After the European Commission has finally realized that major investors (RWE) and transit countries (Hungary) are leaving Nabucco, bureaucrats in Brussels are now trying to revitalize a distressed project – the so-called Trans-Caspian…
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While most Asian equity markets have been rallying recently, they are no longer under-valued. But Russia is one market that has remained largely flat of late and is presently trading at very cheap…
From Cairo, January 28, 2013. The smoke everywhere, tear gas, riot police with light and heavy weapons, protesters, religious cadres, even common thugs. Passionate speeches and confusion: I spoke to dozens of people and nobody knows…
1. Canadian passports found on badly burned bodies of two insurgents 2. One Frenchman among the terrorists, say Algerian judicial sources 3. Algerian PM says 37 foreign hostages from eight countries had died 4. Total…
Joseph Keller stands outside the kitchen door of his abandoned house in Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 30, 2012. The Kellers were ordered to vacate five years ago, but the bank never followed through with the foreclosure…
[Editor’s note: This article is originally printed in April, 2012. However, The 4th Media believes this is still very much today’s ongoing issues not only in Afghanistan but also elsewhere around the world wherever US and…
The War on Afghanistan is a Profit driven “Resource War”. US and NATO forces invaded Afghanistan eleven years ago. Afghanistan is defined as a state sponsor of terrorism. The war on Afghanistan continues to…
It’s so simple. And everybody knows it. Mass mind control focuses on two elements: image and feeling. By linking the two primary elements, it is possible to short-circuit thought and “cut to the chase,” when…
You can’t exclude any hypothesis … It’s practically impossible that here in an [oil] installation like this which is fully automated everywhere and that has thousands of responsible workers night and day, civilian and military, and that there is a gas leak for 3 or 4 days and nobody responds. This is impossible.” – President Chavez responding to US media and opposition charges that the explosion and fire at the oil refinery was due to government negligence. August, 26, 2010 Introduction Only 43 days before the Venezuelan presidential election and with President Chavez leading by a persistent margin of 20 percentage points, an explosion and fire at the Amuay refinery killed at least 48 people – half of those were members of the National Guard – and destroyed oil facilities producing 645,000 barrels of oil per day. Immediately following the explosion and fire, on script, all the mass media in the US and Great Britain, and the right wing Venezuelan opposition launched a blanket condemnation of the government as the perpetrator of the disaster accusing it of “gross negligence” and “under-investment” in safety standards.
The slow formation of an international order The idea of a world or international order appeared in the seventeenth century, although the phrase “world order” has been introduced only recently in political discourse. It…