Archive for the ‘Drive to Global War’ Category
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 June 19, 2008
“Ships are sent out at the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free licence given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilise an idolatrous and barbarous people.”
Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift
As in Sierra Leone, shades of 18th century imperialism.
Rodrigo Angue Nguema(YAHOO)
Wed Jun 18
South Africa, Spain and the United States each approved a plot to topple Equatorial Guinea’s president, British mercenary Simon Mann told a Malabo court Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2008
This report gives insight into what is happening on the ground in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Unfortunately, its appeal to the State Department will undoubtedly fall on deaf ears.
SERBIAN UNITY CONGRESS(Serbian Unity)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The Serbian Unity Congress strongly condemns yesterday’s attack on Regional UNMIK representative Luis Perez in the town of Decani, and calls for the UN and the United States to react swiftly and decisively in what has become a series of escalating events in the region.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2008
There is no doubt bigger players were involved and not just in the British elite: Spain sent a naval taskforce to support the coup
Ventura County Star By Lydia Polgreen New York Times News Service Wednesday, June 18, 2008 DAKAR, Senegal — The plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004 was so improbable, it sounded like something out of a tale from the tropics, too outlandish even for Graham Greene. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2008
Pravda
3rd June 2008
Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to France, which ended May 30, left European mass media in mixed feelings. Respectable newspapers, like Britain’s The Times or Switzerland’s Neue Zurcher Zeitung, wrote in their articles that Putin had received an inappropriate welcome in Paris, which did not match his official position of the prime minister. European journalists were surprised to see that Putin’s meeting with his French counterpart Francois Fillon was held without reporters. To crown it all, President Sarkozy invited Putin for private dinner.
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Posted by alfied on June 17, 2008
By Stephen Gowans
THERE is no evidence that the Government of Zimbabwe is using food “as a political tool to intimidate voters ahead of an election”, or that it is deliberately denying “hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Zimbabweans” food aid, as Human Rights Watch and The New York Times allege.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2008
The west’s ‘good war’ in Afghanistan has turned bad. A local solution, rather than a neocolonial one, is what’s needed
Tariq Ali
Guardian
Wednesday June 11 2008
In the latest clashes on the Pakistan-Afghan border, Nato troops have killed 11 Pakistani soldiers and injured many more, creating a serious crisis in the country and angering the Pakistan military high command, already split on the question.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2008
June 6, 2008
Nebojsa Malic
Antiwar.com
On June 9, 1999, the 78-day war that NATO waged on what was then Yugoslavia came to a close. Representatives of Yugoslav military and NATO signed an armistice in the Macedonian town of Kumanovo, paving the way for NATO’s takeover of the province. At the time, it was spun in the West as a victory for the Alliance – Yugoslav president Milosevic “caved” and “capitulated,” and his army was “forced” from Kosovo. Yet on paper, it was a defeat; Serbia had resisted ten times longer than anyone in Washington or Mons expected, and the terms of the Kumanovo treaty were much better for Belgrade than the disgraceful Rambouillet ultimatum, which NATO sought to impose at the beginning of the bombing. What was to be a purely NATO occupation became a UN mission (UNMIK) and Serbia’s territorial integrity was explicitly guaranteed by the UN resolution 1244.
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Posted by smeddum on June 15, 2008
(Asia Times)
Bush pledges on Iraq bases a ruse
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON – Two key pledges made by the George W Bush administration on military bases in its negotiations with the government of Iraq have now been revealed as carefully worded ruses aimed at concealing US negotiating aims from both US citizens and Iraqis who would object to them if they were made clear.
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008
9th June 2008
MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov exclusively for RIA Novosti) – President Bush’s missile defenses are dying with his presidency, but they might not rest in peace.
The Czech government is on the verge of a crisis. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that his Cabinet might collapse in the fall. He admitted that the Cabinet lost a firm majority in parliament over the possible deployment of a high-frequency radar of the U.S. third positioning strategic missile defense area in the Czech Republic. Environmentalist deputies did not even want to hear about it, while others insist on a nation-wide referendum, which the government cannot win because 68% of the population is emphatically against the deployment. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008
A fine intervention by Galloway, somewhat marred by the unfounded presumption that the Brits are somehow reluctant supporters of the “war on terror”. This is not something which emerged from the mind of George Bush: it is classic British foreign policy.
House of Commons debates – Wednesday, 11 June 2008 –
Somalia (Human Rights)
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn. —[Steve McCabe.]
By George Galloway
13/06/08 “ICH “ — – -A Government ready to rely on those friends of liberty, the Democratic Unionist party, to shred the liberties of our own people are almost by definition unembarrassable, but I hope this evening to add to the issues ventilated in a recent Channel 4 “Dispatches” programme to adumbrate the extent to which the tragedy in Somalia, which so many people are now becoming aware of, is another of our Government’s dirty little secrets. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on June 12, 2008
“Momentum is also growing within the Maliki administration for the US to leave altogether. Mr Maliki was in Iran this week where the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told him not to sign up to any long-term security deals with Washington.‘
Sartraps against the empire.
President offers concessions after furious reaction in Baghdad to American ‘colonialism’
By Leonard Doyle in Washington(Independent)
hursday, 12 June 2008
Faced with Iraqi anger over a US plan to enable Washington to keep military forces in the country indefinitely, George Bush is offering concessions to the government of Nouri al-Maliki in an effort to salvage an agreement, it emerged yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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