Is the US already at war with Iran?
Support to fractions at war in a country where a third country has a political, or economical interest is not new. We have seen it throughout the Cold War, we witnessed it in Afghanistan and Iraq throughout the past decennia. We have seen it in South and Central America. We still see it in Africa every day: support coming from Europe, China and more often than not, from the US makes its way through different channels and ends up with "proxies", military opposition fractions as if those were "fighting a war on behalf of"...
This video questions in how far the US is already engaging in a war with Iran, through its proxies, operating out of Iraq's Kurdish region, at the Iran/Iraq/Turkey border.
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Video courtesy current.com
News: After blocking YouTube and WordPress, Turkey now bans Blogger
Turkey: freedom of press, a long way to go[i-Turkey: freedom of press, a long way to go]
TalkTurkey reports:
You have Blogger? Turkey has Blocker!
First, it was Wordpress. Then YouTube. And now Blogger, world's largest 'free' blog service, is blocked or banned in Turkey.
Why? What difference does it make? What's next? The Internet?
BasBasBas reports:
Blogger banned in Turkey[i-Blogger banned in Turkey]
Since today, whoever tries to access Blogger or any *.blogspot.com domain from Turkey will get the (above) message on (their) screen.
This is the same message we get if we try to visit YouTube, which is also banned in Turkey. In the past blogging platform Wordpress.com has been banned as well, to much dismay of many Turkish bloggers.
Turkey’s EU ambitions seem paradoxical to the infringement on the freedom of press and speech of its citizens, residents and visitors by banning sites like this. This is not China. This has to stopped. Good thing the EU’s making a blacklist of censoring countries and are creating software for people in censoring countries to use to overcome the censorship (Global Online Freedom Act).
[Ed: Turkey: a member of NATO, and pushing hard to become part of the EU... It looks like one of the basic conditions of democracy, freedom of expression, is not even met.]
More posts on The Road about press freedom and Turkey
Cartoon courtesy TalkTurkey and BasBasBas. Discovered via Global Voices Online and For Those Who Want To Know Read the full post...
News: Turkey Attacks North Iraq
A villager looks through a rubble at the Qlatooka village near Iraq's border with Turkey on Sunday Dec 16 2007[i-A villager looks through a rubble at the Qlatooka village near Iraq's border with Turkey on Sunday Dec 16 2007]Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets as deep as 60 miles inside northern Iraq for three hours Sunday. Turkey's military chief said the U.S. gave intelligence and tacit approval for the raid.
An Iraqi official said the planes attacked several villages, killing one woman. The rebels said two civilians and five rebels were killed.
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq refused to comment Monday on the Turkish general's assertion that American officials had given Turkey permission to enter Iraq's air space. (Full item)
Eh? And I thought Iraq was a sovereign country?! Did the Iraqi government have no say in this? The US "gives permission" to bomb villages on the territory of another state.. On basis of what authority?
Picture courtesy AP
