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  • America Goes Dark
    12 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    America Goes Dark
    By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 8, 2010
    The lights are going out all over America — literally. Colorado Springs has made headlines with its desperate attempt to save money by turning off a third of its streetlights, but similar things are either happening or being contemplated across the nation, from Philadelphia to Fresno.
    Meanwhile, a country that once amazed the world with its visionary investments in transportation, from the Erie Canal to the Interstate Highway (…)

  • If Opium Funds Terrorism then Arrest the Queen of England
    10 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    If Opium Funds Terrorism then Arrest the Queen of England
    Sep 8th, 2009 | By Keelan Balderson
    A lot of recent headlines in the mainstream press have discussed the vast amount of poppy fields in Afghanistan that are under Taliban control. The assertion is that these fields which produce ingredients used in opium and heroin production are being cultivated by the Taliban to fund their various terrorist operations.[1]
    It is a fact that Afghanistan had a 95% monopoly over the world’s opium (…)

  • NZ Aid cuts sending wrong message to Pacific - Amnesty International
    10 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted at 03:54 on 09 August, 2010 UTC
    Amnesty International says New Zealand’s new aid policy is sending the wrong message to the Pacific.
    The group’s Pacific researcher Apolosi Bose says the Vanuatu Women’s Centre is one NGO facing difficulties under New Zealand’s change of direction.
    The centre says without the 100 thousand US dollars in annual assistance, the organisation will have to shut its doors in Luganville.
    “Wrong messages are being sent to the Pacific internationally, (…)

  • ABC FOS: Questions Q&A won’t ask of pro-war, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-Zionist Australian PM Julia Gillard
    10 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia’s post-Coup, pro-war, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-Zionist Labor PM Julia Gillard appeared in a stultifying episode of the TV Question and Answer TV program "Q&A" but 50 Elephant in the Room questions (listed below) were not put - the unspoken narrative of the current election campaign in Murdochracy and Lobbycracy Australia (right wing Libs versus right wing Labs, with the anti-war, pro-environment Greens hoping for 15% of the vote) is "Don’t mention the war".
    The (…)

  • The Impossible Dream Erdogan
    8 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    So far Turkey has lived polarized between secular nationalism, typical of more developed urban areas, and traditional Islam which has sheltered the most disadvantaged rural population. and the purpose of reshaping the modern Turkey, Erdogan, new "father of the fatherland" (Atatürk), trying to bring Islam, nationalism and Europeanism with their entry into the EU.
    The ruling Justice and Development (Adalet Partisi, or AKP sees Kalkınma), often called in Turkey Ak Parti, "and that his (…)

  • A call to the President of the United States
    7 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    A call to the President of the United States
    A few days ago, an article was published that really contained many facts related to the oil spill that occurred 105 days ago.
    President Obama had authorized the drilling of that well, trusting in the capacity of modern technology to produce oil, which he wished to make abundantly available, thus freeing the United States from its dependence on foreign supplies of that product vital to current civilization. Its excessive consumption of oil had (…)

  • REFLECTIONS ON THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
    6 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    REFLECTIONS ON THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
    Submitted by Mike Endres on Wed, 4 Aug 2010
    How Big is Huge? A little different subject for this article - still economics - but one that will probably have sufficient material in it to irritate almost everyone. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a Navy veteran, served in destroyers of the Atlantic Fleet as an Electronic and Fire Control Technician working out of Norfolk, VA., to the Med, N. Europe, Caribbean and the Middle East during (…)

  • letter(s) of august to Obama
    2 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wrote two letters. Learning the second, you’ll understand why.
    August 2nd 2010
    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    We’re coming into the twelfth anniversary of the incarceration of the Cuban Five -René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero- these patriots are still behind bars in your country.
    And yet, just a little reflection leads us to realize the (…)

  • "White Power USA": The Crisis of Race in America
    27 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    "White Power USA": The Crisis of Race in America
    by grtv
    The inauguration of President Barack Obama was hailed as a turning point in US race relations. The country was said to be entering a new era of post-racial politics, on the path to a future of greater diversity and tolerance. But while crowds flocked to Washington to witness the swearing in, others were refusing to join the party.
    Racially motivated threats against Obama rose to new heights in the first months of his presidency, (…)

  • Zbigniew Brzezinski, Obama’s geopolitical engineer.
    25 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Has always been believed that AIPAC and the hawks in the Pentagon acted as a shadow government in Washington, distort policy in terms of Israeli interests rather than the U.S., but the reality is that the Pro-Israeli lobby has real weight in the areas of power, but only because the U.S. and Israel share the same geopolitical interests.
    However, at this time we would see a conflict of interest between the two sides, due to the new geopolitical concept prevailing in the Obama Administration, (…)