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March 13: Civil Resistance to War and Empire in Nation’s Capital
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2010
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The War Party: A Paper Tiger
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2010
Justin Raimondo
3rd March, 2010
The reaction to Ron Paul’s runaway victory in the CPAC presidential poll continues to roll in, and I wouldn’t dwell on it as much as I have except for its significance as indicative of a sea-change on the right and in the country generally. And also, for another reason: because I can’t help but wonder at the paucity of intellectual firepower among Paul’s critics.
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Call for Iran sanctions backed by muscle
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2010
Jim Lobe
5th March, 2010
While the ongoing United States military surge in Afghanistan continues to capture the headlines, Iran’s nuclear program – and how best to deal with it – is rapidly emerging here as the year’s biggest foreign policy challenge.
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Okinawa and the new domino effect
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2010
“During the Cold War, the Pentagon worried that countries would fall like dominoes before a relentless communist advance. Today, the Pentagon worries about a different kind of domino effect. In Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries are refusing to throw their full support behind the US war in Afghanistan. In Africa, no country has stepped forward to host the headquarters of the Pentagon’s new Africa Command. In Latin America, little Ecuador has kicked the US out of its air base in Manta”.
John Feffer
6th March, 2010
For a country with a pacifist constitution, Japan is bristling with weaponry. Indeed, that Asian land has long functioned as a huge aircraft carrier and naval base for United States military power. We couldn’t have fought wars in Korea (1950-1953) and Vietnam (1959-1975) without the nearly 90 military bases scattered around the islands of our major Pacific ally. Even today, Japan remains the anchor of what’s left of America’s Cold War containment policy when it comes to China and North Korea. From the Yokota and Kadena air bases, the United States can dispatch troops and bombers across Asia, while the Yokosuka base near Tokyo is the largest American naval installation outside the United States.
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War veterans and resisters say “All Out for March 20th-National March on Washington!”
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2010
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Natural law brings AfPak crashing
Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2010
“Second, unlike in the 1990s, the US’s influence is much diminished today, but its diplomats work as if they operate in a unipolar world. The plain truth is that regional powers like India, Iran or even Pakistan are far from convinced about the US’s AfPak policy. And they can be expected to do their utmost to safeguard their interests, no matter what the US diplomats prescribe as good enough.”
M.K.Bhadrakumar
6th March, 2010
Be it a baseball struck in a neighborhood sandlot game or in high-wire diplomacy, an elementary principle of physics holds good – what goes up must come down. In a way, the sheer dynamics of the nosedive of the United States’ AfPak diplomacy in the four weeks since the London conference on Afghanistan on January 28 can be attributed to gravitational pulls.
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Soros, Goldman, Hedge Funds Attack Greece, Euro
Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2010
Webster Tarpley
4th March, 2010
It has been evident for some time that the ongoing speculative attack on Greece, along with such other countries as Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and Italy, was not primarily a reflection of their economic fundamentals, nor yet a spontaneous movement of “the market,” but rather an orchestrated action of economic warfare. The dollar had been relentlessly falling through the late summer and autumn of 2009. It obviously occurred to various Anglo-American financiers that a diversionary attack on the euro, starting with some of the weaker Mediterranean or Southern European economies, would be an ideal means of relieving pressure on the battered US greenback. Since these degenerate elites are incapable of directly solving the problem of the dollar through increased production, full employment, and economic recovery, one of the few alternatives remaining to them is to create a situation in which the euro is collapsing faster, leaving the dollar as the beneficiary of some residual flight to quality or safe haven reflex.
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Bill Gates On ‘Vaccines To Reduce Population’
Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2010
F.William Engdahl
4th March, 2010
Microsoft founder and one of the world’s wealthiest men, Bill Gates, projects an image of a benign philanthropist using his billions via his (tax exempt) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to tackle diseases, solve food shortages in Africa and alleviate poverty. In a recent conference in California, Gates reveals a less public agenda of his philanthropy-population reduction, otherwise known as eugenics.
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118 UN members reaffirm support for Iran’s N-program
Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2010
4th March, 2010
As the West pushes for new sanctions against Iran, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) moves to issue a new statement, voicing its support for Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
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Le Parlement européen a t-il arrêté l’intégration UE-USA ?
Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2010
Jean-Claude Paye
18th February, 2010
Au cours des dernières années, l’accès illégal de Washington aux données bancaires confidentielles des ressortissants européens était devenu à la fois le symbole de la vassalité de l’Union européenne, et la pierre angulaire de l’intégration de l’UE dans l’Empire transatlantique. Cependant, en utilisant les nouveaux pouvoirs que lui confère le Traité de Lisbonne, le Parlement européen a interdit la légalisation de cette pratique. Pour Jean-Claude Paye, il ne s’agit pas d’une simple péripétie parlementaire, ni uniquement d’une question de libertés publiques, mais bien d’un coup d’arrêt donné à un processus qui était publiquement débattu pour la première fois.
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South Atlantic: Britain May Provoke New Conflict With Argentina
Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2010
Rick Rozoff
24th February, 2010
Since the 1982 war against the United Kingdom, Argentina has attempted to settle the Falkland/Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute through diplomatic channels. But news that a British company has launched oil exploration in the area has brought bi-lateral relations to a new low. The U.K. should be reminded that the balance of power has shifted, as Latin America has steadily moved towards higher regional integration and greater independence from Washington and its allies. As Hugo Chávez bluntly put it to H.M. Queen Elizabeth II: ’The time for empires is over!’ And Argentina no loger stands alone as it did in 1982.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: malvinas, NATO expansion | 2 Comments »
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