A small defeat for the empire of bases. But considering how many excess bases have been constructed in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as neighbouring countries I don’t think this will be a problem. In fact, the US has never had more foreign bases than it currently does.
Uzbekistan has ordered US military personnel to leave [...]
Continue Reading July 31st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Really? I’m shocked.
A month after Americans who were held hostage in Tehran 25 years ago asserted that the president-elect of Iran was among their captors, U.S. officials said they had turned up no evidence to support that contention.
Detailed analyses performed by the CIA comparing photos of a similar-looking Iranian captor in 1979 and the president-elect, [...]
Continue Reading July 31st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Ever heard of Tällberg Forum? Neither had I.
Between July 30 and August 3, 2005, 450 leaders from all over the world will come together in the small, beautiful village of Tällberg in Sweden. They will break out of their ordinary roles to spend a few days exploring a question of growing concern - “How on [...]
Continue Reading July 31st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Where is your orange revolution now?
Ukranian President Viktor Yushchenko has hit back at critics who have asked awkward questions about his son’s lavish lifestyle.
Ukrainska Pravda, an online newspaper that backed Mr Yushchenko in the Orange Revolution, reported that his son Andriy, 19, drives a $131,000 BMWM6, the only one of its kind in Kiev, and [...]
Continue Reading July 31st, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Additional information on CAFTA that ought to raise a few eyebrows.
Analysis: The Hidden Pages of CAFTA
Common Dreams - At 2,400 pages, the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) isn’t really about trade. Frankly, you don’t need 2,400 pages to eliminate tariffs and regulations on exports and imports. But, you might need 2,400 pages to smuggle [...]
Continue Reading July 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Not so surprising. This is but one of the hidden tolls of armed conflicts that are usually not debated as the drums of war start to beat.
A survey of troops returning from the Iraq war found 30 percent had developed mental health problems three to four months after coming home, the Army’s surgeon general said [...]
Continue Reading July 29th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Here we go again.
In its strongest statement so far, the White House said on Thursday that Iran’s president-elect was a leader of the student movement that organized the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
But the United States has not yet determined whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was involved in the taking of hostages, a White [...]
Continue Reading July 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Statement of Lori Wallach on CAFTA Final Vote in the House of Representatives
The CAFTA vote became a highly politicized referendum on whether President Bush would be made a lame duck, but the CAFTA debate makes clear that a dramatic shift in U.S. trade politics has occurred, and the NAFTA trade model is dead.
After losing the [...]
Continue Reading July 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Hypocrisy anyone?
The State Department said Wednesday Syria could face additional U.S. penalties if refuses to transfer to Iraq $262 million in funds the United States says it obtained in violation of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iraq. Elizabeth Dibble, a deputy assistant secretary of state, told a hearing of two House subcommittees that the United [...]
Continue Reading July 28th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Henry Liu publishes his fourth installment in The coming trade war. Scarcity economics and overcapacity
Neo-classical economics developed at a time when wealth was limited to what a relatively primitive industrial society could produce, and demand for goods was always greater than their supply. It is the economics of scarcity rooted in the medieval rule [...]
Continue Reading July 27th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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