Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Russia and the changing world - by Vladimir Putin
Abdulrahman Al Nuaimi, a leader of the opposition in Bahrain
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Monday, 27 February 2012
US & Israel strikes against Iran: plans and consequences
Syria: the Middle East’s tipping point
Sunday, 26 February 2012
The Slide to War
Friday, 24 February 2012
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Confronting the New Imperialism… Post Cold-War Africa
Stop NATO - by Xavier Renou:
"The emergence of a unipolar world, dominated by the United States as the sole world super-power, meant that there was no countervailing force to challenge imperialist domination.
“It may be necessary to devise a form of neo-imperialism, in which Britain, the US and the other beneficent nations would recruit local leaders and give them guidance to move towards free markets, the rule of law and – ultimately – some viable local version of democracy, while removing them from office in the event of backsliding.
“The new missionaries, (intellectuals and non-governmental organisations which ‘clog the airwaves and pollute the outside world’s coverage of African affairs with their endless one-sided accounts of tragedy and disaster’) are much like the old ones, an advance guard preparing the way for military and economic conquest.
“What is needed then is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to a world of human rights and cosmopolitan values.”
Monday, 20 February 2012
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Empire's Double Edged Sword: Global Military + NGOs
Those who are still alive
Saturday, 18 February 2012
Friday, 17 February 2012
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
American Decline in Perspective, Part 2 - Chomsky
"In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, 'losses' continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps to free itself from western domination, another serious loss. The region has moved towards integration, and has begun to address some of the terrible internal problems of societies ruled by mostly Europeanized elites, tiny islands of extreme wealth in a sea of misery."
The full article
“Losing” the World - American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
"At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries devastated, with casualties still mounting from the long-term effects of drenching South Vietnam with some of the most lethal carcinogens known, undertaken to destroy ground cover and food crops."
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade?
Global Research - by Paul Craig Roberts:
"Perhaps future historians will conclude that democracy once served the interests of money in order to break free of the power of kings, aristocracy, and government predations, but as money established control over governments, democracy became a liability. Historians will speak of the transition from the divine right of kings to the divine right of money."
Monday, 13 February 2012
Sunday, 12 February 2012
Bolivar: "It would be better for Latin America to adopt the Koran rather than the US’ form of government"
"I think it would be better for Latin America to adopt the Koran rather than the United States’ form of government." - Bolívar, Selected Writings, volume II, p. 732.
(Analysis)
http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/jul-aug/bushnell.html
http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/09/05/why_does_chavez_love_simon_bolivar_99160.html
http://books.google.com.br/books?id=JpagnzteVggC&pg=PR38&lpg=PR38&dq=simon+bolivar+adopt+quran&source=bl&ots=T5XNQ01qz4&sig=1Qkm6GNdvJHI0NOSMLKYpkP6jQo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JO83T-ywAtKWtwf-t7jMAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
(Original text)
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=59898980
Corporate Globalization versus The Civil Commons by which People’s Lives are Sustained
Global Research - by John McMurtry:
"At the highest level of abstraction, the vocation of each individual is to do what s/he can that is of life-value to others and of life-interest to self. For none to shirk the duty of giving back in to what enables the humanity of each is the obligation in return for these goods and rights – the human ordering of both economic provision and social justice.
"These are the real bases of self-respect and substantive individual freedom. Every person has something unique to offer, and social organisation is only good so far as the life capacities of individual and society, right and obligation, are bonded in mutual progression and notdehumanizing to both. The value of work for others, in turn, is defined by its contribution to the provision of the universal goods each and all require to live as human."
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Who is Behind Wikileaks?
"Wikileaks has the essential features of a process of 'manufactured dissent'. It seeks to expose government lies. It has released important information on US war crimes. But once the project becomes embedded in the mould of mainstream journalism, it is used as an instrument of media disinformation [...]"
The full article
Friday, 10 February 2012
How the Arab League Has Become a Tool of Western Imperialism
"It’s an intrigue befitting the machinations of classical colonialism in past centuries, such as the Sykes-Picot carve-up of the Middle Eastern Levant territories, or the betrayal of the Arabs after World War I, or the theft of Mesopotamia’s oil by British capitalists.
"Only this time, it is Arabs who are helping the neocolonial powers to deceive and subjugate other Arabs. Enter the Arab League."
The full article