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Thursday, December 6, 2012

US: WEST ASIA

A recent release of classified documents shows how US has manipulated West Asia. A B&E exclusive

President Nixon's crown national security aides including James Schlesinger and William Colby met right away and chuckled that they could clarify their abrupt decision by blaming “Russian treachery”. They indicted Moscow of commissioning a “massive” airlift, falsely, according to the CIA's guesstimate. Kissinger rough drafted what the government would say to the world: “We can now say there was Russian treachery on the negotiations.

They have made an abortion of our peace move and sent in 200 flights of arms. We can run the Russians into the ground and we can call it an act of Russian treachery,” Schlesinger added. There was laughter in the room when Schlesinger added, “We had anticipated that!” Also, while the US was non-committal over a peace initiative, it was very active in securing its oil interests in the region. In July 1973, Henry Kissinger opened a clandestine channel to the Shah of Iran to synchronise the development of contingency tactics to snatch control of Saudi Arabia and its colossal oil riches, in the backdrop of instability in the House of Saud. “Any contingency planning on Saudi Arabia must be most hush-hush,” the Shah told Kissinger. He also added that he was a supporter of the Israelis.

Later Arabia''s King Fahd made an official visit to the White House when it was aggressively cooperating with the US operation to drive out the Soviet force from Afghanistan. Documents reveal that the Saudis also were clandestinely sponsoring US-backed Contra insurgents fighting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. George Bush may have been a great damager in the Middle East impasse... but he is certainly not the only US President in that ‘Hall of shame’.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The Hunger Strike Again…

...the world food price touches a new high all over again...

For decades, people around the world advocated low commodity prices, especially the food prices. But in recent months, the world price of almost all food crops has shot up. World Food Programme (WFP), a UN agency, has appealed to the world, especially the developed countries, to help them with $500 million, to cover higher food costs. At the end of 2007, 37 countries faced food crises, and 20 had considered some kind of food-price controls. Moreover, food costs had risen by 23% since 2006 with the price of grains up by 42%, oil by 50% and dairy products by 80%. As per the WFP, most countries of Central Africa, Afghanistan and few parts of Asia are facing a big food crunch.

More than 30% of the people do not get as much food as needed. But in many countries, it’s the political and bureaucratic affairs that have actually build an artificial shortage of food. Studies have shown that there is virtually no shortage of food but due to wrong planning most of the food grains do not reach the needy.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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