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Europe’s Economic Crisis: Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Belgium are Heading in the Same Direction as Greece by Bob Chapman
It isn’t over until it is over. Of course, we are referring to Europe and its version of 1984. We find it profound that the bankers, politicians and bureaucrats of Europe can do what they have done with a straight face. Investor had a haircut shoved down their throats and the ECB, the European Central… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 7 March 2012: Obama’s Kill Doctrine
7 March 2012 — Information Clearing House Imperial Rage for War By Stephen Lendman “A new chapter is being written in the history of nations. Never before has a small country dictated to a superpower” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30740.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 February 2012: Greece Shows Us How to Protest Against a Failed System
19 February 2012 — Information Clearing House Does AIPAC Want War? By Robert Naiman If a bill pushed by Lieberman passes, it could give the US “political authorisation for military force” against Iran. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30584.htm Continue reading
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Stop NATO news: February 18, 2012: U.S. Drone Attacks Kill Sixteen In Northwest Pakistan
18 February 2012 — 012 U.S. Drone Attacks Kill Sixteen In Northwest Pakistan Pakistani President Pledges Support To Iran Against Foreign Aggression Afghan War: NATO Loses 41 Soldiers So Far This Year U.S. To Deploy Interceptor Missile Destroyers To Spain Georgia: NATO Corner Opened At National Defence Academy Continue reading
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The fruit which did not fall By Fidel Castro Ruiz
CUBA was forced to fight for its existence facing an expansionist power, located a few miles from its coast, and which was proclaiming the annexation of our island, which was destined to fall into its lap like a ripe fruit. We were condemned not to exist as a nation. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Newslinks 5-6 January 2012
6 January 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Supporters Lose Court Bid to Protect Twitter Records Wired News By Kim Zetter Three WikiLeaks supporters have lost their bid to protect their Twitter records from US investigators trying to prosecute the whistleblowing site over its publication of secret and sensitive government documents. … http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/wikileaks-twitter-bid/ Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 25 October 2011: Latest
25 October 2011 — williambowles.info New Libya leader to bring in sharia law Morning Star Today at 17:02 Libya’s new leaders have announced their intention to make Sharia law the main source of legislation in the developing country. NATO may stay in Libya longer than planned – U.S. defense chief Strategic Culture Foundation Today at Continue reading
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Insurrection and Invisible Powers By Gaither Stewart
Italy, like Spain, is a peninsula, but she might as well be an island given the barriers separating her from the rest of the European mass and the Mediterranean cradle itself. This, and her long history, broken by frequent invasions from diverse cultures, has fostered the coalescing of an extraordinary idiosyncrasy rich in mysteries and… Continue reading
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Talk Amongst Yourselves By Dan Hind
On Saturday 14 October people will be heading into the Square Mile, the centre of the UK’s financial sector, in conscious imitation of Occupy Wall Street and similar actions in Europe and the Middle East. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 6, 2011
6 October 2011 — Stop NATO Sirte: Hospital Repeatedly Hit By NATO Bombardments Rasmussen: NATO Ready To Build Libyan Proxy Armed Forces Iraq: NATO Deal To Allow U.S. Troops To Remain Spain: U.S. Expands Missile System To Both Ends Of Mediterranean NATO Chief: Interceptor Missile System Fully Operational By 2018 Germany: Over 1,000 U.S. Paratroops Continue reading
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A road made by walking: Oscar Reyes reports from Spain on an ‘indignant’ movement that continues to spread and diversify
The day of action is one landmark in what many predictions suggest could be a ‘hot’ autumn. With the Eurozone crisis deepening, the ratings agencies on the offensive and Spanish public debt costing ever more to service (thanks to bond market speculation, amid moves to protect northern European banks at the expense of countries on… Continue reading
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El Salvador: The Truth Commission and the Jesuit Massacre
The outbreak of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1980 initiated twelve years of violent conflict within Central America’s most densely populated nation. For years, President Ronald Reagan employed a traditional Cold War platform to reinforce conservative governments, insisting that the leftist insurgency organization, the Frente Faribundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), posed a dangerous… Continue reading
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French Ship Carries Freedom Flotilla’s “Dignity” to Gaza By Begoña Astigarraga
Nearly all the ships have been confined to port in Greece for the last 10 days, except for the Dignité-Al Karama which sailed from the French island of Corsica Jun. 25, evaded the Greek blockade on more than one occasion and remains the only vessel of the flotilla still sailing freely. Continue reading
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Video: Europe’s Neo Feudalism – Max Keiser interviews Michael Hudson
Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on selling Greece’s sovereignty and Spain’s El Gordo. In the second half of the show, Max talks to economist Michael Hudson about the IMF assassins sent in to destroy the Greek economy. Continue reading
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Video: Europe's Neo Feudalism – Max Keiser interviews Michael Hudson
Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on selling Greece’s sovereignty and Spain’s El Gordo. In the second half of the show, Max talks to economist Michael Hudson about the IMF assassins sent in to destroy the Greek economy. Continue reading
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Spain: Indignant and Organized: from 15-M to 19-J By David Marty
On May 15th, thousands of people answered a call to “take the streets” against neoliberal economic measures that were being implemented in Spain in the aftermath of the financial crisis. To everyone’s surprise, including organizers and participants[i], 125,000 people “took the streets” filling popular city squares across Spain. Continue reading
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Greece: Crisis and Unrest By Panagiotis Sotiris
The only way to describe recent developments in Greece is to refer to a peaceful popular insurrection that has led to an open political crisis. The mass gatherings at city squares at the centres of all major Greek cities continue to gather momentum. Since the 25th of May, Athens and most Greek cities have experienced… Continue reading
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European Spring: The Gradual demise of Capitalism By Gaither Stewart
Rome: It’s an accumulative kind of thing, the demise of capitalism worldwide: at first the waning and the dwindling, now the rapid corkscrew-like downwards spiraling, of greedy, vicious, cannibalistic capitalism busily devouring itself. Today, one can only conclude the imminence of its just demise. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 