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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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The end of Voodoo Economics
Ian Williams via reed, Sunday, Sep 28 2008, 8:45am
Wall Street ideologues have been gambling our money and screwing us all. Now is a chance to correct their excesses.
As the all-too-often selectively quoted Adam Smith actually said: "All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." (story and 1 image)
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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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 Privatising the Pentagon
Frida Berrigan via rialator, Friday, Sep 19 2008, 9:42am
Seven years into George W. Bush's Global War on Terror, the Pentagon is embroiled in two big wars, a potentially explosive war of words with Tehran, and numerous smaller conflicts – and it is leaning ever more heavily on private military contractors to get by.
Once upon a time, soldiers did more than pick up a gun. They picked up trash. They cut hair and delivered mail. They fixed airplanes and inflated truck tires. Not anymore. All of those tasks are now the responsibility of private military corporations. In the service of the Pentagon, their employees also man computers, write software code, create integrating systems, train technicians, manufacture and service high-tech weapons, market munitions, and interpret satellite images.
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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)
Last Commented Tuesday, Sep 16 2008, 7:53am
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Subverting Democracy Through Electoral Fraud
Stephen Lendman via rialator, Monday, Sep 15 2008, 9:26am
[The following article lists the secondary factors that have contributed to the demise of democracy in the 21st century. Democracy is a social phenomenon that lives or dies with the people/masses. No one can permanently steal democracy while the masses exist; however, as the article highlights it can be hijacked momentarily by criminal forces.
Regardless of whether citizens choose to actively exercise their democratic options the fact remains the will of the MAJORITY easily overrules the machinations of the minority – NEVER FORGET IT! What constantly haunts minority elites and cabals is the prospect of the people exercising their options! Ed.]
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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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Less Than Half the World Believes al-Qaeda Was Behind 9/11 Attacks
Joshua Holland via quill, Thursday, Sep 11 2008, 12:27am
An international poll released this week by the Project on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) found that outside the United States, many are skeptical that al Qaeda was really responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. Sixteen thousand people in 17 countries -- allies and adversaries in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East -- were asked the open-ended question: "Who do you think was behind the 9/11 attacks?"
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Secrets of the Taliban's success
Syed Saleem Shahzad via gan, Wednesday, Sep 10 2008, 9:20am
"Our code of conduct is documented in the Asasi Qanoon [Basic Law of Afghanistan]. Under article 103, it is mentioned that we don't want any disruptions in any country of the world. The Taliban are only a national resistance movement against foreign occupation forces in Afghanistan" (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Wednesday, Sep 10 2008, 6:28pm
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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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Scientists uncover key to boosting carbon capture
Matt Peacock via rialator, Tuesday, Sep 2 2008, 6:58am
Buried under a giant stand of bamboo in northern New South Wales, two Australian soil scientists have made a discovery they believe will help save the planet.
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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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Joe Biden: "The Real War" -- Russia, China, India!
Umberto Pascali via rialator, Friday, Aug 29 2008, 3:44am
On Aug 27 2008 at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Biden presented the plan for the real war, the war against China, Russia. He repeated the key points pushed by Zbigniew Brzezinski [lunatic hawk] in his obsessive determination to go to the final clash with Russia and Asia. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Sep 3 2008, 12:53am
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Russia, Georgia, and the Kosovo Connection
J. Victor Marshall via reed, Thursday, Aug 28 2008, 3:08am
By selectively turning principles into propagandist slogans for scoring points, the United States no longer occupies the political high ground. Washington’s lectures sound like hectoring, not sincere admonitions that could sway international public opinion and restrain Russian actions.
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Transcript of Medvedev's speech on recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia
Oleg Shchedrov via rialator, Tuesday, Aug 26 2008, 9:11am
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday signed decrees recognising the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Following is the Reuters translation of his statement, which was posted on the Kremlin web site: (story and 1 image)
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Reality Bites ['merika] Again
J. H. Kunstler via dingo, Tuesday, Aug 19 2008, 8:43am
The feeble American response to Russia's assertion of power in the Caucasus of Central Asia was appropriate, since our claims of influence in that part of the world are laughable. The US had taken advantage of temporary confusion in Russia, during the ten-year-long post-Soviet-collapse interval, and set up a client government in Georgia, complete with military advisors, sales of weapons, and even the promise of club membership in the western alliance known as NATO. These blandishments were all in the service of the Baku-to-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which was designed specifically to drain the oil region around the Caspian Basin with an outlet on the Mediterranean, avoiding unfriendly nations all along the way.
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Government cover-up and the Anthrax attacks
Tom Engelhardt via rialator, Monday, Aug 18 2008, 9:46pm
And yet, by the end of 2001, it had become clear that, despite the accompanying letters, the anthrax in those envelopes was from a domestically produced strain. It was neither from the backlands of Afghanistan nor from Baghdad, but -- almost certainly -- from our own military bio-weapons labs. At that point, the anthrax killings essentially vanished… Poof!... while 9/11 only gained traction as the singular event of our times. (story and 1 image)
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Serbian FM leaves for New York to present draft resolution on Kosovo
Yan via quin, Thursday, Aug 14 2008, 10:31am
BELGRADE, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic left for New York Thursday to present a draft resolution challenging Kosovo's independence.
Jeremic will submit a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly seeking an opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the legality of Kosovo's secession from Serbia, said a foreign ministry statement. (story and 1 image)
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War in the Caucasus
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky via rialator, Sunday, Aug 10 2008, 10:58pm
During the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia's president Saakashvili ordered an all-out military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.
The aerial bombardments and ground attacks were largely directed against civilian targets including residential areas, hospitals and the university. The provincial capital Tskhinvali was destroyed. The attacks resulted in some 1500 civilian deaths, according to both Russian and Western sources. "The air and artillery bombardment left the provincial capital without water, food, electricity and gas. Horrified civilians crawled out of the basements into the streets as fighting eased, looking for supplies." (AP, August 9, 2008). According to reports, some 34,000 people from South Ossetia have fled to Russia. (Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City, August 10, 2008) (story and 1 image)
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