Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
Tokyo to cease support for Western occupation of Afghanistan
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Japan said on Tuesday that it will end its support for the US occupation of Afghanistan and pull its naval ships out of the Arabian Sea in the New Year. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
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13/10/2009
Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has begun a three-day visit to China overseeing the signing of deals worth $3.5bn between Russian and Chinese companies.
Putin is in the Chinese capital for talks with top officials aimed at strengthening economic and political ties between the two countries.
Officials are still working on the details of a joint energy agreement, worth another $2bn, which they hope will also be signed during Putin’s visit.
The Russian prime minister is due to meet his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jiabao, and hold talks with President Hu Jintao later. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
Here’s the thing: This may be our next “Vietnam moment,” but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the background; no organized enemy state with a powerful army like North Vietnam supporting the insurgents; no well organized, unified national liberation movement like the Vietcong, and that’s just a beginning. Almost everywhere, in fact, the Vietnam analogy breaks down — almost everywhere, that is, except when it comes to us. Because we never managed to leave Vietnam behind, even when we were proclaiming that we had kicked that “syndrome,” it turns out that we’re still there. Our military leaders, for instance, only recently dusted off the old Vietnam-era counterinsurgency doctrine that once ended in catastrophe, shined it up, and are now presenting it as an ingenious new solution to war-fighting. Let’s face it: everything about American thinking still stinks of the Vietnamese debacle, including the inability of our leaders to listen to a genuinely wide range of options. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
By Tim Shipman
13th October 2009
There was a Gordon of Brown
Who sold gold when it was down
Right at the bottom
Now in the Autumn
He looks to sell the whole town (fromMaxKeiser.com)
The pound fell to its lowest level in six months last night on news of Gordon Brown’s £16billion asset sale to ease the growing national debt.
Sterling plunged after the Prime Minister announced the plan to sell central and local government assets over the next two years. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 12, 2009
Iceland Shrinks 8% as Prices Increase 11% in Deepest Recession
By Chad Thomas and Omar Valdimarsson
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — Arni Hallgrimsson lost his job as a public relations consultant when Iceland’s three biggest banks collapsed last year, putting him out of work for the first time since 1980. After a stint cleaning the docks at a whaling station during the summer hunt, he’s unemployed again. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2009
David Ray Griffin
11th October, 2009
Is Osama bin Laden still alive? I have dealt with this question in a recent little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? The present essay summarizes the main points of this book.
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Posted by smeddum on October 11, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on October 11, 2009
Christopher King
8th October, 2009
Christopher King analyses the current state of relations between Europe and the United States. He argues that the US military presence in Europe, and the transformation of NATO into an American tool, is tantamount to military occupation and is an obstacle to the development of pan-European and European-Russian relations.
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Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2009
Richard Falk
9th October, 2009
In dissecting the Goldstone Report, Richard Falk points to a number of limitations and pitfalls which he himself would undoubtedly have averted. He nevertheless acclaims the report as an historic milestone in the struggle for Palestinian justice, which has already shaken Israel’s pedestal of impunity. As the power cards in the region are being reshuffled, it remains to be seen just how far-reaching its impact will really be. But, as it is, the “before and after” line has already been drawn.
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