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South Ossetia: The War has Begun!
Sunday, 10 August 2008, 1:38 pm | Global Research
The night of August 7, Georgian forces launched an attack on Tskhinvali, which Tbilisi cynically described as an effort to restore the constitutional order. Just hours earlier, Saakashvili declared a ceasefire in the conflict zone, but the move was ... More >>
The U.S. Economy and Bad Government Policies
Monday, 4 August 2008, 4:49 pm | Global Research
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) More >>
Putting the Federal Back in the Federal Reserve
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 6:35 pm | Global Research
In a July 19 Wall Street Journal article titled "Why No Outrage?", James Grant quoted Mary Lease, a 19th century Populist who urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell." Grant notes that financial behavior that would have been met with outrage ... More >>
After Talks in Geneva, Iran Will Likely Agree
Thursday, 24 July 2008, 11:32 am | Global Research
The meeting in Geneva on July 19, between representatives of the 5+1 (U.N. Security Council permanent members plus Germany) and Iran, should be heartily welcomed by all those who seek a diplomatic solution to the hoked-up case against the Islamic ... More >>
CIA Network of "Stay Behind" Secret Armies
Sunday, 20 July 2008, 5:51 pm | Global Research
Through NATO, working with various Western European intelligence agencies, the CIA set up a network of stay behind “secret armies” which were responsible for dozens of terrorist atrocities across Western Europe over decades. This report will focus ... More >>
The Coming Catastrophe?
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 2:04 pm | Global Research
"Israel has said a strike on Iran will be "unavoidable" if the Islamic regime continues to press ahead with alleged plans for building an atom-bomb." ( London Daily Telegraph, 6/11/2008) More >>
Global Research: The Coming war against Iran
Sunday, 22 June 2008, 3:17 pm | Global Research
Covering the period of March-June 2008, this article will try to highlight the political pressure applied by the US and UK governments on Turkey in view of their war plans against Iran. It is complementary to an earlier article titled "Will Turkey be Complicit ... More >>
John McCain’s Chilling Project for America
Monday, 16 June 2008, 9:27 pm | Global Research
John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is “the end justifies the means,” ... More >>
Neo-Con Conference Pushes for War on Iran
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 6:08 pm | Global Research
On the first weekend of May 2008, Berlin was host to two extraordinary conferences. On the one hand, a crowd of altogether 1,600 predominantly young people from all over Europe met at the Humboldt University in order to discuss and reflect the turbulent, ... More >>
Michel Chossudovsky: Global Famine
Saturday, 3 May 2008, 6:47 pm | Global Research
Humanity is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the World population. National economies are collapsing, unemployment is rampant. Local level ... More >>
Iran Opens War Avoidance Flank
Saturday, 3 May 2008, 6:38 pm | Global Research
As threats of military action against Iran continue to issue from various spokesmen of the war party in the U.S., the Islamic Republic has launched an ambitious initiative aimed at preventing war, based on a comprehensive package of economic, political ... More >>
Israel Prepares for War against Lebanon and Syria
Monday, 21 April 2008, 12:03 am | Global Research
By the start of 2007, reports about major upgrades to the Syrian military, including advances in missile technology, with Iranian help were widespread in Israel. [1] The impression of an imminent war existed across much of the Middle East. Syria, ... More >>
Venezuela : Democracy, Socialism and Imperialism
Monday, 21 April 2008, 12:01 am | Global Research
Venezuela ’s President Hugo Chavez remains the world’s leading secular, democratically elected political leader who has consistently and publicly opposed imperialist wars in the Middle East , attacked extra-territorial intervention and US and European ... More >>
Iran should be "Set Up for an Attack"
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 12:21 am | Global Research
When Gen. David Petraeus along with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker gave their testimony to the Senate on April 9, they did nothing more than to confirm in spades what had been being mooted and duly leaked by the Washington-based press: that the ... More >>
Global Gridlock: How the US Seeks to Contain
Thursday, 3 April 2008, 12:53 am | Global Research
The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges once famously wrote of a great Empire that created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map itself grew and decayed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When ... More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Beware an Attack on Iran
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 11:24 pm | Global Research
Is the Bush administration ramping up for an attack on Iran? The signs seem to point in that direction. On March 11, Navy Adm. William Fallon, commander of the U.S. forces in the Middle East, retired early because of differences with Washington on Iran ... More >>
The Deployment of US Troops inside Canada
Monday, 17 March 2008, 1:12 pm | Global Research
On February 14th, Canada and the US signed an agreement for the deployment of US troops inside Canada. More >>
New Instruments of Surveillance and Social Control
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 11:26 am | Global Research
Increasingly there are indications that the uses of wireless technologies have been developed to target an individual’s biological body, with specific focus upon the neuronal functioning of the brain. In this paper I examine how some of these uses ... More >>
Martial Law, Inc.
Monday, 10 March 2008, 1:20 pm | Global Research
KBR, or Kellogg Brown & Root, was a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation until 2007, when bad publicity and indictments against KBR forced Halliburton to sell its shares in KBR.1 More >>
Israel: The time for worldwide boycott is now
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 3:25 pm | Global Research
On Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a "holocaust," telling Israeli Army Radio: "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] ... More >>
