More killings by ground forces reveal emerging tactichttp://stopwarblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-killings-by-ground-forces-reveal.html

Another protest following more alleged civilian killings, this time in Ghazni province northeast of Kandahar. What is especially noteworthy about this incident is that ground forces are once again the perpetrators. This is in fact another in a series of incidents involving ground troops, whereas only a few months ago, civilian casualties by foreign forces were nearly all caused by airstrikes. So it appears that new more aggressive (or at least more numerous) ground force operations have become the principle source of civilian casualties by foreign forces.

Roger Baker : Is America Already a Failed State?http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/roger-baker-is-america-already-failed.html

Is America already a failed state? No public trust for a dysfunctional system.The main obstacle to progress is a corporate dominated political system that resists favoring broad long range public benefits over the short term profits of the few.

Haitians Describe Landing of Yanqui Marines as Occupationhttp://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/haitians-describe-landing-of-yanqui-marines-as-occupation/

“I haven’t seen them distributing food downtown, where the people urgently need water, food and medicine. This looks more like an occupation,” said Wilson Guillaume, a 25-year-old student.

As the U.S. troops left the Palace to guard Haiti’s general hospital, overflowing with injured people, many people yelled “Go home!” and “Don’t occupy us!”

Former Congress president arrested for assassination of colleaguehttp://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7816-former-congress-president-arrested-for-allegedly-ordering-assassination-of-colleague.html

Agents of Colombia's Prosecutor General's Office on Friday arrested former Congress President Luis Humberto Gomez Gallo for allegedly ordering to kill a colleague.The arrest for the former lawmaker had been warranted by the country's Supreme Court who wants the Conservative Party politician to stand trial on suspicon he made a pact with paramilitary leaders Eduardo Restrepo Victoria, alias "el Socio." The now extradited paramilitary warlord allegedly received 300 million pesos (152 thousand) pesos from the politician to kill congressman Pompilio de Jesus Avendaño in 2001.Two former members of the paramilitary group led by "El Socio" confirmed the transaction when testifying before prosecutors. After being arrested, Gomez expressed to "feel very sad" about the high court's decision to arrest him again and denied all accusations."They will never find evidence against me. Never. I never met with any paramilitary in Tolima, ever," the lawmaker told press.

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GENERAL KEEN IN HAITI WHEN QUAKE STRUCK; SEISMIC WEAPONShttp://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/01/general-keen-in-haiti-when-quake-struck.html

The Liebarakhttp://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/70797

"At the outset of the occupation, the then Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan, discovered that the occupation is really an ideal situation. It gives the occupier absolute power without any obligation to accord the inhabitants any citizenship rights whatsoever. If Israel were to annex the territories, it would have to decide what to do with the population. That would create an embarrassing situation. The inhabitants of East Jerusalem, which was formally annexed to Israel in 1967, did not receive citizenship, but only the status of ”residents”. Successive Israeli governments have been afraid that the world would not accept a “democratic” state in which a third of the population have no rights."

COMMENT-mubarak is a vile disgusting pig.see this documentary about last elections,wtach how mubarak sent in riot police to beat ppl protesting the rigged elections.these 3 women are very corageous.

Shayfeen

An intimate look at the recent multi-party elections in Egypt through the eyes of three womenGet an intimate look at the recent multi-party elections in Egypt through the eyes of three women working to assure the election’s legitimacy. The women provide unprecedented access to activists operating in and around the highest levels of both government and opposition groups. http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/shayfeencom/

OIL IN HAITI ANOTHER REASON FOR U.S.-U.N. OCCUPATIONhttp://fromthewilderness.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/oil-in-haiti-another-reason-for-u-s-u-n-occupation/

There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. This is detailed by Dr. Georges Michel in an article dated March 27, 2004 outlining the history of oil explorations and oil reserves in Haiti and in the research of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin. WITH NUCLEAR, CONVENTIONAL ARMS PACTS STALLED, U.S. MOVES MISSILES AND TROOPS TO RUSSIAN BORDERhttp://fromthewilderness.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/with-nuclear-conventional-arms-pacts-stalled-u-s-moves-missiles-and-troops-to-russian-border/

2010 is proceeding in a manner more befitting the third month of the year, named after the Roman god of war, than the first whose name is derived from a pacific deity. But this month has brought even more dramatic and dangerous news. The Pentagon has authorized the completion of a $6.5 billion arms deal with Taiwan with an agreement to deliver 200 Patriot Advanced Capability anti-ballistic missiles. The People’s Republic of China is infuriated, as Washington would be if the situation were reversed and Beijing provided a comparable arsenal of weapons to, for example, an independent Puerto Rico.

