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  • COUP DE MAIN AGAINST PUTIN?
    22 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Putin will go down in history as an iconoclast who would have finished with the legacies of the trap Stalin (Khrushchev’s historic speech in 1956 at the XX CPSU Congress denouncing the crimes and mistakes of the Stalin era, the cult of personality and ideological dogmatism ) and cirrhotic Yeltsin (devastating defection of Yeltsin by Putin, accusing him of dismembering the former USSR) and as creator of new ideologies that include pragmatism and rapprochement with the West (ruling) coupled (…)

  • AIPAC Obama-pulse
    22 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Obama’s disagreement with AIPAC :Obama, after having participated in an annual convention of the largest organization of American Jewish lobby (AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committed) and ensure that the traditional U.S. unconditional support to Israel and to reaffirm that "Jerusalem will remain Israel’s undivided capital "would have gotten the rejection of the different Palestinian factions. This, coupled with the accusations by Arab countries of a tacit complicity with Israel in (…)

  • THE NEW EUROPAEAN GEOPOLITICAL SCENE
    20 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The mandate of the new EP clearly conservative dye will depend on the severe impact of the global economic crisis, draw a new stage to five years in which we can witness the beginning of the disintegration of the current European Union.
    In the case of France, in the upcoming presidential and legislative elections of 2012 Sarkozy will face a left-wing Federation that could put you in trouble in the first round, but not prevent foreseeable achieved victory in the second round and the (…)

  • NETANYAHU ON VIDEO: THE U.S. IS ‘EASY’ TO MANIPULATE
    19 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    NETANYAHU ON VIDEO: THE U.S. IS ‘EASY’ TO MANIPULATE
    Posted on Jul 18, 2010
    The U.S. is easy—or so says Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister was recorded in 2001, apparently without his knowledge, claiming that the U.S. was “easy” to manipulate and that Israel should launch a broad attack against the Palestinian Authority that would be “so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne.”
    Netanyahu was not prime minister at the time of his comments, which were made in (…)

  • The cyclical course of History in the U.S.
    19 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    By GERMÁN GORRAIZ LOPEZ
    The fickle and cyclical evolution of history, could make two U.S. presidents (separated in time by about 50 years), were united by economic recession and the wars that will receive as an inheritance. So, Obama and Kennedy would pass into history as sociological phenomena using intelligent mass of new audiovisual technologies to exploit his undeniable personal charisma, telegenia and power of the Word, have been two people with no experience or political ideology (…)

  • The origin of wars
    18 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL The origin of wars
    (Taken from CubaDebate) Havana. July 12, 2010
    I affirmed on July 4 that neither the United States nor Iran would give in; "one, due to the pride of the powerful, and the other, out of resistance to the yoke and the capacity to fight, as has occurred so many times in the history of humanity…"
    In almost all wars, one of the parties wishes to avoid them, and sometimes, both. On this occasion, it would come about even though one of the parties does (…)

  • IS ISRAEL A NORMAL COUNTRY?
    12 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    July 12, 2010
    IS ISRAEL A NORMAL COUNTRY?
    Critique of an article with the same title in Toronto’s Globe and Mail by Ian Buruma
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/is-israel-a-normal-country/article1635159/
    John Chuckman
    This article starts with a brave question, and I think for most people the answer is apparent with the asking of the question.
    But like the famous line of T.S. Elliot, the piece ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
    After asking a question which would (…)

  • Video: Maria Allwine On Why She’s Running for Governor of Maryland
    12 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sunday afternoon, July 11, 2010, Maria Allwine, a peace and social justice activist, discussed why she is running for Governor of Maryland. Ms. Allwine is member of the Green Party. Her remarks were made before a meeting of the Baltimore chapter of the party. If Ms. Allwine gets the Green Party nomination in the state, she will be on the ballot in the General Election, which is set for November 4, 2010. For background on the Green Party, see: http://www.baltimoregreens.org/

  • Video: US Failing to Adjust to New Reality
    10 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Video: US Failing to Adjust to New Reality
    by grtv
    The US empire may be in decline, but Andrew Gavin Marshall says that the US government doesn’t seem to realize this. Military policies are working to expand the empire and foreign policy fails to recognize the new powers rising. Where does this leave the United States? And how long can it hang on?
    Watch the Video here:
    http://tv.globalresearch.ca/content/us-failing-adjust-new-reality

  • Australia’s pro-war, war-making, former PM John Howard rejected by International Cricket Council (ICC)
    3 July 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia is a “look-the-other-way” society. Australia has been complicit in horrendous crimes against humanity but steadfastly ignores the appalling consequences. This is dramatized by the rejection by non-European representatives of the nomination of warmonger and war-maker John Howard as vice-president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) - yet there is Australian and New Zealand upset because "no reasons were given".
    Australia has participated in all post-1950 US Asian wars, (…)