27th September, 2009
A United Nations report has noted that a total of 1,500 civilians have lost their lives in insurgency-hit Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August.
Posts Tagged ‘End of empire’
UN: 1,500 Afghan civilians dead in 8 months
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
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Honduras:A revolution is being born there
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Fidel Castro
25th September, 2009
ON July 16, I stated textually that the coup d’état in Honduras “was conceived of and organized by unscrupulous individuals on the extreme right, dependable officials of George W. Bush and promoted by him.”
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US braced for surge of protest over war in Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2009
Paul Harris
27th September, 2009
At his home in Richmond, Virginia, Larry Syverson spends part of every day worrying there will be an unwanted knock on the door. Syverson’s son, Branden, is an American soldier serving in Afghanistan, conducting dangerous patrols in an area infested with Taliban.
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Iran replaces Dollar with Euro in FX
Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2009
20th September, 2009
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the replacement of the US dollar by the euro in the country’s foreign exchange accounts.
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Public debt hits £800 billion – the highest on record
Posted by seumasach on September 20, 2009
Of course, spending has to be cut: let’s start with ending our wars, slashing defence spending and dismantling the apparatus of empire, as well as ending welfare for parasitic city financiers.
19th September, 2009
Britain is clocking up debt at a rate of £6,017 per second as the Government struggles to balance the books. With tax receipts plummeting because of the recession, state borrowing grew by £16.1 billion last month — almost twice the entire budget for the 2012 Olympics.
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Book Review: US hegemony slips into history
Posted by smeddum on September 11, 2009
Sep 12, 2009
BOOK REVIEW
US hegemony slips into history
The Future of Global Relations by Terrence Edward Paupp.
Reviewed by John Feffer
The end of the Cold War ushered in a new period of unipolar American power. In this country, liberals and conservatives alike celebrated the triumph of market democracies under the leadership of the United States. The Bill Clinton administration attempted to consolidate America’s geoeconomic power. The George W Bush administration attempted to consolidate America’s military and geopolitical power. Read the rest of this entry »
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13 Major Reasons for Gold Breakout
Posted by smeddum on September 10, 2009
| By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com |
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 Source: GoldSeek.com Before the Hat Trick Letter was launched, a little splash was made when a Jackass Nobody wrote “25 Reasons Why Gold Will Rise” in November 2002. It was so many years ago that the piece no longer appears in archives. The motive for the article was simple. Just too much pure nonsense and genuine rubbish had appeared in the financial press about why gold was rising. ‘THEY’ claimed the gold price was rising from MidEast tensions, from new global tensions due to a False Flag attack on New York City in broad daylight, and from other factors clearly irrelevant to gold. It was not disinformation so much as stark ignorance and stupidity, perhaps even compromised marketing from the fiat bowels on Wall Street. The crack analysts in financial circles overlooked the negative real interest rates offered by central banks, as the miniscule official rates were overwhelmed by price inflation, thus rendering gold a free pass profitable investment. Stupid inane mindless drivel continues to pour out today as to why gold has reached the $1000 level. In simple English, THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHY GOLD IS RISING. The faceless ‘THEY’ had no idea in 2002 and ‘THEY’ have no idea now. The main fallback factor ‘THEY’ turn to is a hedge against price inflation, the basic kindergarten concept. The Wall Street machine still uses mental crayons, as nothing has changed. They are too busy building leveraged contraptions and forging collusions. Those who are aware in the Mainstream are dead silent as to why gold rises, since they realize their world is to vanish. Read the rest of this entry » |
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‘Germany Has Become a Warring Party under US Command’
Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2009
David Crossland
9th September
It’s high time the German government mapped out a clear plan for withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, write German media commentators. Shocked by last Friday’s deadly air strike, voters in Germany want a new strategy that will lead to a pullout.
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US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World
Posted by seumasach on September 7, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
7th September, 2009
Americans have lost their ability for introspection,thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world.
US War Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the Associated Press and a reporter, Julie Jacobson, embedded with US troops in Afghanistan, for taking and releasing a photo of a US Marine who was wounded in action and died from his injury.
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‘Afghanisation’ of Afghanistan is the key to beating Taliban and bringing troops home, says Brown
Posted by seumasach on September 5, 2009
5th September, 2009
Gordon Brown yesterday issued his strongest hint that British troops will start to quit Afghanistan by the end of next year.
In a major shift of strategy, the Prime Minister said a target to train up 134,000 Afghan soldiers will be brought forward by a year to December 2010.
He announced that cutting troop numbers was now ‘the basis of our strategy’.
Mr Brown spoke as two more soldiers’ bodies were flown home for burial. So far 212 soldiers have died in the conflict.
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Wizards and wives drive Afghan election
Posted by seumasach on August 31, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
1st September, 2009
Dr Abdullah Abdullah, the “modern face” of Afghanistan, is a rare finished product to emerge out of the jihad of the 1980s – a handsome, nattily attired, English-speaking mujahideen spokesman who could evocatively bring to the Western drawing rooms the danger and the thrill of the Hindu Kush.
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