May 22, 2012
War and cheeseburgers By Pepe Escobar A specter haunts Europe. No, it’s not communism; it’s US rating agencies. Greece is bankrupt; the eurozone is about to crack; JP Morgan makes billion-dollar “mistakes”; there’s no (jobs) future for the new generations. And yet the weaponized arm of the Western 0.1% elites occupies [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, European Union, François Hollande, Hamid Karzai, NATO, Obama, United States
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May 3, 2012
Confessions of an angry young drone By Pepe Escobar PARIS – These are tumultuous times in Droneland. Some bewildered United States drones are actually mired in second thoughts about their god-given mission – as expressed in detail to author and blogger David Swanson. [1] They even founded their own awareness [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United State, White House, Yemen
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April 26, 2012
The New(er) World Order? Neoliberal Dragons, Eurasian Wet Dreams, and Robocop Fantasies A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC by Pepe Escobar Goldman Sachs — via economist Jim O’Neill — invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldn’t help [...]
Tags: Brazil, BRIC, European Union, India, International Monetary Fund, Iran, Russia, United State, World Bank
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April 11, 2012
The Best of Pepe Escobar Apr 11, 2012 Surrender now or we’ll bomb you later Welcome to the “roll over and die” school of diplomacy over Iran – as perfected by the Barack Obama administration, with vital input from the Israel lobby in Washington. The United States president’s ultimatum before international [...]
Tags: American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, European Union, Iran, Israel, Pepe Escobar, Tehran, United State, Vladimir Putin, Washington
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April 11, 2012
THE ROVING EYE Surrender now or we’ll bomb you later By Pepe Escobar Former United States president George W Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein before bombing and invading Iraq. Nine years later, US President Barack Obama has issued an ultimatum to the leadership in Tehran before … setting optimal conditions for an “all [...]
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April 6, 2012
THE ROVING EYE We want war, and we want it now By Pepe Escobar It was deep into the night, somewhere over Siberia, in a Moscow to Beijing flight (BRIC to BRIC?) when the thought, like a lightning bolt, began to take hold. What the hell is wrong with those Arabs? Maybe [...]
Tags: Bashar-al Assad, Beijing, House of Saud, middle east, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United States
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March 24, 2012
Mystery of lost Fukushima radiation emails ‘a major cover-up’ Published: 23 March, 2012, 17:19 Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) workers stand before stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan (AFP Photo / Yoshikazu Tsuno) (35.5Mb)embed video TRENDS:Earthquake in Japan TAGS: Health, Natural disasters, Nuclear,Accident, Japan link http://www.rt.com/news/japan-fukushima-email-deleted-285/ The Fukushima Prefecture government apparently deleted [...]
Tags: fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Nuclear, Pepe Escobar, Tokyo, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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March 23, 2012
THE ROVING EYE Russia rules Pipelineistan By Pepe Escobar Nabucco – the alleged gas Holy Grail from the Caspian Sea to Europe, 4,000 kilometers from Turkey to Austria – is the perennial Pipelineistan soap opera. Part of the gas to supply Nabucco may come from Azerbaijan. Another part might – a very problematic [...]
Tags: Azerbaijan, European Union, Gazprom, Nabucco, Russia, South Stream, Southern Gas Corridor, Turkey
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March 22, 2012
Today we talk to veteran investigative journalist about the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine by which NATO has begun waging its “humanitarian” wars around the world. We discuss where this idea came from, how it has been used, and the way it is shaping international geopolitics. We also talk about the MEK, a bizarre [...]
Tags: Iran, NATO, Pepe Escobar, Responsibility to protect, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United State, Washington
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March 13, 2012
24:08 CrossTalk: Occupy Globe (ft. Pepe Escobar) People are rising up against the authorities all around the world. Is this a crisis of the current political and economic system? What do these … by RussiaToday | 12,148 views Featured Videos 9:44 Pepe Escobar: US will continue to arm anti-government rebels in Syria after veto For several months [...]
Tags: Iran, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Pepe Escobar, Saudi Arabia, Sirte, Strait of Hormuz, Syria
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March 6, 2012
Khamenei’s reportedly fears a coalition of ‘purists’ will rise up and get rid of him [REUTERS] Hong Kong - The supreme war-or-peace question regarding the Iran psychodrama has got to be: What game is Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameneireally playing?Sharp wits among the lively Iranian global diaspora maintain that the Supreme Leader is the perfect US/Israel [...]
