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Russia and Iran Now OFFICIALLY Talking of Dumping Dollar for International Trade
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009
After the Independent reported that Middle Eastern oil producers, plus China, Japan and France have all agreed to start trading oil using a basket of currencies - instead of the dollar - starting in 9 years, spokesmen for those governments denied it.
The Independent’s reporter explained why the governments were denying the rumor.
But now the governments themselves are starting (…)

Gold rate soon 50,000?
Sunday 18 October 2009
Gold over $ 1000 was a signal for other newcomers to the gold. Central to the price of gold is no longer correct, press brakes, only the increase. Systemtod because of capital flight has begun so long ago.
It was emphasized in this market commentary on several occasions that means a gold price of $ 1000 a kind of "threshold of death" for the international financial system. This was achieved a few weeks ago and last week clearly exceeded. (…)

By David Glenn Cox
Never has Colin Powell’s Pottery Barn analogy been more apt than in the next lost war, Pakistan. In our quest to strike down radical Islam, we have done so like an angry housewife chasing a mouse with a broom, and in the process done more damage with the broom than the mouse ever could.
I recently listened to Ray McGovern speak about Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the third rail of American foreign policy, Israel. McGovern, a life long security analyst for the (…)

Bloody attack in southern Iran: US-British-Israeli terror attack
18 / 10 / 2009
MOSCOW, 18 Oktober (RIA Novosti). Behind today’s bomb attack on a high military in southern Iran, that killed 31 people, according to the latest data to suspect Iranian authorities of Great Britain.
The Iranian state television circulated a statement for an "informed source" who said Britain "immediately" was behind the attack. The London-based Foreign Office condemned the atrocity in Iran, without (…)

The Mysteries of Trebitsch-Lincoln: Con-man, Spy, ‘Counter-Initiate’?
BY DR. RICHARD B. SPENCE
Whatever else may be said about Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, few can match his resume. He started life in Hungary in 1879 as plain Ignacz Trebitsch, the son of a prosperous orthodox Jewish family. He ended it sixty-four years later in Shanghai as the Abbot Chao Kung. Or at least he probably did. In between, using innumerable aliases, Trebitsch played the parts of actor, petty thief, (…)

Are We Possessed?
Paul Levy
Far from a thing of the past or an ignorant superstition, demonic possession and evil spells, in our technologically developed society, are an increasing danger. C. G. Jung has given us modern terms for these very real states, uriging us to make exorcizing ourselves "the most vital task of civilization."
C. G. Jung, the great doctor of the soul and one of the most inspired psychologists of the twentieth century, had incredible insight into what is currently (…)

Global Systemic Crisis – The European Union at a crossroads in 2010: an accomplice or a victim of the collapse of the dollar?
GEAB N°38 (October 16, 2009)
The major trends at work in the 4th and 5th phases of the global systemic crisis (the decanting phase and the global geopolitical dislocation phase) are unveiling every day (1). Everyone has now realized that the United States is being swept into an uncontrollable spiral involving widespread insolvency of the country and gross (…)

Sanhati (www.sanhati.com), a collective of activists/academics who have been working in solidarity with peoples’ movements in India by providing information and analysis, took the initiative to bring together voices from around the world against the Government of India’s planned military offensive in Central India. A statement and a background note were drafted in consultation with Indian activists, and duly circulated for endorsement - several eminent intellectuals/acadmics along with (…)

Activists demonstrated, in a steady rain, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 15, 2009, at the office/PR branch of the insurance giant, WellPoint. It is located only blocks from the White House. This slideshow represents some of the sights and scenes from that spirited demonstration that demanded genuine healthcare reform in this country. See related videos of the protest, at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxtN19Ug8ew and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPYuWqHv9TM For more information on the (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
Insecurity in Iraq is in – built in the U.S. – conceived sectarian and “federal” constitution drafted after the U.S. – led invasion in 2003, in the political process engineered by the U.S. occupying power on sectarian and federal “constitutional” basis to create a secure pro – U.S. post – Saddam regime as well as in the sectarian polity born therefrom — or more to the point brought in by the invading army — and is still, seven years on, struggling to survive a possible (…)