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  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
 The end of Voodoo Economics posted by Ian Williams via reed, 2008-09-28 08:45:21
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." (full story)
social/political / international
 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
 Privatising the Pentagon posted by Frida Berrigan via rialator, 2008-09-19 09:42:16
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. (full story)
social/political / international
 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)
imperialism / international
Subverting Democracy Through Electoral Fraud posted by Stephen Lendman via rialator, 2008-09-15 09:26:24
[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.] (full story)
social/political / 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
Less Than Half the World Believes al-Qaeda Was Behind 9/11 Attacks posted by Joshua Holland via quill, 2008-09-11 00:27:38
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?" (full story)
social/political / international
Secrets of the Taliban's success posted by Syed Saleem Shahzad via gan, 2008-09-10 09:20:31
"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" (full story and 1 comments)
human rights / international
 Bush's aims with Bin Laden and 9/11 posted by John Pedler via reed, 2008-09-09 23:37:20
“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] (full story)
imperialism / international
Endless War, Endless Conquest, Endless Repression posted by Tom Burghardt via rialator, 2008-09-04 08:41:03
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. (full story and 1 comments)
imperialism / international
Scientists uncover key to boosting carbon capture posted by Matt Peacock via rialator, 2008-09-02 06:58:33
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. (full story)
environment / international
 Russia remains a Black Sea power posted by M K Bhadrakumar via rialator, 2008-08-31 09:50:03
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. (full story and 1 comments)
imperialism / international
 Joe Biden: "The Real War" -- Russia, China, India! posted by Umberto Pascali via rialator, 2008-08-29 03:44:54
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. (full story and 2 comments)
peace/war / international
Russia, Georgia, and the Kosovo Connection posted by J. Victor Marshall via reed, 2008-08-28 03:08:08
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. (full story)
social/political / international
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