Posted by seumasach on June 11, 2011
26th May, 2011
When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed… murdered… I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should be driven “into the gutter from which they should never have emerged”.
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Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2011
M.K.Bhadrakumar
11th June, 2011
A momentous week stretches ahead as Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives in Islamabad on Saturday for the inaugural session of the joint Afghan-Pakistani commission for reconciling the Taliban. The Pakistani army chief as well as the Inter-Intelligence Services head will be sitting on the commission and investing it with an unmistakable halo of prestige and authority.
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Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on June 10, 2011
Wayne Madsen
9th June, 2011
The Pentagon and its NATO partners are engaged in one of the most obvious and intensive propaganda ploys in their military operations against Libya since the days leading up to the “Coalition of the Willing” attack on Iraq. Suggestions that the government of Muammar Qaddafi is on its last legs and that life in Tripoli has drawn to a standstill as a result of the NATO bombing campaign are not based on reality, as any unbiased observer who has recently been in Tripoli, has witnessed…
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Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2011
Britain’s economic circus as good money(or rather bad money) chases after bad in a frenetic merry-go-round: The government bails out the banks who, in turn, bail out the government and both bailout corporations in the privileged inner circle. Then they all fall down.
Yahoo (Sky News)
7th June, 2011
British taxpayers will become shareholders in struggling entertainment chain HMV as state-owned banks take a stake in the group.
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Posted by seumasach on June 9, 2011
Here you can find the deadly truth about Britain and its coming economic implosion. We are in a deep, dank, black hole and have resolved to bomb our way out. All we need to crown our misery is a further run on the pound.
The scandalous way thrift is still losing out to profligacy
Jeremy Warner
9th June, 2011
The old ones are always the best, so I make no apologies for starting this column with Wilkins Micawber’s famous observation about the importance of living within your means:
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
The situation with Britain’s current account deficit is lamentably rather more serious than a mere six shilling overspend.
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Posted by seumasach on June 8, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on June 7, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on June 7, 2011
7th June, 2011
Venezuela has severed its relations with the US after Washington imposed sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company for supplying gasoline to Iran.
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