Tags: Ali Khamenei, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Great Satan, Hong Kong, Iran, Iran Supreme Leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tehran, Yahya Rahim Safavi, Zahra Rahnavard
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March 5, 2012
Vladimir Putin shed tears after his victory in Russia’s presidential election [Al Jazeera] Bangkok, Thailand - He even shed tears – an unlikely remake of “From Russia with Love”. The Russian Orthodox Church- which steadfastly supported his campaign – was more than pleased. The tears of the Czarwere, in theory, in honour of the citizens of [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Bangkok, BRICS, Greater Middle East, Moscow, NATO, New York Times, Putin, Russia, Russian, Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Surkov
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February 26, 2012
Khamenei’s reportedly fears a coalition of ‘purists’ will rise up and get rid of him [REUTERS] Hong Kong - The supreme war-or-peace question regarding the Iran psychodrama has got to be: What game is Iran’s Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khameneireally playing?Sharp wits among the lively Iranian global diaspora maintain that the Supreme Leader is [...]
Tags: Ali Khamenei, Avigdor Lieberman, Great Satan, Hong Kong, Iran, Iran Supreme Leader, Islamic Republic, Khamenei, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tehran, Yahya Rahim Safavi, Zahra Rahnavard
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February 23, 2012
THE ROVING EYE Real cowards go to Tehran By Pepe Escobar Imagine the classic United States neo-conservative wet dream; staring at Iran on a map and salivating about the crossroads between Europe and Asia, between the Arab world and the Indian subcontinent, between the Arabian Sea and Central Asia, with 10% of the world’s proven [...]
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January 28, 2012
Scott Horton Interviews Pepe Escobar Scott Horton, January 24, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Globetrotting journalist Pepe Escobar discusses his article “Sinking the Petrodollar in the Persian Gulf;” the increasingly divergent US and Israeli “red lines” on Iran’s nuclear program; proposed pipelines [...]
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January 22, 2012
If there is a difficulty with what Escobar is saying it goes to a fatal assumption that there is an Arab Spring as opposed to actions in separate countries being a struggle by those people in their own name and not as part [...]
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January 7, 2012
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the Taliban would be opening a political office in Qatar [EPA] New York, New York - Once upon a time they favoured Dubai – their smuggling Mecca. Now the Taliban go-to destination of choice will be Doha. So the Taliban will open a political office in Qatar to be engaged in negotiations [...]
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December 29, 2011
Branding The “War on Terror“ Global Power Relationships Shift as Competition for Resources Intensifies As competition for oil, water and other resources intensify, global power relationships are shifting, providing backdrops for a string of conflicts from Iraq to Libya. Brazilian-born journalist Pepe Escobar, one of the [...]
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December 23, 2011
Obama has shifted the US military’s focus from the Middle East to Asia in an attempt to ‘contain’ China [GALLO/GETTY] Let’s celebrate the end of an eventful 2011 with a fable. Once upon a time in the young 21st century, the eagle, the bear and the dragon took their (furry) gloves off and engaged in [...]
Tags: Asia, Cold War, Eurasian Land Bridge, History, middle east, NATO, Roman Empire, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, South China Sea, Twentieth Century, United State, United States
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December 11, 2011
► 7:15► 7:15 Escobar: Al-Qaeda asset is military commander of Tripoli — RT rt.com/usa/…/al-qaeda-libya-commander-escobar-269/27 Aug 2011 - 7 min … to RT today live from Brazil, Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar said … Libyan rebels get into a … ► 9:38► 9:38 rt.com/usa/news/pepe-escobar-libya-iraq-132/23 Aug 2011 - 10 min Libyan rebels get into a vehicle in the capital Tripoli (AFP Photo / Getty … Asia Times correspondent Pepe … Pepe Escobar: ‘Libya is Iraq 2.0′ — [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Libya, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Pepe Escobar, Tripoli, United State
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December 5, 2011
Scott Horton Interviews Pepe Escobar Scott Horton, December 04, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Globetrotting journalist Pepe Escobar discusses his article “The shadow war in Syria;” how Turkey is helping NATO and GCC foment a Syrian civil war; why the Muslim Brotherhood is best situated to replace the Assad regime, [...]
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November 30, 2011
BRICS countries have become increasingly wary of NATO interventions [GALLO/GETTY] Few may have noticed when, last week, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland cryptically announcedthat Washington “would cease carrying out certain obligations under the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty with regard to Russia”. Translation: Washington will not inform Russia from now on about the [...]
Tags: BRIC, middle east, NATO, Pentagon, Pepe Escobar, Russia, Syria, United States
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October 28, 2011
The new Holy Trinity mythology peddled by Washington to an unsuspecting world is that the Libya war is over, the Iraq war will be over by New Year’s Eve, and the Afghan war will be over by 2014. Oh yes; and Lindsay Lohan is a reincarnation of the Virgin Mary. Let’s focus on Iraq. There [...]
