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Was the attempt to blow up Detroit bound plane a false flag? Part 3 (Final)

Posted by seumasach on January 10, 2010

NW_Flt_copy_copyUS, January 7, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – The dust has now settled but the mass hysteria continues as the US and the UK pull in their best media experts to blind us with political spin. It is time to reflect on this so called failed attempt to blow up Northwest/Delta Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.

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Orange sunset as Ukraine poll heralds turn to Russia

Posted by seumasach on January 10, 2010

Guardian

10th January, 2010

Five years ago, Ukraine‘s Orange Revolution was hailed as a new start for a country that had begun to look west towards the European Union and Nato. But as voters prepare to go to the polls next Sunday in the first presidential election since they cast out the country’s Soviet-era leadership, Europe’s most famous colour-coded reform movement seems to have run out of steam.

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The airplane bomb plot: Obama continues the cover-up

Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010

Patrick Martin

WSWS

8th January, 2010

The statement made by President Barack Obama Thursday about the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit is a continuation of a government-wide cover-up, aided and abetted by the media, of the actions of US intelligence and security agencies in the period leading up to the failed terrorist attack.

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The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning

Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010

James Petras

Voltairenet

3rd January, 2010

Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building, illustrating the great divide in the world today. Expanding on an article recently published in the Financial Times, James Petras highlights the stark contrast between these two strategic visions, a woefully misguided one in the case of the US.

One Day’s Read of the Financial Times

Even a cursory read of a single issue of the Financial Times(December 28, 2009) illustrates the divergent strategies toward empire building. On page one, the lead article on the US is on its expanding military conflicts and its ‘war on terror’, entitled Obama Demands Review of Terror List. In contrast, there are two page-one articles on China, which describe China’s launching of the world’s fastest long-distance passenger train service and China’s decision to maintain its currency pegged to the US dollar as a mechanism to promote its robust export sector. While Obama turns the US focus on a fourth battle front (Yemen) in the ‘war on terror’ (after Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan), the Financial Timesreports on the same page that a South Korean consortium has won a $20.4 billion dollar contract to develop civilian nuclear power plants for the United Arab Emirates, beating its US and European competitors.

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Another Iranian Revolution? Not Likely

Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

AlethoNews

5th January, 2010

THE Islamic Republic of Iran is not about to implode. Nevertheless, the misguided idea that it may do so is becoming enshrined as conventional wisdom in Washington.

For President Obama, this misconception provides a bit of cover; it helps obscure his failure to follow up on his campaign promises about engaging Iran with any serious, strategically grounded proposals. Meanwhile, those who have never supported diplomatic engagement with Iran are now pushing the idea that the Tehran government might collapse to support their arguments for military strikes against Iranian nuclear targets and adopting “regime change” as the ultimate goal of America’s Iran policy.

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Karzai: I don’t need foreign forces in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010

“The president’s remarks come after thousands of Afghan people took to the streets to protest the rising civilian death toll by the US-led forces in the country.

Afghans have held several anti-occupation demonstrations in different cities in the past month to show their anger towards the issue. Protesters in Kabul and several other major cities have burned effigies of US President Barack Obama”

PressTV

8th January, 2010

Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai says he does not need anymore ‘the favor’ of the US-led foreign forces in his war-weary country.

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Obama’s Yemeni odyssey targets China

Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2010

“Besides, history has no instances of a declining world power meekly accepting its destiny and walking into the sunset. The US cannot give up on its global dominance without putting up a real fight. And the reality of all such momentous struggles is that they cannot be fought piece-meal. You cannot fight China without occupying Yemen”

M. K. Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

8th January, 2010

A year ago, Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh made the startling revelation that his country’s security forces apprehended a group of Islamists linked to the Israeli intelligence forces. “A terrorist cell was apprehended and will be referred to the courts for its links with the Israeli intelligence services,” he promised.

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Russia, China, Iran redraw energy map

Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2010

M. K. Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

8th January, 2010

The inauguration of the Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran pipeline on Wednesday connecting Iran’s northern Caspian region with Turkmenistan’s vast gas field may go unnoticed amid the Western media cacophony that it is “apocalypse now” for the Islamic regime in Tehran.

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Caspian Sea Geopolitics: Nabucco will be the most expensive pipeline ever built

Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2010

Dr. John C.K. Daly

Global Research

5th January, 2010

Inside Beltwayistan, a number of Bushevik oil patch zombies still roam the recession-blasted landscape mindlessly chanting their Caspian mantra, “Happiness is multiple pipelines” – with the caveat that they flow westwards and bypass both Russia and Iran . They’ve now added a new word to their vocabulary, “Nabucco,” and worse, have bitten a number of Obama administration officials and visiting European politicians, who have joined their shuffling ranks.

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Tarpley’s Programme for Economic Reconstruction

Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2010

30 MILLION PRODUCTIVE JOBS TO REBUILD US INFRASTRUCTURE, INDUSTRY AND

AGRICULTURE: THE PROGRAM TO END THE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION

by Webster G. Tarpley

www.tarpley.net

14th November, 2009

The US and the world are gripped by a deepening economic depression. There is no recovery and no automatic business

cycle which will revive the economy. This bottomless depression will worsen until policies are reformed. The depression

results from deregulated and globalized financial speculation, especially the $1.5 quadrillion world derivatives bubble.

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Obama Flubs His First Bay Of Pigs Moment As Terror Moles Escape Purge

Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2010

Webster Tarpley

tarpley.net

5th January, 2010

Washington DC , January 5, 2010 — Obama’s speech this afternoon was an incongruous performance. On the one hand, he angrily detailed a catastrophic breakdown in US intelligence procedures leading to the near-massacre of hundreds of airline passengers in the skies over Detroit on Christmas Day. On the other hand, there was no purge of the corrupt, complicit, and incompetent officials who had made this incident possible. No firings were announced. No heads rolled. The rogue network or invisible government of treasonous and subversive moles inside the US government which is behind the Detroit incident, and so many other incidents, remained untouched once again.

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