As though that action was not provocative enough however, on January 20 the Polish Defense Ministry announced that a U.S. Patriot missile battery, and the 100 American soldiers who will operate it, would not be based on the outskirts of the capital of Warsaw as previously announced but in the Baltic Sea city of Morag, 35 miles [6] from Poland’s border with Russia. Securing Disaster in Haitihttp://americas.irc-online.org/am/6665

Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, it's now clear that the initial phase of the U.S.-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of the island's recent history.

When Haiti Called, Cuba Answered: Cuba Opens Third Field Hospital in  amigdalino: Carrefourhttp://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/when-haiti-called-cuba-answered-cuba-opens-third-field-hospital-in-carrefour/

Port-au-Prince, Jan 22 (acn) A Third Cuban Field Hospital was opened on Friday in Carrefour,southwest of this capital.The previous ones were raised at Leogane, at the same western department the city belongs to, and at Jacmel, in the southeast.

comment-real humanitarian effort,not military occupation... HAITI: Did Mining and Oil Drilling Trigger Earthquake?http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/haiti-did-mining-and-oil-drilling-trigger-earthquake/

Marguerit Laurent, Haitian activist and head of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network has written an intriguing article regarding the possibility that mining and drilling activities triggered the earthquake. You can read her article here. In Marguerite’s article, you will find a map of the current mining and oil drilling locations in Haiti. The article offers many sources of information which you may wish to check out. 

No US-Colombia FTA this year: US ambassadorhttp://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/economy/7812-no-us-colombia-fta-this-year-us-ambassador.html

U.S. Congress is unlikely to ratify free trade agreement with Colombia this year, U.S. ambassador to Bogota, William Brownfied, announced on Friday."If you offered me a bet on the likelihood that the agreement is approved by Congress this year, I probably would not accept it," said Brownfield. "Congress has never approved a trade agreement during an election year." The ambassador said that although the deal would benefit both countries, and is supported by President Barack Obama, there is strong opposition from "certain groups."The deal was signed by both countries in late 2006, but has yet to be ratified by U.S. Congress, due to Democratic concerns about Colombia's record on human rights and the persecution of organised labour. The UN has declared the extrajudicial killings by the military, known as "false positives," to be a "crime against humanity," while a recent film about Colombian labor rights says that more than 470 workers' leaders have been killed in the country since 2002, making it "the trade-union murder capital of the world.

comment-notice the reason initially why fta agreement wont be ratified,is because its an election year for congress,then only secondly does it acknowledge that theres a strong opposition against the trade agreement,because of human rigths concerns.keep in mind that congress has however raised the aid to colombia from 600 million a year to around 800 million for 2010 nevertheless.If the hundreds of human rigths organizations,ngo's didnt press us government to suspend the fta agreement because of the human rigths violations and atrocities,you can bet it would ahve been ratified already.

Alba countries emerge in response to neoliberalismhttp://www.abn.info.ve/go_news5.php?articulo=216801&lee=17

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez stated on Friday morning that the countries member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba), have emerged in response to the neoliberalism, through the revolutions uprising in each of them.

President Chavez said that nobody can deny that Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela were destroyed; however, each of them have emerged with their own revolutions.  “This happens because these governments give answers to the most urgent necessities of their people; so, as leftist governments take care of their people efficiently, as it was the case, for instance, in Bolivia and Ecuador, where the Presidents Evo Morales and Rafael Correa were re-elected, in that measure the revolutionary governments will keep emerging,” Chavez emphasized.

“Alba countries give people a decent treatment on education, health and food, especially to poor ones, who represent the majority as a result of the savage capitalism model,” Chavez pointed out.

