Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores alemán: Israel atacará Irán en el futuro cercano

Joschka Fischer, el ministro de relaciones exteriores alemán, debe saber algo. Y el atacar irán sobre un supuesto "programa de armas nucleares" será, en verdad, el inicio de una conflagración mundial.

Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer says Israel is planning to attack Iran in the near future over its nuclear program.

He wrote a piece that appeared in today's Daily Star, an English-language Lebanese newspaper, arguing that President Bush's recent visit to the Middle East was a precursor to a war against Iran.

"The Middle East is drifting toward a new great confrontation in 2008. Iran must understand that without a diplomatic solution in the coming months, a dangerous military conflict is very likely to erupt. It is high time for serious negotiations to begin," he said.

Bush preparándose para ir a la guerra contra Irán

No importa el desastre y genocidio de Bush en Afganistán e Irak, este desquiciado irá contra Irán.

The Bush administration is drawing up plans to launch a strike against Iran within the next two months, says a former top US diplomat.

The source, a retired US diplomat and former assistant secretary of state, said senior Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein of California and Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana have already been briefed on the attack plan.

Senator Feinstein, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senator Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, plan to go public with their opposition to the new Iran war plan in a New York Times editorial 'within days', Asia Times Online reported the source as saying on the condition of anonymity.

Irak pudiera tener las mayorees reservas de petróleo del mundo

¡Sorpresa, sorpresa! Pero EU invadió porque Saddam tenía "armas de destrucción masiva".

Iraq dramatically increased the official size of its oil reserves yesterday after new data suggested that they could exceed Saudi Arabia’s and be the largest in the world.

The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister told The Times that new exploration showed that his country has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, with as much as 350 billion barrels. The figure is triple the country’s present proven reserves and exceeds that of Saudi Arabia’s estimated 264 billion barrels of oil. Barham Salih said that the new estimate had been based on recent geological surveys and seismic data compiled by “reputable, international oil companies . . . This is a serious figure from credible sources.”

Matt Taibbi: Un digno heredero de Hunter S. Thompson

Latinoamérica: El ataque a la democracia

Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political control of a privileged group calling itself middle-class, to shift the responsibility for massacres and drug trafficking away from the psychotic regime in Colombia and its mafiosi, and to extinguish hopes raised among Latin America's impoverished majority by the reform governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.

Portugal: Otro cómplice de los vuelos clandestinos de la CIA

LISBON, Apr 4 (IPS) - Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates and his predecessor José Manuel Barroso should answer "clearly and transparently" questions about secret CIA flights transporting prisoners to Guantánamo, says British lawyer and activist Clive Stafford Smith.

Speaking to the press in Lisbon on Thursday, Stafford Smith, the head of the non-governmental British human rights group Reprieve, said the Portuguese government may be sued if it fails to cooperate voluntarily in the search for the truth.

Reprieve says it has documentary evidence that Portugal was involved in the illegal transfer of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisoners, in CIA or chartered planes, to the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.

The case of the so-called CIA "extraordinary renditions" flights goes back to November 2005, when a U.S. newspaper, The Washington Post, revealed the existence of secret CIA prisons in several countries, and the illegal transport of prisoners, particularly to Guantánamo.

The CIA extraordinary rendition programme involves flying or otherwise transferring terror suspects from their place of detention to countries where they are not nationals, and where the security services are known to practise torture.

Daniel Ellsberg: La guerra de Irak es un crimen de guerra supremo

The man who leaked secret documents about the US war in Vietnam has a name for the invasion of Iraq.

"Supreme war crime."

He also has appellations for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney: "domestic enemies of the Constitution" and "war criminals."

Speaking at a church in San Francisco Saturday, Daniel Ellsberg bemoaned the Administration's war and Iraq and cautioned about the dangers of a future war in Iran, according to a report in the local Golden Gate Express.

Ellsberg leaked a sheaf of documents that would become known as the "Pentagon Papers" in 1971, a secret history of the war in Vietnam in which the Pentagon conceded the war was unlikely to be won. At the time, Ellsberg worked as a Pentagon consultant.

