Posted by seumasach on November 26, 2012
Spengler
27th November, 2012
It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world’s population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States.
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Posted by seumasach on November 8, 2012
Jack D.Douglas
7th November, 2012
Vast social revolutions and wars are often preceded by periods of giving up on reforms, despairing withdrawal from public life by the best and brightest, and even peacefulness which seems to have become the normal condition in spite of deep conflicts and growing crises beneath the surfaces of public life. Often, earlier periods of intense conflicts and crises have been overcome and resolved, so it comes to look like that is the normal in life. This lulls most people into assuming their worse fears cannot happen, but this leads them to lowering their guards against growing conflicts and crises, so small ones can more easily cascade down into massive ones. If people expected they could become vast wars or revolutions or implosions, they would take more precautions to prevent that. But when lulled in expecting the worst cannot happen, the worst than they could ever imagine often explodes suddenly.
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Posted by seumasach on November 6, 2012
Thierry Meyssan
1st November, 2012
In 2010, France made the choice to breath new life into its colonial policy. This led her to instigate a regime change in the Ivory Coast and Libya, and to aim for the same result in Syria. But faced with the fiasco of the latter operation, Paris got carried away by the wave of events that she herself unleashed. After having armed and trained terrorist groups in Syria, the DGSE has now struck at the heart of the Lebanese capital.
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Posted by seumasach on November 5, 2012
Nick Turse
31st October, 2012
They looked like a gang of geriatric giants. Clad in smart casual attire – dress shirts, sweaters, and jeans – and incongruous blue hospital booties, they strode around “the world,” stopping to stroke their chins and ponder this or that potential crisis. Among them was General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a button-down shirt and jeans, without a medal or a ribbon in sight, his arms crossed, his gaze fixed. He had one foot planted firmly in Russia, the other partly in Kazakhstan, and yet the general hadn’t left the friendly confines of Virginia.
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Posted by seumasach on October 28, 2012
Recession Very Possible in Q1 of 2013: Investors And CEOs Are Getting Very Nervous With Cloud Of Uncertainty, The Announcements of Layoffs Are Coming Fast and Furious, And We All Start Feeling The Economy Is Decelerating!
27th October, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on October 27, 2012
25th October, 2012
The Eurozone meltdown has sent capital pouring into (temporarily) safe haven currencies like the US dollar, which rose by nearly 12% between October 2011 and August 2012.
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Posted by seumasach on September 24, 2012
Edward S.Herman
23rd September, 2012
The United States has mastered the art of undermining its targets by fomenting domestic terrorism, and then laying the responsibility on them for the crimes sponsored by Washington itself. This method affords it the possibility both to justify military intervention and to carry it out without risk. The well-oiled scheme described here by Edward S. Herman is now being applied in Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on September 6, 2012
Brendan O’Reilly
7th September, 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to China highlighted the challenges inherent in the world’s most important bilateral relationship. There are now serious areas of contention between China and the United States. As China continues her rapid progress towards replacing the United States as the world’s largest economy, the entire dynamic of the global political system is experiencing momentous changes, often to the detriment of American influence.
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Posted by seumasach on September 4, 2012
3rd September, 2012
Mr Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros, believes that America’s central bank is secretly printing money to avoid “getting egg on their face again” after previous attempts to kickstart the faltering economy with $2 trillion of QE failed.
“I do not know if they [the Fed] will announce it,” he told India’sEconomic Times. “I know they are going to print more money. They already are. If you look at their balance sheets, you will see that something is happening, assets are building on their balance sheets and they are not coming from the tooth fairy.
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Posted by seumasach on July 28, 2012
Webster Tarpley
27th July, 2012
Last week, the NATO powers launched their long-awaited summer offensive against Syria. This was a multi-pronged effort designed not just to overthrow the government of President Assad, but also to totally disintegrate the existing structures of the Syrian state, dissolving the entire country into chaos, confusion, secession, attempted coups d’état, and a likely massacre of Assad backers, Alawites, Christians, Kurds, and other minority groups.
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