By Ellen Brown: The first Great Depression led to totalitarian dictatorships, war to consolidate power and concentrations of capital in the hands of a financial elite. The trigger was a default on the global reserve currency,…
Category: Global Issues
Day 70 Of Libyan War: 8,444 NATO Air Missions, 3,229 Combat Flights! Non-Aligned Movement Conference: Cuba Condemns NATO Attacks Against Libya As International Crime NATO Defies Africa By Intensifying Bombardment Of Libya Britain Deploys Helicopter…
May 26 — A five-star hotel in Anhui province said on May 19 that it found plastic packaging materials and metal buckles in the ham it purchased from the Maanshan branch of Yurun Food (1068.HK), reports cb.com.cn. …
To lead the counter-revolution in this region, Washington and Tel Aviv have relied on their best support: the Sudairi clan, which embodies despotism at the service of imperialism unlike any other. Saudi Arabia is a legal entity created by the British during the First World War to weaken the Ottoman Empire. As the British inquiry on the Al-Yamamah Scandal brought to light, in the 21st century there are still no bank accounts or budget for the Kingdom. It is the accounts of the royal family that serve to administer the Kingdom, which is its private domain.
By Ahdaf Soueif: After Obama’s speech about the Arab Spring uprisings, Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif says, if he is serious about supporting self-determination for the people of Egypt, here’s a to-do list. This wasn’t…
Explosion took off at three different locations in Fuzhou city about 10 am, near the procuratorate office, the Linchuan district government and the district’s food and drug administration. According to witness, the blast blew away…
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Shiite militia fighters led a massive rally of followers of a hard-liner anti-American cleric on Thursday, marching in Baghdad in a show of defiance as Iraqi leaders weigh whether to keep U.S….
By Webster G. Tarpley: “Serpents, thirst, heat, and sand … Libya alone can present a multitude of woes that it would beseem men to fly from.” Lucan, Pharsalia The current military attack on Libya has…
By Matthew Penney and Mark Selden: On April 12, 2011 the Japanese government officially announced that the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster had reached level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event…
“The Americans are going to try and put in [White House adviser] David Lipton as number two. Lipton is Mr Bank Bailout. He worked for Citigroup. If they put in Lagarde and Lipton, what does that say? We are going with the total bank protection plan. That would be a disaster.” (“IMF under growing pressure to appoint non-European head”, The Guardian) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/19/imf-pressure-appoint-non-european-head