Depuis le début de la semaine dernière, la société Sotel a repris les travaux dans la zone Natura 2000 Differdange Est–Prenzebierg/Anciennes mines et Carrières, la société du Groupe Arcelor-Mittal envisage de placer une ligne haute tension en vue d’approvisionner les aciéries du Sud du pays avec de l’électricité nucléaire française.

Max Blumenthal, alternet.org

When I went into the Jewish religious book emporium, Pomeranz, in central Jerusalem to inquire about the availability of a book called Torat Ha'Melech, or the King's Torah, a commotion immediately ensued. "Are you sure you want it?" the owner, M. Pomeranz, asked me half-jokingly. "The Shabak [Israel's internal security service] is going to want a word with you if you do." As customers stopped browsing and began to stare in my direction, Pomeranz pointed to a security camera affixed to a wall. "See that?" he told me. "It goes straight to the Shabak!"

Rainer Rupp

Nur eine Fiktion...

Ariane Reisenweber

Minister Röttgen fordert Milliarden für Nachrüstung von Kernkraftwerken

Umweltverbände kritisieren
Regierungsgutachten zur Laufzeitverlängerung

Markus Bernhardt

Ein für Sonnabend in Dortmund geplanter Großaufmarsch von Neonazis ist am Donnerstag überraschend verboten worden. »Autonome Nationalisten« hatten zu einem »Nationalen Antikriegstag« aufgerufen.

Arlette Laguiller

France - C'est donc dans une semaine que le gouvernement présentera à la Chambre des députés les nouvelles mesures qu'il entend mettre en œuvre contre le système des retraites : le recul de l'âge du départ en retraite et l'augmentation des annuités nécessaires. Et on nous présente les choses comme si cette prétendue « réforme » était rendue nécessaire par l'évolution démographique du pays, le fait que l'espérance de vie a augmenté. Mais c'est un mensonge pur et simple. Si la CNAV, la caisse des retraites, va vers des difficultés financières, c'est avant tout parce que ses rentrées ont fortement diminué au fil des années.

AMR/TG/NN

Thousands of domestic workers who have hoped to find employment in Britain are being enslaved by their employers and abused sexually, physically and psychologically

Paul Galois, Viviane Lafont et Henri Marnier

Les politiciens défendent leurs privilèges

Statement by G.A. Zyuganov, Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee

2010 has not yet completed. But it has already entered the history of Russia as one of the most dramatic one. Heat and drought have contributed to large-scale fires. Entire villages and towns burned down. But people were dying not only in the fire. Even in the capital during July and August 700 people died daily. This means that fires doubled the number of deaths.

But New Law Still Falls Short;
Government Should Ensure Full Equality

(Beirut) - Libya's new nationality law granting women married to foreign spouses the right to pass their own nationality to their children is a significant move forward for women's rights, Human Rights Watch saidon thursday . But the law still contains some contradictory provisions that could be interpreted to perpetuate discrimination, Human Rights Watch said. 

Thomas Berger

Überschwemmungen nach extremer Trockenheit

Zehn Millionen Menschen in vier Staaten der
Subsaharazone von humanitärer Katastrophe bedroht

Zhang Lei, Beijing

Chen Si, 42, felt relieved that nothing unusual happened on August 22 as he returned home from his volunteer shift patrolling for suicide jumpers on Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. But he was still worried about the young woman he rescued the day before.

Richard S.Ehrlich, Ho Chi Minh City

Cheap facsimiles of $100 bills waft in the tropical breeze, littering Ho Chi Minh City's sidewalks with Benjamin Franklin's face. Elsewhere in Vietnam, US President Richard M. Nixon has become a gritty fashion icon, giving politicized street cred to "urban wear" clothes.

Pyi Saunt, Maungdaw (Arakan State, Myanmar)

Let’s say you are a minority group in your native place. You’re surrounded by a majority group that came from a foreign country that has threatened your minority group throughout history. In this community, you are vulnerable to being robbed, tortured and killed anytime; your wife, your sisters, your daughters risk being sexually abused; your property could be stolen and your minority group could be attacked at any time.

Pierre Lemaire

Après deux mois de pluies torrentielles, la situation du Pakistan est catastrophique. Au 30 août, selon l'ONU, au moins 3,2 millions d'hectares, soit 14 % des terres cultivées, avaient été endommagés, près de 5 millions de personnes seraient totalement sans abri, 8 millions auraient besoin d'une aide d'urgence, 17 millions se seraient retrouvées jetées sur les routes et 20 millions auraient été peu ou prou touchées, pratiquement un huitième de la population.

