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Media Disinformation and the Nature of the Iraqi Resistance
The flurry of news, hypotheses, and disinformation about the nature of
the Iraqi Resistance against the Occupation continues unabated.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4030
Awards for analysts behind Iraq finding- report
Two U.S. Army analysts whose work was cited as part of a key
intelligence failure on Iraq have received job performance awards for
the past three years, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4026
European constitution: Scaremongering and delusions
The claim that without the treaty neoliberalism and racism will engulf
us is the opposite of the truth
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4028
FISK: Civil war casts a sinister shadow on Lebanon’s election
Michel Aoun has extended his persona to Alexander the Great. This is
messianism gone mad
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4032
Revealed: huge Sellafield leak went undetected for 9 months
Full scale disclosed of worst nuclear accident for decade. Catalogue of
human error led to massive radioactive discharge. Accident may force
ministers to shut troubled plant for good
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4031
Aviation is fastest-growing source of C02 emissions
To fly or not to fly? Many of us facing a long journey, or even a short
one, would not even consider the question. Cheaper flights to ever-more
destinations prove irresistible to the travelling public, while business
travel is seen as inevitable in a global market place.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4027
Sketchy Details
Yesterday Iraq's Minister of Defense, Sadoun al-Dulaimi, announced that
starting Saturday 40,000 Iraqi troops will seal Baghdad and begin to
"hunt down insurgents and their weapons." Baghdad will be divided into
two main sections, east and west, and within each section there will be
smaller areas of control.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4025
Why Oxfam is failing Africa
Inside the Make Poverty History movement, there is a growing fear that
its aims are being diluted and taken over by the government. Fingers are
being pointed at Oxfam.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4017
John Pilger reads an expose of aid
As the workings of foreign aid in Cambodia demonstrate, behind the
charade of "loans", "assistance" and "partnerships" lies systematic
western plunder and corruption.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4015
APEAKOLYPSE NOW
Peak Oil is the greatest story never told. Even though Peak Oil is the
central fact driving the wars and economic crises of our time, it is
seldom mentioned in the mainstream corporate news.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4014
US wants to be able to access Britons' ID cards
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=4013
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