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 Tibet: play it again, George!
Kingfisher, Friday, Apr 11 2008, 6:45am
Right on cue! The current duet performance of Kevin Rudd and the Dalai Lama on the world stage betrays a carefully choreographed strategy designed to subvert China’s rapidly increasing power and influence in the world. (story and 1 image)
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 Washington Plays ‘Tibet Roulette’ with China
F. William Engdahl via reed, Thursday, Apr 10 2008, 6:41am
Washington has obviously decided on an ultra-high risk geopolitical game with Beijing by fanning the flames of violence in Tibet just at this sensitive time in their relations and on the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. It’s part of an escalating strategy of destabilization of China which has been initiated by the Bush Administration over the past months. It also includes the attempt to ignite an anti-China Saffron Revolution in the neighboring Myanmar region, bringing US-led NATO troops into Darfur where China’s oil companies are developing potentially huge oil reserves. It includes counter moves across mineral-rich Africa. And it includes strenuous efforts to turn India into a major new US forward base on the Asian sub-continent to be deployed against China, though evidence to date suggests the Indian government is being very cautious not to upset Chinese relations. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Thursday, Apr 10 2008, 7:04am
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Saudi prisoner 'slams' then leaves Guantanamo hearing
Jane Sutton via fleet, Wednesday, Apr 9 2008, 7:08pm
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, April 9 (Reuters) - In a hearing plagued by translation problems on Wednesday, a Saudi Arabian prisoner first criticized and then boycotted the U.S. war crimes court where he is accused of plotting with al Qaeda to blow up ships in the Middle East.
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Kevin Rudd, errand boy and hypocrite
barra, Wednesday, Apr 9 2008, 6:17am
The Australian PM and U.S. errand boy, Kevin Rudd, very un-diplomatically took the American position on Tibet while on an official visit to China. It seems our pipsqueak leader has forgotten his primary responsibility of promoting and pursuing Australian interests. Daddy America came first with Howard and Rudd is nothing if not a Howard clone. Our Kevin is running the same slavish course set by Howard. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Apr 9 2008, 3:53pm
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Iraq: from ‘cakewalk, mission accomplished’ to “central front”
finch, Tuesday, Apr 8 2008, 7:58pm
From ‘cakewalk’ dreams to the reality of “the central front of Al Qaeda's global war of terror!" McCain and General Petraeus perform in tandem during Congressional Hearings this week. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Tuesday, Apr 8 2008, 10:06pm
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Australia’s unforgivable crime: homeless and rejected youth
budgie, Monday, Apr 7 2008, 9:29pm
It need not be emphasised that a society’s most precious resource is its next generation. In affluent societies disproportionate increases in youth homelessness is unforgivable and represents the most reprehensible failure of government social policy. (story and 1 image)
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U.S.-Russia row over Kosovo escalates with Moscow aid shipments
Andrew Wander via reed, Sunday, Apr 6 2008, 9:28pm
Russia is sending humanitarian supplies worth $1.7 million directly to Kosovo Serbs, challenging the authority of the US-backed government in Pristina.
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Give ‘em a flag to wave and tell ‘em they’re free!
peptide, Saturday, Apr 5 2008, 9:15pm
One conspicuous feature of the recent NATO summit was the rhetoric or rather diatribes and double-speak from the world’s ‘most powerful leaders.’ Bush and some NATO leaders favoured the words 'liberty' and 'freedom' in their media statements and public addresses. However, western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq tell another tragic story -- the verifiable TRUE story! (story and 1 image)
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Australian kiss-arse politics
barra, Friday, Apr 4 2008, 5:50pm
If anyone harboured any doubts regarding Australia’s CONTINUING role as sycophantic, servile, cringing, lackey to America, doubt no more. Rudd confirmed ‘our’ position at the recent NATO summit with a subservient salute to his commander, George W Bush. It was tragic and amusing to see pipsqueak Rudd, clearly out of his depth in Europe, chasing the bully of the class for comfort! (story and 1 image)
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US lawmakers have as much as $196 million invested in defense companies
AP via rialator, Thursday, Apr 3 2008, 3:55pm
WASHINGTON: Members of the U.S.Congress have as much as $196 million (€126.2 million) collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the start of the Iraq war, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.