Continúan los vuelos clandestinos de la CIA a prisiones secretas

Y por supuesto, los "enemigos combatientes" que son secuestrados y llevados a las prisiones secretas en Egipto, Polonia, Jordania y varios otros países, son torturados por meses o años e incluso desaparecidos o muertos. Esta es la "democracia" al estilo americano en el siglo XXI. Fascismo puro.

FOUR CIA jets, two of which were identified last year in a special EU report into the practice of extraordinary rendition, have landed at Shannon Airport in recent days, leading to renewed calls for the Government to ban aircraft suspected of participating in the practice.

Extraordinary renditions are operations to apprehend terrorists abroad and transport them to another state for interrogation, usually without the knowledge of the host government. The procedure was developed by the CIA in the mid-1990s.

At least four suspect aircraft landed at Shannon over the past week. Last Wednesday, one of the jets, registration N475LC, made a refuelling stop lasting half-an-hour. Another plane, N478GS, made a similar stop at the airport on Saturday afternoon. One man, believed to be a US government agent, was seen observing the refuelling process.

The planes, operated by Centurion Aviation Services, a shelf company for the CIA, were identified in the EU report on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, which was published in November 2006. Despite this, both jets continue to stop at Shannon.

Late last Sunday night, two more aircraft, N71PG and N54PA, were due in Shannon. Records show that both jets visited numerous airforce bases in the US in recent weeks. However, flight records for N475LC and N478GS are no longer accessible online...

...In recent weeks, it has been revealed that the US government transported prisoners through the British territory of Diego Garcia without apparently informing the British government, and in spite of US government assurances that no prisoners were transported through British territory.

"Even more serious is the statement in the past few days by Manfred Nowak, UN torture investigator, that Diego Garcia was actually used to imprison prisoners captured by the US in Afghanistan or Iraq."

■ Cheney: la guerra contra Irán y la baja del petróleo

El vicepresidente Richard Bruce Cheney, el verdadero poder tras el trono en Washington donde Baby Bush figura como marioneta, es un hombre sumamente ambicioso pese a sus infartos en el miocardio y, quizá, en el que pudiera representar el último periplo de su vida pretende buscar la cuadratura del círculo al desear simultáneamente desatar la guerra contra Irán y la baja del petróleo.

Se trata de dos objetivos incompatibles, ya que una guerra contra Irán desembocaría en el cierre del Estrecho de Ormuz, que pudiera disparar el precio del oro negro a más de 200 dólares el barril.

La congruencia no es el fuerte del régimen torturador bushiano, catalogado hoy como el peor de la corta historia de Estados Unidos, ya que el contenido de su pensamiento es poco sofisticado y asemeja lineal y maniqueamente a los reflejos condicionados pavlovianos de los invertebrados. El Medio Oriente es mucho más complejo en su estructura mental y difícilmente los nueve días del extenso periplo de Cheney puedan hacer cambiar el parecer de los mandatarios de la región, quienes en su conjunto se han percatado de la decadencia del imperio estadunidense cuyo símbolo mayúsculo, el dólar, vale menos que una acción bursátil del insolvente banco Bear Stearns.

El costo actual de la guerra de Irak: 3 billones de dólares

¿Petróleo en $108 dólares? ¿Crisis en EU y en el mundo? La realidad no es que el costo del petróleo esté en niveles récord, sino que, estando cotizado en dólares, mientras éstos menos valgan el costo nominal del petróleo será mayor. Y una de las causas de la devaluación del dólar es que el gobierno americano ha tenido que imprimir como nunca papel moneda para cubrir sus deudas por las guerras, que por supuesto provocan la caída en su valor real. ¿Y la guerra de Irak, cuanto ha costado hasta ahora? $3 BILLONES DE DOLARES. Esto es, $3,000,000,000,000. Y será mucho más.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can't spend $3 trillion -- yes, $3 trillion -- on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home.

Esta guerrra contra el terrorismo es falsa

Pero... Pero... Pero la "guerra" calderónica contra el narco es verdadera, ¿cierto? ¿cierto?

