Imagine this scenario: A developing nation decides to selectively share its precious natural resource, selling only to “friendly” countries and not “hostile” ones. Now imagine this is oil we’re talking about and the nation in…
Category: Europe
All over planet millions of people die of hunger every year. It is not a secret. Our media agencies tell us such facts quite often. Speaking about global inequality is not taboo in Western liberal…
This was a breath of fresh air rather than the usual nonsense we’re hearing from Republicans with more “drill baby drill” as a way to control the price of oil and gasoline we’re seeing rise…
One US soldier and an Afghan protester were killed in the latest violence on the sixth day of Koran burning protests criss-crossing Afghanistan, despite another plea for calm by President Hamid Karzai, dpa reported. … …
Image: Free Syrian Army “peace soldiers” Nearly a year ago, Western-backed insurgent violence erupted. Heavily armed foreign fighters supplemented internal ones. Al Qaeda’s very much involved. Russian and Chinese peace initiatives are spurned. Washington, rogue…
Ever since its failure to win United Nations Security Council backing for “regime change” in Syria, Washington and its lackeys in the corporate media have been unrelenting in voicing their great moral outrage at both the violence of the Assad regime and the seeming indifference to it all by the likes of Russia and China. Washington is no doubt long in forgetting those that thwart the will of the “international community.” After all, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated, the “travesty” of the Russian and Chinese veto left the entire Security Council “neutered.”
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) arrives at a polling station in the capital Damascus to cast his vote on a new constitution on February 26, 2012. Turkish protesters have held a demonstration near the Syrian…
The BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is prepared to boost the lending resources of the IMF that can be used for tackling Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. Russian Finance Minister Anton…
Libya and France have agreed to look into boosting maritime security and controlling the North African country’s borders, their defense ministers said on Saturday, Reuters reported. On a visit to Tripoli, French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet met his Libyan counterpart Osama…
In an article titled “Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail,’” William Greider wrote in The Nation on February 15th: Financial market cynics have assumed all along that Dodd-Frank did not end “too big…