August 2011

The Myth of Libyan Liberation
Posted: Saturday, August 27, 2011

¤ 10 Myths About Libya? Rejoinder

¤ Escobar: Al-Qaeda asset is military commander of Tripoli

¤ Russia’s foreign policy priorities regarding Libya

¤ Russia, Venezuela seek to set up a global financial institution

¤ World powers rush in to ~~rebuild~~ loot Libya

¤ Libya: dozens found dead at abandoned Tripoli hospital

¤ AU won't recognise Libyan rebel council: diplomats

¤ No, we still won't recognise Libya's rebels, says Zuma

¤ El Salvador Recognizes Independent Palestinian State

¤ Russia Launches Diplomatic Effort to End Violence in Syria

¤ Britain's SAS Leads Hunt For Gaddafi

¤ 10 Myths About Libya? Rejoinder
In his essay, “Top Ten Myths about the Libyan War,” Juan Cole argues that U.S. interests in the conflict consisted of stopping “massacres of people,” a “lawful world order,” “the NATO alliance,” and oddly, “the fate of Egypt.” It is worth taking a moment to look at each of these arguments, as well as his dismissal of the idea that the U.S./NATO intervention had anything to do with oil as “daft.”

¤ 'The Banks Have Hi-jacked The Govt'

¤ These Threats Will Not Collapse America's Economy

¤ 14 Conspiracy Theories That the Media Now Admits Are Conspiracy Facts

¤ The Myth of Libyan Liberation

¤ Libyans Wait for the Next Chapter

¤ The Real Obama

¤ Libya: a new breed of military intervention

¤ Robert Fisk: History repeats itself, with mistakes of Iraq rehearsed afresh

¤ NATO destroys yet another country
Some years ago, in the Indian site www.bharat-rakshak.com, this columnist had written of the NATO militaries as resembling an army of simians. Such a force - if let loose within a confined space – can create immense damage, but are unable to clean up the resultant mess. This is precisely what the world has witnessed in Iraq. Despite more than a decade of sanctions that directly resulted in nearly a million extra deaths during that period ( because of shortages created by the UN-approved measures), the regime of Saddam Hussein was able to provide food, energy and housing to the people of Iraq, whereas eight years after “liberation” by key NATO members, the country and its population are worse off than before the 2003 invasion that led to the execution of Saddam Hussein.

¤ Crude Analysis of Libyan Liberation

¤ Ahmadinejad warns Israel against military strikes

¤ The Flag And The Penis

¤ Chavez: Libya's tragedy begins with Gadhafi's fall

¤ 'Libya Rebels to Divide in Victory Vacuum'

¤ 9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything?
In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government’s official account of the event held up over the decade?
Not very well. The chairman, vice chairman, and senior legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission wrote books partially disassociating themselves from the commission’s report. They said that the Bush administration put obstacles in their path, that information was withheld from them, that President Bush agreed to testify only if he was chaperoned by Vice President Cheney and neither were put under oath, that Pentagon and FAA officials lied to the commission and that the commission considered referring the false testimony for investigation for obstruction of justice.

¤ Iceland's On-going Revolution

¤ The World’s Largest Pyramid Scheme
The United States managed to avert a default, and that is good news. But the partisan battle in Congress sent the stock market plunging, and the decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the country’s credit rating has made matters far worse.

¤ Bolivia's president accuses US of sparking protest

But America IS a Police State
Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011

¤ Who Will Save Libya From Its Western Saviours?
Last March, a coalition of Western powers and Arab autocracies banded together to sponsor what was billed as a short little military operation to “protect Libyan civilians”.
On March 17, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1973 which gave that particular “coalition of the willing” the green light to start their little war by securing control of Libyan air space, which was subsequently used to bomb whatever NATO chose to bomb. The coalition leaders clearly expected the grateful citizens to take advantage of this vigorous “protection” to overthrow Moammer Gaddafi who allegedly wanted to “kill his own people”.

¤ Crisis and Class Struggle in the Eurozone
To understand the situation in the countries at the periphery of the European Union, four countries within the Eurozone, Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, we have to understand the political context they have in common. All of them were governed by fascist or fascist-like dictatorships (Spain, Portugal, and Greece) or by authoritarian right-wing regimes (Ireland) for most of the period from the late 1930s or early 1940s until the late 1970s. This history is usually ignored in analyses of these countries.

