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American Unipolar Moment Has Ended, Global Multipolarity Emerges BY M Zarrar Haider
The last two decades witnessed the expression of unipolarity in terms of unilateralism with invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and the endemic Global War on Terror (GWOT). We are now in a new, fast-evolving multipolar world in which some developing countries are emerging as economic powers; others are moving towards becoming additional poles of growth;… Continue reading
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Massive Wikileaks Reveals Criminality, Paranoia Amongst Corporate Titans
WikiLeaks begins to publish today over five million e-mails obtained by Anonymous from “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs (see below), also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists. Continue reading
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Memo To POTUS–Eyes Only: From The Department of Pre-War Planning And Threat Exaggeration By Danny Schechter
This is a digest of the multi-dimensional and multi-track strategy that is in place, and is being pursued simultaneously in a coordinated manner, by The Executive Branch, Defense Department, State Department, and all intelligence agencies. (And despite reports from our spy agencies that Iran is right to insist it is not making nuclear bombs. Why… Continue reading
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“We Are Drowning” On A Road To Nowhere: New War on the Horizon By Danny Schechter
Oil prices are rocketing. Iranian warships are moving into the Mediterranean to shadow the US warships already there. Propaganda news is growing with rumors of Al Qaeda links with Iran, and, then, less speculative news about real links between the terror groups and the armed opposition in Syria. Continue reading
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Video: NATO vs The 1st Amendment
This video shows the early stages of the growing Chicago movement against the newly minted extraordinary police powers ordinance (dubbed the “sit down and shut up” laws). Continue reading
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ANOTHER PRETEXT TO WAGE WAR? The Fingerprints of False Flags Against Iran. The Thailand, India, Georgia Terrorist Bomb Blasts By Finian Cunningham
Have American and Israeli efforts to pin international terrorism on Iran just gone global? A series of bomb attacks apparently on Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia are now being linked with blasts in the Thai capital, Bangkok, for which it is reported that three Iranian men have been arrested. Continue reading
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Syria Crisis, Arab Spring Revive Cold War Alignment By Marwan Kabalan
The Russian-Chinese co-ordination on many world issues, including in the UN Security Council, makes it almost certain that the West will, from now on, face tougher resistance to its polices from underprivileged powers in the international system. Continue reading
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US: A Voters' Rights Amendment — A Matter of Critical National Importance
The VRA will result in a transformation of the U.S. government into a more representative democracy in which the power of money and corporations will be curtailed and the power of the people will prevail. Continue reading
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Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us By Robert Scheer
Four decades ago Richard Nixon, a once famously hawkish Republican president, cut a deal with the Communist overlords of China to reshape the world. The result was a transformation of the global economy in ways that we are only now, with the sharp critiques of Apple’s China operation, beginning to fully comprehend. Continue reading
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Abstractions Versus the "Real World": Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed By Prof John Kozy
Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the model) is called an “externality.” So the models only work when the externalities… Continue reading
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Abstractions Versus the “Real World”: Economic Models and the Apologetics of Greed By Prof John Kozy
Economists build models by subtracting from reality the characteristics they deem unessential to the economic situations they model. The result is a bare bones description consisting of what economists deem economically essential. Everything that is discarded (not taken into consideration in the model) is called an “externality.” So the models only work when the externalities… Continue reading
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SPECIAL OPS NOW DEFINES THE PENTAGON'S EXPANDING WARS By Danny Schechter
He’s the consummate Special Ops warrior and wants more special ops forces, more drones and, most significantly, more “autonomy” (read, power) to position “his” troops in more places. He is now lobbying to expand his “freedom” by building a bigger personal arsenal of undercover operatives under his command. Continue reading
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The Right-Wing Id Unzipped By Mike Lofgren
Right-wingers have occasioned much recent comment. Their behavior in the Republican debates has caused even jaded observers to react like an Oxford don stumbling upon a tribe of headhunting cannibals. In those debates where the moderators did not enforce decorum, these right-wingers, the Republican base, behaved with a single lack of dignity. For a group… Continue reading
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Drones And New U.S. Global War Policy By Luis Beaton*
The budget plan which will be released this month, includes an increase of 30 percent in the fleet of U.S. drones, according to officials quoted by the Washington Post, in an attempt perhaps to effectively compensate for troop reductions. Continue reading
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Carla Stea: World War and the Russia-China Veto – Towards a Break Point at the UN Security Council?
It is troubling, indeed, that although Mrs. Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had never set foot in Syria during the period about which she professed expertise, she was, nevertheless invited to address the United Nations Security Council on December 9, 2011, and much of the Western media quoted her as… Continue reading
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Activists denounce restrictions on Chicago G8/NATO protests By CHRISTINE MARIE
On Jan. 25, the Vancouver culture jammers known as Adbusters brought new attention to the need to protest the NATO/G8 summit occurring in Chicago from May 19-21. Adbusters played a large role in building the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York last fall and their call is expected to put the NATO/G8 summit meetings… Continue reading
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The Empire Strikes Back By Munir Akram
Today, around its periphery, China can count only two friends — Pakistan and North Korea. Myanmar dropped out of China’s circle into the western camp two months ago. Pakistan is under intense pressure to align itself with US strategic priorities. Continue reading
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Anonymous reveals links between US and British white supremacists — RT
2 February 2012 — Anonymous reveals links between US and British white supremacists — RT The latest campaign from hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous involved divulging a trove of emails between members of a noted white supremacy group. Continue reading
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Anonymous reveals links between US and British white supremacists — RT
2 February 2012 — Anonymous reveals links between US and British white supremacists — RT The latest campaign from hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous involved divulging a trove of emails between members of a noted white supremacy group. Continue reading
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