Activist: Watch Out For IDF Stealing Organs In Haitihttp://blacklistednews.com/?news_id=7115

Black rights activist T. West of AfriSynergy Productions warns that people need to be aware of the tragedy in Haiti being exploited by nefarious groups for their own gain, including Israel, who have admittedly stolen organs from dead Palestinians in the past.

Just over the horizon — the surveillance society and the state in the EU, by Tony Bunyan, Race & Class, January 2010http://rac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/51/3/1

(SAGE, link): "In cold war times, the West espoused liberal democracy and freedom from surveillance and control. It is thus ironic that with the cold war a distant memory — though it only ended less than twenty years ago — the EU and its member states are set on a path which will, in just a few years time, turn it into the most surveilled, monitored region in the world. The wider context for all this is increased state racism (both at the national and EU levels), combined with the emergence of the ‘policing state , engendered by a political and governmental authoritarianismcombined with the emergence of the ‘policing state , engendered by a political and governmental authoritarianism

UK: CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy droneshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-plan-drones/print

- Arms manufacturer BAE Systems developing national strategy with consortium of government agencies (Guardian, link): "Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ­"routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, ­protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance."

Fast in India to protest against BT brinjalhttp://article.wn.com/view/2010/01/22/Gujarat_likely_to_say_no_to_Bt_brinjal/

The Kerala Agriculture-Environmental Collective has called for a State-wide Fast on Martyrs Day January 30th 2010, with the message of Remembering the Mahatma, Stopping Bt brinjal and Protecting Food and National Sovereignty.

TARP overseer: The banks ‘will own all of us’ without reformhttp://rawstory.com/2010/01/elizabeth-warren-obama-is-fighting-wall-street/

Monsanto's killing fields of Latin Americahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exJ1b2oY6IM

This is criminal. Where is the American media?

Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study findshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/22/iraq-nuclear-contaminated-sites

More than 40 sites across Iraq are contaminated with high levels or radiation and dioxins, with three decades of war and neglect having left environmental ruin in large parts of the country, an official Iraqi study has found. The joint study by the environment, health and science ministries found that scrap metal yards in and around Baghdad and Basra contain high levels of ionising radiation, which is thought to be a legacy of depleted uranium used in munitions during the first Gulf war and since the 2003 invasion.

Bottled water supplies at Port Au Prince airport being distributed: to the US embassyhttp://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/21/bottled_water_supplies_in_port_au

In the airport in Port-au-Prince, huge pallets of aid, including medical supplies, food and water, sit in fields around the tarmac. Amy Goodman reports on how hundreds of cases of bottled water are being delivered to the US embassy

Bill Clinton's Shameful Haiti Legacyhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-19/bill-clintons-shameful-haiti-legacy/?cid=hp:mainpromo7

He may be playing the hero now, but the ex-president’s trip to Haiti is a reminder of the mess his administration left behind. Bill Clinton, the Second Coming of Hope. The First Coming, the U.S.-led invasion in 1994 adorned with 20,000 American troops, did not turn out so well. By 1996, when the American military decamped, you’d be hard pressed to find a Haitian on the streets of Port-au-Prince who wasn’t suffering miserably from hope.

the_eyes_malita: Thomas Griffin - Civil rights attorney in Haiti summery... http://www.ijdh.org/thomasgriffintestimony.pdf

the_eyes_malita:(25:00 minutes) Voice of Haiti: Thomas Griffin http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6934344996254824201&ei=V8FYS4CvHMy7lQfysoVk&q=%22thomas+griffin%22+haiti&hl=en&client=firefox-a#

US sentences former Pentagon official for spying for Chinahttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7055624/US-sentences-former-Pentagon-official-for-spying-for-China.html

comment-the jewish spies got a free pass...double standards !!!!

Military Buildup in Colombia : A Rumor of Warhttp://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/military-buildup-in-colombia-rumor-of.html

Venezuela ordered 15,000 more troops to the state of Tachira, adding to 6,000 already there for a total of 21,000 known Venezuelan troops. Colombia, not to be outdone, and emboldened by the backing of their Yankee partners, formed a whole new Army division, the Colombian 8th Infantry Division, now stationed on the Venezuelan border in Yopal, in the Departamento (state) of Casanare. With the addition of the 8th, Colombia now claims 69,000 combat troops on the border.

