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| The U.S.-Israeli Train Wreck (by Jeff Gates)
Truman refused to recognize this enclave as "the Jewish state." Despite Barack Obama's reference to the Jewish state in a recent speech on the Middle East, during the final days before granting recognition and thereby "legitimacy," Truman was consumed with the fear that Zionist aspirations would lead to a racist or a theocratic state. Those concerns led Zionist leader Chaim Weizzman...
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| | Germany sacks ambassador to Libya (by PressTV)
Germany has dismissed its ambassador to Libya after he made a private visit to the troubled state's capital of Tripoli without notifying his superiors.
German authorities said Matthias Meyer's visit to Tripoli in the wake of the popular uprising against Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi violated regulations of the German foreign ministry, German daily Bild am Sonntag reported.
The German envoy...
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| | 2 Aussie soldiers killed in Afghanistan (by PressTV)
Two more Australian soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in war-weary Afghanistan, Australia's Defense Department says.
The incidents on Monday brought the number of Australians killed in the conflict in the Asian country to 26, AFP reported on Tuesday.
One of the soldiers that lost his life was shot by an Afghan National Army trooper in the Chora Valley. The motive behind the...
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| | Stop the massacres in Taizz: HRITC (by PressTV)
Yemeni human rights activists have warned about the humanitarian crisis in the country and urged the international community to force Sana'a to halt its massacres of protesters.
On Monday, Yemen's Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC) issued a statement calling on "all living forces in the world" to break their silence on what it called "the real massacre" of...
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| | NATO captures TTP leaders in Pakistan (by PressTV)
US-led NATO forces have captured five Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders in Pakistan and taken them to Afghanistan without informing Pakistani officials.
NATO troops conducted the attack in the Gorvaid region of North Waziristan, Pakistani intelligence sources said.
The militants were reportedly taken away to Afghanistan by two NATO helicopters, AFP reported.
If confirmed, this...
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| | Turkey marks Flotilla attack anniversary (by PressTV)
Large crowds of people have gathered in Istanbul to mark the first anniversary of the deadly Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla.
Tens of thousands of protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square denounced the attack by Israeli naval forces on the civilian convoy, the Press TV correspondent in Istanbul reported.
On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos attacked the six-vessel Gaza Freedom...
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| | Deep state general jailed over coup plot (by PressTV)
A powerful Turkish general has been jailed pending trial over suspected involvement in a coup attempt to topple Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government in 2003.
An Istanbul court ordered General Bilgin Balanli be sent to jail on Monday pending trial on the recommendation of a prosecutor who questioned him for three hours earlier in the day, Reuters reported.
Balanli, the commander...
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| | Khodorkovsky files for parole (by PressTV)
Imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev have appealed for parole after serving more than half of their sentences.
A Moscow appeals court last week upheld the second conviction of Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, keeping him behind bars until 2016 on charges of stealing oil from his own company.
Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, who have...
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| | 'The law should not gag media outlets' (by PressTV)
The law should not prevent a media outlet from reporting things that are obviously true, Sunday Herald editor Richard Walker says.
Walker made the remarks in an interview with Press TV in which he spoke about British laws regulating the media.
Specifically, he...
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| | Obama bows to AIPAC's will (by Richard Falk)
 Of course, it is all about the presidential election in 2012, and the importance of Jewish electoral and funding support, but nevertheless it is such a blatant exercise of bad faith on the president's part as to be worth noting. What is worse, the mainstream media typically misconstrued the event in a manner that compounds the outrage of the speech itself. For instance, the NY Times ...
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| | Flotilla II to sail for Gaza in June (by PressTV)
International activists say the second Freedom Flotilla will set sail for Gaza in late June, challenging Israel's deadly blockade of the Palestinian enclave.
In a news conference held in Istanbul on the deck of the Mavi Marmara, the lead ship in the first flotilla, a coalition of 22 activist groups said on Monday that 15 ships with some 1,500 activists from about 100 countries onboard will...
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| | Blatter: Scandal damaged FIFA image (by PressTV)
The president of FIFA Sepp Blatter says the recent allegations of bribery against the association's top officials have caused "great damage" to its reputation.
"I regret what has happened. In the days and weeks, great damage to the image of FIFA. There is disappointment for the football fans. I am speaking to the football fans," Blatter told the packed press hall in Zurich on Monday.
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| | Spaniards force French Embassy closure (by PressTV)
The French consulate in Barcelona has been forced to close its doors after about 20 protesters of the M-15 movement prevented the staff from entering the building.
The protesters said on Monday they were acting in solidarity with the French protesters people who called for an end to corruption and unemployment, and were dispersed by police from Place de la Bastille in Paris over the weekend.
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| | NATO vows longer stay in Afghanistan (by PressTV)
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for an increase in the military budget of member states to extend the US-led presence in Afghanistan.
