US starving Iraq

2008-01-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/cogan060108.htm Cutbacks To Iraqi Food Rations Threaten Malnutrition And Starvation By James Cogan 06 January, 2008 WSWS.org Under conditions of widespread malnutrition, run-away inflation and mass unemployment, the Iraqi Trade Ministry is preparing to slash the provision of subsidised food and basic hygiene necessities under the Public Distribution System … Read more

Rui Namorado Rosa: Resource Wars menace Africa

2008-01-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1329 Africa under further menace of Resource Wars By Rui Namorado Rosa Jan/07/2008 Africa is eyed by imperialism as being simultaneously very rich (in natural resources) and extremely poor (in people¹s living standard), thereby releasing surpluses to be exported to the world market, satisfying the egotism of rich countries … Read more

Boeing’s latest Star Wars project

2008-01-09 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q1/080107a_nr.html Boeing Responds to Missile Defense Agency’s GMD Information Request ST. LOUIS, Jan. 07, 2008 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has responded to a U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) request for industry feedback on the follow-on Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program. Boeing submitted its response to MDA’s request … Read more

The real reason for the Bhutto hit

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Friends, What an ironic headline, “U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan”. How can it be covert if it’s announced in the NY TImes? So Bhutto’s convenient demise and the convenient unrest that followed provide the perfect excuse to the US to come in and establish a presence in strategically-located Pakistan. We … Read more

* Muriel Mirak-Weissbach on the NIE report re/ Iran *

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7722 After The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran: Let The Great Debate Begin! “Preemptive surgical strike by the intelligence community against the war party” By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Global Research, January 3, 2008 The issuance of the National Intelligence Estimate on Dec. 3, could be compared to the historic … Read more

Ron Paul slams decision to exclude him from forum

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/010408_beyond_joke.htm Ron Paul: Fox News Is “Beyond A Joke” Presidential candidate slams decision to exclude him from forum Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Friday, January 4, 2008 Speaking to The Alex Jones Show today, presidential candidate Ron Paul commented on the controversy surrounding his exclusion from a Fox News … Read more

* PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: Thinking for Yourself is Now a Crime

2008-01-06 Richard Moore ____________________ Who will be on the “extremist beliefs” list? The answer is: civil libertarians, critics of Israel, 9/11 skeptics, critics of the administration’s wars and foreign policies, critics of the administration’s use of kidnapping, rendition, torture and violation of the Geneva Conventions, and critics of the administration’s spying on Americans. Anyone in … Read more

NY Times: US on verge of recession

2008-01-06 Richard Moore ³The risk of a vicious cycle setting in now is very high,² Mr. Zandi said. ³The job market¹s operating at stall speed. Either it picks up soon or it quickly unravels.² ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/business/05econ.html January 5, 2008 Unemployment Sounds Warning About Economy By PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM … Read more

Justice Department takes on CIA honchos

2008-01-06 Richard Moore ____________________ C.I.A. officials have for years feared becoming entangled in a criminal investigation involving alleged improprieties in secret counterterrorism programs. Now, the investigation and a probable grand jury inquiry will scrutinize the actions of some of the highest-ranking current and former officials at the agency. ____________________ ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/washington/03intel.html January … Read more

What’s really going on in Kenya?

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Friends, This quote is from the article below: ____________________ “Mr. Kibaki has been a strong supporter of American counterterrorism efforts in the region. His government has received substantial antiterrorism training and funding from the U.S. Mr. Odinga, in efforts to distance himself from the incumbent and appeal to Kenya’s sizable Muslim population, … Read more

Boeing to test space laser weapons

2008-01-06 Richard Moore No, you won’t see ‘space’ mentioned in this article. But if the laser can kill from a high-altitude aircraft, it can operate from space, which has only a thin additional layer of atmosphere to go through. And we know the Pentagon is working space-based systems, for them space is the New Frontier … Read more

Wall Street Journal gives coverage to Ron Paul…

2008-01-06 Richard Moore …but only on the opinions page, not part of campaign coverage. rkm ——————————————————– Original source URL: http://www.opinionjournal.com/cc/?id=110011060&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage CROSS COUNTRY Ron Beats Rudy? New Hampshire could surprise a lot of people. BY ANDREW CLINE Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:01 a.m. Wall Street Journal – Opinion Journal MANCHESTER, N.H.–For several hours last Sunday, more … Read more

Why they are scared of Ron Paul

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://rense.com/general79/rebel.htm Ron Paul Revolution – The Rebellion Of The Intelligent By Jay Weidner 12-24-7 Between Huckabee’s “Paul is dead” quote and Tim Russert’s admonition to Ron Paul on Meet The Press to “Stay safe on the campaign trail” it is time to say that there can be no doubt … Read more

voting machines: being replaced at last

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010108L.shtml http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-voting-machine-mess,1,413186.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines States Question Electronic Vote Machines By GEORGE MERRITT Associated Press Writer 1:38 AM PST, January 1, 2008 DENVER ‹ With the presidential race in full swing, Colorado and other states have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their electronic voting machines, forcing officials to … Read more

