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  • Noam Chomsky: Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
    12 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky
    by Noam Chomsky
    THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems (…)

  • Ralph NADER: Obama Will Become A War Criminal! (video)
    12 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-23637187.html

  • Inside the Financial Tsunami: What Brought It On?
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The financial tsunami now inundating global economies and markets was brought on by imprudent easing of US lending norms and extreme over-leveraging by giant US investment banks, analysts say.
    The dotcom bubble burst in 2000 and the collapse of the World Trade Centre, a mighty symbol of US economic and financial prowess in 2001, made Alan Greenspan, the then chief of the US banking regulator, the Federal Reserve, believe that a US recession was a certainty and it had to be staved off. (…)

  • Has America Started to Fall Apart?
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If we look at the health of the country from an economic perspective, we can plainly see that America is almost as strong as it ever was. Even though the is currently experiencing a recession, nevertheless the unemployment rate is relatively low, inflation has been kept in check, and the strength of the dollar, though weakened due to the current economic downturn, has held the top spot in the world for over a half-century. Indeed, economically speaking, the US can still be considered the (…)

  • These Are the Times That Try Men’s Souls
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    " –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,… organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." The Declaration of Independence
    How many more lies must we listen to? How many more (…)

  • Paintings for Peace & Planet - making a Hole in the Lying Mainstream Media Wall of Silence
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The most blatantly unreported reality in the Orwellian World of 2008 is entrenched LYING by commission and omission by Mainstream media, politicians and academics. Yet Humanity seems unable to breach a Hole in the Mainstream Wall of Silence.
    There is horribly unjustified mass slaughter (avoidable deaths associated with the 1990-2008 Bush Wars now total 9-11 million; see “9-11 excuse for global genocide. The real 9-11 atrocity: 9-11 million dead in Bush Wars”: ); the biosphere is under (…)

  • Looking for a Leader to Save us from Ourselves
    10 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rarely in American elections are we afforded the opportunity to choose a leader who will reach beyond the limitations of party politics. By the latter I do not refer to the usual condemnations of partisanship. If anything, in the post 9-11 world we have seen too little partisanship. As a result, the titular party of opposition, even with control of both houses of Congress, has become a party of complicity.
    Rather, it is the influence born of corporate sponsorship controlling both major (…)

  • US dropped nuclear bomb near Basra in 1991, claims veteran
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rome, 8 Oct. (AKI) - An American veteran of the first Gulf War in Iraq claims that the United States dropped a five-kilotonne nuclear bomb in 1991 in a deserted area outside the southern city of Basra on the Iranian border. The claim by US war veteran
    A US war veteran has accused the Pentagon of launching a nuclear attack on southern Iraq in the final day of the first Persian Gulf War.
    Jim Brown, a mechanic in the Army’s 10th Mountain Division at the time, told Italian state news channel (…)

  • Pimping Palin
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pimping Palin By Peter Fredson October 9, 2008
    When worried about dropping polls how do you create a powerful distraction? Well, basically, you resort to the oldest trick in the book of humanity. You use sex. After all, billions are spent on merchandising cigarettes, cars, boats, anything... by posing a pretty model next to the goods for sale.
    Thus McCain has gambled, in his unpredictable way, that sex will sell his spoiled ideology. To make people forget about losing homes, (…)

  • The Shot Heard Round the World
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    When 90-year-old Addie Polk put the gun to her chest and pulled the trigger she was seeking an escape from foreclosure. The first shot failed to do the job so the elderly widow pulled the trigger a second time as Sheriff’s deputies waited on the porch to serve her with an eviction notice. She was rescued by her neighbor, Robert Dillion, who grabbed a ladder and climbed in a back window. Sheriff’s deputies were kind enough to radio for paramedics.
    Mrs. Addie Polk and (…)