Posted by seumasach on October 14, 2013
13th October, 2013
BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — As U.S. politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world.
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2013
12th October, 2013
Thousands took to streets across the world’s cities on Saturday to protest the use of GMO products, with Giant Monsanto being the main target. Over 50 countries have been taking part in the march for world food day, and across 47 different US states.
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2013
Cailean Bochanan
13th October, 2013
Writing recently in the Guardian John Pilger couldn’t have been more dismissive of US peace overtures to Syria and Iran:
“John Kerry’s farce and Barack Obama’s pirouettes are temporary. Russia’s peace deal over chemical weapons will, in time, be treated with the contempt that all militarists reserve for diplomacy. With al-Qaida now among its allies, and US-armed coupmasters secure in Cairo, the US intends to crush the last independent states in the Middle East: Syria first, then Iran.”
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Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2013
America’s biggest banks are now in a position to go bust without state intervention, the Bank of England’s deputy governor declares
12th October, 2013
The deputy governor of the Bank of England has declared an end to the era of taxpayer bail-outs for the world’s giant lenders.
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Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2013
Red Cross launches emergency food aid plan for UK’s hungry
11th October, 2013
The Red Cross will this winter start collecting and distributing food aid to the needy in Britain for the first time since the Second World War, as welfare cuts and the economic downturn send soaring numbers of people to soup kitchens and food banks across Europe.
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Posted by seumasach on October 10, 2013
Bond investors face ‘untold damage’ when interest rates rise
8th October, 2013
Rising interest rates could inflict “untold damage” on bond portfolios, a senior investment analyst has warned.
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Posted by seumasach on October 9, 2013
Jim Lobe
9th October, 2013
WASHINGTON – Last week began with a blistering denunciation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Iranian duplicity and ended with diminished prospects for Israel to take direct action to address Iran’s nuclear capabilities .”The Israelis find themselves in a far worse position now than they have been for several years,” concluded Elliott Abrams, a leading neo-conservative who served as George W Bush’s main Middle East adviser, in Foreign Affairs.
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2013
Pepe Escobar
8th October, 2013
What a photo – yet another instance of Bali working its magic. Chinese President Xi Jinping leads a “Happy Birthday” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono on acoustic guitar. You know who is not in the picture – he’s in shutdown containment mode. US Think Tankland protestations notwithstanding, there could not be a more graphic reminder of the emerging multipolar order.
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Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2013
Thierry Meyssan
7th October, 2013
Although the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, loudly praised himself for the vote on Resolution 2118 concerning chemical weapons in Syria, this text marks both the victory of Russia and that of President Bashar al -Assad. The vote carries within itself two consequences that permanently ruin the Franco-British claims on the country.
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Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2013
Wal Thornhill
15th February, 2007
Global warming has been deemed a fact. However, the inconvenient truth is that humans are not causing it. Al Gore has been given poor advice. Like Darwin’s theory of evolution and Big Bang cosmology, global warming by greenhouse gas emissions has undergone that curious social process in which a scientific theory is promoted to a secular myth. When in fact, science is ignorant about the source of the heat — the Sun.
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Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2013
M.J.Rosenberg
3rd October, 2013
have always believed that, at some point, the Israeli prime minister and his lobby would lose their grip on U.S. Middle East policy. At least I’ve believed that since 1982 when Tom Dine, AIPAC’s most successful executive director, explained how it would happen.
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