¤ Waiting for the Endgame in Libya

¤ The Bush Legacy

¤ The US Government Won't be Charged With Perjury Even When It's Caught in a Lie
A chilling court decision unsealed at the end of April by a federal judge in California's Central District reveals that the Obama administration is not only prepared to take advantage of the lies of the Bush administration, but is willing to up the ante. In a case that involved extensive surveillance of Muslim community groups and leaders, the Obama administration has now argued that the government not only can lie about its surveillance activities to American citizens but can, in turn, lie to federal judges when "national security" is involved.

¤ Obama's Biofuels Insanity

¤ Facebook Caves to the Prison-Industrial-Complex

¤ Wikileaks and Haiti

¤ Looting Frenzies

¤ Naval Base Tears Apart Korean Village

¤ British Jealous of America’s Savage Police
In the wake of rebellions that spread to much of urban Britain, the ruling Conservative Party government is not only sounding like their racist American cousins, they were at least toying with the idea of importing William Bratton, the former police chief of New York, Los Angeles and Boston, to put the fear of the law into the U.K.’s darker residents. On first examination, it seems counterintuitive that anyone would look to the United States for role models in the criminal justice arena.

¤ Syria Left Vulnerable by State Violence

¤ Bomb blast kills 53 in NW Pakistan

¤ It's his fast-disappearing billions that will worry Assad, not words from Washington

¤ World stock markets continue plunge

¤ Wall Street sinks for fourth straight week

¤ Overthrow the Syrian Regime

¤ The Big Gaddafi

¤ Chavez Emptying Bank of England Vault as Venezuela Brings Back Gold Hoard

¤ Notes on the Social Crisis in America

¤ No, you will NOT re-arm the Libyan rebels

¤ Were Dozens Killed in Majer NATO Airstrikes?

¤ Doug Casey: We Are Exiting the Eye of the Storm

¤ Oil Spill Exposes Shell's Ticking Timebomb

¤ This Disastrous 'Debt Crisis' Myth

¤ How the war is spun: Mass killings mean ‘progress,’ military says

¤ Granny Can Sue U.S. for Calling Her a Terrorist

¤ But America IS A Police State

¤ Monsanto accused of “biopiracy” by India

¤ Big Sis’ Latest Terrorists: More White Americans

¤ Michelle Bachmann's Crazy Ideas About Black Farmers

NATO’s puppet regime in Libya falls apart
Posted: Sunday, August 14, 2011

Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority. Where people fighting for democratic rights broke the barriers of fear, only to find themselves alone and crushed. This is their story and Al Jazeera is their witness - the only TV journalists who remained to follow their journey of hope to the carnage that followed.

¤ Exclusive: PM's plan to import US adviser angers police chiefs
¤ The 2011 riots: What happened? What now?

¤ Americans Have the Clock, But the Taliban Have the Time
President Obama’s surge and de-surge strategy in Afghanistan has landed the United States in a strategic cul-de-sac. As America withdraws troops from remote areas of Afghanistan like the Tangi, Korangar, and Pech Valleys, insurgents are flooding back in to wreak havoc, necessitating US retaliatory raids, redeployments, and stiffening operations to kill insurgents and to protect local Afghan units and villagers, even though some of these Afghan units and villagers may on occasion be in league with insurgents.

¤ Riots and the Underclass

¤ http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb08122011.html
¤ NATO'S Massacre at Majer, Libya

¤ Planet of Slums, Age of Riots

¤ Japan's Silent Anger

¤ Fighting Back in London

¤ Targeting Pakistan and Its Army

¤ Riots, Revolutions and Big Societies

¤ Roots of the Riots

¤ 9/11 and the American Mind

¤ Malefactors of Great Wealth

¤ Whither British Journalism?

¤ Big Society Burning in Little Britain

¤ The Religion of Terrorism

¤ Bachmann wins GOP 2012 test vote

¤ An Explosive New 9/11 Charge
In a new documentary, former national-security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers—then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet’s denial.

