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 American Hegemony Bites The Dust
Paul Craig Roberts via rialator, Wednesday, Oct 29 2008, 9:52am
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." -- Bush White House aide explaining the 'New Reality.'
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A journey into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
Nir Rosen via krill, Monday, Oct 20 2008, 1:39am
"The Russians were stronger than the Americans, more fierce. We will put the Americans in their graves."
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Maybe U.S. needs yard sale
Eric Margolis via reed, Sunday, Oct 19 2008, 1:16am
At the end of Second World War the British Empire still ruled nearly a quarter of the globe. But the war bankrupted Britain. Its once mighty empire quickly collapsed and the United States inherited much of the British Imperium. Six decades later the United States is close to bankruptcy thanks to a national orgy of borrowing, the replacement of manufacturing by financial manipulation, ruinous foreign wars and a government whose stunning incompetence and arrant stupidity was exceeded only by its reckless imperial arrogance.
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 America's Fall From Power
John Gray via rialator, Sunday, Sep 28 2008, 10:53am
Our gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably. The era of American global leadership, reaching back to the Second World War, is over. (story and 1 image)
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From Slaves to Fighters
gan, Saturday, Sep 27 2008, 2:31am
Globalisation is not new it has been practised by European and Muslim Imperial powers for centuries. The African slave trade is perhaps the earliest example of economic globalisation. This dastardly trade was characterised by a number of separate nations and cultures cooperating to supply a valuable ‘resource’ around the globe – human beings commodified as SLAVE labour! I would emphasise that Christian and Muslim powers COOPERATED to enslave tribal Africans. (story and 2 images)
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From Laissez-faire to Autocracy
Mike Whitney via reed, Monday, Sep 22 2008, 3:05am
These are dark times. While you were sleeping the cockroaches were busy about their work, rummaging through the US Constitution, and putting the finishing touches on a scheme to assert absolute power over the nation's financial markets and the country's economic future. Industry representative Henry Paulson has submitted legislation to congress that will finally end the pretense that Bush controls anything more than reading the lines from a 4' by 6' teleprompter situated just inches from his lifeless pupils. Paulson is in charge now, and the coronation is set for sometime early next week. He rose to power in a stealthily-executed Bankster's Coup in which he, and his coterie of dodgy friends, declared martial law on the US economy while elevating himself to supreme leader. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Monday, Sep 22 2008, 3:34am
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France set to replace failed Australia as ‘manager’ of Western Pacific
barra, Wednesday, Sep 17 2008, 2:42am
We have seen Australia fail in Tonga, PNG, Vanuatu, Solomons, Fiji and of course the oil rich Timor-Leste – America and other nations view Oz’s ‘efforts’ in the region as lamentable, and rightly so! Would anyone expect any different from servile Prime Ministers, John Howard and Kevin Rudd – answer in a nutshell? (story and 2 comments and 3 images)
Last Commented Thursday, Sep 18 2008, 1:52pm
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South American Leaders Back Morales and launch probe into Unrest
Bill Faries and Sebastian Boyd via reed, Monday, Sep 15 2008, 10:43pm
[US covert ops are failing in Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Pacific and Australia -- everywhere in fact. The LAWLESS, murdering, terrorist, American PIG is failing on every front from energy wars to economic (globalisation) wars. What happened to turn the tables in such a short period of time? The same modus operandi that proved successful against the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia no longer 'works,' as the experience in Georgia and Latin America highlights, but why? Wouldn't the Americans love to know; I'm not about to spell it all out -- "we're at war," remember, dubya's moronic refrain! Let's just say digital information moves faster than covert ops these days and everyone is now familiar with the ugly face of American mass murder incorporated -- BIG problem! Ed.] (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Oz dollar: another example of market manipulation
peptide, Sunday, Sep 14 2008, 11:32pm
Traders and citizens would remember the Oz dollar hitting its lowest point in history at 49c to the American -- that result did not reflect actual ‘value’ but market manipulation and hysteria! Our then treasurer Paul Keating very unwisely made a now infamous remark warning that Australia could become a “banana republic” if the economy wasn’t reformed. (story and 1 image)
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US covert intervention from Pristina to La Paz
Wilson García Mérida via reed, Saturday, Sep 13 2008, 11:31pm
He presented his credentials before President Evo Morales on October 13, 2006; but three months before his arrival in Bolivia, when he was still in Pristina fulfilling his role as head of the US mission in Kosovo, it was already being said that the new US ambassador designated by George Bush for this Andean country, Philip Goldberg, would come to take part in the separatist process that was being cultivated in the background to pierce the Bolivian regime. (story and 2 images)
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World teaches rogue USA a lesson or ‘three’
luis, Friday, Sep 12 2008, 11:29am
America’s unilateralism, belligerence, arrogance, disrespect and LAWLESSNESS have PREDICTABLY attracted an orchestrated response from the world – it seems the world is teaching the MURDERING, TERRORIST, PIG a lesson it will never forget! (story and 2 images)
