Archive for August 10th, 2006
Via Raw Story Following up on earlier reports that Iran attempted to smuggle uranium to the country from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nonproliferation expert has questioned the veracity of the claims, RAW STORY has learned. Dr. Jeffrey Lewis of ArmsControlWonk, who is also the Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at [...]
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August 10th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
If there is one thing I am convinced of it is that the Chinese people are indeed different from the rest of us. Apparently they have a far greater capacity for simply taking shit from America and happily being the bogeyman of the world, while financing the follies of the empire. So here we go [...]
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August 10th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
MK Bhadrakumar on the end of the Orange Revolution and would could hopefully also be the beginning of the end of American influence over or at least expansion in the region. The appointment of Viktor Yanukovich as premier of Ukraine puts the final nail in the coffin of the “Orange Revolution” there and also in [...]
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August 10th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. now faces the daunting task of convincing the Chinese that it is in their own best interest to allow American transnationals to loot their country as they have so many others. Not to mention continuing to finance the ailing U.S. empire AND cut back their exports. “Treasury Secretary [...]
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August 10th, 2006
Björn Hallberg
About the only U.S. politician genuinely critical of the system gets, predictably, ousted from her bid for reelection using a combination of foul play, crossover voting and demographic changes. Or what Americans lovingly like to call democracy. The tireless hate and disinformation campaigns directed at McKinney have paid off it seems. Over the past few [...]
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August 10th, 2006
Björn Hallberg