Gerry Simpson

(OSH)  - "They don't stop beating me. Please, sell your house, your car, your last things to get me out of here." Nafiza (not her real name) recalls the words from memory, written by her 37-year-old son in a letter smuggled out of prison by a policeman who took her bribe. Nafiza's youngest son, 15, is still recovering from his own 24-hour ordeal at the hands of Kyrgyzstan's police, who hung him by his arms from the ceiling and repeatedly beat him with a rifle butt. 

Stephen Lendman *

August 29th, 2005, a day of infamy remembered less for the storm, catastrophic floods and destruction, and more as a metaphor for disaster capitalism, exploiting security threats, "terror" attacks, economic meltdowns, and "natural" disasters like Katrina.

Global Firms Violate International Labor Standards in America

(New York) - Many European companies that publicly embrace workers' rights under global labor standards nevertheless undermine workers' rights in their US operations, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued yesterday. 

Vorsicht ist besser als Nachsicht

Die LSAP ist der Ansicht, dass eine Regierung an erster Stelle die Interessen der Allgemeinheit schützen muss. Darunter fällt die Pflicht, zu verhindern, dass Einzelne ihren Profit steigern, indem sie Risiken eingehen, für die am Ende die Allgemeinheit haftet.

 Saartire von Claude Michael Jung

Vom Glanz und Elend der Völklinger Fischzucht-Pharaonen

Werden nach Kaviar und Loup de Mer in der ehemaligen
Stahlarbeiterstadt auch schon bald Goldesel gezüchtet ?

 Abderrahmane Semmar

L’islamophobile suscite une vague d’indignation en France. Les récentes campagnes de dénigrements et les dérives racistes commises au sein même de la classe politique française ont révolté plus d’un.

Rainer Balcerowiak

Mit der Betonung eines kleinen, aber feinen Unterschiedes begann Bundesfinanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) am Mittwoch in Berlin seine Pressekonferenz. Während das Bundeskabinett das Haushaltsbegleitgesetz am Morgen »beschlossen« habe, sei das Kernbrennstoffsteuergesetz lediglich »zustimmend zur Kenntnis genommen worden«. Schließlich soll letzteres noch als Verhandlungsmasse in die Gespräche mit den Energiekonzernen über den Preis einer Laufzeitverlängerung für die deutschen Atomkraftwerke eingebracht werden.

RB/JM/MMN

Justice and Spirituality Members Begin Third Month
of Detention Following Warrantless Dawn Raids

(New York) - Arrests without warrants, followed by alleged torture at national police headquarters, raise questions about how Moroccan authorities are handling a case involving seven prominent members of the country's leading Islamist association, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. The men have been in pretrial detention since June 28th. 

Liza Jansen, United Nations

As the army in southern Sudan has pledged to end the use of child soldiers by the end of the year, a UN special envoy on Wednesday expressed her concern about recruitments that could be renewed at time of war.

Rainer Werning

Bedeutsamer Etappensieg

Japan ist besiegt, Frankreich und USA verstärkten ihren Einsatz

Rainer Rupp

Kasino und Korruption

Mit dubiosen Finanzbeteiligungen
Hunderte Millionen Dollar Schulden angehäuft...

Steven J. Gulitti, New Haven (Ct)

Americans to some degree and particularly those on the Right are now beset by a true conundrum. Is Barack Obama a Christian or a Muslim? According to the latest Pew Research polling: "nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009. Only about one-third of adults (34%) say Obama is a Christian, down sharply from 48% in 2009. Fully 43% say they do not know what Obama's religion is." Well, it's no wonder people are so confused, especially when two of the most prominent talking heads on the far right differ as to what is the actual religion of the President. If Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh aren't on the same page on this, how can we expect the lowliest schlep to know what's the truth?

 Fredmund Malik

"Capitalism has Failed"

The crisis is not over

Counterterrorism Charges Against Activists
Follow Weeks of Incommunicado Detention

(Washington, DC) - Bahraini authorities should immediately look into allegations of torture by four opposition activists who had been held in incommunicado detention for more than two weeks, Human Rights Watch said on wednesday. In their formal interrogation sessions with prosecutors, the four contended that their captors had subjected them to torture and degrading treatment.

La guerre est terminée pour les Etats-Unis

La page de la guerre en Irak est tournée pour les Etats-Unis, a estimé hier le chef du Pentagone, Robert Gates, qui a rendu visite aux troupes américaines quelques heures après la fin de leur mission de combat.

Obama-Rede zum offiziellen Abschluß des »Kampfeinsatzes«

Gates läßt Truppenabzug bis Ende 2011 offen

Sotel reprend les travaux de la ligne haute tension

The Opinion of An Expert

If I were to be asked who best knows about Israeli thinking, I would answer that without question it is Jeffrey Goldberg. He is an indefatigable journalist, capable of having dozens of meetings to ascertain how some Israeli leader or intellectual may think.