Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009
Steven Gowans
20th February, 2009
Obamamania was on full display Thursday in Canada’s capital, as the new US president made his first foreign visit – a six hour stop to wintry Ottawa, to exchange bromides with Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper.
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Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2009
| Eight gunmen wearing suicide vests go on a shooting spree |
— Photo: AP
Under attack: Afghan security personnel take positions near the Afghan Justice Ministry in Kabul following an attack by Taliban gunmen on Wednesday.
KABUL: Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed the Justice Ministry and another government building in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing 26 people ahead of a planned visit by President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the region Richard Holbrooke.
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Posted by seumasach on February 11, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
2nd February, 2009
Is there intelligent life in Washington, DC? Not a speck of it.
The US economy is imploding, and Obama is being led by his government of neconservatives and Israeli agents into a quagmire in Afghanistan that will bring the US into confrontation with Russia, and possibly China, American’s largest creditor.
The January payroll job figures reveal that last month 20,000 Americans lost their jobs every day.
In addition, December’s job losses were revised up by 53,000 jobs from 524,000 to 577,000. The revision brings the two-month job loss to 1,175,000. If this keeps up, Obama’s promised three million new jobs will be wiped out by job losses. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on February 9, 2009
This is an absolutely indispensable guide to the present crisis. Mr Engdahl, echews the narrowness of the standard expert or academic point of view and instead shows his overall grasp of these great events in their totality, linking politics, geopolitics and economics within their historical context.
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Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009
2nd February, 2009
MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov0 – Russia may become a major factor in the presidential ambitions of the leading Afghan politicians during the country’s presidential elections next summer.
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Posted by seumasach on January 23, 2009
MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) — “No official documents were submitted to Russia’s permanent mission in NATO certifying that Russia had authorized the United States and NATO to transport military supplies across the country,” Alexei Maslov was quoted commenting on some media reports, which cited Commander of the U.S. Central Command Gen. David Petraeus assaying that an agreement on alternative transit routes had been reached with Russia.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
M.K. Bhadrakumar
21st January, 2009
The Barack Obama era is commencing on a combative note in Afghanistan. The Afghan bazaar is buzzing with rumors that the equations between Washington and Kabul have become uncertain. Senior Afghan figures have been quoted as concluding that “the new US administration and the current Afghan administration will not be speaking the same language”.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2009
20th January, 2009
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives called on Tuesday for the establishment of a “contact group” of nations, including Iran, that would develop a new political strategy for stabilizing Afghanistan.
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Posted by seumasach on January 8, 2009
One absolutely key element is missing from this analysis: by keeping the bulk of the US army, sworn to defend the constitution, engaged abroad the way is left clear for Northern Command, a special and unconstitutional force, to seize control inside the USA.
Prof. Peter Dale Scott
8th January, 2009
Paulson’s Financial Bailout
It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.
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Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
25th December, 2008
South Asians will watch the year end in a pall of gloom. The region is fast getting sucked into the vortex of terrorism. The Afghan war has crossed the Khyber and is stealthily advancing towards the fertile Indo-Gangetic plains.
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In These New Times 