Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2012
On May 20th, world leaders will meet at the NATO Summit in Chicago, where the future of hundreds of US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe is on the agenda. Let’s tell them it’s time to get these weapons out of Europe, sign the petition below!
To the leaders of NATO countries,
The Cold War has been over for more than 20 years. Keeping US nuclear weapons in Germany, Turkey, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy makes no sense. These weapons are relics of a bygone age: they are dangerous, useless and expensive and do not address today’s actual security threats. We urge you to remove these weapons from Europe. You have a historic opportunity to take the next critical step toward a world without nuclear weapons.
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Posted by seumasach on May 19, 2012
Spiegel
15th May, 2012
Germany has gold reserves of just under 3,400 tons, the second-largest reserves in the world after the United States. Much of that is in the safekeeping of central banks outside Germany, especially in the US Federal Reserve in New York. One would think that with such a valuable stash, worth around €133 billion ($170 billion), the German government would want to keep a close eye on its whereabouts. But now a bizarre dispute has broken out between different German institutions over how closely the reserves should be checked.
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Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2012
NATO’s claim that it cannot investigate civilian casualties because it has no mandate to be in Libya is feeble and disingenuous.”
Vijay Prasad
Counterpunch
15th May, 2012
On May 14, 2012, Human Rights Watch released an important report, Unacknowledged Deaths: Civilian Casualties in NATO’s Air Campaign in Libya. The 82-page report reveals conclusively that some of NATO’s ten thousand sorties flown over Libya resulted in the deaths of at least seventy-two civilians, including twenty-four children. These are not large numbers, largely because HRW’s analysis is based on the most obvious cases and because its work was not assisted by an investigation of NATO’s own paperwork. HRW did not conduct a comprehensive investigation. That was not possible. Its investigators went to eight sites of NATO air strikes and found here that NATO’s bombs had indeed killed civilians. The findings, then, are not comprehensive. They are illustrative.
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Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2012
Dirk Adriaensens
Global Research
18th May, 2012
May 20 and 21 the NATO-circus calls at Chicago for the biggest summit in NATO’s history, according to its secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Stakes are high, Rasmussen said, for very important decisions are to be made about NATO’s future.
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Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2012
GEAB N°65 is available! Global systemic crisis / Second half of 2012 – Convergence of four explosive factors: Banks-Stock Exchanges-Pensions-Debts
LEAP 2020
16th May, 2012
Whilst waiting for Euroland to equip itself, by the end of 2012, with a medium to long term common political, economic and social project, especially following the election of the new French president François Hollande, anticipated many months ago by LEAP/E2020, players will remain prisoners of the short-term reflexes related to the sudden Greek political tremors, the uncertainties over Euroland governance and to the risks in public debts.
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Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2012
Nicos Konstandaras
Ekathimerini
19th May, 2012
Our politicians play at politics. They abdicated the difficult role cast upon them by the May 6 ballot and, in going for new elections, they have left the economy and society adrift. The crisis has changed the relationship between our political parties but not their behavior. Politics involves management of today and creating strategy for tomorrow. But, for decades, politics in Greece has been in regression, between unfinished business and utopia.
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Posted by seumasach on May 18, 2012
7th May, 2012 Un excellent article de Dedefensa réussit le tour de force de présenter et classer les différents facteurs impliqués dans la question du BMDE (Ballistic Missile Defence in Europe) et plus généralement du Global BMD. Il résume les travaux de la grande conférence sur la question des antimissiles réunissant à l’invitation du ministère russe de la défense les délégations de très nombreux pays. Elle s’est tenue à Moscou les 3 et 4 mai et est comme à l’habitude passée inaperçue en France, les observateurs ayant apparemment d’autres préoccupations.
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Posted by seumasach on May 16, 2012
Alexis Papachelas
Ekathimerini
16th May, 2012
I’ve always envied older colleagues for having had firsthand experience of historic events that later generations could only read about. I grew up thinking that we would not get to live through similar events because, as a child of my generation, I had the conviction that some fundamental issues had been resolved for good and that tomorrow would always be a better day. It turns out I was wrong.
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Posted by seumasach on May 16, 2012
CNBC
15th May, 2012
The time where investors are no longer willing to accept negative yields on U.S. Treasurys is near, warned Bill Gross, manager of Pimco, the world’s largest bond fund.
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Posted by seumasach on May 15, 2012
Wassim Raad
Voltairenet
Beirut
14th May, 2012
The Americans’ hypocrisy vis-à-vis Al-Qaeda and their predicament in Syria
The recognition by American Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta of the presence of Al-Qaeda in Syria and the fact that the suicide bombings carried its fingerprints featured a lot of hypocrisy and political imposture. Indeed, this recognition is not the first of its kind and falls in the context of a series of statements delivered by senior military and security commanders in the United States. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also contributed to this American rhetoric more than once, without the American officials reviewing their behavior towards the Syrian situation. Quite the contrary, they are growing more determined to escalate the pressures against the Syrian national state and the Syrian people who are resisting the terrorism and takfir which are earning international and regional sponsorship from an alliance directly led by the United States.
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Posted by seumasach on May 15, 2012
Voltairenet
15th May, 2012
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday urged international bodies operating in Kosovo to prevent the region from turning into a training ground for Syrian rebels.
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