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 13, 2008
Christopher King
10th December, 2008
Christopher King examines the corrosive effects of the Anglo-American “special relationship” on British politics and argues that, if Britain is to safeguard its civil liberties, democracy and independence, it must bring former Prime Minister Tony Blair to account for that ultimate symbol of the “special relationship”, the Iraq war.
Posted in Iraq | Tagged: End of empire, iraq withdrawal, join the euro! | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 11, 2008
Patrick Cockburn
11th December, 2008
On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 and from all of Iraq by December 31, 2011. The Iraqi government will take over military responsibility for the Green Zone in Baghdad, the heart of American power in Iraq, in a few weeks time. Private security companies will lose their legal immunity. US military operations and the arrest of Iraqis will only be carried out with Iraqi consent. There will be no US military bases left behind when the last US troops leave in three years time and the US military is banned in the interim from carrying out attacks on other countries from Iraq.
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
Saeed Shah in Islamabad, Richard Norton-Taylor, Simon Tisdall and agencies
8th December, 2008
Gunmen from the Pakistani Taliban torched supplies destined for Nato forces in Afghanistan for a second day running today, officials said.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: Afghanistan, End of empire | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
William F. Engdahl
9th December, 2008
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ministers in Brussels have decided to ignore the wishes of the United States and delay the admission of Georgia and the Ukraine, in effect indefinitely, in what the George W Bush administration is sheepishly trying to claim is a positive “compromise”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
WARSAW, December 1 (RIA Novosti) – Some 40 Czech mayors plan to address the European parliament on February 24 to complain against the deployment of a proposed U.S. missile defense radar in the country, a Czech news agency said on Monday.
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Posted by smeddum on December 8, 2008
‘Fight sanctions’
Herald Reporter.
ZIMBABWEANS should unite and fight sanctions be-cause they do not affect the Government or targeted individuals, but the entire population, Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Cosme Espinosa has said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2008
Justin Raimondo
5th December, 2008
Is it really possible that President-elect Barack Obama intends to break his campaign promise to “end the war” in Iraq, and keep US troops in that country well beyond the sixteen month timetable for withdrawal he advocated during the campaign?
Posted in Iraq | Tagged: Obama's foreign policy | 1 Comment »
Posted by smeddum on December 7, 2008
Life in Iraq Has Become “Unbearable,” Economist Stiglitz Says
WRITTEN BY SHERWOOD ROSS Faxts.com
WEDNESDAY, 03 DECEMBER 2008 14:10
The western media, true to form, is blaming Mugabe for the Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, without mentioning sanctions or the situation in Iraq
President Bush’s attack on Iraq has made daily life there “unbearable” for most people, two prominent American business authorities write.
“Five years after the United States occupied Iraq with the stated goal of bringing democracy to its people, the war has essentially ruined the country’s economy, society, and sovereignty,” writes Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz with Linda Bilmes in “The Three Trillion Dollar War(W.W. Norton).” Bilmes is a former CFO of the U.S. Commerce Department. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2008
27th November, 2008
This is a rough translation of what the Iraqi parliament has passed today with a very slim majority (144 MPs instead of the constitutionally required two thirds majority 184 MPs). The good news is that this is not over yet. This will make the law valid for the next six months until the Iraqi people vote on it in a national referendum.
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Posted by seumasach on December 2, 2008
F William Engdahl
2nd December, 2008
Just weeks after President George W Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted that suggest a major agenda of the incoming Barack Obama presidency to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, the oil-rich Darfur region of southern Sudan and increasingly the Somali “pirate threat” to sea lanes in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
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Posted by seumasach on December 1, 2008
Peter Schwarz
1st December, 2008
The arrest of three German secret service agents in Kosovo exposes the sort of society that has been developed with German and American support in this former part of Yugoslavia—one mired in corruption, organised crime and secret service plots.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: CIA/MI5 drug dealers, Kosovo | Leave a Comment »
