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End of Scandinavian Neutrality: NATO’s Militarization Of Europe
by Rick Rozoff
Global Research, April 11, 2009
There was a noble if naive expectation that with the effective dissolution of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact in 1989 and even more so with its formal dismantling and the breakup of the Soviet Union itself into fifteen new countries two years later that an era of peace in the world and demilitarization of the European continent was dawning.
The peace might not be a just one, (…)

Who is behind Moldova’s Twitter Revolution?
by José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
Global Research, April 11, 2009
"A lot of what we [National Endowment for Democracy] do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." -Allen Weinstein
It seems that those who anticipated the end of color revolutions have been proven wrong. So far, color revolutions have succeeded in Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. On the other hand, they have failed in Belarus, Uzbekistan and Myanmar. Their common (…)

is there reason to think that mankind can survive itself ? thats a loaded question to say the least. we hear of exciting new technologies, that could conceviably give us a fountain of youth, we see possibly advancements in green technology that could get eventually wean us from using oil for fuels. yet we also hear of wars and famines, we hear of the impractical solutions that we are given where crazy executives at monsato have decided to reengineer genetics and unleash their ill advized (…)

Denial, Denial, Denial— This is the Great Given Guarantee of America by James Nimmo (OKLAHOMA CITY) If the River of Denial isn’t in Africa, then it’s running full flood in Oklahoma. The "fair-minded electorate" has not only voted to make Okie gay and lesbian citizens 2nd-class it will now have the opportunity to deny the right of the ballot box to otherwise qualified voters who are too financially or physically disadvantaged to acquire a government-issued photo identification card. (…)

The new definition of money
Monday, 13 April 2009
The definition of money - since October, it is quite another. The Fed prints dollars and money expropriated owners. They are poorer and may then return to high interest rates to borrow - Don Harrold verdict. (Video engl.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bq4GKLC1MI

The Economic Crisis: No, this will not be a Normal Cyclical Recovery
by Prof. John Kozy
Global Research, April 12, 2009
The Congress, at the behest of corporate lobbyists, wrote into legislation the rules that permitted companies to offshore jobs, reduce real wages, and permit risky financial practices. Therein lies the root cause of this crisis.
Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, spent two decades tracking 82,000 predictions made by 284 experts. (…)

Cooperation or Competition?
Major economic crises had in the past, the outbreak of war encouraged, or at least they were usually preceded. It is not clear whether the war was followed by the crisis to the incompetence of those responsible, and deflect the anger of the victim to steer to the outside, or whether the crisis of the leaders was staged, with the war to make their political ideas forward. If the former, the opinion is widespread, the latter seems to me on closer inspection, the (…)

Solution to The Financial Crisis: "Liquidate the banks and fire the executives" Recommendations of the Warren Report:
by Mike Whitney
Global Research, April 11, 2009
On Tuesday, a congressional panel headed by ex-Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren released a report on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s handling of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Warren was appointed to lead the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) in November by Senate majority leader Harry (…)

Eco-Community Design: A Proposal
Twist
Let’s say "Business As Usual" (BAU) real estate economics assumes: that one does not grow one’s food, or any portion thereof; that one therefore travels to a grocery, and pays someone else for food that has been shipped from dozens to thousands of miles away and largely grown thanks to massive fossil fuel inputs and fossil fuel-based infrastructure, processed, and for the most part unnecessarily packaged, labeled and wrapped ; that large power (…)

Global Quantitative Easing
By: Trace Mayer, J.D.
Quantitative easing appears to be the new fad among central bankers including the Bank of England, Japan, Switzerland and the Federal Reserve. Quantitative easing is a tool of monetary policy. The effect is an increase in the quantity of currency without regard to maintaining its quality.
CANADIAN QUANTITATIVE EASING Bloomberg has reported that the Bank of Canada Governor ”Carney has pledged to lay out a plan that would flood banks (…)