Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2011
Alistair Crooke
22nd October, 2011
This summer, a senior Saudi official told John Hannah [1], former United States vice president Dick Cheney’s former chief-of-staff, that from the outset of the Syrian upheaval in March, the king has believed that regime change in Syria would be highly beneficial to Saudi interests: “The king knows that other than the collapse of the Islamic Republic itself, nothing would weaken Iran more than losing Syria,” said the official.
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Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2011
22nd October, 2-11
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Bond insurance could contain the debt crisis
Discussions have turned to using the €440bn (£383bn) European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) as bulk insurance for another fund backed by private investors.
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Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2011
Join us today for a friendly gathering in George Square – bring your family, friends, neighbors, pets and passers-by.
More info on Occupy Glasgow website
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Posted by seumasach on October 22, 2011
A good and timely article by Pilger. However, the left always and everywhere have to watched with a critical eye. He refers to China as an “imperial rival” hinting at Lenin’s inter-imperialist rivalry thesis. But it is necessary to distinguish between the empire, operating out of Washington and London and currently embarked on a programme of world domination,and those who defend themselves against it. Pilger gives us a hint of a treacherous line from the left: that we remain neutral in the wars being provoked by the empire- a plague on all their houses.
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20th October, 2011
On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an American invasion of the African continent is under way.
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Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
29th September, 2011
The war against Libya is built on fraud. The United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims, specifically that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi and Libya. The claim in its exact form was that Qaddafi had ordered Libyan forces to kill 6,000 people in Benghazi as well as in other parts of the country. These claims were widely disseminated, but always vaguely explained. It was on the basis of this claim that Libya was referred to the U.N. Security Council at U.N. Headquarters in New York City and kicked out of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011
And so the whole world is one big animal experiment, with us included!
Times of India
18th October, 2011
KOCHI: They don’t use cell phones; yet they may be its worst victims. Next time you read a report on birds falling prey to radiation and consequently getting sick, you might as well guess that a cell phone tower could have caused it. It is not just humans but birds and bees too are beginning to feel the impact of ‘electro-smog’, the pollution from the electromagnetic fields (EMF).
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Posted by seumasach on October 20, 2011
Pepe Escobar
21st October, 2011
Beware of strangers bearing gifts. Post-modern Amazon and United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally landed in Tripoli – on a military jet – to lavish praise on the dodgy Transitional National Council (TNC), those pportunists/defectors/Islamists formerly known as “North Atlantic Treaty Organization rebels”.
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2011
Cailean Bochanan
19th October, 2011
I can’t find much on Libya in the mainstream media today. They seem to have gone quiet of late after trumpeting the great NATO “victory” in Sirte last week. Perhaps they’re resting on their laurels this week after the destruction of that city of about 100,000 people. The media seem to enjoy boasting about this. They also keep telling us that the civilians have all gone, a strange boast that is also completely false but which enables them to triumphantly show the TNC bombardment of the town from distance as not a war crime since, they give us to understand, only “Gaddafi’s diehard supporters” are there. But it is true that there is nothing left of Sirte except an indomitable spirit of resistance that NATO is completely unable to overcome. So much so that the NATO forces seem to have given up there for the meantime except for the daily routine of random bombing and have moved onto another “last holdout” of the Jamahiriya, Beni Walid. How many last holdouts are there and can NATO take any of them?
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2011
Stephen Lendman
19th October, 2011
Whenever major media Libya reports appear, truth is distorted, manipulated and falsified. For seven months, despite daily terror bombing and ground attacks, courageous loyalists bested the ferocity of NATO and its rebel army.
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