November 28, 2010
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Wikileaks release of embassy cables reveals US concerns
28 November, 2010 — BBC News Wikileaks release of embassy cables reveals US concerns War Logs website that organised some of the earlier Wikileaks Wikileaks has previously released documents relating to Iraq and Afghanistan Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has released 250,000 secret messages sent by US embassies which give an insight into current American global concerns. Continue reading
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The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement Victor Kovalev
The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance’s new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions. In practice, the reform will institutionalize the West’s victory in the Cold World War III. The already visible results of the victory include the ongoing departure from the Yalta-Potsdam… Continue reading
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The EU at a Crossroads By Rafe MAIR
I am, God knows, no economist but that may not be all that bad when you remember the words of Harry S Truman who said ‘Give a one-handed economist. All my economists say, ‘on the one hand…on the other’.’ I’m therefore unqualified to examine the EU’s field of economic landmines. Yet perhaps my ignorance of… Continue reading
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Haitian Elections on Sunday "Neither Free Nor Fair"
Policy analyst with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Main said today: “These elections were already highly problematic before the cholera epidemic began to spread. Haiti’s electoral authority — the CEP [Provisional Electoral Council] — suffers from a lack of credibility; legitimate parties have been excluded from participating in the legislative elections, and very… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 November, 2010: MK proposes bill to declare Jerusalem Jewish capital
26 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Rabin’s Son Proposes Alternative Israeli Peace Initiative IMEMC – 27 Nov 2010 – Friday November 26, 2010 – 17:39, The son of Yitzhak Rabin and businessman Koby Huberman presented a plan in response to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, Haaretz said quoting a source Continue reading
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Ireland: “We Can’t Pay That Money, and We Won’t Pay That Money” by 50 Halala
“Well, our gallant allies in Europe have arrived 95 years too late and uninvited, and instead of guns to help the revolution they have brought economic weapons of mass destruction. Does anybody in this country or in Dáil Éireann think that we can as a people afford to pay 6.7 percent on money that we… Continue reading
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Greece – Ireland – Portugal – Spain – Italy – UK – Europe’s Financial Domino Effect Washington’s Blog
Iceland has the world’s 112th biggest economy, Ireland the 38th, and Portugal the 36th. In contrast, Spain has the world’s 9th biggest economy, Italy the 7th and the UK the 6th. A failure by one of the latter 3 would be devastating for the world economy. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 