Posted by seumasach on October 31, 2008
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Federico Fuentes 30th October, 2008 LA PAZ: After three months of intense class struggle, there can be no doubt that the U.S.-backed right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales has suffered three important defeats. The right’s offensive to topple Morales, which climaxed with the September 11-12 “civic coup” attempt, has been decisively rolled back by the combined action of the government and social movements. |
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2008
Mr. Saakashvili, it is time to say goodbye
Front page / Opinion / Columnists
30.10.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru
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The Fat Lady has sung, the BBC, mouth piece of the British Neocons, has declared that, yes, Georgia and Saakashvili in particular are guilty of the murder of civilians in South Ossetia. Of course, they quickly then backed it up by saying Russia was wrong in defending those civilians being butchered by the Georgians. After all, we would not want Russia and the Russian people to feel they were right, even when they were, now would we? Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2008
Latin America’s New Consensus
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org
When the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so close to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship between the Colossus of the North and Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2008
Chávez: “Economic crisis must serve to create a new international order”
POLITICS El Universo
Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez restated Thursday the need to seize the global financial crisis to create “new international institutions.”
Chavez made his proposal during a special event dedicated to the social integration of disabled persons, in a nationwide mandatory radio and TV broadcast. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2008
29th October, 2008
Bloomberg writes the following bombshell:
“Credit-default swaps on [U.S.] Treasuries have risen nearly 40 percent since TARP was signed into law Oct. 3, and are now about the same as Mexican and Thai government debt before the credit markets began to seize up in June 2007.”
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Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2008
“Ainsi, non seulement les citoyens ne choisissent pas leurs dirigeants, mais ce sont les dirigeants qui choisissent leurs électeurs.”
Thierry Meyssan
Les médias des États membres de l’OTAN accordent une très large couverture de l’élection présidentielle US. Ce faisant, ils transmettent un double message : l’avenir des peuples alliés se joue à Washington, et les États-Unis sont un modèle démocratique. Or, il est admis que l’élection présidentielle US est faussée par l’argent. L’édition 2008 a déjà coûté plus 1,5 milliards de dollars. Cependant cette critique est superficielle en ce qu’elle laisse croire que les moyens financiers font le vainqueur, alors que c’est peut-être l’inverse : l’argent va au vainqueur préalablement désigné. En réalité, remarque Thierry Meyssan, la classe dirigeante US manipule chaque étape du processus électoral, des primaires aux conventions, des listes électorales aux machines à voter. Aux États-Unis, la démocratie est une pure fiction.
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Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2008
30th October, 2008
First Vice-President Parviz Davoudi, currently in Astana, Kazakhstan, offered major proposals on Thursday to boost cooperation among the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s member states.
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Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2008
Gareth Porter
31st October, 2008
The threat by the George W Bush administration last week to withdraw all economic and military support from the Iraqi government if it does not accept the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) has raised the stakes in the political-diplomatic struggle over the issue.
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Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2008
China said Thursday its financial markets would remain stable enough to allow it help ex-Soviet Central Asian countries weather the global economic crisis — assistance that would augment Beijing’s increasing influence in the region.
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Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2008
The Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, has called for a complete overhaul of the world’s financial system in order to guarantee stability and ensure progress. He was speaking in Astana in Kazakhstan, where the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is meeting to in discuss the global financial crisis.
30th October, 2008
The organisation, which comprises Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is widely seen as a counter-weight to NATO’s influence in Eurasia. It is primarily concerned with security issues. This time, however, the sides are discussing how to develop social and economic cooperation.
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Posted by smeddum on October 30, 2008
October 29, 2008
Consumers Feel the Next Crisis: It’s Credit Cards New York Times
By ERIC DASH
First came the mortgage crisis. Now comes the credit card crisis.
After years of flooding Americans with credit card offers and sky-high credit lines, lenders are sharply curtailing both, just as an eroding economy squeezes consumers.
The pullback is affecting even creditworthy consumers and threatens an already beleaguered banking industry with another wave of heavy losses after an era in which it reaped near record gains from the business of easy credit that it helped create. Read the rest of this entry »
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