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| From state debt to state money |
| 29.11.11 09:33 |
Economics |
| Brussels wants the keys to the national treasuries of the 17 Euro-countries. Only this way can they save the Euro, they say. The ESM-treaty has already been signed. If the national parliamentarians ratify it, it will be the end of our sovereign democracies. Do we want that? Is there an alternative? |
| Court Fool |
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| Financial Crimes on Wall Street and the Debt Crisis |
| 18.07.11 09:53 |
Economics |
| Crime on Wall Street, in banking and in corporate America pays. One just neither admits or denies and lets the corporate shareholders pay the fines. These are today’s untouchable, who steal billions and get away with it. Financial institutions are too big to fail, as are their key employees. |
| Bob Chapman |
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| Libya and the decline of the petrodollar system |
| 09.05.11 15:50 |
Economics |
| The present campaign by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya has given rise to great confusion, both among those waging this ineffective campaign and among those observing it. Many whose opinions I normally respect see this as a necessary war against a villain - though some choose to see Gaddafi as the villain, and others point to US President Barack Obama. |
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| Humanitarian Neo-colonialism: Framing Libya and Reframing War |
| 04.05.11 19:21 |
Africa |
| The most remarkable facet of NATOs war against Libya is the fact that "world opinion," that ever so nebulous thing, has accepted an act of overt military aggression against a sovereign country guilty of no violation of the UN Charter in an act of de facto neo-colonialism, a humanitarian war in violation of basic precepts of the laws of nations. The world has accepted it without realizing the implications if the war against Gaddafi’s Libya is allowed to succeed in forced regime change. At issue is not whether or not Gaddafi is good or evil. At issue is the very concept of the civilized law of nations and of just or unjust wars. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| The perfect (desert) storm |
| 08.03.11 20:28 |
Africa |
| The George W Bush administration invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process, directly and indirectly; and as everyone knows, with no end in sight, and with total impunity. Now its the turn for the law of the (wild) West to be applied, via the Barack Obama administration, to the African king of kings - as in its OK if we bearers of the White Mans Burden kill a lot of people, but not OK if the killer is a John Galliano-dressed Bedouin weirdo. |
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| Gold and fiat currencies |
| 13.02.11 09:49 |
Economics |
| The continuous upward trend in gold price in 2010 can be partially explained as a market response to post-crisis economic conditions created by reactively loose monetary policy developments and aggressive market intervening measures by both the central bank and the Treasury in the US. This approach was duplicated in varying degrees by many other governments in the Group of 20 (G-20). |
| Asia Times Online |
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| Coup d’état - The Historical Framework of Globalization |
| 09.01.11 23:51 |
Economics |
| Our era is largely defined by two highly interlinked concepts: globalization and the so-called “war on terrorism.” As geopolitical-economic operatives, both concepts complement each other as significant means to specific ends; both shape important aspects of our daily lives and determine form and content of much that passes for public discourse. Particularly in Europe and in the United States, populations are kept vigilant to the “clear and present dangers” ostensibly posed by “international terrorism” through mnemonic icons of troop movements in Central Asia and/or strategically deployed bomb plots that are purportedly thwarted “just in time” by our intelligence services. As if copied from the lecture notes of Carl Schmitt, a totalitarian “enemy” has been constructed which can conveniently be called back into service at a moment’s notice should public memory begin to fade. |
| Dr. James Polk |
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| Europes Eastern periphery |
| 28.12.10 10:29 |
European trends |
| The PIIGS are now caught in a euro-trap. The boom years swelled their labour markets and their public finances. Now the bust leaves them uncompetitive and with a major debt hangover. |
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| Welcome to NATOstan |
| 20.11.10 11:59 |
Global Security |
| Be afraid. Be very afraid. At the Lisbon summit this Friday and Saturday, a gargantuan, innocuously sounding, self-described "military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America" that happens to be a Cold War relic sits in its own nuclear-adorned couch to speculate what it is actually all ab |
| Pepe Escoba |
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| A new face to US-China ties |
| 22.07.10 12:34 |
Asia rising |
| Frictions between China and the United States have proved persistent and apparently structural. In response, the Barack Obama administration has chosen to interpret its doctrine of "strategic reassurance" as the simple and emotionally satisfying strategy of rollback - attacking Chinese interests instead of trying to accommodate them. |
| Peter Lee |
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| Food sovereignty in Africa: The peoples alternative |
| 19.07.10 20:19 |
Economics |
| The different explanations given for Africa’s current food crisis seem to miss the real causes of the problem. Mamadou Goita does not believe that the crisis is of an economic nature. Rather, it is the endpoint of the dismantling of Africa’s agricultural sector and its linking to the international market and brutal liberalism. Based on an analysis of the political choices that have contributed to the current situation, notably the structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s, Goita proposes solutions and decisions that need to be taken to achieve food sovereignty in Africa. |
| Mamadou Goita |
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| New Eugenics and the Rise of the Global Scientific Dictatorship |
| 14.07.10 16:04 |
Global Security |
| We are in the midst of the most explosive development in all of human history. Humanity is experiencing a simultaneously opposing and conflicting geopolitical transition, the likes of which has never before been anticipated or experienced. Historically, the story of humanity has been the struggle between the free-thinking individual and structures of power controlled by elites that seek to dominate land, resources and people. The greatest threat to elites at any time – historically and presently – is an awakened, critically thinking and politically stimulated populace. This threat has manifested itself throughout history, in different places and at different times. Ideas of freedom, democracy, civil and human rights, liberty and equality have emerged in reaction and opposition to power structures and elite systems of control. |
| Andrew Gavin Marshall |
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| A geostrategy for Eurasia |
| 23.05.10 21:22 |
Asia rising |
| The USA today wants to control the flow of oil & gas from Central Asian regions through its pipelines and the ports of its choice. It will not want to sell all to Western nations, but depending on good and "reciprocal" behaviour to Russia and China too. But the control of the gas will be vested with USA. Russia and China have other plans. |
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