Venezuela to deport drug traffickers to United States and France on January 26http://www.abn.info.ve/go_news5.php?articulo=216859&lee=17

 The two drug traffickers captured recently by Venezuelan authorities, identified as Salomon Camacho (Colombian) and Jean Marie Bonnamy (French), will be deported to the countries requesting their extradition, United States and France, respectively, on January 26.  Salomon Camacho led the Colombian North Coast Cartel and was among the top 12 most-wanted drug traffickers by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

comment-can us gov extradite,posada carriles?manuel rosales?carlos perez?cedena

THE COST OF WAR VIDEOhttp://fromthewilderness.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/the-cost-of-war/

The Cost of War examines the longer term legacy of Israel’s war on Gaza. By following characters associated with buildings that were targeted in the war, the film explores the humanitarian and economic situation in Gaza and the impact of the war on human development. How has the destruction of universities and schools impacted education? And what about hospitals, clinics, electricity grids, sewage works?

the_eyes_malita: trailer** http://www.aristidethefilm.com/

U.S. says to send home illegal Haitian immigrantshttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE60L16H

Haitian citizens who arrive in the United States illegally after the Jan. 12 earthquake will be sent home, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

"Haitians need to be there to help rebuild their country, this is not an opportunity for migration," Napolitano said at a news conference in the Spanish city of Toledo.

Haiti happens to be rich in unexplored hydrocarbons (with potential oil reserves larger than those of Venezuela) , gold, copper, uranium 238 and 235 and other strategic metals ( iridium). (see USGS oil maps from the 1920's)http://www.bme.gouv.ht/mines/woodring/introduction.pdf

Mining and oil companies must be salivating.

http://www.metropolehaiti.com/metropole/full_une_fr.php?id=13439

Video: Crack the CIAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYOVQezWaCY

Exposes the CIA and the War on Drugs

Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFIDhttp://qbit.cc/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid/ 

A former IBM employee says the switch from analog to digital TV is being done to free up analog frequencies and make room for scanners used to read implantable microchips that track people and products. Patrick Redmond, who worked at the company’s Toronto lab from 1992 to 2007, said Americans have been inundated with news reports advising them to get their passports, “enhanced driver’s licenses,” passport cards and other “chipped” and trackable ID devices.

But he said the connection between digital TV and Radio FrequencyID technology has been hidden. Redmond has written a book and gives talks on the growing use of RFID chips implanted in new clothing, in items such as Gillette Fusion blades, and in countless other products. These chips, many smaller than a pencil tip, also are embedded in new U.S. passports, some medical cards, and credit and debit cards. More than two billion of them were sold in 2007

US Congress for Sale: Foreign Bids Welcomehttp://www.breadwithcircus.com/#012110

In an historic game changer, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday corporations should be allowed to make unlimited donations to political campaigns. With this ruling, corporations can now easily buy members of Congress by pouring millions of dollars into election campaigns. They can fund the ads of their chosen candidates and buy ads to attack their opponents. Critics say there is now nothing to stop Russia's Gazprom or a Chinese lead mining company from buying a P.O. Box in Delaware, and then showering an obscure candidate with millions of dollars for their election campaign.

Once elected, that congressman would be expected to vote a certain way on pending legislation. By allowing corporations to contribute unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns, they will be able to pick which candidates win elections, effectively buying the US Congress. Critics say the power of Congress, including the ability to declare war, is now available to the highest bidder.

Rights in Honduras Seriously Violatedhttp://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/january/23/centam-10012302.htm

A report on the situation in Honduras released on Friday denounces numerous cases of killing, torture, repression and illegal detention committed by the de facto regime since the coup of June 28. "At least seven people were killed as a result of the disproportionate use of force by security forces in crushing demonstrations," says the document of the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

Was the earthquate in Haiti caused by the United States?http://www.voltairenet.org/article163626.html

Britains ruling elite express fear of class warhttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/came-d11.shtml