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 Ahmadinejad Won. Get Over It posted by Flynt and Hillary Leverett via gan, 2009-06-16 21:56:33
Without any evidence, many U.S. politicians and “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud. (full story)
social/political / international
  De-Dollarisation: By George, I think they've (finally) got it! posted by Prof. Michael Hudson via nano, 2009-06-14 02:45:23
Challenging America will be the prime focus of extended meetings in Yekaterinburg, Russia (formerly Sverdlovsk) today and tomorrow (June 15-16) for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The alliance is comprised of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrghyzstan and Uzbekistan, with observer status for Iran, India, Pakistan and Mongolia. It will be joined on Tuesday by Brazil for trade discussions among the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China). (full story and 1 comments)
imperialism / international
CORRUPTION is complete when crimes are offered as justifications posted by fish, 2009-06-14 02:03:51
AMERICA, The world’s leading civilian killing nation, recently took the (fateful) plunge into pure sociopathology by attempting to use a crime as an argument to justify the crime itself! In this instance the case relates to TORTURE, which remains one of the most heinous and abhorrent crimes known to civilised society! A watershed moment in the continuing decline and (now certain) future collapse of the USA has occurred! (full story)
injustice/law / international
Peru: Blood Flows in the Amazon posted by Prof James Petras via reed, 2009-06-12 23:00:21
In early June, Peruvian President Alan García, an ally of US President Barack Obama, ordered armored personnel carriers, helicopter gun-ships and hundreds of heavily armed troops to assault and disperse a peaceful, legal protest organized by members of Peru’s Amazonian indigenous communities protesting the entry of foreign multinational mining companies on their traditional homelands. Dozens of Indians were killed or are missing, scores have been injured and arrested and a number of Peruvian police, held hostage by the indigenous protestors were killed in the assault. President García declared martial law in the region in order to enforce his unilateral and unconstitutional fiat granting of mining exploitation rights to foreign companies, which infringed on the integrity of traditional Amazonian indigenous communal lands. (full story)
imperialism / international
 RFID: Surveillance-Beacon warfare soon to be imposed on YOU! posted by Tom Burghardt via Kismo, 2009-06-11 08:38:57
What Pentagon theorists describe as a "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA) leverages information technology to facilitate (so they allege) command decision-making processes and mission effectiveness, i.e. the waging of aggressive wars of conquest. (full story and 1 comments)
peace/war / international
U.S. War Privatization Results in Billions Lost in Fraud, Waste and Abuse -- Report posted by Jeremy Scahill via reed, 2009-06-10 17:47:31
Half of the personnel the US has working on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are private contractors. A new report reveals how much of a rip-off this system has been to US taxpayers. (full story)
imperialism / international
 Shell Oil pays $19.5m to avoid facing criminal proceedings posted by Meredith Griffiths via talya, 2009-06-09 05:53:20
Oil company Shell has agreed to pay $19.5 million to avoid standing trial over accusations that it was complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria in the 1990s. The families of nine people executed in 1995 accused Shell of collaborating with the country's military regime to silence the activists for protesting against the oil company's environmental practices in the Niger Delta. (full story and 1 comments)
environment / international
 Yes, They Would! posted by quill, 2009-06-08 10:42:27
Which begs the obvious question -- images of falling bodies firmly in mind – would ‘they’ kill their own citizens to consolidate their hold on power and wealth? The answer is also obvious, we need only refer to the title, YES, THEY WOULD! (full story)
social/political / international
Russia, China should dump dollar - Medvedev posted by staff report, 2009-06-07 22:50:59
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China should consider switching to domestic currencies in bilateral trade without going to the dollar, Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Kommersant daily published on Friday. (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
 ‘Talk is Cheap,’ Obama posted by peptide, 2009-06-06 03:57:30
One of the world’s most enduring clichés is applied whenever lack of character/substance is detected. Only the most insular hillbillies are unaware that Obama is the leading exponent in the world today of DE-VALUING words! In the past America produced outstanding black leaders of INTEGRITY; it should now be abundantly clear that Obama is not one of them! (full story and 4 comments)
imperialism / international
 Remember Tiananmen posted by Kwang zi, 2009-06-03 10:40:16
The image below captures more than its component parts; its enduring quality is its ability to speak to ALL human beings regardless of race, culture or nation. It is the story of the IRREPRESSIBLE HUMAN SPIRIT refusing oppression, corruption and FEAR to STAND DEFIANTLY against the odds and eventually OVERCOME all obstacles and achieve emancipation/FREEDOM! (full story)
human rights / international
 U.S. lackey Oz Defence Minister under pressure AGAIN! posted by major mitchell, 2009-06-02 23:56:38
Not again Fitzy! A little favour here and a few UNDECLARED gifts there, does not a government minister of integrity make! Joel Fitzgibbon may have to call it a day; and you can take Smith, Swan, Rudd, and the entire contingent of SERVILE, Labor no-hopers, with you! (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group posted by Stephen Lendman via reed, 2009-06-02 09:57:54
For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched the Bilderberg Group's far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world's resources and its money. (full story)
imperialism / international
 And you thought playing race card would go unnoticed! posted by sadh, 2009-05-31 21:09:37
Shame, cowardly shame on you Australia; your backward, parochial, xenophobia and racism has AGAIN made International headlines – you can truly be proud of the John Howard, Geoff Cousin’s racist revival NOW! The cost of the Cousin’s/Howard ‘race strategy’ for cheap, SHORT-TERM POLITICAL GAIN has come home to roost – and a very well deserved outcome it is! Will it affect our position in the WORLD and our relations with important regional trading partners and other Asian neighbours – YOU bloody bet it WILL! Two dead Chinese nationals killed in race attacks and bashed Indians in parochial Melbourne dictate that outcome, you mindless morons! (full story)
social equality/unity / international
 Here's hoping Google gets hammered posted by James Kirby via sadh, 2009-05-31 01:21:48
It's a sad day when the battle for digital information is between two of the world's most obscene IT Companies, Microsoft and Google. Neither self-serving company has the interests of the public at heart, especially in China, and in the West if hidden information detailing Google's unsavoury relationship with NSA and other security agencies became known! Microsoft is no better having once supplied a 'backdoor' to its Operating System at the request of the NSA. Nevertheless, the stranglehold Google has on information is far worse than the author intimates -- any real democratic government would have legislated long ago forcing Google to relinquish its hold on information searches. Idiotic governments seem to be unaware of today's digital axioms: 'Whoever controls the flow of information rules the world', including governments! Let's hope the open source community gets a viable product out there soon -- then lobbying can begin in earnest! Ed. (full story)
mass media / international
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