On Monday, Rasmussen called on NATO member-states to increase military budgets and keep up their contributions to the mission in Afghanistan. He claimed that a rapid exit from Afghanistan would still be premature.
"The Afghan society...
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| | Iran to host nuclear disarmament confab (by PressTV)
Iran has announced it will host another two-day conference in the capital, Tehran, to unite efforts for the nuclear disarmament across the globe.
The second international conference on nuclear disarmament entitled "Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for None" will run from June 12 and 13, 2011 in Tehran. The event is expected to be attended by some 50 researchers on nuclear arms control...
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| | Zuma seeks to broker peace in Libya (by PressTV)
South African President Jacob Zuma has reportedly met with embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi and his associates in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Zuma arrived in Libya on Monday in an effort to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in the country. Zuma was greeted at the airport by Gaddafi's Premier al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi.
This is Zuma's second visit to Libya since the conflict began....
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| | Syria slams West over meddling (by PressTV)
A top Syrian official has accused Britain, France and the US of interfering in Syria's internal affairs in a bid to bring the country back to the colonial era.
Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad said on Monday that Western powers are trying to dominate Syria with the support of the United Nations Security Council.
The Syrian official also denounced the Western countries' efforts in the...
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| | 'Acidifying oceans damage coral reefs' (by PressTV)
Scientists have found that acidifying oceans will severely damage coral reefs by the end of the century and stop their growth in CO2-rich zones.
According to the report published in journal Nature Climate Change, a "natural laboratory" in the seas off Papua New Guinea mimics conditions that will be widespread if CO2 emissions continue by bubbling CO2 into the sea from the slopes of a dormant...
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| | Iran to host trilateral anti-drug meeting (by PressTV)
Representatives from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan are set to meet in the Iranian capital of Tehran to discuss the implementation of joint counter-narcotic measures.
The meeting, which will be held on May 31, is part of the Triangular Initiative that was brokered by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2007.
The Triangular Initiative offers an opportunity for dialogue...
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| | Obama is the wrong target (by Alan Hart)
The Gentile me almost always agrees with Gideon but on this occasion, and leaving aside the fact that it was Netanyahu's rejection of what Obama said initially that exposed the naked truth, I think Gideon's version of it needs two clarifications. One is that the truth was exposed like never before only to those who have not been brainwashed by Zionist propaganda - only a minority of...
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| | Iran criticizes NATO over Afghan deaths (by PressTV)
Iran has condemned US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan for an airstrike in Helmand Province, which claimed the lives of a group of women and children.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in a statement on Monday that the spread of extremism, return of violence, boom in narcotics production and murder of civilians are the outcomes of the continuing foreign military...
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| | 'Karzai unable to stop civilian deaths' (by PressTV)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has issued an ultimatum to the US and its allies in Afghanistan, saying all unilateral military operations and night raids must come to an end.
The Afghan president on Sunday strongly condemned the civilian deaths and called...
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| | Mubarak's sons face power abuse probe (by PressTV)
Egyptian authorities are questioning the sons of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak who face charges of profiteering, abuse of power and illicit accumulation of wealth.
Gamal and Alaa are being held in Cairo's Tora prison. Egypt's Illicit Gains Authority (IGA) is also expected to send a team for further questioning to the notorious prison, Al-Ahram reported on Monday.
They were taken...
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| | Iran MP warns of OPEC presidency loss (by PressTV)
Iran's Parliament demands President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to designate a new oil minister warning that failure to do so would result in the loss of the OPEC presidency.
"A caretaker or oil minister must be in charge of heading the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; and if we continue with the current trend, Iran will certainly lose OPEC's presidency," Spokesman of the Energy...
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| | Iran helicopter crash kills two (by PressTV)
A military helicopter belonging to Iran's Air Force has crashed near the central city of Isfahan, killing the pilot and co-pilot, a senior Iranian official says.
"The Cobra 209 helicopter belonged to the Shahid Vatanpour training base," Deputy Governor of Isfahan Mohammad Mehdi Esmaili said on Monday.
Esmaili said the crash was caused by technical problems in the helicopter.
No...
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| | Iran dominates Turkey oil imports in Q1 (by PressTV)
The Islamic Republic of Iran has topped the list of oil exporters to Turkey in the first quarter of 2011, a report has revealed.
According to a report released by Turkey's Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), the country imported six million tons of oil during the period.
Iran was also the main country from where Turkey imported oil throughout the first quarter of 2011, Anatolia News...
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| | 'Mubarak loyalists' arrested Iran diplomat (by PressTV)
Reports say the security team of former Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman were behind the temporary arrest of an Iranian diplomat in Cairo.
On Sunday, an Iranian diplomat was arrested in the Egyptian capital of Cairo but was released after two hours in custody when the allegations proved unfounded.
