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WikiLeaks Backlash: The First Global Cyber War Has Begun, Claim Hackers
Mark Townsend, Paul Harris in New York, Alex Duval Smith in Johannesburg, Dan Sabbagh, Josh Halliday – The Guardian,
13 Dec 2010
As Julian Assange is held in solitary confinement at Wandsworth prison, the anonymous community of hacktivists takes to the cyber battlefields.
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Ellen Brown –Global Research,
8 Nov 2010
China’s government can direct its banks to advance credit in the national currency as needed, because it owns the banks. Ironically, the Chinese evidently got that idea from us. Sun Yat-sen was a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln, who avoided a crippling national debt by issuing debt-free Treasury notes during the Civil War; and Lincoln was following the lead of the American colonists, our forebears.
→ read full articleTime for a New Theory of Money
Ellen Brown – Yes! Magazine,
1 Nov 2010
By understanding that money is simply credit, we unleash it as a powerful tool for our communities.
→ read full articleA Worse Record than Saddam’s
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – The Independent,
1 Nov 2010
Now imagine good Muslims worldwide, who know all about universal rights, but can see that there is no universal accountability, that Third World despots are made to pay while others earn millions writing autobiographies and lecturing the world on good leadership and governance…. Hundreds of savvy, smart, keenly aware young people email me from various Muslim states asking: “What’s the point? They say one thing and do the opposite. They say they want to help us and kill our people. Why should we trust the British and Americans?”… What do our army commanders and American leaders advise me to tell these disenchanted Muslims?… Those who took us into this war are not obliged to explain themselves, not liable. In that they are worse than the dictator they toppled. Not comfortable that thought, but true.
→ read full articleBasel III: Tightening the Noose on Credit
Ellen Brown – The Web of Debt,
27 Sep 2010
The stock market shot up on September 13, after new banking regulations were announced called Basel III. Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief. The megabanks, propped up by generous taxpayer bailouts, would have no trouble meeting the new capital requirements, which were lower than expected and would not be fully implemented until 2019. Only the local commercial banks, the ones already struggling to meet capital requirements, would be seriously challenged by the new rules.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2010
Socialism: You have two cows, and you give one to your neighbor.
→ read full articleThirteen Religious Views of Life
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2010
Taoism: Shit happens.
→ read full articleAIG-GATE: THE WORLD’S GREATEST INSURANCE HEIST
Ellen Brown – Global Research,
10 Feb 2010
Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner is on his way out as Treasury Secretary, due to his involvement in the AIG scandal that is now unraveling in hearings before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Bob Chapman writes in The International Forecaster:Each day brings more revelations of efforts of the NY Fed and Goldman Sachs […]
→ read full articleTHE VOICES OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA
Hans Bennett - Upside Down Word,
26 Jan 2010
A review of Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the GrassrootsThere are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Many critics of this biased media coverage have directly challenged the demonization of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but very few critics, if any, have exposed the media’s virtual erasure of […]
→ read full articleEU/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 […]
→ read full articleTHE IMF TO PLAY ROLE OF GLOBAL CENTRAL BANK?
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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