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Terror Bombing in Brussels and Paris: Europe’s “Islamist Legionnaires” Come Home to Fight

Prof. James Petras — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 21:27:17 +0000

Ever since the US-EU policymakers decided to implement a war against Arab and West Asian secular nationalism in the Middle-East, Afghanistan, Iran and North Africa through serial ‘regime change’campaigns they have relied on Islamist Salafist mercenaries and volunteers to do most of the killing on the ground, while the West operates from the air.

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Isn’t Britain ‘great’?

Mark Curtis — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 23:59:58 +0000

Historian Mark Curtis cites some of the actions of successive British governments, barely mentioned by the corporate media, which go someway to understanding what makes Britain 'great'.

Supporting the bombing of Yemen.
Arming Israel.
Occupying the Chagos Islands.
Supporting US aggression.
Arming Colombia.
Maintaining the global network of tax havens.

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The Fed Is The Great Deceiver

jimmy — Thu, 15 May 2014 12:34:08 +0000

As impelled as the Fed is to protect the large banks that sit on the board of directors of the NY Fed, the Fed has to protect the dollar. That the Fed believed that it could not buy the bonds outright but needed to disguise its purchase by laundering it through Belgium suggests that the Fed is concerned that the world is losing confidence in the dollar.

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An Irish view of the First World War

jimmy — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:46:40 +0000

Britain’s rulers went to war, therefore, not to protect little Catholic Belgium, or so that small nations might be free, but in the selfish interests of a class that profited from privileges gained by governing an empire on which the sun was not supposed to set. In the process this class was entirely indifferent to the mass slaughter that inevitably ensued.

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