Monday, February 22, 2010
Iran’s police chief on Saturday accused the Voice of America and the BBC of being the arms of U.S. and British intelligence agencies, and warned of severe repercussions for journalists and activists caught having contacts with them, state media reported.
Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, whose police forces have played a key role in the government crackdown [...]
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Also tagged BBC, CIA, Espionage, Freedom of Press, Intelligence, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Journalism, Media, MI6, Propaganda, Voice of America
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Monday, February 15, 2010
The American public has not been informed by the US news media about highly newsworthy statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday February 12.
He said the era of nuclear weapons is over, suggesting Iran has no plans to build “inhumane” A-bombs. Ahmadinejad called for a world free of nuclear arms in an interview with [...]
Thursday, February 11, 2010
More censorship, this time from Iran. WTH is it with authoritarians anyway… can’t handle the idea of people having open access to information and thinking for themselves, or what? Only a government or organization insecure of the validity of its own ideology uses oppressive censorship to hide information from its own citizens.
And no, I’m not [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Exposing this entirely legal labyrinth of ownership took years of interagency pick-and-ax work. In the end it demonstrated how nefarious activity — even as high profile as this — can go on for years, right under authorities’ noses. It’s also meant that tenants of the prestigious Manhattan property have been paying millions in rent to [...]
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Also tagged Alavi Foundation, Bank Melli, Banking, Business, Cayman Islands, Corporatism, Corruption, Delaware, Drug Trafficking, Financial Secrecy, Financial Sector, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, IMF, Law, Money Laundering, Offshore Banking, Panama, Semion Mogilevich, Shell Companies, Shell Corporations, Sinaloa, Switzerland, Tax Evasion, Tax Havens, Terrorism Funding, Transparency, Victor Bout
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Washington has rejected Iran’s allegations of U.S. involvement in Tuesday’s bombing that killed professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi near his home in the Iranian capital as absurd.
Iranian officials and state media described the slain man as a nuclear scientist, but a spokesman said he did not work for the Atomic Energy Organization at the center of Iran’s [...]
As 2010 begins in turmoil, 10 questions to ask about U.S. military presence in distant lands.
Let’s peer into the future, and consider just what the American way of war might have in store for us in 2010. Here are 10 questions, the answers to which might offer reasonable hints as to just how much U.S. [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Budget, CIA, DOD, Economics, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Israel, Pakistan, Palestian Authority, Pentagon, Taliban, War, Yemen
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Two years ago, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bid $3.4 billion — $1 billion more than any of its competitors from Canada, Europe, Russia, the United States and Kazakhstan — for the rights to mine deposits near the village of Aynak. Over the next 25 years, it plans to extract about [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, Africa, China, Copper Mining, Disaster Capitalism, Economy, Iraq, Natural Gas, Oil, Pakistan, Shock Doctrine
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based organization that promotes press freedom and monitors the safety of journalists, said the number of journalists leaving Iran was the largest since the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The wave of departures reflects the journalists’ anxiety over the retribution many of them have faced for reporting on the government’s violent [...]
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