Posted by seumasach on January 11, 2010
Richard C.Cook
After the collapse of the Soviet Union caused it to split up into its components, the newly-established nations each faced an economic crisis. In Russia the crisis lasted for a decade. Inflation had destroyed the currency. There was no banking sector to speak of. And the central government had failed to monetize the nation’s potential production through a functioning monetary system.
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Posted by seumasach on January 10, 2010
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Posted by seumasach on January 10, 2010
US, January 7, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – The dust has now settled but the mass hysteria continues as the US and the UK pull in their best media experts to blind us with political spin. It is time to reflect on this so called failed attempt to blow up Northwest/Delta Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
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Posted by seumasach on January 10, 2010
10th January, 2010
Five years ago, Ukraine‘s Orange Revolution was hailed as a new start for a country that had begun to look west towards the European Union and Nato. But as voters prepare to go to the polls next Sunday in the first presidential election since they cast out the country’s Soviet-era leadership, Europe’s most famous colour-coded reform movement seems to have run out of steam.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010
Patrick Martin
8th January, 2010
The statement made by President Barack Obama Thursday about the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit is a continuation of a government-wide cover-up, aided and abetted by the media, of the actions of US intelligence and security agencies in the period leading up to the failed terrorist attack.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010
James Petras
3rd January, 2010
Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building, illustrating the great divide in the world today. Expanding on an article recently published in the Financial Times, James Petras highlights the stark contrast between these two strategic visions, a woefully misguided one in the case of the US.
One Day’s Read of the Financial Times
Even a cursory read of a single issue of the Financial Times(December 28, 2009) illustrates the divergent strategies toward empire building. On page one, the lead article on the US is on its expanding military conflicts and its ‘war on terror’, entitled Obama Demands Review of Terror List. In contrast, there are two page-one articles on China, which describe China’s launching of the world’s fastest long-distance passenger train service and China’s decision to maintain its currency pegged to the US dollar as a mechanism to promote its robust export sector. While Obama turns the US focus on a fourth battle front (Yemen) in the ‘war on terror’ (after Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan), the Financial Timesreports on the same page that a South Korean consortium has won a $20.4 billion dollar contract to develop civilian nuclear power plants for the United Arab Emirates, beating its US and European competitors.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
5th January, 2010
THE Islamic Republic of Iran is not about to implode. Nevertheless, the misguided idea that it may do so is becoming enshrined as conventional wisdom in Washington.
For President Obama, this misconception provides a bit of cover; it helps obscure his failure to follow up on his campaign promises about engaging Iran with any serious, strategically grounded proposals. Meanwhile, those who have never supported diplomatic engagement with Iran are now pushing the idea that the Tehran government might collapse to support their arguments for military strikes against Iranian nuclear targets and adopting “regime change” as the ultimate goal of America’s Iran policy.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010
“The president’s remarks come after thousands of Afghan people took to the streets to protest the rising civilian death toll by the US-led forces in the country.
Afghans have held several anti-occupation demonstrations in different cities in the past month to show their anger towards the issue. Protesters in Kabul and several other major cities have burned effigies of US President Barack Obama”
8th January, 2010
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai says he does not need anymore ‘the favor’ of the US-led foreign forces in his war-weary country.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010
“Besides, history has no instances of a declining world power meekly accepting its destiny and walking into the sunset. The US cannot give up on its global dominance without putting up a real fight. And the reality of all such momentous struggles is that they cannot be fought piece-meal. You cannot fight China without occupying Yemen”
M. K. Bhadrakumar
8th January, 2010
A year ago, Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh made the startling revelation that his country’s security forces apprehended a group of Islamists linked to the Israeli intelligence forces. “A terrorist cell was apprehended and will be referred to the courts for its links with the Israeli intelligence services,” he promised.
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Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2010
M. K. Bhadrakumar
8th January, 2010
The inauguration of the Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran pipeline on Wednesday connecting Iran’s northern Caspian region with Turkmenistan’s vast gas field may go unnoticed amid the Western media cacophony that it is “apocalypse now” for the Islamic regime in Tehran.
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Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2010
Dr. John C.K. Daly
5th January, 2010
Inside Beltwayistan, a number of Bushevik oil patch zombies still roam the recession-blasted landscape mindlessly chanting their Caspian mantra, “Happiness is multiple pipelines” – with the caveat that they flow westwards and bypass both Russia and Iran . They’ve now added a new word to their vocabulary, “Nabucco,” and worse, have bitten a number of Obama administration officials and visiting European politicians, who have joined their shuffling ranks.
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