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Will European Action Follow Rhetoric?

Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010

Rami G. Khouri
Middle-East Online

19th January, 2010
Several symbolic or rhetorical gestures in recent weeks indicate that the European Union wants at least to raise its voice and its profile on Arab-Israeli peace-making. But to have impact it must transcend verbal commitments or admonitions and venture into the realm of actions and sanctions, argues Rami G. Khouri.
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Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?

Posted by seumasach on January 13, 2010

Jeremy Scahill

Nation

8th January, 2010

German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month in a Vanity Fair profile of Blackwater’s owner Erik Prince.

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The European Union at a crossroads in 2010: an accomplice or a victim of the collapse of the dollar?

Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2009

16th October, 2009
The major trends at work in the 4th and 5th phases of the global systemic crisis (the decanting phase and the global geopolitical dislocation phase) are unveiling every day (1). Everyone has now realized that the United States is being swept into an uncontrollable spiral involving widespread insolvency of the country and gross incompetence of the U.S. elite in implementing the necessary solutions. The foretold US default is well underway as exemplified by the falling dollar and the flight of capital from the country: only the name of the liquidator and the recognition of the bankruptcy are still missing, but it shouldn’t be long now. Following the example of its leader, the Western bloc (which Japan has undertaken to move away from, implementing completely new political, economic, financial and diplomatic policies (2)), is in total decay symbolized by NATO’s coalition in Afghanistan (3).

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Europes Complicity in Evil

Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts

VDare

10th September, 2009

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The European Revolution Begins

There is a widespread supposition that Obama, being black and a member of an oppressed race, will imbue US foreign policy with a higher morality than the world experienced from Bush and Clinton. This is a delusion.

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Sarkozy challenges Germans with new Europe power bid

Posted by seumasach on October 23, 2008

 

John Lichfield

Independent

23rd October, 2008

President Nicolas Sarkozy would like to emerge as the economic “president” of Europe until 2010 – overseeing a united response to the world financial crisis by the 15 Euroland nations and Britain.

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Europe Tries to Shield Itself From America’s Toxic Contagion

Posted by seumasach on October 12, 2008

 

George Washington’s Blog

Bush begged the G-7 to help fix America’s economic meltdown. Like a drowning man trying to hang onto the back of a good swimmer, or like a criminal trying to bring in others to his defense, he pleadingly said “We’re all in this together.”

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NATO divided over Georgian conflict

Posted by seumasach on August 28, 2008

Yusuf Fernandez

Press TV, Madrid

27th August, 2008

Georgian tanks near Tskinvali on August 8
On August 19, NATO foreign ministers convened in Brussels to discuss the Georgia crisis, following intense pressure from the US. The final declaration accused Russia of using “disproportionate” military force and “deliberately destructing civilian infrastructure”, but said nothing about the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia that began on August 8 and initiated the conflict.

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German Politicians Want Nukes out of Europe

Posted by seumasach on June 24, 2008

Der Spiegel

23rd June, 2008
The opposition in Germany wants nuclear weapons out of the country following a report which says that some of those weapons may not be properly safeguarded.

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