Posts Tagged ‘End of empire’
Posted by smeddum on December 29, 2008
War on Gaza may cripple Israel economy
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:41:09 GMT
PressTV |
An Israeli soldier adjusts the barrel of a tank near Kibbutz Sufa, just outside Gaza. Israel is no preparing its forces for a ground incursion into the strip.
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Economists have warned that the Israeli economy would be threatened if the invasion of the Gaza Strip is prolonged or the scope widened.
Israeli began the launch of massive air strikes on Gaza on Saturday. Over 310 Gazans have so far been killed and nearly 1550 people have been wounded.
The estimated daily cost of the military operations is expected to stand at tens of millions of shekels (dollars). Read the rest of this entry » |
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Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008
By Stephen Gowans
What’s Left
8th December, 2008
The crisis in Zimbabwe has intensified. Inflation is incalculably high. The central bank limits – to an inadequate level- the amount of money Zimbabweans can withdraw from their bank accounts daily. Unarmed soldiers riot, their guns kept under lock and key, to prevent an armed uprising. Hospital staff fail to show up for work. The water authority is short of chemicals to purify drinking water. Cholera, easily prevented and cured under normal circumstances, has broken out, leading the government to declare a humanitarian emergency.
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Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008
Sami Ramadani
Guardian
17th december, 2008
Within a few unlikely seconds, a pair of size 10 shoes have become the most destructive weapon the people of Iraq have managed to throw at the occupying powers, after nearly six years of occupation and formidable resistance. One Iraqi writer called the shoes, hurled by a journalist at George Bush, “Iraq’s weapon of comprehensive destruction”.
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Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering in Brazil tomorrow will mark a historic occasion: a region-wide summit that excludes the United States.
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Posted by seumasach on December 17, 2008
PressTV
17th December, 2008
Members of the Mercosur bloc have rejected Britain’s claim to sovereignty over the Falkland archipelago as an overseas territory.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: End of empire, malvinas, mercosur | 1 Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2008
Mark Ames
Radar
13th December, 2008
Tskhinvali, South Ossetia — On the sunny afternoon of August 14, a Russian army colonel named Igor Konashenko is standing triumphantly at a street corner at the northern edge of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, his forearm bandaged from a minor battle injury. The spot marks the furthest point of the Georgian army’s advance before it was summarily crushed by the Russians a few days earlier. “Twelve Georgian battalions invaded Tskhinvali, backed by columns of tanks, armored personal carriers, jets, and helicopters,” he says, happily waving at the wreckage, craters, and bombed-out buildings around us. “You see how well they fought, with all their great American training — they abandoned their tanks in the heat of the battle and fled.”
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Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008
Christopher King
Redress
10th December, 2008
Christopher King examines the corrosive effects of the Anglo-American “special relationship” on British politics and argues that, if Britain is to safeguard its civil liberties, democracy and independence, it must bring former Prime Minister Tony Blair to account for that ultimate symbol of the “special relationship”, the Iraq war.
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times
8th December, 2008
The visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to New Delhi last week turned out to be an occasion for the Indian government to fundamentally reassess the strategic significance of the traditional India-Russia partnership. No doubt, the visit took place at a turning point in contemporary history and politics against the backdrop of massive shifts in the international system.
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
Saeed Shah in Islamabad, Richard Norton-Taylor, Simon Tisdall and agencies
guardian.co.uk,
8th December, 2008
Gunmen from the Pakistani Taliban torched supplies destined for Nato forces in Afghanistan for a second day running today, officials said.
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Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008
William F. Engdahl
Asia Times
9th December, 2008
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ministers in Brussels have decided to ignore the wishes of the United States and delay the admission of Georgia and the Ukraine, in effect indefinitely, in what the George W Bush administration is sheepishly trying to claim is a positive “compromise”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on November 15, 2008
Cailean Bochanan
15th november, 2008
Ever since 9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the world has been suspended between two possible outcomes: on the one hand, a reinforced US hegemony and on the other a sort of counter-globalisation movement at the core of which lay the reassertion of national sovereignty in the face of empire. Even as the coalition got bogged down in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the terrifying possibility remained of an escalation towards global war provoked by an attack on Iran, and at certain points this scenario may have been a lot closer to becoming a reality than the wider world realized. In addition, the collapse of the Anglo-American financial system opened the possibility of a wave of financial chaos spreading out from the imperial heartlands destabilising the world economy and inaugurating a neo-feudal dark age. The aggressive and arrogant stance of Washington and London and doubts about European leadership, in particular, left one fearing what further cards the empire had left to play. That has now been clarified: they have none.
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