If the suffering, yet docile, Cypriot serfs thought deposit confiscation would be the end of their problems under the European feudal system, they are about to be shocked by Zerohedge. Because as part of their banking sector bailout, the country is set to get a “loan” from the Troika, a loan which comes with a Memorandum of Understanding, aka a […]
Transferred Tens Of Millions To London Days Before Deposit Haircuts by Zerohedge A day after former Cypriot President Vassilou was found to be among many elite Cypriot (politicians and businessmen) who had loans written-off by the major (now insolvent) banks; it appears the rot is far fouler than expected. In a somewhat stunning (or purely coincidental) revelation, ENETEnglish reports that […]
What is Behind the US-North Korea Conflict? What’s happening between the U.S. and North Korea to produce such headlines this week as “Korean Tensions Escalate,” and “North Korea Threatens U.S.”? by Jack A. Smith The New York Times reported March 30: “This week, North Korea’s young leader, Kim Jung-un, ordered his underlings to prepare for a missile attack on the […]
A British peer has, in explosive revelations, said that London’s spy agency MI6 murdered the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Congo, once described as “the most important assassination of the 20th century” by PressTV Lord David Edward Lea made the disclosure in a letter to the editor in the March 21 edition of the London Review of Books (LRB) in […]
In Moscow, the pro-western intelligentsia see the war in Syria as a distant conflict in which the Kremlin has aligned the country with the wrong side to maintain a useless naval base in Tartus by Thierry Meyssan Conversely, Putin sees the war as an episode of a conflict which, by virtue of the “Brzezinski doctrine”, has pitted since 1978 the […]
The rewriting of history by the power elite was painfully evident as the nation marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War by Chris Hedges (Truthdig). Some claimed they had opposed the war when they had not. Others among “Bush’s useful idiots” argued that they had merely acted in good faith on the information available; if they […]
So, the Arab League openly takes a page out of NATO’s book and proposes to break international law by taking sides in an internal conflict in a sovereign state, Syria by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey The Arab League leaders probably do not notice it in their haste to lick the boots of the western masters who have always kicked their people, but […]
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea stands out. But it is not because the secretive Stalinist regime is a nuclear pariah threatening global security, as the Western corporate media would have us believe by Finian Cunningham No, North Korea stands out for being a beacon of rationality and, incredible as it may seem, peace. Bear in mind the following features: […]
Limb by Limb, Life by Life, Home by Home, Gene by Gene by Felicity Arbuthnot Why should we hear about body bags and deaths … I mean, it’s not relevant, so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that …” (Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, Good Morning America, 18th March 2003) In these days of the tenth […]
A Syrian’s Perspective: Bashar al-Assad’s Democratic Movement by Arabi Souri Bashar al-Assad has recently been demonized by the mainstream and so-called alternative media who claim that he is a brutal dictator. Actually Bashar is a reformer who has done much to further the causes of democracy and freedom. It is the opposition and their foreign supporters who represent the most […]
Why Is Socialism Doing So Darn Well in Deep-Red North Dakota? by Les Leopold North Dakota is the very definition of a red state. It voted 58 percent to 39 percent for Romney over Obama, and its statehouse and senate have a total of 104 Republicans and only 47 Democrats. The Republican super-majority is so conservative it recently passed the nation’s […]
Was the Real Purpose of the Iraq War to Restrict Oil … So As to Raise Oil Prices? by Washington’s Blog U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, 4 Star General John Abizaid, Fed boss Alan Greenspan, President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, Sarah Palin, Bush speechwriter David Frum, key war architect John Bolton, and a high-level National Security Council […]
