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VIDEO: America’s Financial Doomsday
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The Great Betrayal of 2012: Have you bought your Chinese currency yet?
Now that Beijing has started to loosen up its reigns on the yuan, a move up in its currency — and down in the dollar — comes next.
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As we prepare for our presence at the NATO Summit, Voices for Creative Nonviolence is happy to welcome author David Swanson. His highly informed perspective continues to shed light on the important issues that lead us to action.
He will speak and lead a discussion on the topic of "Lifting the Shadow of War."
Admission is free.
Date: 2012-05-19
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ 615 W WELLINGTON AVE CHICAGO, IL, 60657-5305
Also Swanson will (…)

For over 37 years Western Sahara has been militarily occupied by Morocco. The occupation generated and still generates gross human rights violations committed by the Moroccan State against the Saharawi people in the occupied territories, while it forced more than 160.000 Saharawi to live since 1975 in refugee camps South-East Algeria in very dire conditions because of the harshness of the climate and the scares humanitarian aid.
The UN mission for the organization of a referendum in (…)

Chinese Perceptions of U.S. Decline and Power
Publication: China Brief Volume: 9 Issue: By: Bonnie S. Glaser, Lyle Morris
For the past few years, the Western world has been abuzz with talk of China’s rise. Most statesmen, pundits and academics have concluded that China’s rise is inevitable, but as of yet there has been no consensus on the implications of China’s rise for the rest of the world. While Westerners debate issues like whether and how China can be “molded” into becoming a (…)

The future of the USA - 2012-2016: An insolvent and ungovernable United States (first part) Excerpt GEAB N°60 (December 16, 2011) -
In this issue, our team gives its anticipations regarding the future of the United States for the 2012-2016 period. We recall that since 2006 and the first GEAB issues, LEAP/E2020 described the global systemic crisis as a phenomenon characterizing the end of the world as we know it since 1945, marking the collapse of the American pillar on which this world (…)

AUSTRALIA
Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion. Justice Besanko will hand down his ruling this Friday 20th April on legal challenge against Federal Environment Minister’s approval for this. Meanwhile, also on 20th April, a Supreme Court first directions hearing of challenge against the South Australian govt’s approval.
? Radiation incident, NSW: New South Wales Pacific Highway road workers’ mysterious illness. Affected by DDT or radiation from a 1980 radioactive transport spill? (…)

Oil smuggling is embedded into the social, political and economic fabric of Greece, with annual revenues generated from illegal fuel smuggling reaching €3 billion euros as of 2008, and some sources say that although Greece imports up to 99 percent of its fuel needs, it still manages to export more than it imports.
Greece thrives on its shipping industry and one of its main contraband markets is petroleum. Greek regulations have shipping oil priced at one-third the price of automotive and (…)

In the 17th and 18th centuries the young and fragile American Republic was taking form for its citizens. It has been a rough and bloody road to the 21st century. The current government of America is by no way the same as it was then, when the “Sons of Liberty” realized that their country, was suffering from “bad government” coupled with selective prejudice against its own people. The power barons of that time and now have dismantled the American Republic and turned it into the United States (…)

Israeli forces Saturday broke up with force a cycling tour around the Jordan Valley and assaulted the participants injuring and arresting a number of them, said a press release.
It said Israeli soldiers stopped the 250 participants at road number 60 in the West Bank village of al-Ouja and refused to allow them to start the bicycle tour, which would have taken the participants on a 25 kilometer tour of the Jordan Valley.
When the participants in the event sponsored by the youth group, (…)