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Archive for October, 2011

Busby: Enriched uranium weapon new battlefield horror

Posted by seumasach on October 25, 2011

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The Anglo-Saxon Fist

Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2011

Chris Trotter
The Tight Five: From the moment the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the five Anglo-Saxon powers – the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – have, like a closed fist, constituted a whole considerably greater than the sum of its parts. Guarded by its own supra-national priesthood of spies, soldiers, businesspeople and journalists, the Anglo-Saxon imperium brooks no challengers.

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The ‘great game’ in Syria

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2011

Alistair Crooke

Asia Times

22nd October, 2011

This summer, a senior Saudi official told John Hannah [1], former United States vice president Dick Cheney’s former chief-of-staff, that from the outset of the Syrian upheaval in March, the king has believed that regime change in Syria would be highly beneficial to Saudi interests: “The king knows that other than the collapse of the Islamic Republic itself, nothing would weaken Iran more than losing Syria,” said the official.

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Eurozone leaders seek foreign money to boost bail-out fund

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2011

Telegraph

22nd October, 2-11

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Bond insurance could contain the debt crisis

Discussions have turned to using the €440bn (£383bn) European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) as bulk insurance for another fund backed by private investors.

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Occupy Glasgow, rally 3pm George Square today, 22nd October, 2011

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2011

Join us today for a friendly gathering in George Square – bring your family, friends, neighbors, pets and passers-by.

More info on Occupy Glasgow website

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The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels

Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2011

A good and timely article by Pilger. However, the left always and everywhere have to watched with a critical eye. He refers to China as an “imperial rival” hinting at Lenin’s inter-imperialist rivalry thesis. But it is necessary to distinguish between the empire, operating out of Washington and London and currently embarked on a programme of world domination,and those who defend themselves against it. Pilger gives us a hint of a treacherous line from the left: that we remain neutral in the wars being provoked by the empire- a plague on all their houses.

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Globalisation: Multipolar World or New World Order

John Pilger

20th October, 2011

On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way.

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Quite a nice one of Colonel Gadaffi

Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011

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Libya and the big lie: using human rights organizations to launch wars

Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Global Research

29th September, 2011

The war against Libya is built on fraud. The United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims, specifically that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi and Libya. The claim in its exact form was that Qaddafi had ordered Libyan forces to kill 6,000 people in Benghazi as well as in other parts of the country. These claims were widely disseminated, but always vaguely explained. It was on the basis of this claim that Libya was referred to the U.N. Security Council at U.N. Headquarters in New York City and kicked out of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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Death, destruction in Sirte CCTV News

Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011

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A towering problem for birds and bees

Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011

And so the whole world is one big animal experiment, with us included!

Times of India

18th October, 2011

KOCHI: They don’t use cell phones; yet they may be its worst victims. Next time you read a report on birds falling prey to radiation and consequently getting sick, you might as well guess that a cell phone tower could have caused it. It is not just humans but birds and bees too are beginning to feel the impact of ‘electro-smog’, the pollution from the electromagnetic fields (EMF).

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The US power grab in Africa

Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011

Pepe Escobar

Asia Times

21st October, 2011

 

Beware of strangers bearing gifts. Post-modern Amazon and United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally landed in Tripoli – on a military jet – to lavish praise on the dodgy Transitional National Council (TNC), those pportunists/defectors/Islamists formerly known as “North Atlantic Treaty Organization rebels”.

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