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Photos of the protests against the G20 are available on the web site of Contre-Faits

The Financial War Against Iceland: Being defeated by debt is as deadly as outright military warfare
by Prof Michael Hudson
Global Research, April 5, 2009
Iceland is under attack – not militarily but financially. It owes more than it can pay. This threatens debtors with forfeiture of what remains of their homes and other assets. The government is being told to sell off the nation’s public domain, its natural resources and public enterprises to pay the financial gambling debts run up (…)

The G-20 soap opera By Dr.-Ing. Artur P. Schmidt Sunday, 5 April 2009
The glamor poses of pop stars of politics, especially Obama, Sarkozy and Berlusconi are the real problems of mass unemployment and the specter of the collapse of capitalism distracted.
The false messiah
After the leaders of the world have taken, is now the state of peace, joy, pancake. Obama embraces Europe and the Old World is to this trick Bauer enters fall. The Messiah is in Europe and all will be good if you (…)

Just saw the following video all the way through.
G20 Climate Camp 09
A number of videos are emerging there at YouTube. Don’t know how long they’ll be up.
http://www.youtube.com/user/CorruptMedia
– Flash

Obama’s Disconnects: Why the World Doesn’t Trust Him, Nor Should You
Sam Hamod, Ph.D. 4.2.09
Obama and some Americans may wonder why most of the world’s leaders, save the British, don’t believe or have any great trust in Obama’s words. In fact, it’s because of his disconnects between his rhetoric and his decisions that have become evident since he became presdident. Obama is not trusted by the China, France, Turkey, Germany, the head of the EU and many other world leaders because they (…)

It’s Not Going to Be OK
Posted on Feb 2, 2009
By Chris Hedges
The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Iceland will descend on us. It is only a matter of time. And not much time. When things start to go sour, when Barack Obama is exposed as a mortal waving a sword at a tidal wave, the United States (…)

As the new American president tours Europe garnering support for mass murder of Indigenous Asians in Occupied Afghanistan and robot-bombed Pakistan, sensible, anti-racist, humanitarian people should take stock and ask the pertinent questions e.g. how many people have died avoidably in Occupied Afghanistan so far under American Emperor Barack Hussein Obama?
Occupation excess deaths can be either violent (from bullets and bombs) or non-violent (from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated (…)

NATO’s 60th Anniversary: TIME TO DISBAND NATO: Sign Petition
Global Research, April 4, 2009
http://www.petitiononline.com/z9m2x3nb/petition.html
NATO, must be Disbanded for Contributing to the Scourge of War, and For Defying Peremptory Norms
While, on April 4, 2009, the NATO state leaders are poised to celebrate the 60th Anniversary Conference of NATO in Strasbourg and Baden Baden, the majority of states of the United Nations would probably be more inclined to celebrate the demise of (…)

VIDEO: More IMF "Economic Medicine" Is Not the Solution G-20 Proposals will exacerbate the Global Economic Crisis
by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13052

Obama’s Toxic Asset Plan: The Plan will leave the same Amount of Toxic Assets In the System, but with Taxpayers now liable for most of the Losses
by Washington’s Blog
Global Research, April 4, 2009
Washington’s Blog
The most succinct description of what is wrong with Geithner’s PPIP toxic asset plan comes from the Financial Times:
Critics say that would leave the same amount of toxic assets in the system as before, but with the government now liable for most of the losses through (…)