By Bonnie S. Glaser, Lyle Morris
For the past few years, the Western world has been abuzz with talk of China’s rise. Most statesmen, pundits and academics have concluded that China’s rise is inevitable, but as of yet there has been no consensus on the implications of China’s rise for the rest of the world. While Westerners debate issues like whether and how China can be “molded” into becoming a responsible stakeholder in the international system, the Chinese have been quietly conducting (...)
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Chinese Perceptions of U.S. Decline and Power
12 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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The Coup in Honduras: A Teachable Moment for Obama?
12 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 comment“I bewail the consequences of those furious passions which seem to belong to man.” - Chief Justice John Marshall
A surreal event took place on July 7, 2009, at the National Press Club, (NPC), in Washington, D.C. Some of the representatives of the “de facto” regime in Honduras, repeatedly denied, in differing fashions, that President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a military coup d’etat on June 28, 2009. Not long after the press conference began, however, three gutsy protesters, holding (...) -
Video: Obamageddon is Coming!
11 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Food riots, tax protests, strikes and high unemployment all will characterize our economic future according to Gerald Celente.
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Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8
10 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By Lyubov Pronina
July 10 (Bloomberg) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a “united future world currency.”
“Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. “You can see it and touch it.”
The coin (), which bears the words “unity in diversity,” was minted in Belgium and presented to the heads of G-8 (...) -
Obama’s Cap and Trade Carbon Emissions Bill - A Stealth Scheme to License Pollution and Fraud
10 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
by Stephen Lendman
On May 15, HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) was introduced in the House purportedly "To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy."
In fact, it’s to let corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel as well as create a new bubble through carbon trading derivatives speculation. It does nothing to address (...) -
Video: When is a Coup Not a Coup?
8 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
A surreal event took place on July 7, 2009, at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. It was so strange that I thought that the late, great British comedic actor, Peter Sellers, was going to make a cameo appearance! Some of the representatives of the “de facto” regime in Honduras, repeatedly denied that President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a military coup on June 28, 2009. At the beginning of the press conference, protesters staged a brief demonstration. On this video, you will (...)
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The US and the Honduran coup
4 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
The US and the Honduran coup
1 July 2009
Washington’s criticisms of the June 28 military coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras lack any element of sincerity or historical truth. The Obama administration is uneasy at the ouster of Zelaya, a conservative-turned-populist allied to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, because it reveals all too clearly the character of US foreign policy.
President Barack Obama’s condemnation of Zelaya’s overthrow as a “terrible precedent” is (...) -
The Message of Benjamin Franklin
3 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
I was asked: what are you proud of this Fourth? Currently? Very little, but I see the future because the past is the future. These people that we were, are unusual in their patience and uncommon in their valor.
When the rupture with the British Parliament first occurred, the Continental Congress selected Benjamin Franklin to go to London as the voice of reason. Franklin was considered the foremost American in the world. A man of science and of letters, he was (...) -
Demonising Iran conveniently hides uncomfortable truths for the West
3 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentDemonising Iran conveniently hides uncomfortable truths for the West
by Robin Yassin-Kassab
Global Research, July 3, 2009 The Sunday Herald - 2009-07-02
THE MAINSTREAM media narrative of events unfolding in Iran has been set out for us as clear as a fairytale: an evil dictatorship has rigged elections and now violently suppresses its country’s democrats, hysterically blaming foreign saboteurs the while. But the Twitter generation is on the right side of history (in Obama’s words), (...) -
Ethnic Cleansing as a State Policy
2 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By Nicola Nasser*
In his speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a new Israeli “peace plan,” with preconditions that a Palestinian negotiator must first meet before he would “promptly” engage in “unconditional” bilateral talks to meet an international consensus demanding the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. His preconditions added to the fourteen conditions the former Israeli government of comatose Ariel Sharon (...)