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]

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]

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]