MaxKeiserTV on Nov 2, 2011
Global stock markets have plunged over Greece’s shock announcement that it would hold a referendum on an EU bailout deal.
The decision has raised fears that a rejection of the unpopular EU agreement will renew risks of a Greek default and might even force the country to leave the eurozone.
by Philip A. Farruggio
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
November 4, 2011
Let us first define a few things:
Evil: Morally bad or wrong; harmful and injurious; something that causes misfortune, suffering or difficulty.
Empire: Imperial domination, power or authority; larger than a kingdom and often comprising a number of territories or nations, ruled by a SINGLE CENTRAL AUTHORITY (my caps).
Enable: To provide with the means; to give legal power, capacity or sanction to.
Germany, 1941. Any small town, perhaps a suburban one. Young mothers are dropping their kids off at a local gymnasium. They smile and laugh to one another, as do the happy kids. Continue reading
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Updated: Nov. 18, 2011, added transcript
by Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
Nov. 4, 2011
KPFK
Alan Minsky
17 minutes
by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism
November 4, 2011
On October 31 North Atlantic Treaty Organization chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrived in the Libyan capital of Tripoli at the end of seven full months of the military bloc’s war in the country and effused: “It’s great to be in Libya, free Libya.”
Like Scipio Africanus the Younger almost twenty-two centuries earlier in what is now Libya’s western neighbor Tunisia, then Carthage, Rasmussen planted the banner of a conquering power on the soil of North Africa. Perhaps NATO will grant Rasmussen, too, the honorific agnomen Africanus after the military bloc’s first war and first conquest on the continent.
by Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at IPS
Nov. 2, 2011
WASHINGTON, Nov 2, 2011 (IPS) – U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011, analysis of official statistics on the raids released by the U.S.-NATO command reveals.
That number would make U.S. night raids by far the largest cause of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan. Continue reading
by William Blum
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.killinghope.org
Nov. 1, 2011
It doesn’t matter to them if it’s untrue. It’s a higher truth.
“We came, we saw, he died.”
— US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,
giggling, as she spoke of the depraved murder of Moammar Gaddafi
Imagine Osama bin Laden or some other Islamic leader speaking of 9-11: “We came, we saw, 3,000 died … ha- ha.”
Clinton and her partners-in-crime in NATO can also have a good laugh at how they deceived the world. The destruction of Libya, the reduction of a modern welfare state to piles of rubble, to ghost towns, the murder of thousands … Continue reading
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with Ellen Brown
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
webofdebt.com
Nov. 2, 2011
PublicExposureSCAN on Oct 27, 2011
Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, discusses how the silent liquidity squeeze keeps jobs from being created.
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Sent by Stephanie Westbrook
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Nov. 2, 2011
BDS Italy
Dear Oumou Sangaré,
We recently learned that you plan to perform in Tel Aviv on December 9. As an artist who has long used her music and fame to speak out in defense of human rights, we are writing to urge you to cancel your concert in Israel, a country responsible for the oppression of the Palestinian people, forced to live under occupation, apartheid and as refugees for decades now.
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