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  • Assassination attempt on a senior member of the House of Saud
    1 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Prince Muhammad bin Naif, assistant interior minister for security affairs, escaped an assassination attempt on Thursday night when a wanted terrorist blew himself up inside the prince’s house.”
    He was treated at a hospital for minor injuries after the incident. “The prince, who is the son of interior minister Prince Naif, the third in line to the throne, was shown on Saudi television on Friday sitting with King Abdullah, who had gone to the hospital.”
    “This is the first known (…)

  • Video: Book Talk: Author David Swanson’s “Daybreak!”
    31 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sunday afternoon, Aug. 30, 2009, activist/author David Swanson discussed his new book: “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Prefect Union.” His remarks, excerpts which appear here, were made at an event, a picnic, sponsored by the “Progressive Democrats of Montgomery County.” It was held in Wheaton, Maryland, just north of the Washington, D.C. line. Swanson is the cofounder of the popular web site, afterdowningstreet.org For the balance of his national book tour (…)

  • The case against Bernanke
    28 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The case against Bernanke
    By Stephen Roach
    August 25 2009 16:02 | Last updated: August 25 2009 16:02
    Barack Obama has rendered one of his most important post-crisis verdicts: Ben Bernanke will be nominated for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. This is a very shortsighted decision. While America’s head central banker deserves credit for being creative and courageous in orchestrating an unusually aggressive monetary easing programme, it is important to remember that his (…)

  • A Time When All Good Men are Gone
    28 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    The Native Americans warned of a time when all good men are gone, and with the death of Edward Kennedy this prophecy seems to be coming closer to fulfillment. Who now will stand with Kennedy’s principles? Who will stand and vote no to war as Kennedy did in 2003, when popular opinion cries out that we must?
    Kennedy was fortunate to have lived in a safe state, a state that he loved and a state that loved him back. He had the burden and good fortune to be born into a (…)

  • The Thousands Yet Unborn: a farewell to Senator Edward Moore Kennedy
    27 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is with shock and dread, albeit much anticipated, that I awoke to hear of Ted Kennedy’s passing. My muse has been somewhat groggy since my mom’s passing this Spring, and I am juggling a range of emotions and a series of body blows from 2009. It seems that whoever is in charge of these things wanted to make certain that everyone who was anyone should be taken away from us this year. My wife tells me it’s my mom’s doing: A lady who loved a party, she could not bear the hereafter without (…)

  • THE NEW BOURBONS
    25 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The most potent weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Stephen Biko
    “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.” So the saying goes.
    But is it necessarily true?
    What if all the streams, lakes and rivers where this man sought to fish were on private (…)

  • The Weimar Hyperinflation: Could it Happen Again?
    23 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Weimar Hyperinflation: Could it Happen Again?
    “It was horrible. Horrible! Like lightning it struck. No one was prepared. The shelves in the grocery stores were empty. You could buy nothing with your paper money.” (1933 interview)
    By Ellen Brown May 20, 2009
    Some worried commentators are predicting a massive hyperinflation of the sort suffered by Weimar Germany in 1923, when a wheelbarrow full of paper money could barely buy a loaf of bread. An April 29 editorial in the San (…)

  • A Good-News Photo Op Embarrasses 2 French Ministers
    23 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By STEVEN ERLANGER
    The French education minister, Luc Chatel, center, visiting the Intermarché supermarket in Villeneuve-le-Roi on Monday. Olivier Laban-Mattei/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
    PARIS — It was apparently just a little summertime spinning with the aid of a grocery chain, but Luc Chatel, the education minister and government spokesman, found himself in some hot water over a supposedly staged visit to a quiet supermarket on Monday.
    Journalists accompanying Mr. Chatel and (…)

  • Fidel Castro slams U.S. for battle over healthcare
    20 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fidel Castro slams U.S. for battle over healthcare
    Wed Aug 19, 2009
    HAVANA, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro criticized the United States on Wednesday for being willing to spend billions on its high-tech military but finding it difficult to approve healthcare reform that would protect its poor people.
    He wrote in a commentary published on a state-run Internet site that huge military budgets are approved easily by the U.S. Congress but U.S. President Barack Obama is (…)

  • Coming Soon: A Global Central Bank, Global Currency & World Government
    19 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Coming Soon: A Global Central Bank, Global Currency & World Government
    BY ANDREW MARSHALL
    Following the 2009 G20 summit, plans were announced for implementing the creation of a new global currency to replace the US dollar’s role as the world reserve currency. Point 19 of the communiqué released by the G20 at the end of the Summit stated, “We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250 billion into the world economy and increase global liquidity.” SDRs, or (…)