US Government Report Undermines Zimbabwe Opposition’s Claim of Independence
Filed under: Civil Society, Zimbabwe — gowans @ 10:20 pm
By Stephen Gowans
The US government had a hand in formulating the policy platform of the Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, and funded community-based newsletters to create a platform to persuade Zimbabweans to accept Washington’s point of view, according to a US government report. The report boasts that Washington is the undisputed leader in nurturing anti-government civil society organizations in Zimbabwe, operating through a CIA-interlocked organization led by former New York investment banker and Michael Milken right-hand man, Peter Ackerman. Read the rest of this entry »
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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
US Government Report Undermines Zimbabwe Opposition’s Claim of Independence
Posted by smeddum on October 5, 2008
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The New American Century: Cut Short By 92 Years
Posted by smeddum on October 3, 2008
The New American Century: Cut Short By 92 Years
By Mike Whitney
02/10/08 ‘ICH” — – America’s time as a superpower is coming to an end. The financial crisis was just the last straw. Whatever good faith was left after the invasion of Iraq, the shrugging off of international treaties and the shameless disregard for human rights, is now gone. The United States has polluted the global economic system with worthless mortgage-backed securities and, by doing so, has pushed 6 billion people closer to a long and painful recession. That’s not something that can be easily forgiven. Read the rest of this entry »
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Zimbabwe and the Battle of Ideas
Posted by smeddum on September 30, 2008
Zimbabwe and the Battle of Ideas
By Netfa Freeman
September 26, 2008
blackagendareport.com Africaspeaks
The U.S. admits to actively engaging in efforts for regime change.
Cuban revolutionaries often point out the significance of what they call the “battle of ideas” and they explain how “ideas are worth more than weapons.” It stands to reason then that the goal in such battles is to win the hearts and minds of people. Because the so-called Western World dominates the most sophisticated and pervasive methods of information today, people should carefully scrutinize ideas pushed and popularized by these sources. This means we should never take for granted anything we read or hear and only half of what we see. Read the rest of this entry »
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Heidi Holland’s Dinner with Mugabe: Failed Demonography
Posted by smeddum on September 28, 2008
Heidi Holland’s Dinner with Mugabe: Failed Demonography
Filed under: Zimbabwe — gowans @ 5:31 pm Whats Left
By Stephen Gowans
Journalist Heidi Holland’s biography of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe, Dinner with Mugabe, begins with the assumption that Zimbabwe’s long-standing president is a monster. In addition, Mugabe, who recently struck a deal with factions of the opposition MDC to share power, is accused by his biographer of creating “a de facto one party state,” [1] and of “failings and excesses” that have left Zimbabweans “starving” [2] – standard fare from Western journalists.
The fact that Zimbabwe’s opposition now controls the legislature and is due to hold a majority of cabinet posts clashes violently with Holland’s depiction of the country as a de facto one party state. By comparison, no one, much less Holland, complains about South Africa, truly a de facto one party state, which suggests that whatever beefs she has with Zimbabwe have nothing to with it being a de facto one party state, (which it isn’t) otherwise we might expect South Africa, and not just Zimbabwe, to fall within her sights (which it hasn’t.) Read the rest of this entry »
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Video: Cash for trash and the multi-polar world, Pepe Escobar
Posted by smeddum on September 28, 2008
Posted in Drive to Global War, Financial crisis, Multipolar world | Tagged: bailout, economy, loss of US influence, Multipolar world, politics | Leave a Comment »
Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for AIPAC
Posted by smeddum on September 27, 2008
Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for AIPAC
by Jim Lobe Antiwar.com
In a significant and highly unusual defeat for the so-called “Israel Lobby,” the Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives has decided to shelve a long-pending, albeit nonbinding, resolution that called for President George W. Bush to launch what critics called a blockade against Iran. Read the rest of this entry »
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Financial Crisis Likely to Further Erode U.S. Influence
Posted by smeddum on September 26, 2008
Financial Crisis Likely to Further Erode U.S. Influence
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) – While the White House and U.S. lawmakers hash out final terms of a proposed 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout, foreign policy analysts are warning that the current financial crisis could very well hasten the decline of U.S. power and influence overseas. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Drive to Global War, Financial crisis, Multipolar world | Tagged: Decline of empire, loss of US influence, US hegemony | 1 Comment »
A bailout and a new world
Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2008
A bailout and a new world AsianTimes
By Pepe Escobar
WASHINGTON and SAO PAULO – The George W Bush administration’s US$700 billion no-accountability scheme, globally, informally dubbed “cash for trash”, is making all the headlines. Simultaneously, there’s the small matter of the United Nations General Assembly sanctioning the troubled birth of a new, multipolar world. As a 21st-century counterpart to the Dadaist Manifesto, this chain of events is priceless. Read the rest of this entry »
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Anti-Iran ministerial meeting canceled
Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2008
24th September, 2008
Foreign ministers from the six major powers have called off talks to discuss further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterparts from Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany were to hold the meeting in New York on Thursday to consider more pressure on Tehran.
“There is not going to be a P5-plus-one ministers meeting” on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters on Tuesday.
The decision came after Russia complained of US plans to “punish” it, AFP reported.
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With secret and silent support from India, Pakistan warns NATO and US – Pakistan will not allow foreign powers to violate the country’s sovereignty to pursue terrorists
Posted by seumasach on September 21, 2008
Nitin Shah
20th September, 2008
India and Pakistan finally understand that they must keep the western powers out of the Indian subcontinent. The same western block of countries that instigated for the last fifty years to subdue India now face a new challenge. India and Pakistan will stand together to fight any foreign force trying to violate the nuclear South Asian sovereignty.
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Zimbabwe: Land at Core of Western Anger
Posted by smeddum on September 20, 2008
“The time has come to challenge the Westerners to state the real reason they imposed the sanctions, and why they do not want to scrap them even though Zimbabweans have closed ranks.
What the Western stance tells us is that the fight is far from over, in fact, it may have just begun.
The forces ranged against us are not happy and obviously want to torpedo the agreement, because what they are after is regime change not inclusion.”
African Diaspora: Zimbabwe: Land at Core of Western Anger
Posted on Friday, September 19 @ 07:24:35 EDT by admin Rastafarispeaks
By Caesar Zvayi
September 19, 2008
IN our Shona culture, just as in any other culture, suspicion is always aroused whenever an outsider mourns more than the bereaved.
Then vanasorojena (the elders) tend to question the relationship between the mourner and the deceased and all his/her family.
Well, since the power-sharing agreement was signed by Zanu-PF, MDC-T and MDC on Monday, the Anglo-Saxon Alliance led by the EU and the US have been wailing like a newly-wed widow who has just been robbed of the joys of wedded bliss. Read the rest of this entry »
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