contributions

By Bonnie S. Glaser, Lyle Morris
For the past few years, the Western world has been abuzz with talk of China’s rise. Most statesmen, pundits and academics have concluded that China’s rise is inevitable, but as of yet there has been no consensus on the implications of China’s rise for the rest of the world. While Westerners debate issues like whether and how China can be “molded” into becoming a responsible stakeholder in the international system, the Chinese have been quietly conducting a (…)

“I bewail the consequences of those furious passions which seem to belong to man.” - Chief Justice John Marshall
A surreal event took place on July 7, 2009, at the National Press Club, (NPC), in Washington, D.C. Some of the representatives of the “de facto” regime in Honduras, repeatedly denied, in differing fashions, that President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a military coup d’etat on June 28, 2009. Not long after the press conference began, however, three gutsy protesters, holding (…)

by F William Engdahl
After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government’s ”independent“ NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its “private” Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, is massively intervening into the internal politics of China.
The reasons for Washington’s intervention into Xinjiang (…)

Food riots, tax protests, strikes and high unemployment all will characterize our economic future according to Gerald Celente.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22992.htm

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: HOW THE STATE CAN BEAT ITS BUDGET WOES
Ellen Brown, July 8th, 2009
“As goes California,” says the adage, “so goes the nation.” All eyes are therefore on the Golden State as it attempts to solve its $26 billion budget deficit. The world’s eighth largest economy is not going quietly into that pit of debt and devastation that has devoured Third World countries whole. The State’s voters have drawn a line in the sand against further tax hikes, while Democratic leaders (…)

Disinformation claims: Saudis accept Israeli attack on Iran
F. William Engdahl
On 5 In July it was in the world renowned London "Times": "Saudis see on Israeli Attack on Iran remain." If this is correct, then it meant a dramatic change in the Saudi foreign and defense policy, which in consequence even to the Third World War might lead. A more thorough examination, however, that this malicious elements are at work - forces that military psychologists and intelligence specialists like (…)

IMHO, the US is now in the process of removing undesirable content criticial of its actions here, at home and abroad, up to and including critisizim of both the Bush and Obama Administrations.
Check out my blog: http://www.benamarine.blogspot.com
As you will see it has been removed.
Now, do a search on BELLACIAO — "BenAMarine" and see if any of my comments should be removed from creation.
What they have failed to remember is that everything is written in "The Book of Life" and from (…)

There is a popular adage that states: “Only two things are certain—death and taxes.”
Now there is a third: “It is certain that the constitutional rights of the individual will always be sacrificed to appease a governmental and/or economically powerful entity.”
In a recent Pravda.Ru article entitled A TALE OF TWO ACADEMICS, (Parts I and II), I analyzed the diametrical situations faced by two tenured university professors: Ward Churchill and John Yoo.
Churchill was fired from his (…)

Public announcement Special Summer 2009 GEAB N°36 (June 17, 2009)
Three rogue waves by H-J Fandrich for LEAP/E2020
As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 as early as October 2008, on the eve of summer 2009, the question of the US and UK capacity to finance their unbridled public deficits has become the central question of international debates, thus paving the way for these two countries to default on their debt by the end of this summer.
At this stage of the global systemic crisis’ process of (…)

By Lyubov Pronina
July 10 (Bloomberg) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a “united future world currency.”
“Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. “You can see it and touch it.”
The coin (), which bears the words “unity in diversity,” was minted in Belgium and presented to the heads of G-8 delegations, (…)