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Posted by smeddum on November 10, 2008
Golden fleeces
For centuries the West has plundered the treasures of the ancient world; now some nations are fighting back
By Michael Kammen
Boston Globe
November 9, 2008
LOOT:The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
By Sharon Waxman
Times, 414 pp., illustrated, $30
Have you ever wondered why the Rosetta stone (so crucial to our understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics), discovered by Napoleon’s army in 1799, is situated in the British Museum? Or why a Babylonian stele called the Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known legal code in human society (“an eye for an eye”), is located in the Louvre in Paris? Or how the beautiful bust of Egyptian queen Nefertiti ended up as the showpiece of a Berlin museum? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on November 10, 2008
Cailean Bochanan
10th november, 2008
Paul Anderson has written an interesting piece within the marxist framework, a piece that we hope some marxists will wish to reply to. My own reply to Paul is another attempt by me to look beyond that framework and, indeed, that of the enlightenment as a whole whose roots in turn lie deep within antiquity.
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Posted by seumasach on November 9, 2008
Sam Zuckerman
SFGate
7th November, 2008
If you’re a financial institution, it has become a little easier to borrow money. But for most of the rest of us, it’s tougher than ever.
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Posted by seumasach on November 9, 2008
Erin Rosa
Colorado Independent
2nd november, 2008
In the next three years the military plans to activate and train an estimated 4,700 service members for specialized domestic operations, according to Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command, which was created in 2002 for homeland defense missions.
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Posted by smeddum on November 8, 2008
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Posted by seumasach on November 7, 2008
Press TV
Friday, Nov 7, 2008
Georgian oppositionists have staged the first rally in a series of demonstrations calling on President Mikheil Saakashvili to step down.
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Posted by smeddum on November 7, 2008
Western Media Bias in Coverage of Contested Elections
By Stephen Gowans
Whats left
While elections that bring populists and reformers to power are often contested as fraudulent by Western-backed opposition coalitions which receive favourable and substantial coverage in the Western media, when pro-foreign investment parties come to power in disputed elections, the event barely merits a footnote in the back pages of Western newspapers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on November 6, 2008
Is Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism?
by Paul Anderson
Let me go straight into the fray,
Lenin summarizes his definition of imperialism as follows:
“1) The concentration of production and capital developed to such a high stage that it created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.
2) The merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a “financial oligarchy.”
3) The export of capital, which has become extremely important, as distinguished from the export of commodities.
4) The formation of international capitalist monopolies which share the world among themselves.
5) The territorial division of the whole world among the greatest capitalist powers is completed.”
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Posted by seumasach on November 6, 2008
Nasdaq.com
(RTTNews) – Venezuela’s left-leaning government has decided to nationalize Las Cristinas, the country’s largest gold mine, to boost the South American country’s foreign exchange reserves amid the global financial crisis, media reports said.
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Posted by alfied on November 5, 2008
- “Remember, remember the fifth of November,
- The gunpowder, treason and plot,
- I know of no reason
- Why the gunpowder treason
- Should ever be forgot.”
And here is why: read on…..
Interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley on Cloak and Dagger Talk Radio, www.cloakanddagger.de, on the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ Day, Saturday, Nov. 5th 2005. Read the rest of this entry »
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In These New Times 