January 2010

National security adviser: Airline bomber report to ‘shock’

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

National security adviser: Airline bomber report to ‘shock’ By Susan Page, USA Today, January 7, 2010 White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel “a certain shock” when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the [...]

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Blackwater and the Khost bombing: Is the CIA deceiving Congress (yet again)?

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

Blackwater and the Khost bombing: Is the CIA deceiving Congress (yet again)? By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, January 6, 2010 A leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has told The Nation that she will launch an investigation into why two Blackwater contractors were among the dead in the December 30 suicide [...]

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Deadly explosion arouses new Afghan Anger at U.S.

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

Deadly explosion arouses new Afghan Anger at U.S. By Alissa J Rubin, New York Times, January 7, 2010 The events provided another example of how fragile relations between Afghans and Americans have become, and how ready Afghans angered over civilian casualties are to blame American forces in virtually any circumstance. While the first reaction to [...]

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The $30bn pair of underpants

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

The $30bn pair of underpants By Mark Levine, Al Jazeera, January 4, 2010 Almost immediately after it was learned that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US airliner using explosives concealed in his underpants, received training in Yemen, US politicians called for Barack Obama, the US president, to expand [...]

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An opposition manifesto in Iran

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

An opposition manifesto in Iran By Robin Wright, Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2010 Iran’s so-called green movement is not yet a counterrevolution, but recent developments make clear it is heading in that direction. Seven months after the uprising began, an opposition manifesto is finally taking shape, and its sweeping demands would change the face [...]

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Liberal Jews and Israel – a case of split personality disorder

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

Liberal Jews and Israel – a case of split personality disorder By Noam Sheizaf, Promised Land, January 5, 2010 Last Saturday I met an Israeli-American friend who came for a short visit from his studies in Europe. We talked some politics, and finally came to an issue which always puzzles me: the fact that American [...]

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What doesn’t work in America

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

What doesn’t work in America By Orville Schell, TomDispatch, January 7, 2010 Lately, I’ve been studying the climate-change induced melting of glaciers in the Greater Himalaya. Understanding the cascading effects of the slow-motion downsizing of one of the planet’s most magnificent landforms has, to put it politely, left me dispirited. Spending time considering the deleterious [...]

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The happiest people

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

The happiest people By Nicholas D Kristof, New York Times, January 7, 2010 Hmmm. You think it’s a coincidence? Costa Rica is one of the very few countries to have abolished its army, and it’s also arguably the happiest nation on earth. There are several ways of measuring happiness in countries, all inexact, but this [...]

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Keeping Turkey out of Europe

by Paul Woodward 01.07.2010

Keeping Turkey out of Europe By David Cronin, The Guardian, January 6, 2010 [Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel's] opposition to Turkey’s bid for EU membership is explained by what a columnist in the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet accurately described as “basic facts not pronounced openly” on Monday. “Turkey is a Muslim country,” Mehmet Ali Birand wrote. [...]

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Viva Palestina convoy’s arrival in Gaza

by Paul Woodward 01.06.2010

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Viva Palestina convoy entering Gaza

by Paul Woodward 01.06.2010

Viva Palestina convoy entering Gaza By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 6, 2010 Although it’s very slow moving, vehicles in the Viva Palestina aid convoy have finally started entering Gaza: The Viva Palestina aid convoy entered Gaza Wednesday, after it received the approval of Egyptian authorities to bring into the besieged, impoverished coastal sliver [...]

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Viva Palestina convoy heading to Rafah

by Paul Woodward 01.06.2010

Viva Palestina convoy heading to Rafah By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 6, 2010 After a battle between Egyptian riot police and convoy members in Al-Arish last night, the convoy finally started out on the last leg of its journey a couple of hours ago: “Vehicles very slowly exiting port gates now, heading to [...]

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Viva Palestina convoy attacked in El-Arish – Press TV

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

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Twitter roundup from the Egyptian port of Al-Arish where the Viva Palestina convoy has been attacked

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

Twitter roundup from the Egyptian port of Al-Arish where the Viva Palestina convoy has been attacked By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 5, 2010 The following tweets cover key moments from the last two hours in Al-Arish where Joti says: “All quiet for now. Six arrested, lots of head wounds as cops started the [...]

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Viva Palestina are faced with 2,000 riot police in the port of Al-Arish!

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

Viva Palestina are faced with 2,000 riot police in the port of Al-Arish! To all friends of Palestine Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish. This late afternoon we were negotiating with a senior official from Cairo who left negotiations some two hours ago [...]

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US intelligence is ignorant

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

US intelligence is ignorant By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 5, 2010 So, apparently the CIA suffered a fatal strike by an al Qaeda blogger last week. And if you’re wondering how bad it’s got for American soldiers in Afghanistan: they say they can get more useful information from USA Today than they get [...]

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Behind Afghan bombing, an agent with many loyalties

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

Behind Afghan bombing, an agent with many loyalties By Richard A. Oppel Jr., Mark Mazzetti and Souad Mekhennet, New York Times, January 4, 2010 The former official said that the fact that militants could carry out a successful attack using a double agent showed their strength even after a steady barrage of missile strikes fired [...]

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America is losing the free world

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

America is losing the free world By Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, January 4, 2010 Ever since 1945, the US has regarded itself as the leader of the “free world”. But the Obama administration is facing an unexpected and unwelcome development in global politics. Four of the biggest and most strategically important democracies in the developing [...]

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Why Obama has defaulted to Bush foreign policy positions

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

Why Obama has defaulted to Bush foreign policy positions By Tony Karon, Time, January 4, 2010 After a year with President Barack Obama at the helm of U.S. foreign policy, an observer could be forgiven for concluding that the presidency is more like taking over the controls of a train than getting behind the wheel [...]

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Help Yemen, not its government

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

Help Yemen, not its government By Brian Whitaker, The Guardian, January 4, 2010 Concerned about the “regional and global threat” from terrorists in Yemen, Gordon Brown is to host an emergency summit in London later this month. Yemen, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula, is a country that tends to be off the [...]

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CIA reportedly ordered Blackwater to murder 9/11 suspect

by Paul Woodward 01.05.2010

CIA reportedly ordered Blackwater to murder 9/11 suspect By Diana Sweet, Raw Story, January 5, 2010 In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda, [...]

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Turkey helps Viva Palestina deliver aid to Gaza

by Paul Woodward 01.04.2010

Turkish MPs to enter Gaza with Viva Palestina convoy in Egypt World Bulletin, January 4, 2010 Five Turkish MPs will on Monday join an international aid convoy that has reached Egyptian port one-week later after the date that they initially hoped to reach Gaza Strip on the first anniversary of Israel’s 22-day offensive. Viva Palestina [...]

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War in the Age of Terrorism

by Paul Woodward 01.04.2010

War in the Age of Terrorism By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 4, 2010 This is change: we’ve gone from change we can believe in, to a change in the mood music. If Dick Cheney was the éminence grise behind George Bush, one could now be forgiven for thinking that George Bush himself has [...]

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UPDATED – Jordan emerges as key CIA counterterrorism ally

by Paul Woodward 01.04.2010

UPDATED with NBC report on the identity of the man who attacked the CIA last week: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Jordan emerges as key CIA counterterrorism ally By Joby Warrick, Washington Post, January 4, 2010 Hours after last week’s deadly attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan, [...]

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