WikiLeaks cable reveals
By Haaretz Service
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi expressed concern that Israel might use nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike on Iran. Continue
By Gideon Levy
The next wars will be home-front wars. This time the Israeli home front will be hit in a way we have never experienced. Continue
By Gareth Porter & Jim Lobe
"The cables reveal how Iran's ascent has unified Israel and many longtime Arab adversaries -notably the Saudis - in a common cause," the Times claimed. The notion that these leaders, like Israel, favor a military solution to Iran's nuclear program has become widely accepted by the news media in the past week. Continue
Market alarm as US fails to control biggest debt in history: US Treasuries last week suffered their biggest two-day sell-off since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The borrowing costs of the government of the world’s largest economy have now risen by a quarter over the past four weeks.
The Seven Myths of ‘Slums’: The locus of global poverty is moving from rural areas to the cities, and more than half the world population now lives in urban areas for the first time in human history
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