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Swiss authorities question U.S. counterfeiting charges against North Korea
By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Tue, May. 22, 2007 (MCT)
WASHINGTON - Swiss police who closely monitor the circulation of counterfeit currency have challenged the Bush administration’s assertions that North Korea is manufacturing fake American $100 bills.
President Bush has accused North Korea of making and circulating the false bills, so perfect they’re called supernotes, and in late 2005 (…)

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their entrances and their exits:” Old Will Shakespeare knew his stuff, why that line alone is worth the price of admission. Now if you couple that with the famous Mark Twain quote, “Man is the most amazing Jack ass” you have a workable foundation for a philosophy of life and an insight into the mechanics of the world.
But it is too succinct to be a religion and far to humble to be a philosophy, now if Will and (…)

Fed up of the garbage with which their mainstream media force-feeds them, North American as well as readers all over the world have turned to newspapers like the UK’s Guardian in the hope of finding informed, intelligent reporting of world events. They will be disappointed. Today’s Guardian is as much part of an Orwellian, Atlanticist, warmongering propaganda campaign as is the disgraceful New York Times.
Far from being the ’socialist’ newspaper that our American cousins believe it to be, (…)

New attacks against Turkish Journalists and Trade Unionists The socialist weekly periodical „Alinteri“ (Sweat of Labour) has been subject to new attacks. The official correspondent of „Alinteri“ in the Turkish capital Ankara has been detained by a police raid early this morning. The correspondent Sami gök was not the only one to be taken by the police, the President of Egitim Emekcileri Dernegi (Education Workers Union), Sefa Gokdemir, and 10 readers of „Alinteri“ newspaper are still under (…)

14:09 | 21/ 05/ 2007 BRUSSELS, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s new legal adviser found himself in the unwanted media spotlight this past weekend as a business magazine said he could face trial in a long-running corporate espionage case in Belgium.
Capital weekly said Patrick Ouart, former secretary general of the French energy group Suez, could be tried for suspected involvement in illegally obtaining confidential information about Belgian subsidiary Electrabel. (…)

Nigeria, which is the most populated state of Africa with its 132 million inhabitants, has been a victim of violent territorial destruction during the last fifty years. Massacre and violation of human rights do not arise any attention anymore, only some clamorous episodes capture the press’ interest for a moment and then they are forgotten.
The state of Nigeria is the worlds eighth biggest producer of oil supplying 2.5 million barrels per day. The Niger Delta area, rich of black gold, has (…)

The market is the place set apart where men may deceive each other.
Anacharsis
How odd it is that over the past 20 years Deconstructionists and lingusitic "experts" have rendered much of philosophy - other than "analytical" variations - impotent based on the premise that the imprecise language used in speculative and metaphysical strains invalidates their significance. OK. So Plato’s innate ideas, Spinoza’s pantheism, Hegel’s dialectics, and most of existentialism, for instance, are not (…)

To find subjects to write about I sometimes peruse the foreign press. Amazingly, I find great numbers of news stories that cease to be news once they cross the borders of the good old U.S.A. Perhaps it is our obsession with ourselves a sort of a whole nation contemplating their navel. After all between American Idol, drunken starlets and missing and murdered white women not every thing can make the front page. I find in the Japanese and Chinese newspapers have a greater interest in the (…)

Retired Generals Challenge GOP in Ads By PHILIP ELLIOTT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Three retired generals challenged a dozen members of Congress in a new ad campaign, saying the politicians can’t support President Bush’s policies in Iraq and still expect to win re-election.
"I am outraged, as are the majority of Americans. I’m a lifelong Republican, but it’s past time for change," retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste told reporters.
"Our strategy in Iraq today is more of the same, a slow grind to (…)

by St. Clair
The situation BOTH in Iraq and in Afghanistan is a lot more involved than mainstream media can fathom. And, if it could fathom what is going on, it would not be allowed to report it for obvious reasons, as this would further undermine the morale of the Western world.
Troops and their families at home used to be able to at least write emails to each other via blog spots and troops were also allowed to access certain parts of the internet. This is now no longer possible.
The (…)