Il commento Forse adesso la Casa Bianca cambierà toni
Non sono molte, negli anni, le dichiarazioni in cui la fantasmatica voce di Osama Bin Laden fa menzione di Israele; anzi, per molti anni la sua attenzione stragista è stata molto più concentrata sui crociati (i cristiani) anche se associati ritualmente agli ebrei in generale (siamo infedeli tutti quanti), sull’Occidente blasfemo e peccatore oppressore dell’Islam e soprattutto incarnato dagli Usa, e sulla parte infedele che macchia la Ummah Islamica, i moderati rinnegati da riconquistare con la forza alla Sharia secondo Osama.
Il Giornale | 2010-01-25 | Italy | Page: 13 |
China’s censorship of the internet
The US campaign for uncensored and free flow of information on an unrestricted internet is a disguised attempt to impose its values on other cultures in the name of democracy. The free flow of information is a universal value treasured in all nations, including China, but the US government’s ideological imposition is unacceptable and, for that reason, will not be allowed to succeed. China’s real stake in the “free flow of information” is evident in its refusal to be victimised by information imperialism.
The Independent | 2010-01-25 | UK | Page: 32
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Eternel opposant, Oskar Lafontaine quitte l’arène
Une dernière fois, Oskar Lafontaine s’est livré samedi avec gourmandise au crépitement des flashs des photographes. Le très charismatique chef de die Linke est att e i nt d ’ u n c a nc e r e t a annoncé ce week-end, à 66 ans, sa retraite anticipée. Pour le parti, cette annonce tombe au plus mauvais moment. Le choix d’une nouvelle direction bicéphale se fera en mai, à Rostock, en même temps que d’importantes élections régionales dans l’ouest du pays.
Liberation | 2010-01-25 | France | Page: 9 |
China claims US used ‘online warfare’ in Iran
The United States used “online warfare” to stir up unrest in Iran after last year’s elections, the Chinese Communist party newspaper claimed yesterday, hitting back at Hillary Clinton’s speech last week about internet freedom. An editorial in the People’s Daily accused the US of launching a “hacker brigade” and said it had used social media such as Twitter to spread rumours and create trouble. “Behind what America calls free speech is naked political scheming. How did the unrest after the Iranian election come about?” said the editorial, signed by Wang Xiaoyang.
The Guardian International Edition | 2010-01-25 | UK | Page: 8
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Chipping away
Google’s threat to withdraw from China is not the opening salvo in a battle between the future and the past. Rather, it is a battle between two equally plausible visions of the future with initial advantage on the side of China. Granted, that’s not how most people in the West see it. The gigantic internet search engine company is, after all, the epitome of technological innovation and communication across borders that can only benefit billions around the world.
South China Morning Post | 2010-01-25 | China | Page: 15 |
Fiery landing.
Firemen put out the fire after a Russian-made Iranian passenger plane carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash landed in northeastern Iran yesterday, injuring at least 46 people, state television reported. The broadcast quoted Iran’s civil aviation spokesman, Reza Jafarzadeh, as saying that no one was killed in the accident. He gave no indication of what might have caused the accident. The Taban Air plane caught fire upon landing at Mashhad airport at 7.20am local time.
South China Morning Post | 2010-01-25 | China | Page: 12 |
Smart plan, but it’s still not enough
It was great to see President Barack Obama renew his focus on financial changes last week, even if it looked like an attempt to distract voters from his party’s loss of the Senate election in Massachusetts. Even so, by promoting the ideas of Paul A. Volcker — an esteemed former Federal Reserve chairman — the White House is finally elevating the discourse on how best to rein in risky behavior at banks and protect beleaguered American taxpayers from future bailouts of Wall Street.
International Herald Tribune | 2010-01-25 | Austria | Page: 17 |
A GOOD FIGHT
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton picked the right battle last week, calling for an end to Internet censorship and naming governments that suppress the free flow of information — including China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia and Uzbekistan. Her speech, at the Newseum in Washington, had pointed echoes of the Cold War, including a warning that “a new information curtain is descending across much of the world.”
International Herald Tribune | 2010-01-25 | Austria | Page: 6
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Communist Party newspaper accuses U.S. over Iran strife
An editorial in People’s Daily, the newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, accused the United States on Sunday of mounting a cyberarmy and a ‘‘hacker brigade’’ and of exploiting social media to foment unrest in Iran. People’s Daily accused the United States of hypocritically controlling the Internet after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for more Internet freedom in China and elsewhere in a speech Thursday.
