24th July, 2011
Calls have increased for the creation of a European credit-rating agency after several debt-laden euro-zone economies had their ratings downgraded to “junk” status.
NATO in trouble
Posted by seumasach on July 23, 2011
Manuel Domingos Neto
23rd July, 2011
Only despair before the crisis would lead European leaders to calculate so badly with their intervention in Libya. Inspired by the toppling of Arab regimes and relying on wearing down Qaddafi, they mounted an unconvincing justification for “humanitarian” help. They encouraged defections from the Libyan government and froze one hundred billion dollars in reserves of the country.
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An Economy Destroyed
Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2011
The Enemy is Washington
Paul Craig Roberts
22nd July, 2011
Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade US Treasury bonds if the White House and Congress did not reach a deficit reduction deal and debt ceiling increase. The downgrade threat is not credible, and neither is the default threat. Both are make-believe crises that are being hyped in order to force cutbacks in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
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They’re still bombing Iraq
Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2011
Panic as US Warplanes Attack Southern Iraq
Two Days of Live Ammo Raids Have Locals Scared, Puzzled
Jason Ditz
20th July, 2011
The latest indication yet that the Obama Administration’s much vaunted “end” to the war in Iraq last year was entirely illusory, reports are pouring in from southern Iraq’s Maysan Province that US warplanes launched a number of live ammunition attacks just north of Amara.
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NATO mistakes Muammar Gaddafi for the gutless wonders they are
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
Lisa Karpova
21sy July, 2011
Part of the massive mainstream media campaign of lies and disinformation is the attempt to declare that Muammar Gaddafi is going to agree to go off somewhere into exile, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
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US navy’s fifth fleet could abandon Bahrain
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
John Glaser
20th July, 2011
The U.S. Navy is considering moving its Fifth Fleet from where it has long been stationed in Bahrain’s capital, Manama. Bahrain’s ruling al Khalifa family has beenviolently cracking down on pro-democracy protesters in recent months and rising allegations of systematic human rights violations are creating a public relations issue for the U.S., a longtime supporter and ally of the dictatorship.
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Leanor is a Frequent Visitor to Libya – She Tells All
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
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Radioactive “black rain” in Japan
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
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France suggests plan for Gaddafi to stay in Libya
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
So there you have it: the so-called rebels have not taken Brega as widely trumpeted by desperate western media sources. It looks rather that they have suffered a defeat losing 60 fighters in the battle, a significant loss for what John Bolton describes as an insignificant force. Since Gaddafi is clearly winning and most of Libya has rallied round him, why should he step down? Only because of threats from NATO which are probably vacuous- the political will, the heart seems to have gone out the Atlanticist terror grouping.
21st July, 2011
Gaddafi insists he will neither step down nor flee the country he has led for four decades. With the Nato-led air campaign against Gaddafi’s forces entering its fifth month and the fighting in a stalemate, the international community is seeking exit strategies.
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Why is Obama giving Libya to the Russians?-Bolton
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
There is no greater proof of the disastrous course of this war from a NATO point view than the fact that enemies of NATO such as ourselves are able to cite neo-cons like Bolton in defence of our case. His article is a futile rant against the inevitable ebbing of US power in the world.
But in the last four months, neither America nor its NATO allies have successfully identified and strengthened (quietly or otherwise), a truly significant cadre of pro-Western voices in Libya
This sums up the rebels: they are pro-Western but insignificant in terms of support from the Libyan people.
20th July, 2011
John R. Bolton, the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (from 2005 to 2006), is of counsel at Kirkland & Ellis and is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The opinions expressed here are his own —
WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) – With President Obama’s Libya policy staggering from one embarrassment to another, last week he and Secretary of State Clinton outdid themselves. They publicly welcomed Russia’s effort to insert itself as a mediator, an act of such strategic myopia that it must leave even Moscow’s leadership speechless.
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Telegraph exposes Libyan rebel terror
Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2011
Within the context of the western press which has done so much to orchestrate a cacophony of lies around events in Libya, this is a remarkable recognition suggestive, not of a few rotten apples as Amnesty seems to want to imply, but sustained terror. The normally gung-ho Telegraph is showing disillusionment with this war, a reflection of just how disastrous it has been.
The headless corpse, the mass grave and worrying questions about Libya’s rebel army
21st July, 2011
The streaks of blood, smeared along the sides of this impromptu mass grave suggested a rushed operation, a hurried attempt to dispose of the victims.
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In These New Times 