In fact, 9/11 offered an extremely convenient pretext to put the PNAC plan into action. The evidence again is quite clear that plans for military action against Afghanistan and Iraq were in hand well before 9/11. A report prepared for the US government from the Baker Institute of Public Policy stated in April 2001 that "the US remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma. Iraq remains a destabilising influence to... the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East". Submitted to Vice-President Cheney's energy task group, the report recommended that because this was an unacceptable risk to the US, "military intervention" was necessary (Sunday Herald, October 6 2002).

Similar evidence exists in regard to Afghanistan. The BBC reported (September 18 2001) that Niaz Niak, a former Pakistan foreign secretary, was told by senior American officials at a meeting in Berlin in mid-July 2001 that "military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October". Until July 2001 the US government saw the Taliban regime as a source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of hydrocarbon pipelines from the oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. But, confronted with the Taliban's refusal to accept US conditions, the US representatives told them "either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs" (Inter Press Service, November 15 2001).

Estados Unidos: Imponiendo la "democracia" torturando y matando

Fotos apenas reveladas de la tortura que ha sucedido en Irak (y seguramente sigue sucediendo)... Estas fotos son en particular de la prisión de Abu Ghraib. Esta es la verdadera cara de la "democracia" americana. Y recuerdo que apenas el "presidente" mexicano, Calderón, declaró en su viaje a Estados Unidos que "México es uno de los pocos 'amigos' que le quedan a Estados Unidos"... ¿De qué nos sirven "amistades" así? ¿Tortura, bombas, invasión, muerte? Fascismo puro.

Turquía lanza invasión terrestre a Irak

Las piezas están en su lugar para un conflicto mundial: La guerra en Irak expandiéndose regionalmente, Kosovo separándose y creando grandes tensiones, EU amenazando con incursionar en Irán... Una guerra mundial es muy probable, sólo falta la chispa que encienda la mecha.

Turkey said yesterday it had sent ground troops into northern Iraq in a significant escalation of its fight against separatist PKK Kurdish rebels, as the US and the European Union called for restraint amid fears the move could undermine Iraq’s only stable region.

An incursion across the border by Turkish troops has long been in the offing, although it was not immediately clear yesterday how big the operation was or how long it would last. But it is a serious escalation of Turkey’s battle against the rebels after weeks of aerial assaults on PKK bases in the mountains that straddle the Turkish-Iraqi border.

Israel en América Latina

Nadie imaginó, hace 60 años, que el Estado de Israel, cuyo pueblo soñó durante siglos con el “derecho a existir”, acabaría negándoselo a sus primos hermanos palestinos. Nadie imaginó que los jefes políticos del pueblo elegido acabarían promoviendo el terrorismo internacional, junto con Estados Unidos.

En la industria bélica israelí trabaja la cuarta parte de la población económicamente activa. ¿Quiénes son sus clientes? No quienes también sueñan con su “derecho a existir”, sino los regímenes que realizan negocios suculentos, ajustándose a las reglas del “libre mercado”. Money, money, money.

A inicios de mes trascendió que Colombia comprará a Israel 24 aviones supersónicos “renovados” del tipo “cachorro de león” (Kfir, en hebreo), que los agentes del Mossad contribuyeron a diseñar robándose los planos del Mirage francés, así como también copiaron el tanque Merkava del inglés Chieftain, y el fusil Galil del soviético AK.

Fuera de transacciones comerciales y pormenores técnicos, se agradece la honestidad de Juan Manuel Santos, ministro de Defensa de Colombia: “Se piensa en el conflicto armado interno, no en los vecinos”. O sea: en los vecinos. O sea: en Venezuela. Pero a ver… ¿no dijo Shakira que los colombianos “están-cansados-de-la-guerra”? Apresúrese a palomear “sí”, “no”, “no sé”, “me da igual”, porque el sátrapa Álvaro Uribe Vélez va por la tercera relección, y con los gringos se las trae.

Juez de la suprema corte en EU declara: "Los juzgados NO deberían prohibir la tortura"

Es claro que estamos no ante un fascismo naciente sino ya establecido, tanto en EU como en México. Debería ser transparente, cuando un juez de la suprema corte declara que no se debería prohibir la tortura... Cuando en México, se permitirá en unos días más el allanamiento de hogares SIN orden judicial, arraigos SIN ordenes de arresto hasta por 80 días... Pero la gente no lo quiere ver. Las garantías individuales nos están siendo arrebatadas, pero hacemos nada, les permitimos quitárnoslas sin más.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia rejected the notion that US courts have any control over the actions of American troops at Guantanamo Bay, argued that torture of terror detainees is not banned under the US Constitution and insisted that the high court has no obligation to act as a moral beacon for other nations.

