The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors by Ellen Brown Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that […]
Month: March 2013
US to keep Vilifying Caracas even with Chavez Dead
by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya On the day that it was announced Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez had died from an unidentified cancer, two US diplomats were expelled as persona non grata from Caracas for trying to organize some type of coup and conspiracy against Venezuela. Not trying to attract any more negative attention, the Obama Administration would calmly wait until March […]
BRICS Go Over The Wall
by Pepe Escobar Reports on the premature death of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have been greatly exaggerated. Western corporate media is flooded with such nonsense, perpetrated in this particular case by the head of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Reality spells otherwise. The BRICS meet in Durban, South Africa, this Tuesday to, among other steps, create […]
The Meaning of Sanctuary
This piece of writing can be seen on the wall at Hillside Animal Sanctuary by BSN Editor We feel it is a fine declaration of the BSNews ethos of universal empathy which has, as its foundation, compassion for the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. And it is how we treat the most vulnerable – animals – that is […]
A Safe and a Shotgun or Publicly-owned Banks?
The Battle of Cyprus The Battle of Cyprus by Ellen Brown If these worries become really serious, . . . [s]mall savers will take their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun. – Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on deposits in Cyprus banks The deposit confiscation scheme has long been in the making. […]
Real liars go to Tehran
Uncle Marx never thought about this one: history repeating itself as double tragedy after already being a farce in the first place by Pepe Escobar Let’s examine the case in hand. First of all, take a close look at this Wall Street Journal op-ed from September 2002, in the hysterical run-up towards the invasion of Iraq. Title: The Case for […]
Weaponising workfare
Workfare recognises a reality that the TUC and many on the left haven’t – our current model of production, from a social perspective, is crumbling. Make workfare a weapon for change by Arron Peters The potential list of objectionable adjectives that have been extended to the medley of policies collectively understood as ‘workfare’ is, much like any credibility once invested […]
‘US, UK Hypocrisy Shows in Bahrain’
Terror’s State continues in Bahrain while Western world is asleep by PressTV An analyst debunks the US and UK governments’ claims of bringing democracy to the Middle East in the wake off their collaboration in the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Bahrain, Press TV reports. Police in Bahrain continue to step up attacks on pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain as questions […]
Citizens’ Campaign to Arrest Blair Continues
Citizens band together to arrest former British prime minister over involvement in Iraq’s invasion a decade ago by Simon Hooper It was only as David Cronin saw Tony Blair and his entourage striding towards him that he finally plucked up the courage to go through with his plan to attempt to arrest the former British prime minister over his role […]
President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man
Faced with a violent world of imperial counter-revolution, and resolved to stand with the oppressed of the world, Hugo Chavez enters world history as a complete political leader, with the stature of the most humane and multi-faceted leader of our epoch: the Renaissance figure for the 21st century. Thus concludes James Petras in this analytical reflection of the thirteen years […]
Is Anybody Listening?
U.S. Intel Chief Says Iran Isn’t Building Nukes by Nima Shirazi In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reaffirmed what the U.S. intelligence community has been saying for years: Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear weapon and has not even made a decision to […]
The new propaganda is liberal
The new slavery is digital by John Pilger What is modern propaganda? For many, it is the lies of a totalitarian state. In the 1970s, I met Leni Riefenstahl and asked her about her epic films that glorified the Nazis. Using revolutionary camera and lighting techniques, she produced a documentary form that mesmerized Germans; her ‘Triumph of the Will’ cast Hitler’s […]
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