Media Disinformation: “Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran” by F. William Engdahl

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by F. William Engdahl
Global Research, July 9, 2009

Contrary to Times accounts relations between Ahmedinejad and Saudi King Abdullah seem to be cordial

The world-renowned Times newspaper of London published a report in its July 5th edition titled, “Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran.” The story, were it true, would imply a dramatic change in Saudi foreign and military policy whose consequences potentially could lead to a World War III. A more serious investigation reveals that there are nasty elements of what military psychologists and intelligence specialists term “disinformation” at work trying to foster discord across the Muslim oil-producing world. The question is Qui Bono? Who ultimately benefits from such disinformation?

According to the London Times, the flagship paper of the giant media group owned by naturalized American citizen, Australian media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, “The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.”

Bush, Obama and the Corporate Love Affair by Gary Sudborough

by Gary Sudborough
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9 July 2009

The former Bush administration finally admitted that global warming is a real phenomenon and is related to the burning of fossil fuels. Also, they proposed a novel solution to the problem-just adapt to it.

Since global warming will result in increased severe heat spells, people will adapt by running their air conditioners a lot more and by staying inside their homes. Those people who can’t stay inside because of their employment and other reasons and don’t have air conditioning will be candidates for heat stroke and a Darwinian natural selection process, eliminating those people least resistant to the heat.

Cold habitat animals like polar bears and walrus will be in danger of extinction and those people like Eskimos who depend on them for food will adapt by moving and changing their life styles, like eating at the northernmost fast food restaurant. Anyhow, it is about time these primitive hunters started contributing to the global capitalist system.

Mourn On The 4th of July By John Pilger

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By John Pilger
Information Clearing House
July 09, 2009

Liberals say that the United States is once again a “nation of moral ideals”, but behind the façade little has changed. With his government of warmongers, Wall Street cronies and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, Barack Obama is merely upholding the myths of a divine America.

The monsoon had woven thick skeins of mist over the central highlands of Vietnam. I was a young war correspondent, bivouacked in the village of Tuylon with a unit of US marines whose orders were to win hearts and minds. “We are here not to kill,” said the sergeant, “we are here to impart the American Way of Liberty as stated in the Pacification Handbook. This is designed to win the hearts and minds of folks, as stated on page 86.”

Report From Urumqi: Thousands of Chinese Troops Enter City Torn by Ethnic Clashes

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Democracy Now!
July 9, 2009

Report From Urumqi: Thousands of Chinese Troops Enter City Torn by Ethnic Clashes

Thousands of Chinese troops have flooded into the regional capital of the country’s western-most Xinjiang province following bloody clashes between the city’s Han Chinese and Uighur populations. Four days after the violence that left at least 150 dead and over a thousand injured, reports indicate an unsteady calm has returned to the city of Urumqi. We go to Urumqi to speak with Al Jazeera English correspondent Melissa Chan.[includes rush transcript]

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In Rare U.S. Broadcast, Zelaya Discusses Coup, Costa Rica Talks, U.S. Role

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Democracy Now!
July 9, 2009

In Rare U.S. Broadcast, Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Discusses Coup, Costa Rica Talks, U.S. Role and More

Zelaya tells Al Jazeera coup leaders must quit

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July 08, 2009

The ousted Honduran president and the interim government that replaced him are set for talks on the country’s political crisis.

But Manuel Zelaya, who was forced into exile, tells Al Jazeera’s Ghida Fakhry there is little room for negotiation on certain key issues and adds that the coup leaders are running out of time.

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The Honduras Coup – Is Obama Innocent? By Michael Parenti

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The Situation in Swat: An Interview With Shahid R. Siddiqi By Jeremy R. Hammond

By Jeremy R. Hammond
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Foreign Policy Journal
July 9, 2009

Shahid R. Siddiqi began his career in the Pakistan Air Force, and later joined the private sector where he was until recently in a senior management position. At the same time, he worked as a broadcaster with Radio Pakistan and was the Islamabad bureau chief of the English weekly magazine, “Pakistan & Gulf Economist“. In the U.S. in 1994, he co-founded the Asian American Republican Club in Maryland to encourage the participation of Asian Americans in the mainstream political process. He now writes columns, with articles appearing in the Pakistan daily Dawn and The Nation, among others. He is a contributing writer for Foreign Policy Journal.

In an interview with Foreign Policy Journal, Mr. Siddiqi explains Pakistan’s ongoing military offensive against militant groups in the Swat district and the context in which the government made the decision to launch it. He explains why the Pakistan Taliban had support in the Swat Valley, how a peace deal between the militants and the government came about, and why it collapsed.

The Western media reported at the time that the peace deal between the Pakistani government and militants linked to the Pakistan Taliban would allow Shariah, or Islamic Law, to be implemented in the Swat district. But in an interview President Asif Ali Zardari suggested that this wasn’t really an accurate characterization of the deal. What exactly was the truce agreement between the government and the militants?

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Two days of US drone attacks kill nearly 80 in Pakistan

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By Barry Grey
http://www.wsws.org
9 July 2009

The United States fired multiple missiles from pilotless drones on Wednesday in two separate attacks on insurgents in Pakistan’s South Waziristan district, killing up to 60 people. The attacks followed a US missile strike in South Waziristan on Tuesday that reportedly killed 16 people.

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US Drone Strikes Kill at Least 60 in South Waziristan

by Jason Ditz
Antiwar.com
July 08, 2009

Twin Strikes Today Bring Total to Four Strikes, Nearly 100 Killed in Less than a Week

US Predator drones launched a pair of missile attacks at two targets in South Waziristan today, killing at least 60 and wounding an unknown number of others. The attacks are the second and third in less than 24 hours, and the fourth in less than a week.

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Antiwar Radio: Daniel Ellsberg and Gareth Porter on Tonkin Gulf

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Scott Horton
Antiwar Radio
July 07, 2009

Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, discusses the events leading to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, earlier CIA attempts to provoke N. Vietnam retaliation, Robert McNamara’s role in hiding evidence that the second Tonkin Gulf incident never happened, the possibility an earlier leak of the Pentagon Papers would have prevented the Vietnam War and saved millions of lives, the sociological explanation of how government secrects are kept and the U.S. penchant for planning false-flag operations that sacrifice American lives.

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Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses evidence that Robert McNamara never told LBJ the August 4, 1964 Tonkin Gulf attack on the USS Maddox and Turner Joy never happened, information revealed in recorded phone conversations between LBJ and McNamara released in 2006 and Gareth Porter’s own phone conversation with McNamara. Note: recorded on June 22, 2009

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The Honduras Coup – Is Obama Innocent? By Michael Parenti

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By Michael Parenti
July 08, 2009 “Information Clearing House”

Is President Obama innocent of the events occurring in Honduras, specifically the coup launched by the Honduran military resulting in the abduction and forced deportation of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya? Obama has denounced the coup and demanded that the rules of democracy be honored. Still, several troubling questions remain.

First, almost all the senior Honduran military officers active in the coup are graduates of the Pentagon’s School of the Americas (known to many of us as “School of the Assassins”). The Honduran military is trained, advised, equipped, indoctrinated, and financed by the United States national security state. The generals would never have dared to move without tacit consent from the White House or the Pentagon and CIA.