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EU/IMF REVOLT: GREECE, ICELAND, LATVIA MAY LEAD THE WAY
Ellen Hodgson Brown – Dissident Voice,
20 Dec 2009
Europe’s small, debt-strapped countries could follow the lead of Argentina and simply walk away from their debts. That would shift the burden to the creditor countries, which could solve the problem merely by a change in accounting rules. Total financial collapse, once a problem only for developing countries, has now come to Europe. The International […]
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Ellen Brown,
6 Oct 2009
The Dollar Needs to be Devalued by Half?“A year ago,” said law professor Ross Buckley on Australia’s ABC News on September 22, “nobody wanted to know the International Monetary Fund. Now it’s the organiser for the international stimulus package which has been sold as a stimulus package for poor countries.” The IMF may have catapulted to […]
→ read full articleDON’T ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS COUNT?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown,
28 Sep 2009
Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state.Influential Europeans – including many Muslims – recently debated freedom of expression with the Danish editor who commissioned the cartoons of Prophet Mohammed which led to riots. Held in Berlin, it was a good, at times blazing, debate. Freedom of […]
→ read full articleNOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MAIREAD MAGUIRE TALKS ABOUT HER ABDUCTION BY ISRAELI FORCES ON IRISH TV
Nightly News With Vincent Browne,
9 Jul 2009
Just out of a prison cell to where she was taken after being abducted by the Israeli navy in the Mediterranean on June 30, Mairead Maguire describes her ordeal and her reasons for trying to break the siege of Gaza in a panel discussion on the Palestinian/Israeli confict. TV3 CLICK TO VIEW (Join the […]
→ read full articleTORTURED TRUTH: WHAT CHENNEY LEARNED FROM STALIN
Andrew Brown,
6 Jul 2009
Who would have thought that Dick Cheney was a follower of French fashion? When he defends the routine use of torture as a means of warfare, however, theirs is the most recent example. The French, in the Algerian War, were the last Western army to systematize the use of torture on detainees. Alistair Horne describes […]
→ read full articleTHE TOWER OF BASEL: SECRETIVE PLANS FOR THE ISSUING OF A GLOBAL CURRENCY
Ellen Brown,
18 Apr 2009
Do we really want the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issuing our global currency? In an April 7 article in The London Telegraph titled “The G20 Moves the World a Step Closer to a Global Currency,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote: “A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution […]
→ read full articleLIVERPOOL: A CITY THAT IS FINALLY GLAD TO BE GAY
Jonathan Brown,
13 Nov 2008
The Gay Village is a long overdue addition to a place where homophobic crime is rife. Journey on any typical Saturday night to downtown Liverpool and you can expect to find the dance floor at theG Bar on Erbele Street rammed and the music pulsating at ear-splitting volumes. Around the corner in Stanley Street a […]
→ read full articleEND OF CHICAGO FREE-MARKET IDEAS?
Sarah Brown in Chicago,
4 Nov 2008
Nestled within the leafy campus of the University of Chicago, stands a brownstone building known currently as the Chicago Theological Seminary Building. But the building’s new occupants have more worldly pursuits than the study of God. It is now the planned site for what will be the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. The […]
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