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| The ABM Treaty: Dead or Alive? |
| 19.02.10 16:14 |
Memories |
| On December 13, 2001, President George W. Bush gave notice that the United States was going to withdraw from the ABM Treaty in six months. Is this a correct decision which should go unchallenged? Im proposing here a decision tree. President Bush should have gone through a decision-making process like this before announcing withdrawal, but obviously, he didnt. There are ten questions, to be answered in order. If the answer to any question is "no," then the process halts and withdrawal should not occur. The rest of the questions are then irrelevant. If the answer is a question is "yes," then you proceed to the following question. Only if the answer to all ten of the questions is "yes" do you proceed to withdraw from the treaty. The questions are as follows: |
| Dr. Robert M. Bowman |
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| US Sponsored Regime Change in Iran |
| 04.02.10 10:31 |
Iran |
| There is a stark similarity between some aspects of the political atmosphere dominant over Iran today and those under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh right before the U.S.-led coup of 1953 that resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the establishment of a U.S.-puppet government of the Shah. |
| Ardeshir Ommani |
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| Yemen left with little wiggle room |
| 14.01.10 12:20 |
Middle East |
| The United States may be on the verge of involvement in yet another counter-insurgency war that, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, may make a bad situation even worse. The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight by a Nigerian and apparently planned in Yemen, the alleged ties between the perpetrator of the Fort Hood massacre to a radical Yemeni cleric, and an ongoing US-backed Yemeni military offensive against al-Qaeda have all focused US attention on that country. |
| Stephen Zunes, |
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| Europe in Crisis |
| 14.01.10 12:13 |
European trends |
| At the start of the last decade, in March 2000, the European Union heads of state announced the Lisbon Strategy. Its aim, by 2010, was to make Europe “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.” This would create “the conditions for full employment and the strengthening of regional cohesion in the European Union.” |
| Peter Schwarz |
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| Ukraine, WHO and the Geopolitics of Swine Flu Panic |
| 19.11.09 22:20 |
f.USSR |
| Latest reports of what is being called a deadly Swine Flu outbreak in Ukraine according to on sight reports appear to be a political concoction by a threatened government to avoid election defeat and possibly declare martial law. The details indicate how convenient the current WHO "Swine Flu" H1N1 "pandemic" scare is for regimes in trouble. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| The Role of Gold in the World Monetary System |
| 09.11.09 09:57 |
Economics |
| On 27th August 2009 I wrote an article, “An Appeal To Malaysia’s Prime Minister Cum Finance Minister – Re-Examine the Country’s Strategy For Foreign Reserves”, to urge our Prime Minister to examine the critical need to diversify our foreign reserves, specifically to increase our holdings of gold. |
| Matthias Chang |
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| America, condoms and the Taliban |
| 24.10.09 16:27 |
Iraq War, "War on Terra" |
| The Pakistanis use an earthy metaphor when they want to put their American interlocutors on the defensive. They complain that the United States used Pakistan like a condom, simply discarded it when it is no longer useful, as has happened time and again in the Cold War era. By saying so, they urge the Americans to be constant in friendship. |
| M K Bhadrakumar |
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| Saudi-Iranian hostility hits boiling point |
| 22.10.09 08:32 |
Iran |
| Conventional wisdom suggests that the terrorist strike by Jundallah in southeastern Iran on Sunday might have had the backing of the United States or Britain. But Jundallah today holds "fatal" attraction for a number of foreign powers that are interested in disorienting Iran′s policies. |
| M K Bhadrakumar |
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