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Bush's aims with Bin Laden and 9/11
John Pedler via reed, Tuesday, Sep 9 2008, 11:37pm
“I kind of think that the decisions taken in the next few weeks will determine the rest of the world for years to come”, Prime Minister Tony Blair to President G W Bush, 20 March 2003 as the Iraq war began [as quoted in Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward p399]. “An invasion of Iraq could turn the whole region into a cauldron and thus destroy the ‘war on terrorism’”, Brent Scowcroft, security adviser to Republican presidents since Nixon, on TV on 4 August 2002 [John Prados, Hoodwinked, p1] (story and 1 image)
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Endless War, Endless Conquest, Endless Repression
Tom Burghardt via rialator, Thursday, Sep 4 2008, 8:41am
While people around the world begin to celebrate George W. Bush's January 20, 2009 departure from the White House, senior administration officials are crafting legislation, rule changes and executive orders that will make permanent the worst excesses of this criminal regime. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Thursday, Sep 4 2008, 9:10am
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Russia remains a Black Sea power
M K Bhadrakumar via rialator, Sunday, Aug 31 2008, 9:50am
If the struggle in the Caucasus was ever over oil and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) agenda towards Central Asia, the United States suffered a colossal setback this week. Kazakhstan, the Caspian energy powerhouse and a key Central Asian player, has decided to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Russia over the conflict with Georgia, and Russia's de facto control over two major Black Sea ports has been consolidated. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Aug 31 2008, 10:56am
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Robert Gates inadvertently predicts demise of USA
fish, Friday, Aug 1 2008, 2:23am
Far too late, Defence Secretary Robert Gates, cited the destructive effects of the Perle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney policy of unilateralism in a global world. "We cannot prevail if we act alone," Gates outlined in his National Defence Strategy paper. However, Gates also stressed the importance of [U.S.] "freedom of action in the global commons and strategic access to important regions of the world to meet our national security needs," which in effect cancels his call for cooperation – I count only three real U.S. allies, Israel, Britain and lackey Australia! You cannot succeed in gaining credibility in the international community by sending absurd mixed and contradictory messages, Bob – you want (the world) cake and to eat it too! (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Sunday, Aug 3 2008, 8:51am
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Serbian government grovels and acquiesces to West
zoran, Thursday, Jul 24 2008, 10:17am
Kosovo, stolen by terrorists and thieves; Albanian Kosovar war criminals acquitted while Serbs continue to be persecuted by the Hague; Montenegro to accept millions in development ‘aid’ from Italy and the West in exchange for Kosovo recognition. Compliant new Serbian government agrees to return recalled Ambassadors to EU States. Is it possible for Serbia to suffer further humiliation, shame and injury? Have Serbs finally learnt to eat shit and cower like whimpering dogs? Is SERBIA, as a sovereign nation, completely lost? (story and 2 images)
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How Britain/America/NATO wage war
John Pilger via rialator, Friday, Jul 11 2008, 10:07pm
The military has created a wall of silence around its frequent resort to barbaric practices, including torture, and goes out of its way to avoid legal scrutiny. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Jul 11 2008, 10:12pm
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OIL, now $145 but tipped to reach $200
budgie, Friday, Jul 4 2008, 12:03am
At a dinner George W Bush once described the ‘Barons’ of free market capitalism as the “have mores,” as distinct from ‘the haves’ and ‘have nots.’ He sure got that right! With oil set to reach $200 a barrel the ‘have mores’ are acquiring EVER MORE wealth at a pace and in amounts hitherto unimaginable, even at the time dubya made his infamous remark.
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State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq
Andrew G. Marshall via fleet, Wednesday, Jun 25 2008, 9:15am
In January of 2002, the Washington Post ran a story detailing a CIA plan put forward to President Bush shortly after 9/11 by CIA Director George Tenet titled, "Worldwide Attack Matrix," which was "outlining a clandestine anti-terror campaign in 80 countries around the world. What he was ready to propose represented a striking and risky departure for U.S. policy and would give the CIA the broadest and most lethal authority in its history." The plan entailed CIA and Special Forces "covert operations across the globe," and at "the heart of the proposal was a recommendation that the president give the CIA what Tenet labeled "exceptional authorities" to attack and destroy al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the rest of the world." Tenet cited the need for such authority "to allow the agency to operate without restraint -- and he wanted encouragement from the president to take risks." Among the many authorities recommended was the use of "deadly force."
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Simon Mann names London tycoon as coup leader
Martin Fletcher via reed, Friday, Jun 20 2008, 10:37am
Simon Mann, the former SAS officer accused of plotting to overthrow the President of Equatorial Guinea, yesterday portrayed a reclusive London-based tycoon as “the Cardinal”, who controlled every aspect of the attempted coup in 2004, and himself as a mere “junior”. (story and 1 image)
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