Tags: Baghdad, Iran, Iraq, middle east, Nouri al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, United States, Washington
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October 21, 2011
Beware of strangers bearing gifts. Post-modern Amazon and United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally landed in Tripoli – on a military jet – to lavish praise on the dodgy Transitional National Council (TNC), those pportunists/defectors/Islamists formerly known as “North Atlantic Treaty Organization rebels”. Clinton was greeted on Tuesday “on the soil [...]
Tags: Africa, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Libya, NATO, New York Times, Tripoli, United States
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October 12, 2011
Washington is looking to increase sanctions on Iran as a result of the plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador [EPA] The fast and furious plot to occupy Iran Tehran would have to be terminally foolish to try to snuff out an ambassador on US soil, author says. Pepe Escobar Last Modified: 12 Oct 2011 17:16 [...]
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September 25, 2011
Pepe Escobar, Will Asia Save Global Capitalism? Posted by Pepe Escobar at 5:33pm, September 25, 2011. Pepe Escobar, that ever-energetic, globetrotting correspondent for Asia Times, has long been on the Pipelinestan beat for TomDispatch, covering the skeletal geography of energy that girds the planet. Today, however, he leaves pipelines behind to consider the planet they service — or is it [...]
Tags: Asia Times, Atlantic Ocean, AutoCAD, BRIC, iPod, Michael Klare, New York Times, Pepe Escobar, Saudi Arabia, United State
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September 19, 2011
Muqtada al-Sadr has laid out three demands with the help of a massive demonstration [EPA] Imagine Dick Cheney’s reaction when confronted with this bit of information. Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a certified Iraqi nationalist leader and the country’s de facto kingmaker, has just called for the end of any “armed resistance” against US “invader” forces [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bashar-al Assad, Council of Representatives of Iraq, Dick Cheney, Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, Nouri al-Maliki, Sadrist Movement, Status of Forces Agreement, Sunni Islam, United States Armed Forces
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September 5, 2011
Kim Jong-Il offered Russian President Dmitry Medvedev the right to build a trans-Korean pipeline [EPA] As much of the world - and news headlines - were transfixed by NATO’s “humanitarian” war in Libya, few noticed as a 69-year-old sporting a trademark Mao-style khaki jumpsuit and wearing sunglasses stepped out of a black armoured Mercedes in the back of beyond in [...]
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August 19, 2011
March 14, 2011 Is Egypt the Future IndoTurkeZil? So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World By Pepe Escobar Three mummies were recently found in an underground temple in Luxor, Egypt. Translated hieroglyphs identified them as the Clash of Civilizations, the End of History, and Islamophobia. They ruled in Western domains [...]
Tags: Arab world, Clash of Civilizations, egypt, Egyptian Army, Hassan al-Banna, Hosni Mubarak, middle east, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation
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August 10, 2011
Today, Uyghurs have become a minority in Xinjiang province, comprising 41 per cent of the population [EPA] If Cowboys and Aliens – the hilarious summer blockbuster featuring Daniel “007″ Craig and Harrison “Indiana Jones” Ford – were to be set in Xinjiang, China’s Far West, the cowboys would be ethnic Uyghurs and the aliens, the [...]
Tags: Ahmad Shuja Pasha, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Han Chinese, Kashgar, Silk Road, Uyghur people, World Uyghur Congress, Xinjiang
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July 29, 2011
Afghanistan contains a huge wealth of minerals and precious stones, such as emeralds [GALLO/GETTY] Afghanistan is not often perceived as a mineral Holy Grail. But, as it turns out, between $1-3 trillion in mineral wealth lies unexplored across the Hindu Kush. There’s enough uranium, lithium, copper and iron ore to potentially turn Afghanistan into a commodities powerhouse. The [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ali Khamenei, Asif Ali Zardari, Central Asia, Hamid Karzai, Hindu Kush, India, Iran, ISLAMABAD, middle east, Taliban, United State
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July 13, 2011
The Pentagon wants the White House to “hold off on ending the Afghanistan troop surge until the fall of 2012″ [GALLO/GETTY] Among multiple layers of deception and newspeak, the official Washington spin on the strategic quagmire in Afghanistan simply does not hold. No more than “50-75 ‘al-Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA, have [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 1, 2011
THE ROVING EYE What’s really at stake in Libya By Pepe Escobar To follow Pepe’s articles on the Great Arab Revolt, please clickhere. Way beyond the impenetrable fog of war, the ongoing tragedy in Libya is morphing into a war of acronyms that graphically depicts the tortuous “birth pangs” of a possibly new world order. [...]