¤ Bomb kills five NATO troops in southern Afghanistan

¤ Ban Sought on Gene-Altered Crops on Federal Land

¤ Record levels of unemployment for Europe’s youth

¤ Syria: Desperate Lies for a Collapsing Gambit

¤ US censures report on drone casualties

¤ NATO’s puppet regime in Libya falls apart

¤ UK riots: dictatorships around the world use unrest to their advantage

¤ A Parasite On The World
If Russian prime minister Putin’s recent description of America as “a parasite on the world” was reported by the US media, little doubt but that most Americans were infuriated. We are the virtuous people. Without us good guys to police the world there would be mayhem and wars everywhere, not merely the ones we started in the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa. Without the American white hats people everywhere would be starving and dying from natural disasters. It is us chosen ones who provide the rescue operations and good deeds. How dare the former KGB monster to slander our country!

¤ Next Stop: Train Wreck

¤ Are we nearing the End of the Tunnel in Afghanistan?

¤ Captured intel officer says Gaddafi still strong

¤ 'Kids for cash' judge gets 28 years in Pennsylvania bribery case
A long-serving judge has been ordered to spend nearly 30 years in prison for his role in a bribery scandal that prompted the state's high court to overturn thousands of juvenile convictions. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr was sentenced on Thursday to 28 years in prison for taking $1m (£617,000) in bribes from the builder of two juvenile detention centres in a case that became known as "kids-for-cash".

¤ Libya: Weapons Transfers - the French and Qatar Connections

¤ Libya's Ragtag Rebels
Rebels, from the Wars of the Roses up to the present civil war in Libya, usually try to postpone splitting into factions and murdering each other until after they have seized power and are in full control. However deep their divisions, they keep them secret from the outside world.

¤ When is a Riot a Revolt?

¤ Bomb kills five NATO troops in southern Afghanistan

¤ Swan Song for the Euro

¤ Turning Poverty Into an American Crime

¤ Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich

¤ The Real Strauss-Kahn Story Back at the New York Times

¤ The New Era of Hostage Politics

¤ India's World Class Heist

¤ Ex-terrorist says terrorists and NATO lost war

¤ British Prime Minister Does a 180 on Internet Censorship

¤ US troubled by rising anti-Americanism in Egypt

¤ David Cameron considers banning suspected rioters from social media

¤ Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Punishment of Leonard Peltier

¤ Some will rob you with a sixgun and some with a fountain pen

Economic Uncertainty Leading to Global Unrest
Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2011

¤ Economic Uncertainty Leading to Global Unrest

¤ NATO has lost legitimacy, is terrorist: President Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe warned Monday that “mad people in the West” are campaigning for regime change in Zimbabwe, pointing to the ongoing civil war in Libya where rebels backed by NATO forces are trying to oust that country’s longtime leader.

¤ Mugabe: Britain should “extinguish their fire”

¤ UK riots: Trouble erupts in English cities

¤ London riots spread to Midlands and north-west on fourth night of trouble

¤ Chaos in new urban battleground as violence erupts in North

¤ Explosive BBC London Riots Interview - Violence Sparked By Police Beating Girl

¤ A dead man, a crucial question: should police have shot Mark Duggan?

¤ Mark Duggan: profile of Tottenham police shooting victim

¤ England riots: day four aftermath live

¤ Swelling list of demands fuels Israel protests

¤ Socialism’s Agenda Time
From 1928, when the Soviet Uni0n laid the foundations of its socialist economy, until the late 1980s, when Gorbachev began to dismantle them, the Soviet economy grew without pause, except during the period of the Nazi war machine’s scorched-earth invasion. Unemployment and later economic insecurity became ills of the past.

¤ Barack Obama and the Debt Crisis: a Successful Con Game Explained
The phony debt ceiling crisis was, from beginning to end, a con. It was an elaborate and successful hoax in which the nation's first black president, the Democratic and Republican parties, Wall Street and corporate media all played indispensable parts. The object of the supposed “crisis” was to short circuit public opinion, existing law, democratic process and traditions of public oversight, in order to deal fatal blows to Medicaid, Medicare, social security, job growth and public expenditures for the common good. It worked. We've been conned.

