Posts Tagged ‘End of empire’
Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts
Counterpunch
19th August, 2009
“In a little time [there will be] no middling sort. We shall have a few, and but a very few Lords, and all the rest beggars.” R.L. Bushman
“Rapidly you are dividing into two classes–extreme rich and extreme poor.” “Brutus”
Americans think that they have “freedom and democracy” and that politicians are held accountable by elections. The fact of the matter is that the US is ruled by powerful interest groups who control politicians with campaign contributions. Our real rulers are an oligarchy of financial and military/security interests and AIPAC, which influences US foreign policy for the benefit of Israel.
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Posted by seumasach on August 12, 2009
“to negotiate the end of Anglo-American hegemonism” is precisely the precondition for what Tarpley is talking about. This has to be stressed: without dismantling the political and military apparatus of empire the dollar and Anglo-America will collapse catastrophically.
Webster Tarpley
Rock Creek Free Press
15th July, 2009
The second wave of the world economic depression is coming soon. Larry Summers, the economics czar of the Wall Street puppet regime currently in power in Washington, recently confessed to the Financial Times in an unguarded moment: “I don’t think the worst is over ….” A few weeks earlier, Jacques Attali, who served in the 1980s as the main economics adviser to French President Mitterrand, told an audience at the International Economic and Financial Forum (FIEF) in Paris that the world might well soon face a planetary Weimar “in the form of a hyperinflationary depression similar to the German events of 1922 – 1923.
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Posted by seumasach on July 31, 2009
Having gone to all that trouble in invading Iraq the US can’t even use it to subvert neighbouring Iran using one of their favourite terrorist organisations.
antiwar.com
29th July, 2009
US officials are reportedly “not happy” with the situation unfolding in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf, following yesterday’s deadly raids by Iraqi forces. Today, the Iraqi government says that it plans to close the camp down entirely.
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Posted by seumasach on July 31, 2009
This is primarily a war for NATO which they are trying to keep alive as a means to global domination. It should have been disbanded years ago- Disband NATO Now! Bring the troops home!
stopwar.org.uk
Gordon Brown
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
30 July 2009
Dear Prime Minister,
I am writing to you as a serving soldier in the British army to express my views and concerns on the current conflict in Afghanistan.
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Posted by smeddum on July 30, 2009
Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire
And Ten Steps to Take to Do SoBy Chalmers Johnson
July 30, 2009 “TomDispatch” — However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it. The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate will, sooner rather than later, condemn the United States to a devastating trio of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Union. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on July 29, 2009
This is the logical outcome of Obama’s brilliant foreign policy of threatening both Russia and Iran
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Asia Times
30th July, 2009
The United States may think of Russia as a strategic partner when it comes to Iran. In reality, the geostrategic tensions between Washington and Moscow are still powerful enough to warrant a common approach by Russia and its eastern neighbor Iran with respect to a deterrent strategy towards the intrusive Western superpower.
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Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009
A desperate letter from a remote imperial outpost receives a less than sympathetic reception in certain quarters in the imperial heartland
Justin Raimundo
antiwar.com
24th July, 2009
An “open letter” from the ghosts of the cold war begs for an appropriate response
With the end of the cold war, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, one would have thought the entanglements engendered by half a century of US-Russian hostility would have ended. One would, unfortunately, be quite wrong. It wasn’t enough that we nurtured and emboldened the resistance movements in Central and Eastern Europe: it wasn’t enough that we helped the newly-freed “captive nations” throw off their chains, and enter the international scene as fully-fledged political and economic entities – oh no. There was more to come.
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Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2009
Global Vision 2000 and the Universal Peace Federation jointly organised, on July 13th, an emergency seminar in a parliamentary Committee room to examine the underlying causes of the financial and economic crisis and the need for a fundamental paradigm shift to restore stability, prosperity, justice and peace.
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Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009
Matti Friedman
Campaign Iran
15th July, 2009
JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Israeli warships sailed through the Suez Canal on Tuesday, Israeli and Egyptian officials said, a move that appeared to be a new signal to Iran that Israel’s reach could quickly extend to its archenemy’s backyard.
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Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2009
There is litle sense left in US strategy- I thought they wanted Iranian gas for Nabucco. The failure of their covert operations in Iran has obviously hurt: now they’re just hitting out wildly.
antiwar.com
15th July, 2009
In a high-profile policy address before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that the US wouldn’t not hesitate to use its military to “defend our friends, our interests, and above all, our people” during the segment discussing Iran.
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Posted by seumasach on July 15, 2009
toni solo
scoop.co.nz
14th July, 2009
With the latest murders there, Honduras seems to be lunging backwards into a death-squad-dark remake of John Negroponte’s early 1980s dirty war in Honduras. From Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, Negroponte’s fellow National Security State promoter, Robert Callahan, looks on. With the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista Popular Revolution on July 19th, this is a good moment for taking stock.
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