Tags: African Union, Arab Revolt, BRIC, Gaddafi, International Criminal Court, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Pepe Escobar, United States
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June 8, 2011
The secret life of Arabia By Pepe Escobar To follow Pepe’s articles on the Great Arab Revolt, please clickhere. As the Arab Spring turns into summer, the counter-revolution is winning. Tyrants – but not systems – are down in Tunisia and Egypt. The Libyan “revolution” is a sham: North Atlantic Treaty Organization air war plus [...]
Tags: Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Arab Revolt, Bashar-al Assad, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, House of Saud, middle east, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria
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May 18, 2011
China’s interests in Gaddafi Huge oil and financial deals play major part in Beijing’s support for Libya‘s despot and halt to foreign intervention. Pepe Escobar Last Modified: 14 Apr 2011 15:06 Moussa Koussa meets Hu Jintao. Western intervention in Libya came after Gaddafi pledged to give major contracts to Chinese countries, replacing deals with Western companies [...]
Tags: African Union, Beijing, BRIC, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz, United States Africa Command
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May 9, 2011
The predatory capital project and its partner the imperial project are fast running out of the fresh kill zones they require in the killing fields they so euphemistically called the “new world” or the “third world” Marx clearly predicted that there would have to be a massive expansion of the predatory beast into the rest of the world, [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 1, 2011
China’s interests in Gaddafi Huge oil and financial deals play major part in Beijing’s support for Libya‘s despot and halt to foreign intervention. Pepe Escobar Last Modified: 14 Apr 2011 15:06 Email Print Share Send Feedback Moussa Koussa meets Hu Jintao. Western intervention in Libya came after Gaddafi pledged to give major contracts to Chinese countries, [...]
Tags: African Union, Beijing, Hu Jintao, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy, Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz, United States Africa Command
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April 14, 2011
A Candid Discussion with Pepe Escobar on Current Iranian Affairs By Reza Akhlaghi Thursday, October 7 12:34 pm EST World-renowned analyst on Iranian and Central Asian Affairs, Pepe Escobar,sits down for a candid discussion on current Iranian Affairs. Known for his blunt style with a heavy dose of realism, Escobar sheds light on those aspects of geopolitical issues that [...]
Tags: Bashar-al Assad, European Union, Iran, middle east, Pepe Escobar, Saudi Arabia, Tehran, United States
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April 14, 2011
THE ROVING EYE I want to occupy you forever By Pepe Escobar To follow Pepe’s articles on the Great Arab Revolt, please clickhere. Heeeeeee’s back! Every time Iraqi nationalist Shi’ite cleric/politician Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaces with a bang, the United States establishment shakes like a willow tree, while US corporate media duly dusts off the [...]
Tags: Iraq, Joe Biden, Mahdi Army, Muqtada al-Sadr, Shia Islam, Status of Forces Agreement, Sunni Islam, United States
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April 9, 2011
These are the articles that Pepe has written since the outbreak of unrest in the Arab world in January. Let me bomb you in peace After learning the lesson of having his tanks bombed at will by the “coalition of the willing”, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is fighting light-armor guerrilla style against the “rebels” and [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Pepe Escobar, Saudi Arabia, United States
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April 9, 2011
THE ROVING EYE An extreme traveler, Pepe’s nose for news has taken him to all parts of the globe. He was in Afghanistan and interviewed the military leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Masoud, a couple of weeks before his assassination (Masoud: From warrior to statesman , Sep 11, 2001). Two weeks before September [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Pentagon, Pepe Escobar, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, United States
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March 28, 2011
The closer you get to Israel the worse life becomes if you are indigenous. If not it does not matter where you are. To the Zionists life goes on regardless. my own headline of course, George Ikners ikners.com Syrian clashes leave at least 12 dead as government delays concessions • At least 12 people killed [...]
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March 27, 2011
Libya, Oh What a Stupid War; Fukushima, Cover-Up Amid Catastrophe By ALEXANDER COCKBURN The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. Let’s [...]
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March 23, 2011
Now how can that be right? Almost from birth we have been told that salvation comes from above and as a result many many substandard people have held sway over both our opinions and ideas. But why is this so? Mainly because our parents had been very actively taught (propagandi sed) to believe that the [...]
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November 15, 2010
For those of you who like to think that there is some truth in what the US imperial project says about getting out of Afghanistan, with all the lapdogs like Australia barking the same tune, you may find the most recent article at Tomdispatch interesting (link) It is titled, “The Stimulus Package in Kabul” and [...]
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Gaza flotilla raid, Greek Police, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Kevin Rudd, Melbourne, Politics of Greece
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