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WALL STREET?S TROJAN HORSE
Michel Chossudovsky,
29 Oct 2008
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Brazil, Russia, India and China will "coordinate efforts in overcoming the financial crisis". The statement suggests that the four countries will confront the dominant US-UK-EU alliance, which personifies Western banking interests, at the forthcoming Summit in Washington. “We are going to coordinate our moves with the leading […]
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David Michael Green,
20 Oct 2008
With apologies to Churchill (who owed a few of his own): Never have so many been so wrong about so much. There are few things you’d less rather be right now than a conservative/regressive, and that is why. It’s like the old Firesign Theater bit: Everything You Know Is Wrong. “Dogs flew spaceships! The Aztecs […]
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Richard C. Cook,
17 Oct 2008
The crashing stock market has given its verdict. The financial rescue plan currently being implemented by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve System will fail to revitalize the producing economy, even with continued interest rate cuts. This is because the banking system is essentially a supply-side, trickle-down mechanism with a currency based on […]
→ read full articleHOW THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WAS WON
Gregory Elich,
17 Oct 2008
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari has been widely hailed in the West, where there has been an outpouring of praise for the man and his efforts. Generally seen as a tireless promoter of peace and reconciliation, Ahtisaari has another side that has not received sufficient attention. Although […]
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Michel Collon,
12 Oct 2008
When Bush goes, everyone will be hoping for a change – or fearing the worst. McCain or Obama ? What will that change for Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Africa, Caucasia, Cuba and Venezuela ? And for US relationships with the big powers : Europe, Japan, Russia, China? This text is extracted from our book « The […]
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Michel Chossudovsky,
12 Oct 2008
Throughout history, "wars of religion" have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. "Wars of religion" were invariably fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and natural resources. The Crusades extending from the 11th to the 14th Century are often presented by historians […]
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Richard Falk,
12 Oct 2008
Presented at a conference at ICU-International Christian University, Tokyo, earlier this year. I. Introduction My approach to such a daunting challenge seeks to be attentive to the urgings of Professor Shin Chiba that “..our quest for a grand theory of peace should be made in response to the crisis of the present age as it […]
→ read full articleINSIDE NORTH KOREA
Gregory Elich,
6 Oct 2008
An Interview with Christine Ahn At a time when speculation and rumors about events in North Korea abound, it should be noted how little of what one reads about that nation is grounded in concrete knowledge and experience. Partly this is due to the North Koreans’ tight hold on the dissemination of information, but it […]
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Barbara Ehrenreich,
6 Oct 2008
This year marks the 160th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto and capitalism–a k a "free enterprise"–seems willing to observe the occasion by dropping dead. On Monday night, some pundits were warning that the ATMs might run dry and hinting that the only safe investment left is canned beans. Apocalypse or extortion? No one seems to […]
→ read full articleDOES THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN NEED A NEW WAR?
Rev. Richard Skaff,
6 Oct 2008
Historically, the US has gone to war every time the value of the greenbacks plummeted or the economy drastically slumped. Is today’s economic disaster and weakened dollar a symptom for a new war? The US government/the military industrial complex plans to sell once again Israel 1,000 buster-bunker bombs which Israeli experts said last Monday could […]
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David Michael Green,
6 Oct 2008
The second most astonishing thing about American politics is that John McCain and Sarah Palin have a respectable chance of winning the White House in 2008. (Or, for that matter, that any Republican could have a shot at any office for which the Democratic candidate hasn’t suddenly died on the stump.) Yeah, yeah, I know. […]
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Michael Winship,
30 Sep 2008
We thirst for leadership, vision, someone who can speak to us in a way that refuses to avert its eyes from the crisis but shines a light of truth upon the problem, then offers hope and possible solutions. If this is indeed an economic 9/11, as some have suggested, we need that voice […]
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Richard C. Cook,
30 Sep 2008
Satire Te purpose of this brief statement is publicly to express my admiration and amazement at the way the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, The Honorable Ben Shalom Bernanke, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Honorable Timothy F. Geithner, and the Secretary of the Treasury, The Honorable Henry M. Paulson, […]
→ read full articleThe Destabilization of Bolivia and the “Kosovo Option”
Michel Chossudovsky,
30 Sep 2008
The secession of Bolivia’s Eastern provinces is part of a US sponsored covert operation, coordinated out of the US State Department, in liaison with US intelligence. The death squads armed with automatic weapons responsible for killing supporters of Evo Morales in El Porvenir are supported covertly by the US. According to one report, "USAID has […]
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Michel Chossudovsky,
16 Sep 2008
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→ read full articleWHY THE PEACEFUL MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS ARE NOT IRREVELANT
Sheldon Richman,
14 Sep 2008
A few years ago, FrontPageMag.com columnist Paul Marek wrote an articletitled “Why the Peaceful Majority Is Irrelevant.” His thesis was thateven if the majority of Muslims abhor violence, it doesn’t matterbecause “the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history…. The hardquantifiable fact is, that the ‘peaceful majority’ is the ‘silentmajority’ and it is cowed […]
→ read full articlePUTIN’S RUTHLESS GAMBIT
Michael T. Klare,
14 Sep 2008
To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary toview the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significantgeopolitical struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energyriches of the Caspian Sea basin – with former Russian president (nowprime minister) Vladimir Putin emerging as the reigning grand master ofgeostrategic chess […]
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