarkozy in France, or Angela Merkel, the new Christian Democratic Union Party leader in Germany, will recognize these truths and abandon the search for a tightknit European bloc, in favor of something much more modest and flexible.