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By Nicola Nasser* On 12 October, Cairo is due to host a conference, sponsored and chaired by Egypt and Norway, of international and Arab donors for the reconstruction of Gaza. This is their ostensible aim. But the reasons that the donors cited for not fulfilling earlier pledges, made in Paris in 2007 and Sharm El-Sheikh in 2009, still exist.
This means that the donors who attend the upcoming Cairo conference will probably make the same pledges they made at the two previous conferences and (…)

By all accounts, the Third Annual Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) was a resounding success. On Sept. 4, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced that the conference brokered nearly 300 partnerships between governments, businesses and NGOs to help these island states make further strides toward sustainable development and against the rising tide of a warming climate. UNEP valued these partnerships at a total of $1.9 billion but in many ways, the attention (…)

The US state terrorists and the US Alliance state terrorists are using the Big Lie of “terror hysteria” as an excuse for illegal and war criminal invasion of Iraq and Syria. However sensible analysis reveals that the “annual empirical probability of an American dying preventably from preventable causes from homicide to smoking” (P = 1 in 207) is about 500,000 times greater than the “empirical annual probability of an American being killed by a terrorist attack in the US” (P = 1 in 100 (…)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AS OPERA BUFFA: THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST ISIS
John Chuckman
There is a forgotten 1933 movie serial called The Three Musketeers in which three members of the French Foreign Legion are rescued by an American, a young John Wayne, using the machine gun on his biplane to mow down Arab bad guys threatening the Legionnaires in the Sahara. What was John Wayne doing flying around the French Sahara? He had flown over from France to visit his girlfriend. Why did he have a machine (…)

The countries of the endlessly warmongering US Alliance are again in the grip of “terror hysteria” as an asserted justification for illegal and war criminal US-led invasion of Iraq and Syria. Ostensibly impelled by barbarous war crimes by ISIS, the UK has joined the US-led Coalition to destroy the ISIS rebels and has raised the UK “terror threat” level to “severe”. However as described below, it is estimated that the empirical annual probability of a UK resident dying from a (…)

By Nicola Nasser* President Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah movement, which he commands, have unleashed a media campaign against Hamas and the resistance. If pressure from the Palestinian public fails to stop the campaign, Abbas may achieve politically what Israel failed to achieve militarily: forcing the Palestinian presidency to choose “peace with Israel” over national reconciliation.
It appears that President Abbas has, indeed, prioritised “peace with Israel.” He has devised plans for (…)

NATION OF COWARDS
John Chuckman
What else can you fairly call a people who attack a population of refugees confined to a small space surrounded on every side by fences and machine-gun towers, a population with nowhere to run? No, that is not put strongly enough. Not just attack, but use the latest and most ferocious weapons from the American arsenal to slaughter more than 2100 people, including more than 500 children, destroying along the way a major portion of the housing, businesses, (…)

American Republic Army looking for recruits to defend against ISIS rebels
There will be a formal announcement made soon by the leaders of The American Republic Army, (AMRA) looking for volunteers to be trained, outfitted with the latest weapons and equipment, and exceptional COMPENSATION to be transported to undisclosed locations around the world to defend against the tyranny inflicted on innocent people by ISIS terror fighters. Anyone interested to join, please be aware this is serious, (…)

US President Barack Obama has announced the Obama Iraq War, the Obama Syrian War and indeed an explicitly adumbrated Obama War on Indigenous Muslim rebels “wherever they are”. These Obama wars will involve commission of war crimes in a dozen technical areas by US state terrorism and US Alliance state terrorism (UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, Australian state terrorism) and must be opposed by decent, pro-peace people throughout the world.
The United Nations secretary (…)

A referendum on whether Scotland should be independent from the UK will take place on Thursday 18 September 2014 . There are many locally and globally important reasons for Scots to vote Yes for Independence and reject the No advice from a plethora of UK Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes and from bloody warmongers, war criminals and state terrorists like Barack Obama and Tony Blair who have urged Scots to remain as subjects of the historically and internationally (…)