¤ End Game for Benghazi Rebels as Libyan Tribes Prepare to Weigh In?

¤ The Arab Awakening and the Western Media

¤ Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa

China Tells US ‘Good Old Days’ of Borrowing Over
Posted: Sunday, August 7, 2011

¤ Second night of violence in London – and this time it was organised

¤ Fears of more violence after worst London riots for years

¤ New unrest in north London a night after rioting

¤ Did rock-throwing teenage girl's 'beating' by police spark London riots?

¤ New unrest in north London a night after rioting

¤ A death at the hands of police – and a vigil that turned to violence

¤ We face recession without shock absorbers as Berlin loses patience with the eurozone

¤ Investors in Asia Express Pessimism, but Not Panic

¤ Dollar to Be 'Discarded' by World: China Rating Agency

¤ China Tells US 'Good Old Days' of Borrowing Over
China bluntly criticized the US on Saturday one day after the superpower's credit rating was downgraded, saying the "good old days" of borrowing were over.
Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. long-term credit rating from top-tier AAA by a notch to AA-plus on Friday over concerns about the nation's budget deficits and climbing debt burden.

¤ End of the American Empire
China’s call today for a new global reserve currency to replace the dollar spells the beginning of the end of the American Empire. China holds most of the dollar credit in the world, and that of course gave China a powerful incentive to maintain dollar hegemony. That China now views the risks to world trade from the US’ indebtedness, to outweigh the potential loss in value of its own dollar reserves, is the tipping point that spells the inevitable beginning of the end of the US empire.

¤ Saudi stock market first to plunge on S&P downgrade

¤ Tel Aviv Stock Exchange opens to 6% losses as global crisis felt in Israel

¤ Europe's bank acts to ease debt crisis and calm markets

¤ The Credit Crisis Rages On: Why the Dow fell 512 points on Thursday

¤ What Happened to Obama?

¤ Iraq and the end of the empire

¤ Copter shot down, killing 30 US troops, 7 Afghans

¤ Special Forces rescue mission when helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan

¤ Libya and Universal Human Rights

¤ Putin offers medical aid to Chavez

¤ The Deindustrialization of America

¤ Peddling Foolishness on Afghanistan

¤ The Good, the Bad and the Crazy

¤ The Asset Seizure Scam

¤ In Haiti, Inaction Speaks Louder Than Words

¤ US prepares for military intervention in Somalia

¤ US Intelligence contradicts US government's optimistic picture of Libyan rebels

U.S. is “parasite” on global economy
Posted: Friday, August 5, 2011

¤ Moscow warns against interference in Syrian conflict

¤ Obama lied about Gaddafi's bloodbath?

¤ Impeach President Obama Over Libya? Jon Huntsman Punts

¤ Prominent Norwegian peace researcher criticises Libyan war

¤ US drags its feet in Iraq

¤ Russia reaches out to Iran

¤ The allegation that Iran is developing nuclear weapons is a mirage.
"President Ahmadinejad stands accused of using the wrong wrapping paper. His rhetoric, his demeanour his overall discourse has been largely anti-diplomatic and confrontational. The Supreme Leader was quite aware of this at an early stage of the Presidency which is why he nominated a foreign policy council to oversee his performance. In that sense President Ahmadinejad is quite comparable to George W. Bush who was equally inept to articulate the national interest of the United States, which is why he plunged the country into a political and economic mess."

¤ Iceland’s loud No
The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?

¤ Debt crisis: stock markets panic - live blog

¤ RBS chief calls for calm as Greek crisis contributes to bank's loss

¤ FTSE opens with more heavy losses

¤ Dow Sinks 500, Worst Day Since Dec. 2008

¤ Europe on Brink of 'Major Financial Collapse': Guggenheim CIO

¤ What Everyone Should Know About the “Debt Crisis” in the U.S.

¤ Immigration and Mass Incarceration in the Obama Era
With over 392,000 deportations in 2010, more than in any of the Bush years, many activists fear we are in the midst of a repeat of notorious episodes of the past such as the “Repatriation” campaign of the 1930s and the infamous Operation Wetback of 1954, both of which resulted in the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Latinos.

¤ The Pentagon's New Power Elite
Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you're done... for the day. Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world's countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now.

