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  • Leading Economists: Let the banks fail
    5 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Leading Economists: Let the banks fail
    Global Research, February 2, 2009
    George Washington Blog.
    The government and Wall Street have endlessly repeated the statement that we have to save the banks, or the whole economy will be destroyed.
    But leading experts - including the following people - say that letting the banks fail will help the economy recover:
    Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
    Leading monetary theorist Anna Schwartz
    Highly-regarded PhD economist Michael (…)

  • The World Economic forum (WEF): Requiem for an overweight
    5 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The World Economic forum (WEF): Requiem for an overweight
    by Eric Walberg
    Global Research, February 4, 2009
    “The WEF is not a government of the world,” said organiser Andre Schneider wistfully in the crisp Davos air.
    The world’s economic elite gathered in a subdued atmosphere at this year’s World Economic Forum to assess the now global economic crisis. New York University professor Niso Abuaf compared it to a funeral, though not for the sake of the dead “ancien regime”, but “for the (…)

  • Nests In Hell
    5 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    American leadership is good for America and for the world.”
    So reads the introduction to the Project For The New American Century (PNAC), perhaps the most important document ever ignored by so many impacted millions-the neocon blueprint for American “full-spectrum domination” of the world. “Benign global hegemony” is their tender euphemism for it, and the hegemony business is not going as planned. American leadership for America hasn’t been so good, either.
    Commonly accepted accounting (…)

  • America Faces the Music in Davos
    4 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Pfaff
    The American participants in this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have been the first to confront the full international blowback to the U.S.-created world economic crisis. The crisis has devastated America’s reputation for intellectual innovation and practice in global finance, its business leadership and its domination of applied and academic economics—all promoted at the Davos forum for decades. Last Friday, a Wall Street Journal front-page headline (…)

  • It’s Not Going to Be OK
    4 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Hedges
    The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a matter of time. And not much time. When things start to go sour, when Barack Obama is exposed as a mortal waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States could plunge into a long period of precarious (…)

  • The Obama Deception Trailer, A Film by Alex Jones - 15 March 2009
    4 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A New Film By Alex Jones
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-27530712.html

  • What’s behind Obama’s charm offensive towards the Muslim world Pepe Escobar (video The Real News)
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    TheRealNews
    28 janvier 2009
    Last week President Obama introduced the new U.S. State Department, including two new special envoys - George Mitchell to the Middle East and Richard Holbrooke to Afghanistan/Pakistan. Early this week the President gave his first sit-in interview in power - to an Arab TV network. He has promised a new partnership with the Arab world based on mutual respect. As groundbreaking as this may seem - compared to the Bush administration’s approach - Pepe Escobar argues (…)

  • Venezuela: Terror in Perija
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    * The following article was originally published on Jan. 30 2009 in El Mundo, a Caracas daily. Written by a member of the editorial collective of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario , it calls attention to what we fear is a bloody attack against these original inhabitants of the western part of the country. The information glut regarding the referendum on the Constitutional Amendment (to take place on 2/15/09) has hidden serious events happening in the state of Zulia, in particular (…)

  • The Obama Crossroads: Neo-Liberal Coup or Responsible Government
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Obama Crossroads: Neo-Liberal Coup or Responsible Government
    by Prof. John McMurtry
    Global Research, February 1, 2009
    When the U.S. Treasury gave away $700 billion to Wall Street banks with no strings attached in October of 2008, the Obama team gave a green light. A popular insurgence was soon silenced, with public wrath directed instead at the U.S. auto producers (and unions) who followed with a request for $25 billion. The auto companies ended up with a loan of about 1/50th the (…)

  • My Future As An Arms Manufacturer by Terry Jones (The Nation)
    1 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Terry Jones The Nation January 22, 2009
    Source:/www.philhart.com
    It’s not that I’m keen on killing people. It’s just that the money’s so good. It’s not that I’m keen on killing people. I haven’t actually killed anyone myself yet. It’s all to do with economics. You see, I can’t help but notice that the arms industry is doing extremely well. In fact in these times of economic disaster, it’s the one industry that seems to be expanding.
    According to the Government’s Defence and (…)