Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2011
Gareth Porter
5th January, 2011
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The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.
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Posted by smeddum on January 3, 2011
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Author: Dionysios (Dennis) Kefalakos 3 January 2011 – |
The ” political clout” of US and Britain is largely hubris and delusion
Brussels-Come the spring of the year 2013 and Eurozone would be a reborn first rate world economic entity, have the Franco-German plans for the euro sovereign debt rearrangement is successful. Until that time the money war would be ranging, with the English language print and digital press having declared on many occasions the end of the euro money. It is not about highly competitive but officially demonized devaluations as many believe, but the very existence of the monies. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on January 3, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
4th January, 2011
There can be no two opinions that Beijing made a smart move. Its decision to anoint South Africa as a new member of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) will be projected as based on economic grounds, but there are any number of other dimensions.
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Posted by seumasach on January 3, 2011
2nd January, 2011
After many years of debate over the health hazards posed by mobile phones, a recent report finally establishes it.
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Posted by smeddum on January 1, 2011
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Posted by smeddum on January 1, 2011
Robert Emmet’s speech on the eve of his execution.
My Lords:
What have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me according to law? I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce, and I must abide by. But I have that to say which interests me more than life, and which you have labored (as was necessarily your office in the present circumstances of this oppressed country) to destroy. I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. I do not imagine that, seated where you are, your minds can be so free from impurity as to receive the least impression from what I am going to utter–I have no hopes that I can anchor my character in the breast of a court constituted and trammeled as this is–I only wish, and it is the utmost I expect, that your lordships may suffer it to float down your memories untainted by the foul breath of prejudice, until it finds some more hospitable harbor to shelter it from the storm by which it is at present buffeted. Read the rest of this entry »
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In These New Times 