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JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
A disturbed Sergeant serving his third term of duty in Iraq picked up a weapon and killed five of his fellow soldiers.
Sergeant John Russell of the 54th Engineer Battalion became the latest entry in the unsung casualties of war – a victim that few outside his circle of family and friends will mourn but a victim just the same.
Sergeant Russell is one of the rare cases whose story is told on national media. Soldiers under constant duress are (…)

The New US Budget: No Money for the People, but Trillions for the Banks and the War
by Professor Dr Michel Chossudovsky, Canada
cc. The following text contains essential parts of a larger article written by the Canadian economist Michel Chossudovsky. The complete text “America’s fiscal collapse” was published on 2 March 2009 on www.globalresearch.ca.
Continue to read:
http://www.currentconcerns.ch/index.php?id=768

The American Revenue Authorities: Expansion of the Combat Area (on to Switzerland)
Discussion with Luis Suarez-Villa, professor for economy at the University of California, Irvine
Luis Suarez-Villa made his doctorate in international policy at the University of Cornell. He is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, whose member he has been since 1982. He specialized in innovative technology and its connections with social changes, economic development and regional analysis. (…)

Indonesian Minister of Health Demands Dignity, Equality and Transparency for all Countries in the World
by Eva-Maria Föllmer-Müller and Stefan Keller
In her book, Siti Fatilah Supari describes her fight against the WHO and the neo-colonial efforts to deprive her country – as well as all other developing countries – of their sovereignty, their rights and their dignity. She accuses the rich industrial countries to treat the developing countries unequally and calls for transparency with (…)

China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants
Published: May 10, 2009
TIANJIN, China — China’s frenetic construction of coal-fired power plants has raised worries around the world about the effect on climate change. China now uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined, making it the world’s largest emitter of gases that are warming the planet.
But largely missing in the hand-wringing is this: China has emerged in the past two years as the world’s leading (…)

US official Rose Gottemoeller calls for Israel to sign non-proliferation treaty
Abraham Rabinovich, Jerusalem | May 08, 2009
A CALL by a US official for Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has raised fears in Jerusalem that the Obama administration may be seeking to block the Iranian nuclear threat by sacrificing Israel’s reported nuclear arsenal.
US Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller said this week: "Universal adherence to the NPT, including by India, (…)

Secret Warfare: From Gladio to 9/11
An EIR interview with Dr. Daniele Ganser, 8 avril 2005 EIR: How did you come to the idea of writing a book on NATO’s Secret Armies? Who encouraged you and who discouraged you?
Ganser: I had finished my university studies in history in 1998 and I was looking for a Ph.D. research topic. At that time, I did research on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, with a specific focus on whether the United Nations, the world peace organization so to speak, could have (…)

Genocides (such as the Armenian Genocide, the Jewish Holocaust, the Nazi genocide of Slavs and Roma, the repeated Bengali Holocausts by the British in British-ruled India, the Palestinian Genocide, the Iraqi Genocide and the Afghan Genocide) represent the most awful of crimes.
However the ultimate in genocidal crimes is the already commenced and steadily worsening Climate Genocide that is set to kill 10 billion non-European inhabitants of Planet earth this century due to unaddressed (…)

Action by NATO in Europe, brings China and Russia closer
F. William Engdahl
To the extent as it is clear that the U.S. foreign policy under President Obama in all major areas of nothing more than a continuation of the Bush policy, the two great powers in Eurasia - namely Russia and China - cautious steps to deepen their economic and military cooperation. Gradually, the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization" (SCO) as a counterbalance to NATO as a defensive alliance. This development could (…)

INTERVIEW – Geithner: time to review U.S. central bank governance
Sat May 9, 2009 5:18am
By Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Friday it was time to review how regional Federal Reserve banks are governed to ensure the public feels confident no conflicts of interest are at play.
Geithner was asked during a Reuters Television interview about the resignation on Thursday of Stephen Friedman, a member of Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s Board (…)