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Tunisia and the IMF’s Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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What Does WikiLeaks Have on Bank of America? By Mary Bottari
Before the big banks start calling for Assange’s internment at Guantanamo, the question worth considering is what does Wikileaks have on America’s largest bank? Continue reading
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New Year To Mark Intensification Of West’s War In Afghanistan And Pakistan By Rick Rozoff
The air and cruise missile attacks that commenced on October 7, 2001 and the insertion of U.S. and British ground troops that followed have been succeeded by a 48-nation, 152,000-troop occupation and counterinsurgency campaign that is also conducting almost daily deadly drone missile strikes and helicopter gunship raids into neighboring Pakistan. Continue reading
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Big Brother: America’s Police State Mentality in the Electronic Age By Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
In 2049, when the 100th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell political novel ‘1984’ will be celebrated, it will be recalled that the immediate post September 11, 2001 period marked the beginning of a gradual decline in personal liberty and freedom, especially in the United States but also elsewhere, and the emergence of a… Continue reading
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Coup d’état – The Historical Framework of Globalization By Dr. James Polk
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. Continue reading
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2011: A Special Message to Global Research readers: Best Wishes for a Peaceful New Year By The Global Research Team
As 2010 draws to a close, we take a moment to reflect on the past year and contemplate what may be ahead in the months to come. War continues to be waged across the globe at unprecedented rates, amassing immeasurable monetary, psychological and human costs which affect all citizens of the world. In turn, a… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning Suffering Extreme Isolation Prison Torture — Courageous Whistleblower ‘Physically Deteriorating’
Last week, Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified materials to Wikileaks, spent his 23rd birthday in the brig of the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. He has been convicted of no crime, but endures the kind of highly restrictive detention that’s usually reserved for the most dangerous criminals in America’s supermax prisons. Continue reading
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Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The Immorality of Austerity By Prof. John Kozy
When a civilization abandons its morality, no rationalization can be devised to justify its continued existence. It is likely that many reasons can be given for this abandonment in the Western world, although I am convinced that one predominates—the expansion of law. Law once governed various kinds of behavior. It has now encroached upon various… Continue reading
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The March to War: Was September 11 2001 the Start of World War III? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The tragic attacks of September 11, 2001 have resulted in almost ten years of perpetual war. September 11, 2001 was the first drum beats, or the opening salvos, of a much wider conflict. The deployment of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan has secured a bridgehead into the Eurasian Heartland, which is geographically positioned on… Continue reading
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WikiRebels: Swedish docufilm on WikiLeaks chronicles a new form of global resistance By Rady Ananda
Sweden’s public service television, SVT, is about to broadcast a deeply-moving, one-hour documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks, after having followed the crew for six months. An uninterrupted rough cut of the film can be viewed here until December 13. Though the film arrives in the midst of questionable rape charges, with Assange currently in… Continue reading
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Wikileaks: A Big Dangerous US Government Con Job? By F. William Engdahl
What is emerging from all the sound and Wikileaks fury in Washington is that the entire scandal is serving to advance a long-standing Obama and Bush agenda of policing the until-now free Internet. Already the US Government has shut the Wikileaks server in the United States though no identifiable US law has been broken. Continue reading
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The Beginning of the End of the American Empire By Tanya Cariina Hsu
It all began in the early part of the 20th century. In 1907, J.P. Morgan, a private New York banker, published a rumor that a competing unnamed large bank was about to fail. It was a false charge but customers nonetheless raced to their banks to withdraw their money, in case it was their bank.… Continue reading
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The Mysterious "Laptop Documents". Using Fake Intelligence to Justify a Pre-emptive Nuclear War on Iran By Michel Chossudovsky
Without Russian military aid, Iran is a “sitting duck”. Its air defence system depends on continued Russian military cooperation. These developments strike at the very heart of the structure of military alliances. They prevent Russia and China to sell both strategic and conventional weapons and military technology to their de facto ally: Iran. In fact,… Continue reading
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The Mysterious “Laptop Documents”. Using Fake Intelligence to Justify a Pre-emptive Nuclear War on Iran By Michel Chossudovsky
Without Russian military aid, Iran is a “sitting duck”. Its air defence system depends on continued Russian military cooperation. These developments strike at the very heart of the structure of military alliances. They prevent Russia and China to sell both strategic and conventional weapons and military technology to their de facto ally: Iran. In fact,… Continue reading
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Ruling on Behalf of Wall Street’s “Super Rich”: The Financial End Time has Arrived By Prof. Michael Hudson
Now that President Obama is almost celebrating his bipartisan willingness to renew the tax cuts for the super-rich enacted under George Bush ten years ago, it is time for Democrats to ask themselves how strongly they are willing to oppose an administration that looks like Bush-Cheney III. Is this what they expected by Mr. Obama’s… Continue reading
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Global Research 7-17 November, 2010 – Selected Articles: Big Brother Security Measures, Austerity Program, and Endless War in Afghanistan and Iraq
17 November, 2010 — Global Research THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS. The Great Depression of the XXI Century – by Michel Chossudovsky, Andrew Gavin Marshall – 2010-11-20 George Galloway in Montreal : Palestine. Afghanistan 17 November 2010 – 2010-11-16 American Hypocrisy: Destruction of the Constitution, Collapse of the Rule of Law – by Paul Craig Roberts Continue reading
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Conversations with Fidel Castro: The Dangers of a Nuclear War By Fidel Castro Ruz and Michel Chossudovsky
From October 12 to 15, 2010, I had extensive and detailed discussions with Fidel Castro in Havana, pertaining to the dangers of nuclear war, the global economic crisis and the nature of the New World Order. These meetings resulted in a wide-ranging and fruitful interview. Continue reading
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Remembrance Day: Reversing the Tide of War. Say No to Nuclear War By Michel Chossudovsky
When a US sponsored nuclear war becomes an “instrument of peace”, condoned and accepted by the World’s institutions and the highest authority including the United Nations, there is no turning back: human society has indelibly been precipitated headlong onto the path of self-destruction. Continue reading
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Fake Anti-war Activism. The “Humanitarian Road” Towards an all out Nuclear War? By Michel Chossudovsky
The “Just War” theory has served to camouflage the nature of US foreign policy, while providing a human face to the invaders. In both its classical and contemporary versions, the Just War theory upholds war as a “humanitarian operation”. It calls for military intervention on ethical and moral grounds against “insurgents”, “terrorists”, “failed” or “rogue… Continue reading
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