Vanishing wild bees will sting ecosystem

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/289362 Vanishing wild bees will sting ecosystem December 29, 2007 CAMERON SMITH This is a darkening time for the world. I want to explain why in this column, but I also want to point to the effort of one family in Norfolk County that is trying to keep open … Read more

Times of India: Bhutto was targeted using laser beam

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Bhutto_was_targeted_using_laser_beam/articleshow/2668613.cms Printed from The Economic Times of India ‘Bhutto was targeted using laser beam’ 2 Jan, 2008, 1346 hrs IST, PTI ISLAMABAD: The controversy over former premier Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has taken another turn with a section of her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) claiming she was targeted with sophisticated … Read more

Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak out

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan2008/tsun-j02.shtml Sri Lankan tsunami victims speak out By our correspondents 2 January 2008 Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author World Socialist Web Site reporters in Sri Lanka spoke with survivors of the 2004 tsunami in Peraliya, in southern Sri Lanka¹s … Read more

NY times makes it official: voting machines can’t be trusted

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010508C.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06Vote-t.html January 6, 2008 Can You Count on Voting Machines? By CLIVE THOMPSON Jane Platten gestured, bleary-eyed, into the secure room filled with voting machines. It was 3 a.m. on Nov. 7, and she had been working for 22 hours straight. ³I guess we¹ve seen how technology can … Read more

LA Times on Obama victory

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408J.shtml http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-demassess4jan04,1,1546,full.story From the Los Angeles Times Obama’s victory upends his party’s politics His promise of change resonates more than Clinton’s claim of experience By Peter Wallsten Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 4, 2008 DES MOINES ‹ Barack Obama’s surprisingly convincing win in Iowa on Thursday upended the … Read more

Joseph Watson: Is there a bird-flu conspiracy?

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/020907_power_grab.htm Bush Greases Skids For UN Pandemic Power Grab Bestselling author “wouldn’t put it past” Globalists to release virus to capitalize on control Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Sunday, September 2, 2007 The World Health Organization and the U.N. have been handed complete control over response procedures in the … Read more

How to get your 10 seconds of fame…

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408O.shtml http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/04/oil.economics Vanity trade sent oil price to record high € Andrew Clark in New York € The Guardian, Friday January 4 2008 A maverick oil trader in New York has aroused the ire of colleagues by enacting a “vanity trade” which first pushed the price of a barrel … Read more

Gideon Polya: child deaths due to USA actions and occupations

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050108.htm How Many Kids Will Bush America Kill In 2008? By Dr Gideon Polya 05 January, 2008 Countercurrents.org I seem to have been demonstrating against American racism, imperialism, wars and mass murder all my adult life from the Vietnam era of the 1960s and 1970s onwards. Back in the … Read more

Engdahl – “Seeds of Destruction” – excellent review

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7716 “Seeds of Destruction, The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation” Review of F. William Engdahl’s Book By Stephen Lendman Global Research, January 2, 2008 Today, we’re all lab rats in an uncontrolled, unregulated mass human experiment the results of which are unknown. Once GM seeds are introduced to an … Read more

climate change: report from the Arctic

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c76d05dd-2864-43b2-a2e3-82e0a8ca05d5&k=53683 Wednesday » January 2 » 2008 ‘Frightening’ projection for Arctic melt Ice-free passage possible by 2010 Marianne White CanWest News Service Friday, November 16, 2007 QUEBEC — The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 – something that hasn’t … Read more

Chossudovsky: The Destabilization of Pakistan

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7705 The Destabilization of Pakistan By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, December 30, 2007 The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a Nation. The process of US sponsored “regime change”, which normally consists in the re-formation of … Read more

Candidates of both Parties infected by clique-linked advisors

2008-01-06 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info:80/article18991.htm NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN Atrocity-Linked U.S. Officials Advising Democratic, GOP Presidential Frontrunners: Independent journalist Allan Nairn and American Conservative correspondent Kelley Beaucar Vlahos discuss a little-addressed facet of the 2008 campaign: many of the top advisers to leading presidential candidates are ex-U.S. officials involved in atrocities … Read more

China: How big is the giant really?

2008-01-01 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=626 THE CHINA EFFECT ‹‹‹‹‹ From: Monika Sheardown •••@••.••• Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 To: •••@••.••• Subject: The China Effect As you ponder buying more ³Made in China² goods during boxing day sales, here¹s some interesting factsŠ Very best, -Monika The China Effect ³Per-capita income in China is less … Read more

Larry Chin on Bhutto: Anglo-American Ambitions behind Assassination

2008-01-01 Richard Moore Original source URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7699 Anglo-American Ambitions behind the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the Destabilization of Pakistan By Larry Chin Global Research, December 29, 2007 It has been known for months that the Bush-Cheney administration and its allies have been manuevering to strengthen their political control of Pakistan, paving the way for … Read more