International Herald Tribune | 2010-01-25 | Austria | Page: 8
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AMANDA HODGE
SARATH Fonseka, the man who would be Sri Lanka’s next president, set audacious new heights in election campaigning last week when he posed barechested in a full-page ad to reveal the scars of a 2006 Tamil Tiger assassination attempt. In a tight election race between two men who both claim to be war heroes — but accuse each other of war crimes — the point seemed to be that only one of the candidates had suffered for the sake of the military victory last May that ended the 26-year civil war with Tamil separatists.
The Australian | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 11
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How Yemeni terror aide turned matchmaker when bin Laden sought to marry again
WHEN Osama bin Laden decided to marry for the fifth time, he turned to his most trusted advisers to find him a bride. He wanted a Yemeni girl, he told them. The marriage would cement his relationship with Yemen, his billionaire father’s home. Sheik Rashad Mohammed Saeed Ismael, a Yemeni aide, took up the challenge. ‘‘She had to be religious, obedient, generous, well brought-up, quiet, calm and young enough not to feel jealous of the sheik’s (bin Laden’s) other wives,’’ he said.
The Australian | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 9 |
Budget less oil- reliant
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday the national budget for 2010/ 11 would lessen reliance on oil revenues, a move aimed at making the Islamic state less vulnerable to any Western sanctions. Ahmadinejad, who faces opposition protests seven months after his re-election, also said Iran “ will have good news over production of 20 percent enriched fuel in February”.
China Daily | 2010-01-25 | China | Page: 12 |
46 injured in plane fire
TEHRAN: An Iranian passenger plane has caught fire on landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad, injuring at least 46 people on board, state television reports. Iranian officials said the rear end of the Russian-built Tupolev 154 caught fire as it was landing yesterday.
The Cairns Post | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 11
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Obama readies for 1st State of the Union talk
WASHINGTON — President Obama will use his first State of the Union address to try to convince the people of a frustrated nation that he’s on their side, with a familiar sounding agenda recast to relate better to everyday struggles. In a time of deep economic insecurity, Obama will use the address on Wednesday to offer hope after a grueling, grinding first year of his presidency, aides say. For many who think the United States is still on the wrong track, Obama will attempt to present a clearer sense of how everything he’s pursuing fits together.
Chicago Sun-Times | 2010-01-24 | USA | Page: 3 |
Obama address to repair opinions
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama will seek to corral panicked Democrats and win back disaffected voters this week in the debut State of the Union address of a presidency dragged down by crushing economic gloom. Obama is at a turning point, after Republicans snatched away the Democratic super majority in the Senate and with his own party now viewing November’s midterm congressional elections with a sense of doom.
The Courier Mail | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 22
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Ambassador was CIA mole
MONTREAL: Canada’s former ambassador to Iran has revealed he worked as a CIA spy during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Kenneth Taylor has broken his silence as a book detailing his involvement hit bookstores. ‘‘It had been under wraps for 30 years,’’ Taylor said, saying it was his ‘‘assumption . . . that it would be for another 30 years.’’ The arrangement was set up by then-US president Jimmy Carter whereby Taylor would provide information from his position at the Canadian embassy in Tehran. Taylor was already known to have hidden six US embassy staffers at the time, but this is the first time he was revealed to be a covert CIA operative.
The Courier Mail | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 21 |
Iran plane lands on fire
TEHRAN: An Iranian passenger plane has caught fire on landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad, injuring 46 people. The Russian-built Tupolev 154 plane belonging to Taban Airline caught fire as it was landing at Mashhad airport yesterday. ‘‘Forty-six people have been injured, but most of them are not serious,’’ officials said.
Northern Territory News | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 9
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Astro tweet
Seems like The News is not the only one branching out into the wonderful world of Twitter recently. In a high-tech first, astronauts in space finally have Internet access and have sent a tweet directly from the heavens. Space station resident Timothy Creamer had been working with f light controllers to establish Internet access from his orbital post ever since he moved in last month. ‘‘Hello Twitterverse!’’ he wrote as Astro-TJ. ‘‘We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s’’
Shepparton News | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 2
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Pre-emptive strike’ slammed
SEOUL: North Korea has lashed out at South Korea’s plan to launch a ‘‘pre-emptive strike’’ to thwart any nuclear attack from Pyongyang as ‘‘an open declaration of war’’, state media says. The North’s General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said yesterday the South Korean defence chief’s recent remarks on a pre-emptive strike had created a ‘‘grave situation’’ which could lead to war ‘‘at any moment’’.
