Threat Of New Conflict In Europe: Western-Sponsored Greater Albania by Rick Rozoff

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by Rick Rozoff
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Stop NATO
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/
October 7, 2009

Europe may be perched above the precipice of its first armed conflict since NATO’s 78-day bombing war against Yugoslavia in 1999 and the resultant armed invasion of Macedonia from NATO-occupied Kosovo two years later.

With the formal accession of Albania into full NATO membership this April and the subsequent reelection victory (at least formally) of the nation’s prime minister Sali Berisha, the stage is set for completing the project of further redrawing the borders of Southeastern Europe in pursuit of a Greater Albania.

Preceding steps in this direction were the U.S.’s and NATO’s waging war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia a decade ago on behalf of and in collusion with the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a criminal violation of international law that terminated in the Serbian province of Kosovo being wrested from both Serbia and Yugoslavia.

Countdown Special Comment: The Fight Against Death

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cmdrgmh
October 07, 2009

Legal Case Filed Against Four US Presidents And Four UK Prime Ministers For War Crimes

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http://www.brusselstribunal.org

For Justice For Iraq: Legal Case Filed Against Four US Presidents And Four UK Prime Ministers For War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity And Genocide In Iraq

For immediate release
Date: 7 October 2009

MADRID: Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain’s laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, ahead of the change of law, a legal case was filed at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and four United Kingdom prime ministers for commissioning, condoning and/or perpetuating multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Iraq.

Interview with Gareth Porter: Obama’s escalating disaster by Eric Ruder

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by Eric Ruder
SocialistWorker.org
October 7, 2009

The U.S. war on Afghanistan began eight years ago, and yet today, the U.S. seems further than ever from achieving its goals. The Obama administration is now embroiled in a debate over whether to carry out a further escalation on top of the 21,000 troops Barack Obama ordered to Afghanistan earlier this year.

Restoring a Viable System of Bank Credit – Bernanke Rolls Snake-eyes by Mike Whitney

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by Mike Whitney
Global Research
October 6, 2009

Fed chief Ben Bernanke is in a bit of a bind. He’s being asked to restore a system for credit expansion which collapsed more than two years ago and has shown no sign of life ever since. During the boom years, securitization accounted for more than 40 percent of the credit flowing into the economy. No more. When two Bear Stearns hedge funds defaulted in July 2007, the system crashed as investors of all stripes backed away from complex, illiquid assets. The Fed’s TALF lending facility–which provides up to 94% government funding for investors who are willing to purchase bundled debt for credit cards, mortgages, auto loans and student loans–was intended to breathe new life into securitization, but has fallen woefully short of its original objectives. It pretty much fizzled on the launching pad. Even the shrewdest hedge fund sharpie couldn’t figure out how to make money on (what amounts to) fetid assets.

A Financial Revolution with Profound Political Implications By Robert Fisk

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By Robert Fisk
ICH
The Independent
October 07, 2009

Such large financial movements will have major political effects in the Middle East

The plan to de-dollarise the oil market, discussed both in public and in secret for at least two years and widely denied yesterday by the usual suspects – Saudi Arabia being, as expected, the first among them – reflects a growing resentment in the Middle East, Europe and in China at America’s decades-long political as well as economic world dominance.

Nowhere has this more symbolic importance than in the Middle East, where the United Arab Emirates alone holds $900bn (£566bn) of dollar reserves and where Saudi Arabia has been quietly co-ordinating its defence, armaments and oil policies with the Russians since 2007.

Here’s how a patent pool could work….

Sent to DS from Pete Masters, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) UK, thanks Pete.

Updated: added video

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MSF UK
29/09/2009

HELP US PUSH FOR THE POOL!

The cost of HIV medicines is rising all the time, meaning that many people with HIV will not be able to afford life-saving medicines. Unless……

There is a way to produce new drugs at affordable prices: Join us in pushing for the patent pool. This way drug companies share their drug patents with the pool, so they still get their royalties ….but at the same time other companies can get hold of these patents to make cheaper drugs. Everyone wins.

Competition between different companies is the best way to make drugs more affordable. You can make sure competition happens by using the law to limit or overcome the barriers that stand in the way of generic competition; companies can also help build a new way to create drugs at affordable prices: by participating in the patent pool.

Michael Moore, Sean Hannity and Jesus

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mmflint
October 07, 2009

Geoffrey Stone: Free Speech in Wartime (2004) (must-see)

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talkingsticktv
September 13, 2009

Interview with Prof. Geoffrey Stone author of “Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism” given November 19, 2004.

After Words with Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Interview with Chris Hedges
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Oct. 7, 2009

CSPAN
BookTV
09/22/2009

Length: 59 minutes
Location: Washington, DC, United States

National Parks: Antidote to Propaganda, ‘Government is the Enemy’ by Robert S. Becker

By Robert S. Becker
Featured Writer
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www.beyondchron.org
rbecker@cal.net
Oct. 6, 2009

Not once in Ken Burns’ masterful documentary on America’s National Parks does he overplay his most abiding lesson: good government is the heroic engine by which we save special places, ourselves, our nation, and our planet. Methodical and meditative, Burns dramatizes monumental themes by telling stories that start small, one visionary or scattered cluster who find the human and the sacred in the natural – redefining significance for all in the process.