The world has been left stunned by a series of events that have recently unfolded in the West: the United States’ credit rating has been downgraded for the first time ever; the sovereign debt crisis…
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Europe will need to pile up its toxic debt (AFP Photo / STR) A relief package for all of Europe would mean vacuuming up all of its toxic debt into one big pile and letting…
US Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (L) and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey prepare to testify at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 7, 2012 on…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/tsa-naked-scanner-exposed-075/i48e28d4c6bab4f002ccdaaa059f2e678_00a77891.dv.flv] A blogger has shown that all the Transport Safety Association’s controversial nude body scanners and much-too-personal pat downs are not effective in the least, as more and more people in the US speak out…
British and Qatari troops preparing military incursion through Turkey According to Aviation Week, Syria’s “newly improved, long-range surveillance and intelligence-gathering facilities” represent an obstacle to an Israeli attack on Iran. Focussing on the cooperation between Syria…
Putin’s election-eve attack against Washington and its western allies for exporting “rocket-bomb democracy” indirectly targets India too ==== [quote from the body of The Hindu article] The veto Russia slapped jointly with China on two…
The Obama administration is moving to provide direct assistance to the internal opposition in Syria for the first time, marking a shift in U.S. policy toward a more aggressive plan to help oust President Bashar…
“These diaries are dedicated to the people of Iraq and to all others who have suffered the crippling effect of sanctions.” (Nuha al-Radi, 1941-2004.) With current US-led plans to remodel (read annihilate) the remaining Middle…
China’s sovereignty over the South China Sea Islands is the result of a gradual process in which the islands were first discovered, named, and developed by the Chinese people over the course of history and…
Steven Pinker on the Decline of Violence Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, is a propaganda windfall for the leaders and supporters of the U.S. imperial state,…