February 5, 2009
By Paul Anderson
For some the idea that China can “decouple” from the US is blasphemous. Indeed, China has no immediate intention of depegging from the dollar. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged ‘End of empire’
Will China’s recovery lead to decoupling?
Posted by smeddum on February 5, 2009
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CSTO – a NATO for the East?
Posted by seumasach on February 4, 2009
4th February, 2009
The members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization – Russia and six neighbouring states – have agreed to set up a collective rapid reaction force to combat terrorism, military aggression, and drug trafficking.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Collective Security Treaty Organization, CSTO, End of empire, Russian diplomacy | Leave a Comment »
NATO seeks Iran help over Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009
This question is the crux of the matter for the collapsing empire: which of its enemies will allow it to resupply its armies in Afghanistan? They have just decided it is Iran.
3rd February, 2009
NATO says member states can use Iran as a safe supply path to forces in Afghanistan, amid increasing attacks on its routes through Pakistan.
Posted in Afghanistan | Tagged: Afghanistan. Khyber Pass, End of empire, Iran | 1 Comment »
Karzai scares Obama with Russia
Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009
2nd February, 2009
MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov0 – Russia may become a major factor in the presidential ambitions of the leading Afghan politicians during the country’s presidential elections next summer.
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DEA quits Bolivia on Morales’ order
Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2009
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan 29, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has removed all its agents from Bolivia, complying with orders by President Evo Morales, officials said.
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Biden may hold unclenched Iranian hand
Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2009
M.K. Bhadrakumar
3oth January, 2009
Eyes trained to watch the Hindu Kush must now turn askance toward Germany where the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy is scheduled to take place next weekend. Organizers of the annual event revealed on Thursday that among the 300 prominent figures from the international arena of foreign, security and defense policy will be a “very high-ranking personality” from Tehran.
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The Consequences of Imperialism
Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2009
25th January, 2009
One of the purposes of this blog is to reconnect my readers with our heritage of British radical thought. These ideas were very much part of the intellectual mainstream, but in my lifetime that mainstream has been drastically narrowed by the control of media and of education by the very interests and methods that will be described in this entry.
Posted in Drive to Global War | Tagged: End of empire, imperialism | Leave a Comment »
Brown still fantasising about global power
Posted by seumasach on January 26, 2009
26th January, 2009
So Brown thinks he can still exploit the crisis to project anglo-american power globally. The “deglobalisation threat” is a codeword for the kind of sovereign oppostion to the empire which we are seeing throughout the world. Brown is deluded, the empire is over, and his failure to recognise this fact preventing a rational response to the crisis in the UK and the USA.
The economic crisis should be treated as “the difficult birth-pangs of a new global order”, with new rules introduced on trade, Gordon Brown says.
The prime minister set out a series of actions designed to “replace fear with confidence” and warned against just “muddling through as pessimists”.
During a speech defending his handling of the crisis he also warned against the “deglobalisation threat”.
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An existential crisis
Posted by seumasach on January 7, 2009
Cailean Bochanan
28th September, 2007
The present financial crisis has only just started and promises to be profound and far reaching. It’s resolution can be one that favours the few who habitually monopolise political and economic power or one that favours the many who habitually strive to create some kind of life for themselves. In short, it’s resolution can be oligarchical or democratic.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: ccd, disappearing bees, EM radiation, End of empire, financial collapse, riders of the apocalypse | Leave a Comment »
Rampage in Gaza for a Bump in the Polls
Posted by seumasach on January 4, 2009
But electoral benefits will only come with military success and that seems most unlikely. What has undoubtedly been achieved by this invasion is to compromise Obama, to lock him in to the neo-con agenda of endless conflict in the Middle East at a moment when he showed clear signs, under his mentors Brzezinski and Soros, of wanting diplomacy in the Middle East with a view to refocusing US aggression against Russia and China. His agenda is in ruins and the US remains hitched to an Israel veering out of control.
Mike Whitney
31st December, 2008
Barack Obama has passed his first test with flying colors. He’s made himself disappear so Israel can continue its killing spree in Gaza. The last time a president shrunk this small was when Ariel Sharon took his wrecking-ball through Jenin during the second intifada. Bush slipped down a mouse hole so Israel’s “Man of Peace” could finish his dirty work unopposed. Now Obama has taken refuge in that same dark hideaway. What a relief it must be for his critics at AIPAC and the far-right think tanks to know that the next Commander in Chief will be every bit as compliant as the last. That’s “continuity they can believe in”.
Posted in New Cold War | Tagged: End of empire, Gaza, Israel, New Cold War, Obama agenda | Leave a Comment »
US emerging as failed State
Posted by smeddum on January 3, 2009
False Deflation Diagnosis and Gold Bullish Crossover Signal
Jan 02, 2009 – 05:25 AM
By: Jim_Willie_CB Market Oracle
One of the most bothersome questions from 2005 to 2007 used to be whether the Untied States would ultimately submit to inflation or deflation. This is actually the wrong question. Many analysts in my view are incorrect in their conclusion that the US suffers from a powerful deflation episode, since they endorse the wrong definition, confuse effect with cause (as usual), do not properly monitor the money flow, and then draw improper conclusions from prices. They suffer from a type of Keynesian Tunnel Vision. They are confused, and fail to adapt certain key measures after the financial sector highjacked the entire national system in the last two decades. Read the rest of this entry »
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