By Ellen Brown Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank – this before they even had a government. Robert Wenzel wrote in the Economic Policy Journal: I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. Alex Newman wrote in the New American: In a statement released last week, the rebels ……. [Full Post]
Medvedev -v- Putin By Israel Shamir The Arab Rebellion has polarized Russia: some dream that the Spirit of Tahrir will visit Moscow, even as others hope for a NATO crusade to spread Western values all the way to the Volga; yet a third lot prays fervently that nothing will change, now or ever. The recent Russian abstention in the UN Security Council has split the elites and made the growing rift visible at last. President Dmitri Medvedev has declared Kaddafi persona non grata. He supported the proposal to transfer Libya’s case to the ICC; he then ordered his Ambassador in the Security Council to abstain. ……. [Full Post]
Bosnia-Libya. 1992-2011 bis repetita
Analysis and observations of the unfolding, Western-orchestrated disaster that is Libya From ‘Vinyard of the Saker‘ blog – 13 April 2011 To my absolute dismay, what is happening with Libya is a complete remake of what happened in Bosnia. A quasi-instantaneous armed insurrection, followed by a civil war, followed by a no-fly zone, followed by a peace plan accepted by the “bad guys” and rejected by the “good guys” and now, it appears, followed by the very same Europeans seriously considering sending in “peacekeeping” troops. They even (re-)created a NATO kangaroo court to judge Gaddafi for his “crimes against humanity” and the rest of the ……. [Full Post]
By Alan Hart There is not a snowball’s chance in hell of a real peace process unless the double-standard is abandoned. Unless, in other words, the governments of the major powers, led by America, say something like the following to Israel: ” Enough is enough. It is now in all of our interests that you end your defiance of international law. If you don’t we will be obliged to brand you as a rogue state and subject you to boycott, divestment and sanctions” As I explained on a lecture tour of South Africa (Goldstone Land) from which I have just returned, the answer is in ……. [Full Post]
Sold Down the River
A telling commentary on the Presidency of Barack Obama This article – What is an Intellectual Negro? – by Zahir Ebrahim is also worth study for the general case, particularised in the following piece From Zero-Hedge – 12 April 2011 I’ll admit it. I am one of those idealistic people who was elated when Barack Obama was elected President. I remember the months of October and November 2008 very clearly. Like many Americans, I was deeply disgusted with the direction of the country under the leadership of George Bush. Clearly, I was idealistic in thinking that Obama could be the man to right the course. ……. [Full Post]
“WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH, SOME OF US ANYWAY” By Gordon Duff – Veterans Today 11 April 2011 America is in its 10th year of war in Afghanistan and losing. Everyone there hates us, we haven’t won a single “heart” or “mind.” We have succeeded in building an empire of opium and heroin on a scale never before imagined. Millions at home, tens of millions in Russia, Europe and around the world have been destroyed by the flood of narcotics distributed with deadly efficiency by a combination of rogue military and intelligence operations and the contracting firms we payed to protect us. American corruption, incompetence ……. [Full Post]
The BRICS nations say ‘no’ to Libya violence
Nil NIKANDROV | 12.04.2011 | 00:09 Foreign ministries of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are busy arranging their agendas ahead of the third BRICS summit in Chinese Sanya on April, 14th. Global events are developing at such a high pace that plans are being corrected on the go. Commenting on the summit, China’s Foreign Ministry said that the participants will exchange views on most pressing issues of economic development and plans for future cooperation. International problems are also said to be on the agenda. The summit will be taking place amid NATO-led bombing in Libya, not allowing the BRICS nations ……. [Full Post]
David Cameron’s Gift of War and Racism, to Them and Us by John Pilger The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally naive believe such nonsense. It is the West’s response to popular uprisings in strategic, resource-rich regions of the world and the beginning of a war of attrition against the new imperial rival, China. President Barack Obama’s historical distinction is now guaranteed. He is America’s first black president to invade Africa. His assault on Libya is run by the US Africa Command, which was set up in 2007 to secure the continent’s lucrative natural resources from Africa’s ……. [Full Post]
Escalating Israeli violence against Gaza
Few will have missed MSM reports of an alleged Palestinian attack on an Israeli School bus on 7 April 2007. It is the stuff of Israeli propaganda dreams and, as such, is guaranteed wide and totally one-sided coverage in the Western MSM. So, by way of providing a bit of balance, here are a few facts you are unlikely to see reported: Brief resume of relevant events in the week leading up to the ‘Schools Bus attack’ On Friday, April 1, Israeli forces assassinated a 24-year-old member of a Palestinian resistance group in Gaza. On Saturday, April 2, the Israeli air force assassinated three members ……. [Full Post]
Staff complement for US Baghdad Embassy – 16,000 !
Does ANYONE still believe that US/UK/Western presence in Iraq – or anywhere else in the ME for that matter – EVER had anything to do with WMD, ‘al-Qaeda’, toppling a wicked dictator, protecting innocent civilians, humanitarian intervention, democracy, or ANY of the other rationalisations trotted out for the gullible? Go on – have a guess. Might – just might – the second largest proven and undeveloped oil reserves on Planet Earth have something to do with it? This from the UK Daily Telegraph 1 April 2010: “We’ll be doubling our size if all of our plans go through and if we receive the money from ……. [Full Post]