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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 (…)

The Swine Flu “Pandemic”: From Pigs or Out-of-Control Scientists?
BY ALAN CANTWELL JR., MD
The new “swine flu” virus was first detected in Mexico on April 23, 2009. A few days later, the US Department of Homeland Security and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) claimed the so-called “Mexican flu” had infected more than 1,000 people with 60 deaths. The novel infectious agent was reported as a hybrid of pig, bird and human flu viruses, including genetic elements from European and Asian (…)

Icelanders march against Icesave deal
Published: 14 August 2009 16:27 | Changed: 14 August 2009 17:19
By our news staff About 3,000 Icelanders took to the streets on Thursday to protest against a proposal to repay the losses sustained by Dutch and British investors in the Icesave bankruptcy. The legislative proposal has been stuck in the Icelandic parliament for months, where it is being blocked by a majority of members of parliament.
The Icesave law is a promise to repay (…)

Essay: Uranium contamination of the civil population, especially by the US-NATO-Israel led wars
Depleted Uranium – Far Worse Than 9/11 Depleted Uranium Dust – Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan
by Doug Westerman
In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. (…)

Losing the Plot – Britain’s losses in Afghanistan
by Lesley Docksey
Global Research, August 17, 2009 So far, the cost to the British taxpayer of our current ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan is £12 billion(1). If only our eight years there had cost nothing but money. Leaving aside the horrendous cost to the Afghan people and their land, Britain’s forces have suffered loss, not least, because of the muddle, ignorance and incompetence of those who sent them to war, a loss of face. As it is, (…)

Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know
by Jean MacKenzie Global Research, August 17, 2009
U.S. soldiers (L) and an Afghan policeman keep watch near a building which is held by the Taliban in Logar, south of Kabul August 10, 2009. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
KABUL — It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country. (…)

Terrorist attack in Ingushetia: Republic Chief Jewkurow scents U.S., Britain and Israel interests
17 / 08 / 2009
MOSCOW, 17 August (RIA Novosti). The U.S., Britain and Israel are involved in a destabilization of the situation in North Caucasus interested. It said Yunus-Bek Jewkurow, president of the northern Caucasian Republic of Ingushetia, on Monday in the Russian radio station RSN.
In its opinion on the recent terror attacks in the inguschetischen city Nasran, where a suicide bomber (…)

Urgent Plea from Radio Progreso (my translation)
Sun, 08/16/2009 - 12:30 — AP
Help! Our Voice, Radio Progreso and ERIC SJ
Our Voice in the political crisis:
Radio Progreso and the Team for Reflection, Investigation and Communication ERIC of the Jesuit community in Honduras
Saturday, August 15, 2009
HELP!
Radio Progreso was placed under siege by an army contingent the very day of the coup d’etat. At gunpoint and without a warrant, the military penetrated our facilities and (…)

Politicizing Ethnicity: US Plan to Repeat Yugoslav Scenario in Caucasus Caucasus: The War That Was, The World War That Might Have Been
by Rick Rozoff Global Research, August 15, 2009 Stop NATO
Click here to see the map: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articlePictures/caucususethnic.jpg Copyright. John O’Laughlin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Matthew Bryza has been one of the U.S.’s main point men in the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea Basin and Central Asia for the past twelve years. (…)

UN Secretary-General Envoy, Christopher Ross, is working on his own plan to resolve the thirty-four-year-old Western Sahara conflict. The details of the plan have not yet been released. He has made no secret of his desire to shake things up in the Sahara to unsettle the diplomatic war of attrition being waged by Morocco and the Front Polisario.
The major question facing Ross is the Western Saharans’ right of self-determination, which vexed the previous mediators, James Baker, the former US (…)