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 Bush's Zombie Shuffles Off
Tariq Ali via rialator, Thursday, May 10 2007, 10:11am
Tony Blair's success was limited to winning three general elections in a row. A second-rate actor, he turned out to be a crafty and avaricious politician, but without much substance; bereft of ideas he eagerly grasped and tried to improve upon the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. But though in many ways Blair's programme has been a euphemistic, if bloodier, version of Thatcher's, the style of their departures is very different. Thatcher's overthrow by her fellow-Conservatives was a matter of high drama: an announcement outside the Louvre's glass pyramid during the Paris Congress brokering the end of the Cold War; tears; a crowded House of Commons. (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Thursday, May 10 2007, 7:45pm
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The Madness of War Profiteering in Iraq
Robert Greenwald via rialator, Thursday, May 10 2007, 9:58am
The following is Robert Greenwald's testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense about war profiteering:
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 Aussie software pirate extradited
Kenneth Nguyen via rialator, Sunday, May 6 2007, 7:33pm
BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American companies.
Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up to 10 years in an American prison after a guilty plea late last month. (story and 1 image)
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IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal
Mark Weisbrot via rialator, Friday, May 4 2007, 5:06pm
Venezuela’s decision this week to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank will be seen in the United States as just another example of the ongoing feud between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Bush Administration. But it is likely to be viewed differently in the rest of the world, and could have an impact on both institutions, whose power and legitimacy in developing countries has been waning steadily in recent years. (story and 2 images)
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Dick Cheney's Banker Grantham Sees World Bubble
William Pesek via rialator, Thursday, May 3 2007, 10:32pm
May 2 (Bloomberg) -- You'd expect someone whom the famously dour Dick Cheney entrusts with millions of his dollars might have a gloomy view of the world. Jeremy Grantham does indeed.
"From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair; from forestry, infrastructure and the junkiest bonds to mundane blue chips -- it's bubble time,'' he writes in Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.'s latest quarterly letter titled, "The First Truly Global Bubble.'' (story and 1 image)
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The first refugees of global warming
Laurie Goering via rialator, Wednesday, May 2 2007, 12:25pm
ANTARPARA, Bangladesh -- Muhammad Ali, a wiry 65-year-old, has never driven a car, run an air conditioner or done much of anything that produces greenhouse gases. But on a warming planet, he is on the verge of becoming a climate refugee.
In the past 10 years the farmer has had to tear down and move his tin-and-bamboo house five times to escape the encroaching waters of the huge Jamuna River, swollen by severe monsoons that scientists believe are caused by global warming and greater glacier melt in the Himalayas.
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Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky via rialator, Wednesday, May 2 2007, 11:51am
The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence agencies and Western financial institutions. The proceeds of this lucrative multibllion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan. (story and 1 image)
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German Federal Prosecutor’s Office dismisses Rumsfeld war crimes case
CCR via rialator, Sunday, Apr 29 2007, 10:47pm
Synopsis
On April 27, 2007, Germany’s Federal Prosecutor announced she will not proceed with an investigation against Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA Director George Tenet, and other high-ranking U.S. officials for torture and other war crimes committed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Stocksplosion
Jim Kunstler via rialator, Wednesday, Apr 25 2007, 10:27pm
Whenever somebody complains about "the lies that George Bush & Co. told to get us into the Iraq war" (as Frank Rich did in The New York Times on Sunday), I wonder how those lies compare to the lies that the American public tells itself every day -- for example, that we could run America without oil from the Middle East, or that hybrid cars will save Happy Motoring, or that we can have an economy without producing anything of value.
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Constant Conflict: US Army College
U.S. Army College via rialator, Monday, Apr 23 2007, 1:23pm
[For those who doubted the psychopathology of the USA , read their own account. There is NO making peace with a rabid dog; for the welfare of all it must be put down immediately.]
There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing. (story and 2 images)
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Lancet calls for removal of Howard government
AAP via rialator, Thursday, Apr 19 2007, 4:01pm
A PRESTIGIOUS international medical journal has launched an attack on Prime Minister John Howard and called on readers to vote against the Government at the upcoming election.
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Hail and Farewell: the End of the American Empire
Gore Vidal via rialator, Sunday, Apr 15 2007, 4:41pm
Whenever The New York Times finally gets the point to what is going on in our native land a celestial choir can be heard in Times Square, shouting hosannas. This happened recently, on April 14th, when they realized that there could be a dark explanation for what W. is doing when he sends a Mr. Bolton, a U.N. hater, to be ambassador to that body or a Mr. Wolfowitz to the World Bank, a man as ignorant of history and finance as the president himself. Maureen Dowd in the Times was allowed to set the pitch for the latest revelations with her “More Con Than Neo” headline. Meanwhile, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of incompetents are now cluttering the Justice Department while known incompetents are in place to wreck from within regulatory systems and even mighty Walter Reed Hospital itself. (story and 1 image)
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The Apostles of Deception
Charles Sullivan via rialator, Saturday, Apr 14 2007, 1:32pm
What passes for Christianity among the people, like so many things American, is not the genuine article. The sermons that rise from many of the pulpits of the churches of America are, I suspect, as counterfeit as a six-dollar bill; as phoney as the people running the country. But those whose faith is blind are incapable of seeing truth. That is the trouble with blind faith. It does not, it cannot, see. I have always been wary of organised religion. (story and 2 images)
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Britain delivers damning verdict on Blair's 10 years
Gaby Hinsliff via rialator, Sunday, Apr 8 2007, 1:11pm
A remarkable picture of the way Tony Blair has lost the faith of British voters over his 10 years in power is revealed today by a comprehensive study of public attitudes towards the Prime Minister. (story and 2 images)
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The Pro-Democracy Wildfire in America's States
David Sirota via rialator, Friday, Apr 6 2007, 10:03pm
April 6, 2007 -- As Washington and Wall Street elites happily try to choke the life out of democracy, states are fighting back on three fronts.
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Pelosi power: Neocons face Judgement
Ali Akbar Dareini via rialator, Wednesday, Apr 4 2007, 12:21pm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Fifteen British sailors and marines held captive for nearly two weeks in Iran arrived at the country's airport early Thursday after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced their surprise release the day before. (story and 1 image)
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Even Mormons Jumping Off Bush Bandwagon as War Takes its Toll
Bill Gallagher via rialator, Tuesday, Apr 3 2007, 11:30am
DETROIT -- Iraq is lost militarily and politically. Even the Mormons are now abandoning President George W. Bush's mad war. That's akin to the Swiss Guard deserting and leaving the pope to fend for himself with the Vatican under siege. (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
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Report warns Australia of severe climate impacts
Rob Taylor via rialator, Thursday, Mar 29 2007, 11:40pm
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia, slowly emerging from its worst drought in a century, will suffer killer heatwaves, bushfires and floods as global warming intensifies, a draft report by international climate scientists said on Friday. (story and 1 image)
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Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border
RIA Novosti via rialator, Thursday, Mar 29 2007, 10:44pm
MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
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German Guantanamo victim accuses government
DW staff via rialator, Thursday, Mar 29 2007, 1:28pm
Kurnaz accuses the German government of turning down an offer to release him from Guantanamo Bay in 2002: Germany's former interior minister Otto Schily has said he was "politically responsible" for the case of a German-born Turk who languished in Guantanamo Bay for nearly five years before being released without charge.
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