Egyptian media including Al-Ahram newspaper, which supported Egypt's former ruler...
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| | 'Spain protests will not turn violent' (by PressTV)
Spain's anti-government protesters have promised to remain in Madrid's main square in protest at the country's political establishment.
Thousands of angry protesters against the government's austerity measures and growing unemployment rate raised hands on...
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| | Bahrain to replace opposition MPs (by PressTV)
Bahrain is planning to hold parliamentary elections in September to replace a number of lawmakers who resigned in protest at Manama's crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Bahrain's Justice Minister Khaled Bin Ali Al Khalifa announced on Monday that the first round of vote to fill the 18 vacant seats in the lower house of parliament (Council of Representatives) will be held on September...
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| | British PM resigns as patron of Jewish National Fund (by Voltaire Net)
The Guardian reported on 29 May 2011 that British PM David Cameron has stepped down as a patron of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in a "move pro-Palestinian campaigners claim is a result of pressure."  The JNF was originally a Zionist fund set up to buy land in Palestine to establish Jewish settlements before the creation of the state of Israel. Since 1948 it has been operating as a...
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According to this FSB secret report, Strauss-Kahn had become "increasingly concerned" earlier this month after the United States began "stalling" its pledged delivery to the IMF of 191.3 tons of gold agreed to under the Second Amendment of the Articles of Agreement signed by the Executive Board in April 1978 that were to be sold to fund what are called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as an alternative to what are called reserve currencies.
This FSB report further states that upon Strauss-Kahn raising his concerns with American government officials close to President Obama he was 'contacted' by 'rogue elements' within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who provided him 'firm evidence' that all of the gold reported to be held by the US 'was gone'.Upon Strauss-Kahn receiving the CIA evidence, this report continues, he made immediate arrangements to leave the US for Paris, but when contacted by agents working for France's General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) that American authorities were seeking his capture he fled to New York City's JFK airport following these agents directive not to take his cell-phone because US police could track his exact location.Once Strauss-Kahn was safely boarded on an Air France flight to Paris, however, this FSB report says he made a 'fatal mistake' by calling the hotel from a phone on the plane and asking them to forwarded the cell-phone he had been told to leave behind to his French residence, after which US agents were able to track and apprehend him.Within the past fortnight, this report continues, Strauss-Kahn reached out to his close friend and top Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar to retrieve from the US the evidence given to him by the CIA. Omar, however, and exactly like Strauss-Kahn before him, was charged yesterday by the US with a sex crime against a luxury hotel maid, a charge the FSB labels as 'beyond belief' due to Omar being 74-years-old and a devout Muslim.In an astounding move puzzling many in Moscow, Putin after reading this secret FSB report today ordered posted to the Kremlin's official website a defense of Strauss-Khan becoming the first world leader to state that the former IMF chief was a victim of a US conspiracy. Putin further stated, "It's hard for me to evaluate the hidden political motives but I cannot believe that it looks the way it was initially introduced. It doesn't sit right in my head."Interesting to note about all of these events is that one of the United States top Congressman, and 2012 Presidential candidate, Ron Paul [photo bottom left] has long stated his belief that the US government has lied about its gold reserves held at Fort Knox. So concerned had Congressman Paul become about the US government and the Federal Reserve hiding the truth about American gold reserves he put forward a bill in late 2010 to force an audit of them, but which was subsequently defeated by Obama regime forces.When directly asked by reporters if he believed there was no gold in Fort Knox or the Federal Reserve, Congressman Paul gave the incredible reply, "I think it is a possibility."Also interesting to note is that barely 3 days after the arrest of Strauss-Kahn, Congressman Paul made a new call for the US to sell its gold reserves by stating, "Given the high price it is now, and the tremendous debt problem we now have, by all means, sell at the peak."Bizarre reports emanating from the US for years, however, suggest there is no gold to sell, and as we can read as posted in 2009 on the ViewZone.Com news site:"In October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars. Gold is regularly exchanges between countries to pay debts and to settle the so-called balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the Chinese government asked that special tests be performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars. In this test, four small holed are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only a outer coating of real gold. What's more, these gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment!"To the final fate of Strauss-Kahn it is not in our knowing, but new reports coming from the United States show his determination not to go down without a fight as he has hired what is described as a 'crack team' of former CIA spies, private investigators and media advisers to defend him.To the practical effects on the global economy should it be proved that the US, indeed, has been lying about its gold reserves, Russia's Central Bank yesterday ordered the interest rate raised from 0.25 to 3.5 percent and Putin ordered the export ban on wheat and grain crops lifted by July 1st in a move designed to fill the Motherlands coffers with money that normally would have flowed to the US.The American peoples ability to know the truth of these things, and as always, has been shouted out by their propaganda media organs leaving them in danger of not being prepared for the horrific economic collapse of their nation now believed will much sooner than later.
