Internationalnews The Raw Story June 18th 2010 Does a company that both builds oil rigs and cleans up oil spills have any motivation to prevent oil rig disasters? That's the question some people in business and politics are asking themselves after Halliburton's purchase of an oil clean-up company 10 days before the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and launched the worst oil spill in US history. Some observers see a conspiracy in the actions of the company once headed by […]
American troops now operating in 75 countries. President Obama has secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US special forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world. The dramatic expansion in the use of special forces, which in their global span go far beyond the covert missions authorized by George W. Bush, reflects how aggressively Obama is pursuing al-Qaeda behind his public rhetoric of global engagement and diplomacy. When Obama took […]
Breaking News: BP Gulf oil spill map: Oil spill rate increases to 2.7 million gallons a day (The Examiner) June 16 Why the BP Deepwater Horizon failed and why it is so hard to stop the oil leak Internationalnews WSWS NB: On the high-end estimate, the BP spill is producing every four days the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez. By Barry Grey 16 June 2010 President Obama’s Oval Office speech Tuesday night on the Gulf oil disaster was a cowardly exercise in evasion and cover-up that could have […]
Internationalnews Informationclearinghouse VP Biden tells Charlie Rose that the Israel Navy might not have needed to drop commandos onto the Gaza-bound ship, but insists that Israel is entitled to defend its security. By Natasha Mozgovaya June 03, 2010 "Haaretz" -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday defended Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip and its decision to intercept the pro-Palestinian flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to the coastal territory, though he did not go so far as […]
Internationalnews Truthout 28 May 2010 by: Jason Leopold (Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t) Why hasn't the government launched a criminal investigation into BP? That's the question several former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have been asking in the aftermath of the catastrophic explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig last month that killed 11 employees and ruptured a newly drilled well 5,000 feet below the surface and has spewed tens of millions of […]
Internationalnews NB: Obama est le candidat à la présidentielle qui a été le plus financé par BP selon le Center for Responsive Politics (IN). Univers-nature Titre original: Marée noire: BP et Obama s’enlisent dans la crise 26-05-2010 Cela fait maintenant plus d’un mois que le pétrole se déverse dans le Golfe du Mexique. Le groupe pétrolier BP n’est toujours pas parvenu à colmater la fuite sous-marine et toutes les tentatives se sont soldées par des échecs. Un peu comme une solution de la […]
Internationalnews New York Times Published: May 21, 2010 The warm, soft winds coming in off the gulf have lost their power to soothe. Anxiety is king now — all along the coast. “You can’t sleep no more; that’s how bad it is,” said John Blanchard, an oyster fisherman whose life has been upended by the monstrous oil spill fouling an enormous swath of the Gulf of Mexico. He shook his head. “My wife and I have got two kids, 2 and 7. We could lose everything we’ve been working all of our lives […]
Internationalnews LEMONDE 15.04.10 Barack Obama a-t-il abandonné la Lune pour mieux conquérir Mars ? Après s'être attiré les critiques pour avoir annoncé, en février, sa décision d'annuler le programme Constellation, qui prévoyait le retour des Américains sur la Lune vers 2020 et, au-delà, les vols habités sur Mars, le président américain a surpris son monde en dévoilant un programme spatial des plus ambitieux. Devant les employés de la NASA, au cœur du système, M. Obama a donné des gages : […]
Internationalnews Human Right Watch Mai 5, 2010 Also available in:English Un garçon exhibe l'une des oranges cueillies dans un camp de travailleurs migrants en Floride. « Les États-Unis dépensent plus de 25 millions de dollars par an - plus que tous les autres pays réunis - pour éliminer le travail des enfants à l'étranger, mais tolèrent l'exploitation des enfants sur leur propre sol » - Zama Coursen-Neff. Le gouvernement devrait amender la loi sur le travail des enfants qui protège […]
Internationalnews wsws 10 May 2010 By Joe Kishore In 2009, the Obama administration intervened to support the reversal of a court order that would have halted offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has long had close ties to the industry, specifically cited BP’s Deepwater Horizon operation as one that should be allowed to go forward, according to a group involved in the court case. A Washington DC Appeals Court ruled in April 2009 that the […]
Go to the original: Some Rogue Regimes Are Less Rogue Than Others by Philip Giraldi AlterInfo Samedi 20 Mars 2010 Antiwar.com, 11 mars 2010 Bien que nulle part dans le monde les États-Unis ne soient face à un ennemi capable de s'opposer à eux sur le champ de bataille, le budget de la Défense de 2011 sera augmenté de 7,1 % par rapport au niveau actuel. Une grande partie des nouvelles dépenses iront dans des drones, la dernière contribution des USA à la civilisation occidentale, capable de […]
Global Research February 4, 2010 by Sherwood Ross America is “a nation that seeks war” and if it doesn’t change it could end up destroying itself, a law school dean warns. Given all the wars the United States has waged, “It is preposterous but true that we do not see ourselves as a nation that seeks war,” writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. “We see ourselves as a peace loving nation” and that message is constantly drummed into the public by government […]
Egypt, Cairo June 4th 2009 US President Barack Obama Speech, defends the official 9/11 story. These are not opinions to be debated, these are facts to be dealt with. http://www.internationalnews.fr/article-obama-warns-not-to-challenge-official-9-11-story-video-1-08--44204741.html
CounterPunch Weekend Edition January 22 - 24, 2010 Greed, Be Thou My God At my annual check-up, my doctor handed me a sheet explaining the reasons for office fee increases for Medicare Patients. It is worth reporting at length. Medicare fixes the prices for Medicare patients’ health care. All office charges for Medicare, including office visit charges, have been set by the Federal government since 1984. In real terms (adjusted for inflation), these fixed prices are less today than they were […]
"Campaign funding is a remarkable predictor of election, and also of policy," says linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. He asserts that the Supreme Court is currently considering a lawsuit that would allow corporations to "buy elections directly, instead of indirectly." ----- World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky has been pushing change in language, politics and culture for decades. The controversial expert on modern language explains why "the smart way to keep people passive […]
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