De cómo el abuelo de Bush ayudó a Hitler en su ascenso al poder

Esta es una historia que circulaba desde hace mucho en internet, pero muy pocos medios "oficiales" se atrevían siquiera a mencionarla. Ahora el Guardian de Inglaterra lo publica, confirmando la autenticidad de las fuentes que consultaron. Esto significa que Bush proviene de una dinastía que no ha dudado en beneficiarse del sufrimiento ajeno a través de la guerra y la destrucción, justo lo que vemos ahora de nueva cuenta. Y para ponerlo en el contexto mexicano, apenas antier el "presidente" Calderón en su visita a EU, "advertía" que EU debería cuidar a sus "aliados"... Me pregunto, ¿somos aliados de los americanos ahora? ¿Desde cuándo? ¿Somos aliados de Bush? Increíble. La ultraderecha más cavernaria y retrógrada mexicana advirtiendo a sus "aliados" ultraderechistas americanos, criminales y genocidas, que deben cuidar su amistad. Vaya vaya.

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

Se reportan cuando menos ocho cables submarinos cortados en Medio Oriente

Algo está planeando EU y sus aliados, esto no es casualidad. El artículo menciona que cuando menos ocho cables han sido cortados, lo que apunta a un sabotaje... La pregunta es, ¿con qué finalidad?

By my count, we are probably dealing with as many as eight, maybe even nine, unexplained cut or damaged undersea cables within the last week, and not the mere three or four that most mainstream news media outlets in the United States are presently reporting. Given all this cable-cutting mayhem in the last several days, who knows but what there may possibly be other cut and/or damaged cables that have not made it into the news cycle, because they are lost in the general cable-cutting noise by this point. Nevertheless, let me enumerate what I can, and keep in mind, I am not pulling these out of a hat; all of the sources are referenced at the conclusion of the article; you can click through and look at all the evidence that I have. It's there if you care to read through it all.

1) one off of Marseille, France
2) two off of Alexandria, Egypt
3) one off of Dubai, in the Persian Gulf
4) one off of Bandar Abbas, Iran in the Persian Gulf
5) one between Qatar and the UAE, in the Persian Gulf
6) one in the Suez, Egypt
7) one near Penang, Malaysia
8) initially unreported cable cut on 23 January 2008 (Persian Gulf?)

Bush y su cartel mintieron más de 900 veces para justificar la guerra de Irak

Y causó un genocidio de más de un millón de iraquíes, miseria, destrucción, desplazados... Fascismo en una palabra.

President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.

On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and these three key officials, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, stated unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (or was trying to produce or obtain them), links to Al Qaeda, or both. This concerted effort was the underpinning of the Bush administration's case for war.

El Congreso de EU aprueba un presupuesto de defensa de US$700,000 millones

Un país que gasta ese volumen de dinero en "defensa", ha dejado de ser democrático. EU gasta más de 5 veces lo que todos los demás países del mundo JUNTOS gastan en la industria militar. ¿Cómo puede entonces EU declarar que otros países u organizaciones son una amenaza a su seguridad? Repito, el gasto de EU para el siguiente año fiscal será de US$700,000 millones de dólares.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a defense policy bill on Wednesday that would authorize $696 billion in military programs, including $189 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

El Congreso de EU ignora el reporte de Inteligencia sobre Irán, lo declara una amenaza nuclear

EU necesita urgentemente otra guerra, para sostener el gigante peso de la crisis de solvencia y el nivel de vida al que los americanos han estado acostumbrados durante varias décadas. Y mientras más tiempo pasa y menos tiempo le queda a Bush en la presidencia, más peligroso se volverá para Irán.

Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and its allies, according to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 H R 4986 passed 369-46 by the US House of Representative yesterday, even though the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that that Tehran abandoned its atomic weaponry ambitions in 2003.