Facing total economic meltdown at home US/UK, spear-heading NATO, have chosen the path of confrontation with the rest of the world, a path which will lead us to the brink of war with Russia and China
Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2008
So it’a OK for the US to set up missile systems in countries neighbouring Russia, but not OK for Russia to sell missiles to countries bordering countries the US has invaded.
22nd December, 2008
U.S. officials say they want answers from Russia on whether it is selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran. The U.S. insists such a move could threaten American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008
20th December, 2008
Press TV ~ Moscow offers to retreat from renovating its nuclear arsenal, but wants President-elect Obama to shelve the missile shield plans in return.
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Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008
TEHRAN, December 21 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has started the supplies of components for S-300 air defense systems to Iran, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday.
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Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008
21st, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan | Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael G. Mullen on Saturday said the Pentagon has “revised” its counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, noting that any solution to the current crisis must include Pakistan and India.
He also said the United States would send up to 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan — the largest force increase yet mentioned by a U.S. military official.
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Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2008
WASHINGTON, December 19 (RIA Novosti) – The United States and Ukraine have agreed on strategic partnership in economic development, energy and defense aiming to strengthen Kiev’s potential as a NATO aspiring state.
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Posted by seumasach on December 19, 2008
Gareth Porter
20th December
WASHINGTON – United States military leaders and Pentagon officials have made it clear through public statements and deliberately leaked stories in recent weeks that they plan to violate a central provision of the US-Iraq withdrawal agreement requiring the complete pullout of all US combat troops from Iraqi cities by mid-2009 by reclassifying combat troops as support troops.
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Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008
By Stephen Gowans
8th December, 2008
The crisis in Zimbabwe has intensified. Inflation is incalculably high. The central bank limits – to an inadequate level- the amount of money Zimbabweans can withdraw from their bank accounts daily. Unarmed soldiers riot, their guns kept under lock and key, to prevent an armed uprising. Hospital staff fail to show up for work. The water authority is short of chemicals to purify drinking water. Cholera, easily prevented and cured under normal circumstances, has broken out, leading the government to declare a humanitarian emergency.
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Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008
Sami Ramadani
17th december, 2008
Within a few unlikely seconds, a pair of size 10 shoes have become the most destructive weapon the people of Iraq have managed to throw at the occupying powers, after nearly six years of occupation and formidable resistance. One Iraqi writer called the shoes, hurled by a journalist at George Bush, “Iraq’s weapon of comprehensive destruction”.
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Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008
As suspected, the problem with Madoff was that he wasn’t an insider. Had he been so, the story wouldn’t have made the global headlines; only an obscure and soon to be forgotten post like this.
4th December, 2008
A new Citigroup scandal is engulfing Robert Rubin and his former disciple Chuck Prince for their roles in an alleged Ponzi-style scheme that’s now choking world banking.
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Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
With every passing day the deep, strategic, unspoken and unspeakable agenda of the Anglo-american elite becomes clearer: that agenda is genocide.
Christopher Horstel
11th December
A special issue in the field of war crimes committed by occupation forces in Afghanistan are so-called uranium weapons (1). Uranium is a heavy metal – and, as a consequence, has an extremely strong armour piercing effect. Since dirt-poor Afghanistan clearly cannot afford the luxury of any special armour-plating, the question has to be asked: what purpose does the use of such specialised weaponry serve when the military necessity is questionable?
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Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
8th December, 2008
SOUTH NASHUA, N.H. – Across the nation, companies are lopping off hundreds of thousands of jobs, retailers are shuttering stores, and automakers are tottering on the edge of bankruptcy.
But here in the Merrimack River Valley, and over the state line at several industrial sites around Massachusetts, defense contractor BAE Systems is hoisting “Help Wanted” signs.
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