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Alan Grayson Discusses His Expectations From The Upcoming One-Time Fed Audit
by Tyler Durden on 08/02/2010
Alan Grayson Federal Reserve Grayson Transparency
Dan Rather chats with Alan "Taz" Grayson in the enclosed clip, over the opportunities that America may glean as part of the historic one-time only audit of the Federal Reserve, which passed in a watered down vote as part of the FinReg. The exact conditions and the applicable disclosure are still rather murky, although we will take (…)

Noble, Criminal Western Democracies
by Rami G. Khouri
Global Research, August 2, 2010 Daily Star (Lebanon) - 2010-07-28
One of the paradoxes of leading Western democracies is how they can be at once so noble and so criminal. A particularly impressive aspect of countries like the United States and the United Kingdom is their political openness, particularly their insistence in many cases on publicly analyzing and evaluating their government’s policies, to learn if mistakes were made, (…)

Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran Part I: Global Warfare
by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 1, 2010
Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in "an advanced state of readiness". Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed.
This military adventure has been on the Pentagon’s drawing board since the mid-1990s. First Iraq, then Iran according to a declassified 1995 US Central Command document.
Escalation is (…)

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 (…)

Alan Greenspan: "The Financial System Is Broke"
by Tyler Durden
Alan Greenspan Hyperinflation Meet The Press MSNBC
For the definitive confirmation that the Fed is and has always been very open to, at least philosophically, pushing the market higher no matter what the cost (if not in practice - they would never do that, oh no, Liberty 33 would never stoop so low), is this quote from former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan who was on Meet The Press earlier, where he said the following (…)

Strett Wall euphoria (and by extrapolation from the rest of world stock) following the results of so-called "test of stress" of financial institutions conducted by the U.S. administration and the drip of negative economic data less than the most pessimistic forecasts would have helped the overweight green shoots of the economy (up 3% of GDP by 2010 and substantial improvement in results of the Banks and Wall Strett). It would thus produced a change in market expectations, there are now (…)

The expected interest rate hike by the ECB for the second half of 2010, motivated by the fact that yield differentials between the public debt issues between the various first world countries have increased in recent months (as leading to more expensive and more difficult to obtain external financing) and the risk of a possible scenario of deflation, it would have an immediate impact on mortgages and bank loans, thus choking broad economic strata and a dramatic increase in delinquencies and (…)

The Hariri Assassination: Israel ’s Fingerprints
by Rannie Amiri
Global Research, July 23, 2010 2010-07-22
In the Middle East , the link between political machinations, espionage and assassination is either clear as day, or clear as mud. As for the yet unsolved case of the February 2005 murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the underpinnings of this covert operation including the role of Israel have now surfaced. A crackdown on Israeli spy rings operating in Lebanon has (…)

China Calls Our Bluff: The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation
by Washington’s Blog Global Research, July 25, 2010 Washington’s Blog - 2010-07-23
President Chavez ordered maximum alert on Venezuela’s border with Colombia after the Uribe administration made grave accusations against Venezuela claiming the Chavez government harbors terrorists and terrorist training camps
The outgoing government of Alvaro Uribe in Colombia gave a shameful presentation before (…)

Iran: A Bridge too Far?
The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf
A word to the reader: The following paper is so shocking that, after preparing the initial draft, I didn’t want to believe it myself, and resolved to disprove it with more research. However, I only succeeded in turning up more evidence in support of my thesis. And I repeated this cycle of discovery and denial several more times before finally deciding to go with the article. I believe that a serious writer must (…)