China warns Federal Reserve over ’printing money’
China has warned a top member of the US Federal Reserve that it is increasingly disturbed by the Fed’s direct purchase of US Treasury bonds.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, 26 May 2009
Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, said: "Senior officials of the Chinese government grilled me about whether or not we are going to monetise the actions of our legislature."
"I must have been asked about that a hundred times in (...)
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China warns Federal Reserve over ’printing money’
26 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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Israel used D.U. in Gaza
25 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Geneva, May 23, KUNA - - Action of Citizens for the Total Dismantling of Nukes (ACDN) said Saturday that it has just produced a 33-page report concluding that the presence of as much as 75 tons of depleted uranium in Gaza soil is highly probable and due to the Israeli ’Operation Cast Lead’ offensive.
The operation took place between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009.
During the first few days, a Norwegian doctor doing humanitarian service in the hospital at Shifa, Dr Mads Gilbert, (...) -
Letter to Global Warming-threatened Island States – take climate criminal Australia et al to ICC
22 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
I have sent a Letter to the Media and Governments of Global Warming-threatened Island States urging them to apply an Accountability, Badge and Credo (ABC) protocol for saving the Planet and to take climate criminal First World nations such as Australia to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for complicity in a worsening Climate Genocide that, if not halted by urgent, requisite address of man-made global warming, will kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century.
Time is running out (...) -
Russia Dumps US Dollar as basic reserve currency
21 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Russia Dumps US Dollar as basic reserve currency
Global Research, May 20, 2009
Pravda
The US dollar is not Russia’s basic reserve currency anymore. The euro-based share of reserve assets of Russia’s Central Bank increased to the level of 47.5 percent as of January 1, 2009 and exceeded the investments in dollar assets, which made up 41.5 percent, The Vedomosti newspaper wrote.
The dollar has thus lost the status of the basic reserve currency for the Russian Central Bank, the annual (...) -
Leon Panetta’s mission to stop Israel bombing Iranian nuclear plant
15 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsLeon Panetta’s mission to stop Israel bombing Iranian nuclear plant
May 15, 2009
James Hider in Jerusalem America’s spy chief was sent on a secret mission to Israel to warn its leaders not to launch a surprise attack on Iran without notifying the US Administration.
As Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, prepares to visit Washington, it emerged yesterday that Leon Panetta, the head of the CIA, went to Israel two weeks ago. He sought assurances from Mr Netanyahu and Ehud (...) -
Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia
14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia
by Rick Rozoff
Global Research, May 14, 2009 Stop NATO
"Today the situation is much more serious than before August 2008....[A] possible recurrence of war will not be limited to the Caucasus.
"The new President of the United States did not bring about any crucial changes in relation to Georgia, but having a dominant role in NATO he still insists on Georgia’s soonest joining of the Alliance. If it happens, the world would face a (...) -
Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Becoming What We Seek to Destroy
Posted on May 10, 2009
By Chris Hedges
The bodies of dozens, perhaps well over a hundred, women, children and men, their corpses blown into bits of human flesh by iron fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes in a village in the western province of Farah, illustrates the futility of the Afghan war. We are not delivering democracy or liberation or development. We are delivering massive, sophisticated forms of industrial slaughter. And because we (...) -
Accusations With Regard to Israeli War Crimes Must be Investigated
14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Accusations With Regard to Israeli War Crimes Must be Investigated
by Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Other Occupied Territories
On 23 March Richard Falk, the American Professor of International Law and UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine and Other Occupied Territories, gave his eagerly awaited oral statement to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on the human rights situation in the Gaza strip during the last war lasting from Dec 27, 2008 to 18 January 2009. In this (...) -
THE UNTOLD, UNCOUNTED & UNSUNG CASUALTIES OF WAR
14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
A disturbed Sergeant serving his third term of duty in Iraq picked up a weapon and killed five of his fellow soldiers.
Sergeant John Russell of the 54th Engineer Battalion became the latest entry in the unsung casualties of war – a victim that few outside his circle of family and friends will mourn but a victim just the same.
Sergeant Russell is one of the rare cases whose story is told on national media. Soldiers under constant duress are (...) -
Indonesian Minister of Health Demands Dignity, Equality and Transparency for all Countries in the World
13 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Indonesian Minister of Health Demands Dignity, Equality and Transparency for all Countries in the World
by Eva-Maria Föllmer-Müller and Stefan Keller
In her book, Siti Fatilah Supari describes her fight against the WHO and the neo-colonial efforts to deprive her country – as well as all other developing countries – of their sovereignty, their rights and their dignity. She accuses the rich industrial countries to treat the developing countries unequally and calls for transparency with (...)