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  • Washington is Playing a Deeper Game with China
    12 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by F William Engdahl
    After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s ”independent“ NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its “private” Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, is massively intervening into the internal politics of China.
    The reasons for Washington’s intervention into Xinjiang (…)

  • Video: Obamageddon is Coming!
    11 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Food riots, tax protests, strikes and high unemployment all will characterize our economic future according to Gerald Celente.
    http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22992.htm

  • CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: HOW THE STATE CAN BEAT ITS BUDGET WOES
    11 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: HOW THE STATE CAN BEAT ITS BUDGET WOES
    Ellen Brown, July 8th, 2009
    “As goes California,” says the adage, “so goes the nation.” All eyes are therefore on the Golden State as it attempts to solve its $26 billion budget deficit. The world’s eighth largest economy is not going quietly into that pit of debt and devastation that has devoured Third World countries whole. The State’s voters have drawn a line in the sand against further tax hikes, while Democratic leaders (…)

  • WARD CHURCHILL AND THE DEATH OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM
    11 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is a popular adage that states: “Only two things are certain—death and taxes.”
    Now there is a third: “It is certain that the constitutional rights of the individual will always be sacrificed to appease a governmental and/or economically powerful entity.”
    In a recent Pravda.Ru article entitled A TALE OF TWO ACADEMICS, (Parts I and II), I analyzed the diametrical situations faced by two tenured university professors: Ward Churchill and John Yoo.
    Churchill was fired from his (…)

  • Obama’s Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill - A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and Fraud
    10 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    On May 15, HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) was introduced in the House purportedly "To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy."
    In fact, it’s to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel as well as create a new bubble through carbon trading derivatives speculation. It does nothing to address (…)

  • The U.S. stock market again before a crash?
    10 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The U.S. stock market again before a crash?
    F. William Engdahl
    Since the beginning of this year the U.S. stock market experienced its strongest increase since 1938. Encouraged by this development is hardly noticed changes in the book stop Tung’s guidelines for banks, massive accounting tricks the banks, and the whole supported and encouraged by a hypocritical media hype of economic policy spokesman for the Obama government. Insider stock selling at record levels, and get out. This is an (…)

  • Video: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard Demands Accountability on Torture
    10 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday, June 25, 2009, a spirited rally was held in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. Its purpose: To demand that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appoint a “Special Prosecutor for Torture,” who will hold accountable to the supremacy of the Law, certain members of the Bush-Cheney Gang, including ex-President George W. Bush, Jr. and his Vice-President, Dick Cheney. They are suspected of authorizing torture on numerous detainees, in violation of the Geneva Convention, International (…)

  • So Much That’s False and Nutty
    9 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    So Much That’s False and Nutty
    As reported in The New York Times of May 5, Warren Buffett told the crowd at this year’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting: There is so much that’s false and nutty in modern investing practice and modern investment banking. If you just reduced the nonsense, that’s a goal you should reasonably hope for.
    As we look back at the causes of the crisis approaching its second anniversary – and ahead to how investors might conduct themselves better in the future – (…)

  • The American Empire Is Bankrupt
    8 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Hedges
    This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what is to come will be very, very painful.
    Barack Obama, and the criminal class on Wall Street, aided by a corporate media that continues to peddle fatuous gossip and trash talk as news while we endure the (…)

  • Sick America
    8 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Eric Desrosiers
    In spite of all the ill spoken about it, the American health care system is even sicker than is generally believed, if only for economic reasons.
    The mother of all battles began a few weeks ago in Washington over the question of reform of the American health care system. This battle is not the first; in fact, the first proposals for in-depth change go back to the Truman administration years.
    As everyone knows, one of the important reasons for this desire for (…)