Posts Tagged ‘End of empire’
Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2009
Here, New Labour mouthpiece, Will Hutton, gives a fairly comprehensive outline of the Brown plan, a “global new deal”. This involves using the UN. IMF, World Bank and EU to spearhead the kind of policies already put into the practice in the US/UK i.e. massive handouts to financier interests and the bankrupting of the nation state. Brown understands that reform is necessary within organisations like the IMF, UN etc. In other words, in order to maintain their credibility some other nations must be given a place in the inner circle. This not the kind of refoundation of global organisations we need for the new multipolar world.
“But now, more than ever, we need a stronger, free-trading EU with pan-EU financial regulation that speaks with one voice as a core constituent of a new order.”
This is a reference to already existing plans to create a huge trans-Atlantic free trade area. It is also in this context, and this alone , that we should understand Mandelsohn’s pro-Euro sentiment.
Will Hutton
Guardian
1st March, 2009
This week, Gordon Brown becomes only the fifth British prime minister to address both American houses of Congress. He will speak against the background of the gravest economic times in living memory. Each of his listeners will know that, without massive American government support, both the US banking system and its car industry would now be bust. Instead of unemployment rising by a sickening 600,000 a month, it would be going up by more than a million.
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Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2009
Chris Floyd
Counterpunch
25th February, 2009
It would be superfluous in us to point out that a plan to “end” a war which includes the continued garrisoning of up to 50,000 troops in a hostile land is, in reality, a continuation of that war, not its cessation. To produce such a plan and claim that it “ends” a war is the precise equivalent of, say, relieving one’s bladder on the back of one’s neighbor and telling him that the liquid is actually life-giving rain.
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Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
Reports of the death of neo-conservatism are not exagerated!
Washington Post
20th February, 2009
Listening to neoconservative mastermind Richard Perle at the Nixon Center yesterday, there was a sense of falling down the rabbit hole.
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Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
The Taliban are getting ” increasingly violent”although, obviously, they have a lomg way to go before reaching American standards.
“An expert on civilian casualties said she was “cautiously optimistic” the U.S. is taking a new approach in dealing with civilian casualties. Sarah Holewinski, the executive director of The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, said more high-ranking military officials are visiting gravesites and apologizing”
These little courtesies go a long way.
“Instead of immediately denying civilian deaths, which deeply angers Afghans and with good reason, he said the U.S. will instead immediately investigate, make apologies and provide amends where appropriate,”
Well, Obama did promise change!
KABUL – An operation the American military at first described as a “precision strike” instead killed 13 Afghan civilians and only three militants, the U.S. said Saturday, three days after sending a general to the site to investigate.
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Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009
Cailean Bochanan
22nd February, 2009
The latest GEAB report poses in the sharpest possible terms the crisis of global leadership. Indeed, it concludes that the chances of effective global counter-crisis action are now negligible and that we are near to entering a phase of “global dislocation” at the end of which “the world will look more like Europe in 1913 rather than our world in 2007.”
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Posted by seumasach on February 21, 2009
Steven Gowans
What’s Left
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
Russia Today
15th february, 2009
From April 3 to 5, 40 heads of state and government leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, will come to Strasbourg and Baden-Baden to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NATO alliance.
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Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2009
The British government had the option to either put the banks through bankruptcy or to take on their liabilities and bankrupt the state. In the end it was always going to be what in popular parlance is now referred to as a “no-brainer” and the latter option was to be the preferred one. The British state has done the right thing on behalf of private interests and agreed to sacrifice itself and £60 million citizens on the altar of oligarchy. Do not send to ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
19th February, 2009
RBS and Lloyds to add £1.5trn to national debt
The banking bail-outs and collapsing tax revenues have left the UK’s public finances in a shocking state…
This morning the Office for National Statistics painted a frightening picture of the UK’s current financial position: the national debt soared to £703bn last month, equivalent to 47.8% of GDP, which is the highest proportion in over 30 years. January is usually a good month for tax receipts, but with incomes and corporate profits being squeezed in the downturn, revenues have plummeted – the monthly surplus was just £3.3bn, compared to £13.9bn last year. And perhaps most alarmingly, the ONS also plans to add the liabilities of bailed-out RBS and Lloyds to the public sector debt, which will push us an extra £1.5 trillion into the red…
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Posted by seumasach on February 18, 2009
GEAB
Global Research
17th February, 2009
Back in February 2006, LEAP/E2020 estimated that the global systemic crisis would unfold in 4 main structural phases: trigger, acceleration, impact and decanting phases. This process enabled us to properly anticipate events until now. However our team has now come to the conclusion that, due to the global leaders’ incapacity to fully realise the scope of the ongoing crisis (made obvious by their determination to cure the consequences rather than the causes of this crisis), the global systemic crisis will enter a fifth phase in the fourth quarter of 2009, a phase of global geopolitical dislocation.
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Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2009
“The global crisis is the basis for transition from speculative financial political models to the models of industrial development.”
Russia Today
February 15, 2009
A coalition of the major world powers can save Afghanistan, believes Yury Krupnov, Russian political analyst and the head of the Development movement and the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development.
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Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2009
“In an exclusive interview on Sunday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin asserted that under no circumstances would Moscow agree to jeopardize its constantly improving economic, industrial, nuclear and technical cooperation with Tehran.”
US proposal pops no eyes out in Russia
PressTV
15th February, 2009
The Russian flag flies at half mast at the Kremlin where the prevailing belief is that the idea of Iran posing a missile threat is a fairy tale.
Russia promises not to change its stance on Iran in spite of US efforts to reach a compromise with the Kremlin over its missile shield.
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In These New Times 