Shepparton News | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 9 |
Israel to challenge war crime findings in U.N. report on Gaza
The Israeli military is completing a rebuttal to a U.N. report accusing it of serious violations of international and humanitarian law in its invasion of the Gaza Strip a year ago. Its central aim is to dispel the report’s harsh conclusion — that the death of noncombatants and destruction of civilian infrastructure were part of an official plan to terrorize the Palestinian population.
Sun Sentinel Broward Edition | 2010-01-24 | USA | Page: 20 |
End of O’s cowardly lyin’
WE the people of the United States owe Scott’s Brown’s supporters a huge debt of gratitude. They didn’t merely elect a senator. They ripped the façade off the Obama presidency. Just as Dorothy and Toto exposed the ordinary man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, the voters in Massachusetts revealed that, in this White House, there is no there there. It’s all smoke and mirrors, bells and whistles, held together with glib talk, Chicago politics and an audacious sense of entitlement.
New York Post | 2010-01-24 | USA | Page: 9
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The NYPD goes global JUSTICE NEW YORK’S LONG
Between 2002 and 2003, the NYPD and FBI arrested and deported six Iranian diplomats in New York for photographing infrastructure and rail lines. The busts set off an alarming scenario for the NYPD’s intelligence division — that Iran could aid terrorist groups like Hizbollah in an attack on the Big Apple. To investigate, detectives had to go beyond the five boroughs.
New York Post | 2010-01-24 | USA | Page: 25 |
Envoy was a spy
Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, Kenneth Taylor, has revealed he worked as a CIA spy during the 1979 hostage crisis in the wake of the Islamic revolution. Mr Taylor broke his silence in an interview published in the daily Globe and on Saturday. – AFP
The Sydney Morning Herald | 2010-01-25 | Australia | Page: 7
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Even now, in the final act, the wimps deny guilt over Iraq
A few days after the coup-thatnever-was of January 6, one of Tony Blair’s most loyal supporters described the fizzling out of the plot hatched by Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt as “the last gasp of a generation”. He was not speaking only of the middle-aged rebels (if they deserve that description) and the Labour colleagues who conspicuously failed to follow them in their bid to dislodge Gordon Brown. No: my acquaintance was talking about the death-rattle of an entire political cohort, the New Labour elite that conquered all before it in the political revolution of the mid-Nineties.
The Sunday Telegraph | 2010-01-24 | UK | Page: 20
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French test Twitter’s new way with news
FIVE journalists will lock themselves in a French farmhouse with access only to Facebook and Twitter to test the quality of news from the social networking and micro-blogging sites. Twitter and Facebook’s use as news-breaking tools has been highlighted over the past year, particularly during protests in Iran that many described as a ‘‘twitterised revolution’’.
The Age | 2010-01-23 | Australia | Page: 24
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Liberal spinner working in Iraq
FORMER Liberal Party campaign guru Lynton Crosby has shifted his sights to Iraq before crucial general elections scheduled for March 7. Mr Crosby, who masterminded John Howard’s 1998 and 2001 federal election wins, has joined forces with seasoned US Democratic Party consultant Joe Trippi to provide strategic advice to the minor Shiite-led secularist party Ahrar, whose name means ‘‘ liberal’’. Since leaving his post as federal director of Australia’s Liberal Party in 2002, Mr Crosby has established an international political consultancy firm in partnership with pollster Mark Textor.
The Age | 2010-01-23 | Australia | Page: 5 |
n the late 18th century, Edward Gibbon published his enduring classic, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” Rome’s demise, he explained, “was the inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of de
Today, the United States is edging toward a similar stage of “imperial overstretch,” as historian Paul Kennedy described it — a great power in relative decline, diverting resources from productive economic investment to unproductive wars and armaments while competitor nations devote more of their wealth to “productive investments for longterm growth.” America, once the greatest creditor in the world, has become the world’s greatest debtor — a spendthrift nation spending beyond its means to maintain worldwide military dominance and an extravagant lifestyle, increasingly beholden to foreign creditors.
The Buffalo News | 2010-01-24 | USA | Page: 75
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Fuel truck crash kills driver, creates fireball
MELVILLE (AP) — A fuel truck flipped and exploded on New York’s Long Island Expressway on Saturday, killing the driver and creating a fireball seen for miles that shut the highway for hours. Emergency crews battled the raging blaze for three hours after the 8 a.m. accident between Melville and Plainview near the Nassau County line. The intense heat melted the supports for a huge road sign, which collapsed across all eight lanes of the roadway. Heavy equipment was brought in to remove it, but authorities were uncertain when the heavily trafficked highway might reopen.
