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US, EU seek Iran help on Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2009

PressTV

5th March, 2009

 

 

The new US administration reportedly plans to invite Iran to an international conference to discuss the worsening Afghan security situation. 

“Iran will be invited to attend,” Reuters quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying on Thursday. 

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington was looking to engage Tehran on Afghanistan. 

Clinton also unveiled that there had been consultations between Iran and the US ambassador on a daily basis regarding Afghanistan just after the US military toppled the Taliban in 2001. 

Following seven years of occupation and the failure of some 70,000 US and NATO-led troops to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan, Washington has called on the war-ravaged country’s neighbors to help deal with the situation. 

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Obama’s Iraq withdrawal plans and MoveOn

Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2009

 

By Stephen Gowans

What’s Left

1st March, 2009

Michael D. Yates wrote an MRZine article accusing Fox and CNN journalists, and Michael Steele, the first black person to be selected to chair the Republican National Committee, of being complete boneheads. That Yates chose MRZine as his vehicle for launching a diatribe against the intellectual failings of the likes of Lou Dobbs and Wolf Blitzer means he must have been looking for an easy sell. He might as well have told Palestinians that Zionists are not their friends.

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Kiss the Banks Goodbye and Refocus on Rebuilding the American People

Posted by seumasach on March 5, 2009

This can’t be happening

4th March, 2009

The futility and stupidity of the Fed’s and the Obama administration’s policy of pumping ever more money into failing banks and insurance companies in a vain effort to get them lending again was demonstrated—if anyone was paying attention—by the collapse in auto sales this past month, with all the leading companies, Ford, GM and Toyota, reporting sales down by about 40%.

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William Engdahl-Taking on the banking cabal Pt 2

Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2009

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William Engdahl-Taking on the banking cabal

Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2009

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La méthode Holbrooke, du Kosovo au Pakistan

Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2009

Voltaireorg.net

3rd March, 2009

La méthode Holbrooke, du Kosovo au Pakistan



L’administration Obama a contraint ses principaux alliés engagés en Afghanistan à modifier leur organisation administrative et à désigner un interlocuteur unique à l’ambassadeur Richard Holbrooke pour créer un « groupe de contact sur l’Afghanistan et le Pakistan ». De cette manière, Washington espère dépasser les résistances nationales et mobiliser le maximum de moyens, militaires et civils, au service de l’OTAN.

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L’affaire UBS : une acte de souveraineté impériale Lutte contre la fraude fiscale ou main mise sur le système financier international ?

Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2009

This throws some light on Brown’s sudden conversion to eliminating tax havens through new international powers i.e. obviously not the ones within British jurisdiction.

Jean-Claude Paye

Voltairenet.org

3rd March, 2009

Washington a partiellement réussi à contraindre l’Union des Banques Suisses (UBS) à violer la législation helvétique et à dénoncer ses clients états-uniens susceptibles de frauder le fisc. Malgré les apparences, observe le sociologue Jean-Claude Paye, cette manœuvre ne vise pas à obtenir des informations, car Washington les détenait probablement déjà, mais à casser la place bancaire suisse. L’Empire tente d’éliminer par la force les « paradis fiscaux » qu’il ne contrôle pas, au profit des siens qu’il protège.

[Washington has partially succeeded in forcing l’Union des Banques Suisses (UBS) to violate Swiss law and reveal the names of its US clients liable tp prosecution for fraud. In spite of appearances, observes sociologist, Jean-Claude Paye, this manoeuvre doesn’t aim to obtain information, since Washington in all probability, already it, but to undermine Swiss banking. The empire intends to eliminate by force tax havens which it doesn’t control, in favour of those which it does.]

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Chavez to Obama: Don’t mess with me

Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2009

PressTV

1st March, 2009

The Venezuelan president has criticized US President Barack Obama for following the Bush administration policies over drug trafficking.
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The Last Picture Show-President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget

Posted by seumasach on March 2, 2009

Richard C. Cook

Rense.com

3rd March, 2009

“The Last Picture Show” was a 1971 film depicting the decay of small town America. It took place in the fictitious town of Anarene, Texas.

We hear a distant tune reminiscent of America’s high and lonely places and the sound of a dry wind blowing. It’s March 2010 in the tiny West Texas town of Anarene. Nothing much happens here any more. The last business shut down a couple of years ago. It was a cement plant that went broke after the housing bubble burst and the banks stopped lending. The kids out of high school drive their jalopies from one end of Main Street to the other past boarded-up storefronts. Read the rest of this entry »

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Venezuela’s Chavez losing hope in U.S. President Obama

Posted by seumasach on February 27, 2009

MOSCOW, February 27 (RIA Novosti) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez believes that high hopes should not be placed on the new U.S. administration or on President Barack Obama, national media said on Friday.

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Orwell in Babylon- Obama’s Non-Withdrawal Withdrawal Plan

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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