Posts Tagged ‘End of empire’
Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2012
Pakistan Observer
Kwasi Kwarteng
29th April, 2012
THE Arab Spring, the threat of Iran as an emerging nuclear power, the continuing violence in Syria and the American reluctance to get involved there have all signalled the weakness, if not the end, of America’s role as a world policeman. President Obama himself said in a speech last year: “America cannot use our military wherever repression occurs.” America’s position today reminds me of Britain’s situation in 1945. Deep in debt and committed to building its National Health Service and other accoutrements of the welfare state, Britain no longer could afford to run an empire.
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Posted by seumasach on April 26, 2012
Huffington Post
25th April, 2012
JERUSALEM — Israel’s military chief said in an interview published Wednesday that Iran will ultimately decide against building a nuclear weapon – putting him at odds with Israel’s more pessimistic prime minister.
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Posted by seumasach on April 22, 2012
Paul Craig Roberts
Counterpunch
Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement, invasion, and occupation. As readers know, from time to time I raise questions about the validity of the West’s extreme hubris.
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Posted by seumasach on April 10, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indruss
9th April, 2012
The story is simple – and fairly straightforward. Great Britain has approximately 11000 containers of equipment and 3000 armored carriers to take out of Afghanistan after eleven years of war. The equipment includes armoured patrol vehicles, tankers, trucks and weaponry such as heavy machine guns, mortars and rocket systems.
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Posted by seumasach on April 8, 2012
Michael Collins
War is a Crime
7th April, 2012
Foreign Policy just published a roundup of weapons contributed to the Libyan rebels in the regime change effort. The e-Journal is a publication of the Washington Post. Colum Lynch’s April 4 article relies on the March 20 UN report to the UN Security Council by a panel of experts appointed to track the UN resolutions and responses from the start of the conflict.
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Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2012
The unstoppable US economic spiral: Recession/depression/inflation
Excerpt GEAB N°60
Leap 2020
16th December, 2011
In fact, the United States ends 2011 in a state of weakness unmatched since the Civil War. They practice no significant leadership at international level. The confrontation between geopolitical blocs is sharpening and they find themselves confronted by almost all the world’s major players: China, Russia, Brazil (and in general almost all of South America) and now Euroland (1). Meanwhile, they cannot control unemployment where the true rate stagnates at around 20% against the backdrop of an unabated and unprecedented reduction in the labour force (which has now fallen to its 2001 level (2)).
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Posted by seumasach on April 7, 2012
Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
5th April, 2012
With 83 states and intergovernmental organizations represented, the second “Friends” of Syria conference was a media success. Yet, all the glimmer and gloss cannot hide NATO’s and the GCC’s defeat in Syria, which after a year of low intensity war have failed to bring about regime change and are now compelled to retreat in the face of the Russian-Sino-Iranian front. Thierry Meyssan sheds light on this bizarre diplomatic conference where words were not used to declare but to obscure.
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Posted by seumasach on April 1, 2012
LEAP 2020
16th December, 2012
In this issue, our team gives its anticipations regarding the future of the United States for the 2012-2016 period. We recall that since 2006 and the first GEAB issues, LEAP/E2020 described the global systemic crisis as a phenomenon characterizing the end of the world as we know it since 1945, marking the collapse of the American pillar on which this world order has rested for nearly seven decades. Since 2006, we had identified the period 2011-2013 as that during which the “Dollar Wall” on which the power of the United States sits would fall apart. Summer 2011, with the cut in the United States’ credit rating by S & P, marked an historic turning point and confirmed that the “impossible” (1) was indeed in the process of coming true. Therefore today, it seems essential to provide our subscribers with a clear anticipatory vision of what awaits the “pillar” of the world before the crisis at the point when the crisis moved into “top gear” in summer 2011 (2).
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Posted by seumasach on March 10, 2012
Michael Collins
The Agonist
10th March, 2012
“Our sense is right now he’s very much in charge,” of their military operations, one U.S. official said. Another noted, “He (Assad) might survive this.” The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. Matthew Schofield, McClatchy DC Bureau Feb 9
Violating the basic tenets of international law by attacking nations that pose no imminent threat and the use of excessive force are the signatures of United States foreign policy since the presidency of George H.W. Bush. (Image)
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Posted by seumasach on March 8, 2012
PressTV
8th March, 2012
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey says President Barack Obama has requested from the Pentagon military options against the Syrian government.
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In These New Times 