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The Countdown To The Implosion Of The Dollar
Posted: Aug 19 2009 By: Jim Sinclair
My Dear Friends, You can take your waves, percentages, algorithms, quants and quarks and throw them directly into the basket. The time for lines and squiggles are behind us. The common shares of the US dollar are and have been in a long term downtrend. That downtrend is 81 days from implosion. The selling of the US dollar and US dollar instruments is increasing in international markets, making it ever (…)

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 (…)

Blackwater: CIA Assassins?
by Jeremy Scahill Global Research, August 22, 2009
In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early stages of US operations in the country. A month later, Erik Prince, the company’s owner and a former Navy SEAL, flew to Afghanistan as part of the original twenty-man Blackwater contingent. Blackwater worked for the CIA at its station in Kabul as well as in Shkin, along the (…)

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 (…)

Gerald Celente: Trend researcher from the U.S. predicts total collapse
Gerhard Bauer clamping
Gerald Celente, and he founded the "Trend Research Institute" are little known in this country. Mainly in marginal notes, the Americans with his predictions on trends and future of our society mentioned, usually under the label of a black painter of the future but our good times soon. The predictions of this institute are of frightening precision: the stock market crash in 1987, the collapse of (…)

Breaking the Silence
The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 283
Posted - August 20, 2009
For more information contact: Kate Doyle - kadoyle@gwu.edu
In Guatemala (until Monday, August 24): 502 4408-9899 New York office: 646-613-1440, ext. 238
Research Assistance: Susana Zavala and Emilene Martínez-Morales
NOTE: The article in this briefing book appeared in Spanish in the Mexican newspaper Milenio on August 20, 2009 (…)

The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization
by James Petras Global Research, August 21, 2009
Introduction
The US seven-year war and occupation of Iraq is driven by several major political forces and informed by a variety of imperial interests. However these interests do not in themselves explain the depth and scope of the sustained, massive and continuing destruction of an entire society and its reduction to a permanent state of war. The range of political forces (…)

Afghans "Sandwiched" between Taliban and US-NATO backed Warlords Malalai Joya’s "Raising My Voice"
by Julien Mercille Global Research, August 22, 2009
Malalai Joya’s central message in Raising My Voice is that “today the Afghan people are tragically sandwiched between two enemies-the Taliban on one side and the US/NATO forces and their warlord friends on the other” (pp. 5, 246).
The book contains some autobiographical chapters, but is mostly an analysis of the problems faced by (…)

August 22, 2009
WALRUS BULLS BELLOWING ON A BEACH
John Chuckman
I am disappointed with the view of some knowledgeable commentators over Scotland’s release of the dying man who was convicted of the Lockerbie-airline bombing.
From a purely power-politics point of view, of course, they are right: judging by the ugly noises echoing across the oceans from America, Scotland has done itself no favor.
But if all affairs are to be carried on in every country from that point of view, it (…)

By David Glenn Cox
Times change and political definitions change as well. The Republican Party was born of an anti-slavery plank in the days of Abraham Lincoln. The Republicans were the party of reform and were, dare I say it, liberals. The Democrats were the party of the status quo, supporting slavery and big business. In my childhood I was raised with John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, and all of them basking in the light of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry (…)