¤ UK's Secret Policy on Torture Revealed

¤ Judge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over torture

¤ Documents: Feds allegedly allowed Sinaloa cartel to move cocaine into U.S. for information
U.S. federal agents allegedly allowed the Sinaloa drug cartel to traffic several tons of cocaine into the United States in exchange for information about rival cartels, according to court documents filed in a U.S. federal court.

¤ Welcome to the Next Great Depression

¤ Locking Up the Innocent

¤ A Judas Kiss to the Poor

¤ The Change That Didn't Happen

¤ When Fanatics Don't Blink

¤ Agent Orange Relief for Vietnam?

¤ Famine's devastation: 4 dead children, 1 family; hunger kills 29,000 Somali children

¤ World Food Program in Somalia: Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death?
To hear the corporate media tell it, the Shabab resistance in Somalia is to blame for the drought and famine. But ten million people are threatened in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia, largely populated by ethnic Somalis, many of whom are at war with the Ethiopian dictatorship. Ethiopia restricts the movements of foreigners in the Odaden, yet the World Food Program continues to operate there, as a partner with the regime.

¤ Once untouchable, the old despot and his sons faced the wrath of the nation they had terrorised

¤ Mexican Newspaper Uncovers Systemic Monitoring Plans of Public Online Sources

¤ A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens

¤ Iran revolutionary guards commander becomes new president of Opec

¤ War and Debt

¤ US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury
US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government's debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed Wednesday.
Treasury borrowing jumped Tuesday, the data showed, immediately after President Barack Obama signed into law an increase in the debt ceiling as the country's spending commitments reached a breaking point and it threatened to default on its debt.

¤ US buys most expensive drones ever

¤ U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day

¤ Unemployment rose in 90 percent of U.S. cities in June

¤ Meet the Right-Wing Hatemongers Who Inspired the Norway Killer

¤ Syria: The Last Chapter of the “Conspiracy”

¤ The United Loony Bin Of America

¤ Moving beyond the debt ceiling canard; much more is at stake

¤ How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

¤ In Cuba, the Revolution Continues, Softly, as Times Change

¤ IFJ Condemns NATO Bombing at Libyan Television

¤ Libya: Nato 'carried out raid on Gaddafi oil tanker'

¤ Video - Libya Report Back, Riverside Church: Cynthia McKinney & Others

¤ Sabotage or arrogance?

¤ Chavez: Venezuela firmly backing Gadhafi

¤ History repeats itself in Libya
Some of the best thrillers depend on the audience knowing in advance that a deadly outcome is unavoidable. We sit, watch and wait, gripped with fear as the inevitable end looms. And often the characters suspect they are making the wrong moves but cannot stop themselves from doing so.

The same pattern applies in politics. Governments tend to make the same colossal mistakes as their predecessors. Leading figures recognise the errors when they were committed the first time around but then proceed to make a similar set of misjudgements. It's as if they are trapped by dark forces beyond their control.

¤ Food Stamp Use Surges By Most In Years As Alabama Foodstamp Recipients Double In May

¤ NATO too Stupid to Face Reality

¤ Socialism for the Rich
Capitalism for Everyone Else

¤ BBC fears journalist in Afghanistan may have been killed by Nato

¤ Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. "They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi while touring its lakeside summer camp some five hours drive north of Moscow.

¤ The Worst Deal in American History?

¤ Obstacles to Small-Scale Agriculture in the US

¤ Former PM to be held to account on Iraq in Chilcot report on war

¤ US wants to frame me as drug trafficker – Morales to RT

¤ Rupert Murdoch given $27M no-bid contract from state Department of Education

¤ Israel behind killing of Iranian scientist: report

¤ UN - no authority for Paris

¤ Imperialists — hands off Syria!
U.S. and French imperialism have flagrantly intervened in the Syrian crisis and made it obvious that they will act to overthrow and replace President Bashir Assad. This is an open threat to the people of Syria. It is a clear signal that progressive forces in the U.S. must give priority to combating this imperialist intervention no matter how they evaluate the Assad government.

¤ Why the West is Committed to the Murderous Rebels in Libya

¤ Gadhafi speech with English subtitles al khoms 26.7.11

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