In last night’s presidential debate, both candidates claimed to run on a promise of peace and against the policies of George W. Bush. Obama criticized the Republicans for going to war in Iraq and took…
Category: Global Issues
«Oops–they did it again» – Tageszeitung (Germany), upon re-election of George W. Bush in 2004 «How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?» – Daily Mirror (London), upon re-election of George W. Bush in 2004 The shock and dismay with…
Secret legal advice states pre-emptive strike could be in breach of international law as Iran not yet ‘clear and present threat’ Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support…
THE US State Department is circulating a confidential letter urging European Union (EU) members and other “friendly” countries to help block Palestinian attempts to secure non-member Observer State status at the United Nations (UN) General…
Bombing of factory in Khartoum is neither confirmed nor denied by Israel, but there are precedents for this sort of attack No one in Israel is admitting that its pilots carried out a long-range raid…
The Libyan city of Bani Walid is reported to be under heavy attack from pro-government forces and militias. Witnesses say that more civilians are being killed by shelling, while houses are engulfed in flames. Earlier…
The US federal debt is 16 trillion dollars – 20 trillion if you add in state and local government debts – but it could just as easily be zero dollars if we had the monetary…
Go to any university, any center of equities trade, any meeting place for financial academia, any fiscal think tank, and they will tell you without the slightest hint of doubt in their eyes…
Gaddafi Stronghold Bani Walid Have Been Shelled for Three Weeks Hundreds of supporters of the people of Bani Walid demonstrated outside the General National Congress parliament in Tripoli on October 21. Protesters attempted to enter the building but were dispersed by police. The demonstration called for a halt to the siege of this town of 80,000 people, a bastion of support for the former Jamahiriya government led by the martyred Col. Muammar Gaddafi. For three weeks the rebel militias that are financed through the United States-backed regime in Tripoli, have blockaded the city denying food, medicine and other essential goods to enter the area. Eyewitness accounts and videos posted on YouTube show constant shelling and large amounts of smoke emanating from the targeted sites inside the city. Hospitals are reporting that people are being treated for chemical poisoning and the loss of limbs.
Strategies of Deception As part of Obama’s strategies for winning re-election, the liberal press are giving lip service praise to the current protests while trying to steer them in a direction that serves the Democratic…