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A Tactical Manoeuvre
budgie, Thursday, Apr 3 2008, 6:54am
The following AP report announcing NATO’s endorsement of Bush’s missile defence shield in Eastern Europe is sure to create consternation in Moscow and Beijing – and I hope it does! If the Chinese and Russians are incapable of determining when they are under attack perhaps they too should join NATO -- though it is an invitation only military club. At least the offer to join would put the West on the spot and reveal its true intentions.
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NATO: a historical inversion
nano, Tuesday, Apr 1 2008, 8:52pm
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was originally utilised by WWII US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to dismantle the British Empire – Churchill was forced to sign the empire away in exchange for American assistance in the war. So began, with considerable help from Lend-Lease, the ascendancy of the USA in world affairs. Debate among historians over whether or not Roosevelt intentionally sought to subvert Britain’s power/wealth base continues today; however, most agree that FDR detested imperialism and quite intentionally sought to dismantle (and displace) the British Empire. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, May 25 2008, 7:17am
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The ‘Claytons’ Prime Minister
Kingfisher, Monday, Mar 31 2008, 9:04pm
Kevin Rudd, the leader you have when you do not have a real leader, has left the country to prance and posture on the world stage. Rudd is a man of impressions NOT actions, a media performer, a petty bureaucrat, expert in the ‘art’ of looking busy! All bureaucrats learn early in their careers how to ‘fake it’ and delegate the job to another. However, Rudd is less than expert in the art of political deception, his electoral PROMISE of Australian troop withdrawal from Iraq is a good test of his integrity and performance! (story and 1 image)
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The Imperative Revolution
nano, Sunday, Mar 30 2008, 10:12pm
The ‘us and them’ approach of social leadership is tired, very tired! It’s an old, divisionist rhetoric; one that is proving less appealing with each new unnecessary war people are forced to confront! There must be a better way and there is! Need I spell out the obvious? (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, Mar 30 2008, 10:28pm
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Bush facing resistance in NATO expansion goals
Associated Press via rialator, Sunday, Mar 30 2008, 7:11am
"I think this NATO summit is basically the 'Goodbye George' summit," said Daniel Hamilton, Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. "A lot of the energy is looking beyond the administration."
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The Failure of Nations
peptide, Saturday, Mar 29 2008, 8:36pm
Democracy is majority rule via elected REPRESENTATION. Democracy only exists in societies where people are able to make INFORMED decisions. What then of societies where governments intentionally obfuscate, withhold information or brazenly LIE to their populations? Clearly whatever these social systems claim to be, they are NOT democracies! (story and 1 image)
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10 days That Changed Capitalism
Rob Johnson and Robert Borosage via reed, Saturday, Mar 29 2008, 8:35am
The world has changed. The market fundamentalism that has dominated our economics over last three decades has been unmasked as a sham, deemed useless by the guardian of the integrity of finance itself, the Federal Reserve.
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Tibetan monks (hypocrites) redefine Buddhist pacifism
nano, Friday, Mar 28 2008, 7:52pm
In a purely Buddhist sense there are no others, pluralisms, life-death or binaries of any kind; hence there is no need to fight as there is no one to fight and nothing to fight against! What the world is currently witnessing in Tibet is pure unadulterated religious hypocrisy – Buddhist robes and shaven heads do not a Buddhist make! That should now be obvious to even the most dim-witted Hollywood film stars and western space cadets! (story and 2 images)
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U.S. visit to Pakistan shows 'panic'
Saeed Shah via rialator, Friday, Mar 28 2008, 8:36am
ISLAMABAD — The visit to Pakistan of top U.S. officials this week was supposed to cement ties with the country's incoming government. Instead, it ended up roiling local sensitivities and inadvertently showing up key policy differences.
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Ramos-Horta, take 2!
budgie, Thursday, Mar 27 2008, 8:45pm
Right on cue gentlemen! Either in response to the previous article [see link] or as a result of very bad media management, the Australian authorities have urged President Ramos-Horta to conduct another (managed) interview and lay the blame of his attempted assassination clearly on rebel leader, Afredo Reindo and his “hateful” female lawyer! But it’s a damn shame the accusation is pure conjecture or worse the result of coercion.
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