In the last eight years implementing the plans for the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) designed "to promote American global leadership" has backfired.
To accomplish PNAC’s goals, all threats needed to be eliminated. From the onset, the United Sates earmarked two countries as mortal enemies: Venezuela and Iran. With Venezuela, it is well documented that the CIA attempted to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chavez. And with Iran, the United States continues to (...)
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The collapse of the United States is accelerating : Oil in Euros vs. US dollars
4 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Video : Labor Leader : “Wall St. Has Hijacked the Economy!”
3 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaTpgZHyeE
Richard L. Trumka, Secretary-Treasure of the AFL-CIO, was one of the featured speakers at the “International Workers Day Celebration” event, held on May 1, 2008, at the National Labor College, in Silver Spring, MD. He ripped into the evils of Globalization and the harmful effects that it is having on the economy and in particular on the lives of working class Americans. Mr. Trumka also charged: “Wall St. has hijacked the economy!” He is the (...) -
Food crisis hits local supermarkets
29 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Food crisis hits local supermarkets
JJ Levine , THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 28, 2008
As worldwide rice prices are hitting record levels in fear of a shortage of rice, the knock-on effects are just beginning to be felt in Israeli supermarkets.
Shoppers at some branches of supermarket chains Supersol and Mega on Friday and Saturday were amazed to find signs limiting purchases to two kilograms of rice per customer.
In a statement released Sunday, Supersol explained that its policy was (...) -
Economic crisis in the United States will have global consequences : be prepared
26 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsI recently received the following email:
“I am having a great deal of frustration trying to convince my Canadian family that our lives are in danger from US economic break down. They are … absorbed in this irrational world and always have faith that our government will assure our safety in time of great disaster. They fail to realize that this is not something that will just take care of itself… I was hoping if you could provide me with or point me to some articles that may shed some (...) -
America, Fight Back : Nationalize the Oil Industry!
25 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.” - Ambrose Bierce
Are you sick and tired of being at the mercy of the grasping plutocrats who run Big Oil? Gasoline is now selling at $3.50 a gallon, as the price of a barrel of oil nears $120, with no end in sight to further increases. Meanwhile, the American economy is sinking faster than the Titanic. The dollar, too, is in sharp decline. Mortgage foreclosures are at depression era highs. Over three (...) -
WHY FOOD PRICES WILL GO THROUGH THE ROOF IN COMING MONTHS
25 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
WHY FOOD PRICES WILL GO THROUGH THE ROOF IN COMING MONTHS
by F. William Engdahl
March 31, 2008
A deadly fungus, known as Ug99, which kills wheat, has likely spread to Pakistan from Africa according to reports. If true, that threatens the vital Asian Bread Basket including the Punjab region. The spread of the deadly virus, stem rust, against which an effective fungicide does not exist, comes as world grain stocks reach the lowest in four decades and government subsidized bio-ethanol (...) -
Brown Faces Growing Revolt Over U.K. Tax Increase
24 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Brown Faces Growing Revolt Over U.K. Tax Increase
By Gonzalo Vina
April 23 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government faces a growing rebellion against a plan to raise tax on 5.3 million of the poorest families as seven more Labour lawmakers signed a resolution opposing the measure.
At least 46 parliamentarians from the ruling party signed an amendment to the Finance Bill seeking a delay the introduction of the tax change, according to Frank Field, who proposed the (...) -
AFL-CIO’s John J. Sweeney Fears “an American Nightmare!”
16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
“Labor can not stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.” - Harry Bridges
Baltimore, MD - On April 8, 2008, the President of the AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney spoke at the U. of Baltimore Law School, as part of its inaugural “Leaders in Labor” lecture series. He said that, as he travels around the country, he finds more and more people are “worried to death about the economy and tired of spending too many hours on the job for too little pay.” Mr. Sweeney underscored that (...) -
Ralph Nader : Giant Corporations Are Dictatorship (video)
16 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
60% OF US CORPORATIONS DO NOT PAY FED INCOME TAX! AND 70% OF FOREIGN CORPORATIONS OPERATING INSIDE THE US DO NOT PAY FED INCOME TAX!.
There is no law requiring private citizens to pay income tax!, IT IS VOLUNTARY, whats wrong with this picture?
YOU ARE BEING BLANTENLY ROBBED BY CRIMINAL CORPORATIONS AND GOVERNMENT...THEY ARE CRIMINALS, AND THEY KNOW THEY ARE CRIMINALS, BUT THEY ALSO KNOW THAT MOST OF THE U.S. DOES NOT KNOW
Here’s one thing we’ve figured out: Nader/Gonzalez are on one (...) -
Costs of war: US budgetary apocalypse
13 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentAn estimate of the cost of war in Iraq is US$12 billion per month, and in the meantime, demographic trends are creating a budgetary apocalypse, Shaun Waterman writes for ISN Security Watch.
08 April 2008
By Shaun Waterman in Washington, DC for ISN Security Watch (08/04/08)
Before the 2006 election campaign, I asked a veteran congressional aide how Republicans would explain to voters the ruinous continuing costs of the war in Iraq.
"They’ll just tell ’em the good news," he said. (...)