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STOP THE WAR NATIONAL CONFERENCE SATURDAY 3 MARCH 10AM - 5PM UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNION MALET STREET, LONDON WC1E 7HY Full details: http://bit.ly/ywDvfc
This Saturday 3 March, the Stop the War Coalition is holding its most important conference for years. The hysteria over Iran is unmistakably reminiscent of the build up to war on Iraq less than ten years ago. We are witnessing the same WMD accusations, demonisation of a regime, successive weapons inspections, regularly tightening (…)

Mr President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
Fifty years ago, February 3rd 1962, J.F. Kennedy officially established the blockade against Cuba. This was a criminal measure, because the large Caribbean island of Cuba depended largely on the United States both for its exportations and for its importations. Making Cuba bow to the will of the U.S. had been one of President Eisenhower’s electoral campaign stakes, while R. Nixon and (…)

When asked what newspapers she read, Sarah Palin answered, "Oh, I read them all." While it’s safe to assume that this was a disingenuous answer, it’s probably equally safe to assume that Palin can, in fact, read.
This is a skill set that Sarah MUST teach congress because we learned yesterday that congress CANNOT READ AT ALL.
When you look at the Bill of Rights you need look no further than the content after number one (that is to say: the very FIRST amendment) to discover that US (…)

Australia:
Radioactive waste Still the most important news - still the one not covered by the media - the Senate now ganging up to shut up Scott Ludlam -lone voice against the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill - it was tabled for discussion in cynical timing - as the nation watched the Gillard-Rudd soap opera.
Federal politics Rumour has it that Gillard will punish the pro Rudd politicians. What a good idea it would be - to sack Martin Ferguson from the Ministry! Meanwhile (…)

A year ago, the tomes of Russia’s official history got a little fatter thanks to President Dmitri Medvedev, who helped publish the letters of post-Soviet Russia’s first President, Boris Yeltsin. In a foreword to the collection, Medvedev eulogized the founding father, who died in 2007, for creating "the base of a new Russian statehood, without which none of our future successes would be possible." But behind closed doors on Monday, during a meeting with opposition leaders, Medvedev reportedly (…)

Wikileaks and Stratfor, Israel Busted Again
Wikileaks, Watch, Learn But Never Believe! … by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor NO, WE DIDN’T FORGET
It’s almost like a Sherlock Holmes story. We are seeing it start now. My first sign, that a mixed intelligence, disinformation campaign or worse was in the works was last week. A writer, former Israeli, close friend of, coincidentally as we will see, Julian Assange, wrote an article exposing the 1973 War in the Middle East as a plot by Henry (…)

Australia has just witnessed a week of political high drama in which ex-PM Kevin Rudd, deposed in a pro-Zionist-led 24-hour Coup in favor of pro-Zionist Julia Gillard on 23-24 June 2010, challenged PM Gillard for the top job but failed to win the support of the Caucus of Federal Labor MPs by a margin of 71 to 31.
The saturation Australian Mainstream media coverage of a week that saw vitriolic character assassination of ex-PM Rudd by Julia Gillard and leading Gillard supporters somehow (…)

Preparing for the Collapse of the Petrodollar System
BY JERRY ROBINSON
Over the last several weeks, there have been many news headlines containing the words "Iran" and "nuclear capability." If you listen closely, you can almost hear the drumbeats of a fresh war in the Middle East.
As an economist, I have been trained to view the world through the lens of incentives. (I am a "bottom line" kind of guy.) And just as every action is motivated by an underlying incentive, every decision has (…)

EXTEND & PRETEND COMING TO AN END
26th February 2012
The real world revolves around cash flow. Families across the land understand this basic concept. Cash flows in from wages, investments and these days from the government. Cash flows out for food, gasoline, utilities, cable, cell phones, real estate taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, clothing, mortgage payments, car payments, insurance payments, medical bills, auto repairs, home repairs, appliances, electronic gadgets, education, (…)

A funny thing is happening on the way to the clean energy future–reality is setting in. There is ‘incontrovertible evidence’ about the economic growth and job creating effects of America’s unconventional oil and gas production boom – more than 600,000 jobs directly attributable to shale gas development. Even President Obama is praising the job creating benefits of ‘America’s resource boom’. America is getting its energy mojo back and that is good news but not the entire story.
How Much (…)