16 December 2011 — williambowles.info
Bradley Manning pre-trial hearing opens amid tight security
The Guardian
Bradley Manning will be seen in public for the first time since he was arrested in Iraq in May 2010 for allegedly leaking hundreds of thousands of secret US state documents to WikiLeaks. Security will be exceptionally – some say bizarrely – tight at …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/16/bradley-manning-military-hearing-wikileaks?newsfeed=true
16 December 2011 — The David Kelly Inquest Fund
At long last a step closer to a coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr. David Kelly. This would be the first time a court would hear the medical anomalies that led many to conclude that Dr Kelly did not commit suicide. Will the lid on the government cover-up about the case and this pandora’s box be lifted?
3 December 2011 — Michael Hudson
Has the Link been Broken?
This article appeared in the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung on December 5, 2011.
Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to ‘take the multitude into their camp’ and usher in democracy, within which an oligarchy emerges once again, followed by aristocracy, democracy, and so on throughout history.
8 December 2011 — Michael Hudson
Michael appears on Capital Account to discuss his two most recent articles, Democracy & Debt and Europe’s Transition from Social Democracy to Oligarchy.
7 December 2011 — Michael Hudson
As first published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They are a banker’s dream, a grab bag of giveaways that few voters would be likely to approve in a democratic referendum. Bank strategists learned not to risk submitting their plans to democratic vote after Icelanders twice refused in 2010-11 to approve their government’s capitulation to pay Britain and the Netherlands for losses run up by badly regulated Icelandic banks operating abroad. Lacking such a referendum, mass demonstrations were the only way for Greek voters to register their opposition to the €50 billion in privatization sell-offs demanded by the European Central Bank (ECB) in autumn 2011.
16 December 2011 — williambowles.info
16 December 2011
Iran denies construction of new nuclear plant in Isfahan
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 02:41
16 December 2011 — williambowles.info
16 December 2011
IRAQ MISSION [FINALLY?] ACCOMPLISHED : A dictatorship without a dictator
Asia Times Online Today at 11:00
A democratic Iraq in a neighborhood riddled with dictatorships will not work, because Arab and Iranian regimes will always try to bring it down, as they did with Lebanon for more than 40 years. With Saudi Arabia and Syria, though, distracted by their own internal problems, it will fall on Tehran to continue its meddling ways in Baghdad. – Sami Moubayed (Dec 16, ’11)
16 December, 2011 — Media Lens
The latest round of UN climate talks has just begun in Durban, South Africa, but the world’s richest nations are already planning to prevent any new treaty from taking effect before 2020. Achim Steiner, head of the UN environment programme, has condemned the action as a ‘political choice’, rather than one based on science, calling it ‘very high risk’.
14 December 2011 — Global Research
Editor’s Note:
THE IRAN-DRONEGATE SAGA
Welcome to what might be described as the “Iran-DronGate Saga”, a diplomatic endgame directed against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Global Research will be providing detailed coverage of this important topic. – Michel Chossudovsky, December 14, 2011
14 December 2011 — Global Research
Editor’s Note:
THE IRAN-DRONEGATE SAGA
Welcome to what might be described as the “Iran-DronGate Saga”, a diplomatic endgame directed against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Global Research will be providing detailed coverage of this important topic. – Michel Chossudovsky, December 14, 2011
15 December, 2011 — Global Research
Two months ago, we approached Global Research readers with a challenge: to increase the Global Research Newsletter list by 10,000 new subscribers before the end of 2011. Now mid-December, we have made significant steps forward, and although we have not (yet!) reached our goal, the response has been encouraging.
16 December 2011 — Stop NATO
15 December 2011 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Settlers Torch A Mosque In Ramallah
IMEMC – A group of fanatic Israeli settlers burnt, on Thursday at dawn, a mosque in Borqa village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and wrote racist graffiti on its walls. The attack is the latest of a series of attacks against Palestinian mosques and property. …
15 December 2011 — Information Clearing House
“Yankee Go Home”
Iraq Celebrates US Army Withdrawal
By Reuters
Iraqis burned American flags, brandished banners and thronged the streets of the western city of Falluja to celebrate the withdrawal of US troops.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29999.htm
16 December 2011 — 30s Jazz on the Tube
1943 footage of the Duke Ellington Orchestra performing the swing era anthem “It Don’t Mean A Thing” with the singing of violinist and trumpeter Ray Nance, and trombonist ‘Tricky’ Sam Nanton. The song’s title was a derived from a saying often used by the Ellington Band’s former trumpet player Bubber Miley.
The New Dark Age 