Finance leaders fail to resolve currency dispute
Martin Crutsinger Associated Press WASHINGTON — Global finance leaders have failed to resolve deep differences that are threatening the outbreak of a full-blown currency war….
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Antiwar Activists Refuse to Appear in Court
Simone de Beauvoir Institute Chip Mitchell WBEZ Some Midwest antiwar activists say they’ll refuse a federal order to testify this month before a grand jury…
Cyber Wars: US Is Stepping Up Defense Against Digital Attacks
Emma Innocenti – Getty Images Reuters Guarding water wells and granaries from enemy raids is as old as war itself. In the Middle Ages, vital…
The US Edges Closer to Invading Pakistan
Eric Margolis Lew Rockwell This writer has been warning for years that US and NATO efforts to defeat resistance to Western occupation by Afghanistan’s fierce…
Be very afraid – we are being fleeced by purveyors of fear
Home Office threat levels are absurd abstractions of no help to anyone except the security lobby raising cash through fear Simon Jenkins Guardian In case…
CIA hired Karzai’s brother before 9/11, Woodward says
Ahmed Wali Karzai – Christian Science Monitor Jeff Stein Washington Post Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of Afghanistan’s president and boss of the strategically important…
First World War officially ends on Sunday
The First World War will officially end on Sunday when Germany pays off the last of the enormous debt which was set by the Allies…
US quietly testing ‘scary new war in Pakistan’
David Edwards Raw Story Don’t get it twisted, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow essentially told her viewers Thursday night. “Borders matter” and “AfPak” is not the name…
Fears of Chinese land grab as Bejing’s billions buy up resources
Sarah Arnott The Independent China is pouring another $7bn (£4.4bn) into Brazil’s oil industry, reigniting fears of a global “land grab” of natural resources. State-owned…
Will the Dollar Rebound Before Being Dissolved Into Global Currency?
Eric Blair Activist Post Every time the dollar begins to decline, I wonder, “Is this it, is this the end to the fiat dollar?” The…
A Race to the Bottom
Peter Schiff Euro Pacific Capital Long ago, before economic models developed their current levels of sophistication, it used to be that the goal of a…
Dwight Was Right: Military-Industrial Complex Does Run The Government
The title “Commander in Chief” is ceremonial, like “Employee of the Month” at your local Burger King. Michael Moore So…it turns out President Eisenhower wasn’t…
War on Drugs is a Joke
Robert Gates: ‘We’re Not Ever Leaving’ Afghanistan
Marcus Baram UrukNet In a shocking indication of a split between the White House and the Pentagon over the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert…