Politicizing Ethnicity: US Plan To Repeat Yugoslav Scenario In Caucasus Could Cause World War by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/41229
August 14, 2009

Matthew Bryza has been one of the U.S.’s main point men in the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea Basin and Central Asia for the past twelve years.

From 1997-1998 he was an advisor to Ambassador Richard Morningstar, coordinating U.S. efforts in the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as in Southeastern Europe, particularly Greece and Turkey. Morningstar was appointed by the Clinton administration as the first Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance to the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union in 1995, then Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy in 1998 and was one of the chief architects of U.S. trans-Caspian strategic energy plans running from the Caspian Sea through the South Caucasus to Europe. Among the projects he helped engineer in that capacity was the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan [BTC] oil pipeline – “the world’s most political pipeline” – running from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea.

Trans-Caspian, Trans-Eurasian Energy Strategy Crafted In The 1990s

In 1998 Bryza was Morningstar’s chief lieutenant in managing U.S. Caspian Sea energy interests as Deputy to the Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy, where he remained until March of 2001, and he worked on developing what are now U.S. and Western plans to circumvent Russia and Iran and achieve dominance over the delivery of energy supplies to Europe.

“Now Make Me Do It” by Ralph Nader

by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
August 14, 2009

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Never much of a fighter against abusive corporate power, Barack Obama is making it increasingly clear that right from his start as President, he wanted health insurance reform that received the approval of the giant drug and health insurance industries.

Earlier this year he started inviting top bosses of these companies for intimate confabs in the White House. Business Week magazine, which proclaimed recently that “The Health Insurers Have Already Won” reported that the CEO of UnitedHealth, Stephen J. Hemsley, met with the President half a dozen times.

Farming with Nature

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CactusBumm on Sep 27, 2013

Alex S. Jones’ “Losing the News,” by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
August 14, 2009

I have spent most of my life locked in the embrace of two of the most sanctimonious institutions in America—the church and the press. They each bow down before their self-created holy creeds, never tire of trumpeting their supposed virtues, which they hold up as the highest good, and are blind to their glaring inadequacies and mounting irrelevance. They are also, in a time of seismic cultural change, dying.

Tyler Durden on “On the Edge” with Max Keiser

MaxKeiserTV
August 14, 2009

http://maxkeiser.com
Interview with Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge.com

Turkish Lobby Group ‘Declares War’ on Sibel Edmonds’ Under-Oath Testimony

The BRADBLOG
August 14, 2009

In a rather extraordinary unbylined blog item posted on Wednesday, the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA), has launched what appears to be an all out assault on FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and her remarkable, long-awaited under-oath deposition taken over the weekend in the Ohio Election Commission (OEC)’s Schmidt v. Krikorian case.

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The TCA seems to have “declared war”, according to Edmonds who touched base from out of the country via email on Wednesday. The scathing blog post alleges Edmonds’ testimony was “a full-on assault against the national interests of the United States and the integrity of its justice system by the Armenian lobby”; says “Krikorian and his lobbyist backers are getting desperate”; and otherwise attempts to disparage Edmonds’ character by describing her as “self-aggrandizing”, and a “disgruntled and discredited former federal employee.”

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via The BRAD BLOG : Turkish Lobby Group ‘Declares War’ on Sibel Edmonds’ Under-Oath Testimony

see

Ohio U.S. House Candidate Issues Press Release on Sibel Edmonds’ ‘Revealing’ Testimony

Deep Corruption Beneath the Surface (Sibel Edmonds)

Brad Friedman interviewing Sibel Edmonds & David Krikorian

Sibel Edmonds’ partial testimony via liveblogging (updated)

Edmonds-Sibel

from the archives:

Sibel Edmonds: Kill The Messenger (must-see video)

Sibel Edmonds (archive of posts)

Ralph Nader on Secret White House Agreements with the Drug Industry

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“You Don’t Cut Deals with the System that Has to Be Replaced”: Ralph Nader on Secret White House Agreements with the Drug Industry

Democracy Now!
August 14, 2009

The Obama administration admitted last week it promised to oppose proposals to let the government negotiate drug prices and extract additional savings from drug companies. In return, drug companies reportedly pledged to reduce costs by up to $80 billion. The White House has tried to back off the reported agreements, but the drug industry says it expects the White House to uphold its pledge. We speak to former presidential candidate and longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader. 

Worried Arabs seek to shed light on Israeli nukes

PressTV
Fri, 14 Aug 2009

The Arab League AL calls on the European Union to put its weight behind their efforts to compel Israel to open up its secretive nuclear program to international inspections.Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa sent a letter to the Swedish and other European foreign ministers to urge them to back an Arab resolution entitled “Israel’s Nuclear Capabilities.”

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Muslim nations consider the Zionist regime as a nuclear threat.

via Worried Arabs seek to shed light on Israeli nukes