Posted by seumasach on May 14, 2012
Wayne Madsen
12 May, 2012
The United States, which sought to capitalize politically, militarily, and financially from the break-up of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Sudan, and Czechoslovakia and now seeks to reap the benefits from the similar potential fracturing of the Russian Federation, China, Libya, and Iraq, may receive a taste of its own medicine.
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Posted by seumasach on May 13, 2012
Inconsistencies in the public comments made by SYRIZA officials over the past few days led to Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis issuing a statement on Saturday asking his the leftist coalition to clarify its position on a number of issues.
Chief among these was whether the party advocates a unilateral rejection by a government it will participate in of the terms of the EU-IMF loan agreement. Kouvelis also asked SYRIZA to explain what it would do following new elections that are unlikely to give any party a clear majority. He also called for SYRIZA to respond to written opinions from members of 10 parties that are part of its coalition, which advocate that Greece returns to the drachma.
As a coalition of disparate groups it is unlikely SYRIZA can arrive at a coherent policy position even if any of its components were able to do so. It is essentially a rejectionist front formed from those ideological currents which emerged from the World Social Forum and the Occupy Movement superimposed on older Trotskyist, Eurocommunist and workerist currents. It is unlikely that SYRIZA could cope with or survive political power falling into its lap and it is as well that the Greek electorate as made aware of this before giving them more votes. The Democratic Left is trying to force SYRIZA to clarify its positions but I would be very surprised if they get a satisfactory response.
13th May, 2012
President Karolos Papoulias is due to meet the heads of Greece’s three leading parties at noon on Sunday in a final attempt to secure a deal for the formation of a government, as Athens comes under increasing pressure about its future in the eurozone.
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Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2012
9th May, 2012
Kuwaiti police arrested a group of Qatari agents charged for overthrowing Emir Al-Sabah IV.
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Posted by seumasach on May 10, 2012
Nick Malkoutzis
10th May, 2012
Greece is trying to complete a multiple-choice test in which all the answers are wrong. Sunday’s elections could have hardly produced a more fragmented result, one from which you can add up the numbers any way you want but not get the response you’re looking for. Efforts to form a unity government are due to fall flat — barring a last-minute successful intervention from President Karolos Papoulias. They seemed doomed to failure because none of the parties are taking on board constructive messages from the election result.
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Posted by seumasach on May 8, 2012
Eurozone crisis: EU moves to loosen grip of austerity
8th May, 2012
The European executive has responded to the electoral earthquakes in France and Greece by calling for a shift towards growth across the EU as the new firebrand leftist leader in Athens stepped up his country’s rebellion against austerity.
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Posted by seumasach on May 5, 2012
Dr. Thorsten Pattberg
4th May, 2012
A lot of people search endlessly for the secret key or a magic formula that would enable them to understand China. Naturally, at some point they will want to know how the Chinese are educated. The Middle kingdom has many prestigious schools, but let us take a closer look at Peking University, the mother lode of the Chinese wenming.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
In a blogpost, Staines described the files as “Britain’s biggest establishment cover-up“. He wrote: “This isn’t a crime thriller storyline. Operation Motorman uncovered industrial scale criminality and hundreds of suspects’ names. Currently in Britain the newspapers are neither naming nor shaming because the criminal enterprises are the newspapers themselves, who understandably do not wish to report their own crimes. Their silence is a matter of self-preservation.”
10th April, 2012
The Information Commissioner‘s Office has said it “strongly condemns” the partial publication by the Guido Fawkes blog of its Operation Motorman files on alleged breaches of the Data Protection Act by journalists.
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Posted by seumasach on April 21, 2012
20th April, 2012
TheBill and Melinda Gates Foundationis financially backing and publicly endorsing mass polio virus vaccinations in India. In case you didn’t hear him yourself, Bill Gates publicly announced that vaccines could help reduce the world population by 15%.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2012
15th April, 2012
Nicolas Sarkozy applique les mêmes recettes qui ont fait son succès de 2007. Après avoir fait des clins d’œil appuyés à l’extrême droite, en faisant de la remise en cause de l’espace sans frontière intérieure de Schengen et de l’immigration les axes majeurs de sa campagne (avec la viande halal et le permis de conduire…), le chef de l’État s’attaque dans la dernière ligne droite à l’euro, ce qui est censé plaire non seulement aux électeurs du Front national, mais aussi à la gauche radicale dont Jean-Luc Mélenchon est le héraut. En 2007, rappelez-vous, c’était l’identité nationale (avec ses relents maurassien) et l’euro – trop- fort responsable de nos malheurs.
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Posted by seumasach on April 16, 2012
I would bet that Salmond will indeed change the SNP’s policy on NATO and advance his vision of Scotland as an Atlanticist satellite
Newropeans(Source: BBC)
15th April, 2012
The SNP leadership is considering proposing a change to the party’s policy on Nato, BBC Scotland understands. The party has been opposed to membership of the military alliance for more than 30 years. But the next meeting of its National Council in June is expected to discuss whether an independent Scotland should remain in Nato. The SNP would maintain its commitment to ditching nuclear weapons.
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