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| Now Legal Immunity for Swine flu Vaccine Makers |
| 21.07.09 15:19 |
Americas on the move |
| The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, has just signed a decree granting vaccine makers total legal immunity from any lawsuits that result from any new “Swine Flu” vaccine. Moreover, the $7 billion US Government fast-track program to rush vaccines onto the market in time for the Autumn flu season is being done without even normal safety testing. Is there another agenda at work in the official WHO hysteria campaign to declare so-called H1N1 virus—which has yet to be rigorously scientifically isolated, characterized and photographed with an electron microscope—the scientifically accepted procedure—a global “pandemic” threat? |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| Pipeline deal is sweet music for Iran |
| 16.07.09 21:02 |
Iran |
| How a trans-Caspian gas pipeline project came to be named after the 19th-century Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi′s famous opera Nabucco remains obscure. The opera is based on a Biblical story about the tragic plight of persecuted Jews exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. Maybe, the opera′s enchanting story of love and struggle or its tendency toward melodrama was considered an apt metaphor for the acute Caspian energy rivalry. |
| M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times Online |
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| A neo-con Yankee in Karzai′s court |
| 20.05.09 21:45 |
Asia rising |
| The neo-conservatives have all but been vanquished. But the Barack Obama administration in the United States is making a solitary exception in the case of Zalmay Khalilzad. He is back on the Washington circuit, repeating an amazing trapeze act which has few parallels in the chronicles of political opportunism. |
| M K Bhadrakumar |
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| Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms Part II |
| 06.05.09 09:14 |
Americas on the move |
| As the late great American poet Yogi Berra might have put it, ‘this just gets absurder and absurder.’ The international agencies supposedly responsible for monitoring worldwide dangers of new pandemic threats, the WHO and CDC are acting like the directors of a Hollywood ‘B’ grade sci-fi movie or the author of a copycat version of Michael Crichton’s Andromeda Strain novel. The global panic over outbreak of a new human-to-human Swine Flu pandemic is increasingly revealed as a likely operation in mass psychological terror whose only beneficiaries are the few global pharmaceutical giants that are in the business of peddling so-called ‘antiviral’ drugs—Roche, SmithKlineGlaxo and Novavax most prominently. The losers are the rest of us normal folks. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| Paying the Price for Cheap Meat |
| 02.05.09 13:50 |
Global Security |
| A swelling number of scientists believe swine flu has not happened by accident. No: they argue that this global pandemic - and all the deaths we are about to see - is the direct result of our demand for cheap meat. So is the way we produce our food really making us sick as a pig? |
| Johann Hari |
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| Russia, China on comradely terms |
| 01.05.09 16:46 |
Asia rising |
| Westernism is giving way to Orientalism in Moscow′s outlook, if the past week′s happenings are any guide. As Russia′s ties with the West deteriorate, an upswing in its strategic partnership with China becomes almost inevitable. |
| M K Bhadrakumar |
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| Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms |
| 30.04.09 10:38 |
Global Security |
| If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak of the deadly flu was first discovered in Mexico. According to press reports, after several days, headlines reported as many as perhaps 150 deaths in Mexico were believed caused by this virulent people-killing pig virus that has spread to humans and now is allegedly being further spread from human to human. Cases were being reported hourly from Canada to Spain and beyond. The only thing wrong with this story is that it is largely based on lies, hype and coverup of possible real causes of Mexican deaths. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| US-Russia ties on a new trajectory |
| 03.04.09 18:41 |
f.USSR |
| Face-to-face meetings between the leaderships of the United States and Russia have a history of inspiring optimism that eventually turns out to be illusory and short-lived. The summit meeting at the Black Sea resort of Sochi a year ago was a perfect instance. The Sochi summit produced a grandiloquent declaration spelling out the contours of strategic cooperation between the two big powers. |
| M K Bhadrakumar |
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| Settling the Dispute Over Nagorno Karabakh |
| 01.04.09 11:15 |
f.USSR |
| When compared to the other disputed former Soviet territories of Pridnestrovie (also referred to as Transnistria, Transdniestria, Transdnestr and Trans-Dniester), South Ossetia and Abkhazia - Nagorno Karabakh (which Armenians also refer to as Artsakh) often seems to get the least attention. This despite the latter being the bloodiest of these conflicts. Geographically, Nagorno-Karabakh is further away from the European Union nations and the United States than the other mentioned lands. |
| Michael Averko |
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