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 Topics - Imperialism
   Unconventional Warfare in the 21st Century posted by Tom Burghardt via quin, 2008-12-19 20:47:56
On December 13, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks did investigative and citizen journalists a great service by publishing the Army Special Operations Forces FM 3-05.130, titled Unconventional Warfare. [Available below.]
Published in September 2008, the 248-page document though unclassified, is restricted "to U.S. Government agencies and their contractors only to protect technical or operational information from automatic dissemination under the International Exchange Program or by other means." The Department of the Army urges recipients to "destroy by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document." Wikileaks has guaranteed that the disappearance of this critical primary source into the bowels of the Pentagon will not occur. (full story)
imperialism / international
 Rude Awakening posted by quin, 2008-12-18 09:43:01
It was inevitable; the dream has ended and hard reality is pressing mercilessly on all our dissociated perceptions of our leaders, the world and ourselves. (full story and 2 comments)
imperialism / international
The $8.5 Trillion bet posted by Matthias Chang via rialator, 2008-12-13 19:50:58
A few weeks ago, I warned that the Dow would dive below 7,000 at the earliest by end of December 2008 and at the latest by the end of the first quarter 2009. Any responsible central banker would want to control a downturn, preferably by a gradual slide of the market as opposed to a sharp hard landing. However, events clearly indicate the current breed of financial handlers are irresponsible gamblers not prudent financial managers. (full story)
imperialism / international
G20: Bush pleads for return to ‘free’ market but collapse Inevitable posted by quin, 2008-11-14 21:13:18
Capitalism, regardless of its many and varied disguises, is historically VERIFIABLE as WEALTH FOR THE FEW – that is its one most consistent, overriding characteristic! We therefore have no need to entertain lies that it is anything other than an unfair economic system that promotes inequity and insider elitism, which inevitably leads to the type of collapse we are experiencing at the present time! (full story and 3 comments)
imperialism / international
 Watch the ‘left hand’ during election mania posted by major mitchell, 2008-10-30 08:05:22
It really is too easy! Cynical social theorist, Leo Strauss, took the easy option. The masses should be ‘managed for their own good’ by benevolent, wise and intelligent, (SUPERIOR) ruling elites like dubya Bush, Rove, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Rice, Rumsfeld etc. – get the picture? It is widely known today that far from ‘superior’ these elites are downright criminal AND incompetent! Yet most of us continue to take the bait each time these cynical manipulators offer it. (full story and 1 comments)
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American Hegemony Bites The Dust posted by Paul Craig Roberts via rialator, 2008-10-29 09:52:10
"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.' (full story)
imperialism / international
A journey into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan posted by Nir Rosen via krill, 2008-10-20 01:39:37
"The Russians were stronger than the Americans, more fierce. We will put the Americans in their graves." (full story)
imperialism / international
Maybe U.S. needs yard sale posted by Eric Margolis via reed, 2008-10-19 01:16:19
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. (full story)
imperialism / international
 America's Fall From Power posted by John Gray via rialator, 2008-09-28 10:53:37
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. (full story)
imperialism / international
 From Slaves to Fighters posted by gan, 2008-09-27 02:31:16
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. (full story)
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 From Laissez-faire to Autocracy posted by Mike Whitney via reed, 2008-09-22 03:05:44
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. (full story and 1 comments)
imperialism / international
 France set to replace failed Australia as ‘manager’ of Western Pacific posted by barra, 2008-09-17 02:42:15
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? (full story and 2 comments)
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 South American Leaders Back Morales and launch probe into Unrest posted by Bill Faries and Sebastian Boyd via reed, 2008-09-15 22:43:25
[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.] (full story and 1 comments)
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 Oz dollar: another example of market manipulation posted by peptide, 2008-09-14 23:32:19
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. (full story)
imperialism / international
 US covert intervention from Pristina to La Paz posted by Wilson García Mérida via reed, 2008-09-13 23:31:54
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. (full story)
imperialism / international
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