The Buffalo News | 2010-01-24 | USA | Page: 9
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Google should pull the plug on China
Here’s hoping Google makes good on its threat to quit China. It’s time someone in the United States stopped coddling the Chinese police state. The U.S. government can’t, or won’t. Though Google is late coming around as an advocate of free speech in China, it still deserves applause. The company said recently it would stop censoring its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, as the communist government dictates — and might even close the business.
The Buffalo News | 2010-01-24 | USA | Page: 76
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U.S. must welcome Iran as an ally against al-Qaida
exploiting the strains within the Taliban/al-Qaida alliance and leading to a settlement based on the withdrawal of U.S. forces and a Taliban commitment to neutralize or eject al-Qaida. Military force, carefully calibrated to hold the line while negotiating a truce with Taliban leaders, may be necessary. But a campaign to bust the enemy could sink America into the bloody quicksands of Afghanistan as the Russians did in the 1980s, hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Buffalo News | 2010-01-24 | USA | Page: 76 |
DUP refuses to confirm if tycoon funded party
THE DUP is still staying tightlipped on whether it was financially backed by Fred Fraser — one of the developers who bankrolled the café business of Iris Robinson's teenage lover. Both the party and the family of the late tycoon have also made no comment on whether he helped buy a bulletproof car for Peter Robinson in the 1980s. An authorised biography of Mrs Robinson published in 2006 referred to an armour-plated vehicle being purchased for her husband after police had withdrawn security.
Belfast Telegraph | 2010-01-23 | UK | Page: 8
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GenfwächstzumMekkades globalenRohstoffhandels
DieMeldung warf keine grosseWellen, doch innerhalb der Branche markiert sie eine Zäsur: Der Zuger Konzern Glencore, einer der grössten unabhängigen Rohstoffhändler der Welt, liefert seit November letzten Jahres kein Benzin mehr an Iran – und beendet eine über dreissigjährige Geschäftsbeziehung mit dem Mullah-Staat. Dies auf Druck der USA, welche die Sanktionen gegen Iran wegen dessen Nuklearprogramm bald verschärfen dürften.
NZZ am Sonntag | 2010-01-24 | Switzerland | Page: 40 |
China hits back at US over net freedom calls
US CALLS for greater internet freedom could damage bilateral ties, China has warned, as it hits back at a critical speech by Hillary Clinton. The US Secretary of State on Thursday portrayed tackling censorship as a new priority for American foreign policy and called on Beijing to conduct a full and open investigation of Google’s claims of a Chinaoriginated cyber attack targeting the emails of human rights activists. ‘‘The US has criticised China’s policies to administer the internet and insinuated that China restricts internet freedom,’’ said ForeignMinistry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu, in a statement published on the ministry’s website.
The Sunday Age | 2010-01-24 | Australia | Page: 12 |
Large opium shipment seized at Montreal’s port
MONTREAL (Canwest News Service) — More than 97 kilograms of opium has been seized at the Port of Montreal. The Canada Border Services Agency announced Friday that the narcotics, with an estimated street value of $5 million, were discovered on Wednesday in a shipping container the came from Iran. The container also included furniture and household appliances. The opium was found in the panels of a refrigerator, CBSA said. The CBSA carried out 82 opium seizures last year, seizing drugs with an estimated street value of $189 million.
Moose Jaw Times Herald | 2010-01-23 | Canada | Page: 17 |
Opium seized, hidden in refrigerator panels
More than 97 kilograms of opium has been seized at the Port of Montreal. The Canada Border Services Agency announced Friday that the narcotics, with an estimated street value of $5 million, were discovered Wednesday in a shipping container from Iran that included furniture and household appliances.
Ottawa Citizen | 2010-01-23 | Canada | Page: 3 |
Russia wary of Iran move
RUSSIA has warned world powers against rushing towards sanctions to punish Iran for refusing to send its uran i um a b r o a d f o r processing. Fo re ign M in is te r Sergei Lavrov called on Iran to work constructively to allay Western fears ove r its nuclear programme. But he said world powers should beware of pushing Iran into a corner. “It is not a simple situation and it is not made any easier by the domestic political situation in Iran,” said Lavrov.
Evening Times | 2010-01-23 | UK | Page: 10 |
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