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Recent Posts
- Sanctions dodge: India to pay gold for Iran oil, China may follow
- Libyans reject ‘hijacked’ revolution?
- ‘Clear signal’ to Iran: UK warns of more firepower in Hormuz
- Gulf Arabs push diplomatic assault on Syria
- An ACTA of war: Secret censor tool to shake up world wide web
- The EU Pushes for Serbia Without Kosovo and Kosovo Without Visa Obligations
- Israel’s By-Pass Foreign Policy
- On current situation in Syria
- Africa and UN: Attempt to Get Rid of “New World Order” Chains
- Iran calmly reacts to EU’s oil sanctions
- Russia affirms support for Syria’s Assad
- World Peace Hanging by a Thread
- The Best President for the United States
- Down to the wire
- China in 2012: Political Challenges in China’s Economic Governance
- Europe at war with Iran
- Europe passes the oil buck to China
- Iranian oil poses Asian dilemma
- Andaman ‘human safaris’ shame Delhi
- China, India enter heating-up Arctic race
- Crisis, what crisis?
- Sheikhs fall in love with renminbi
- Opportunity beckons for Iran’s Guards
- East Asian energy dilemma over Iran
- Failed treasury auction portends Egyptian disaster
- New China FDI rules put focus on ascent
- Mitt Romney’s State of the Union Challenge on the Mortgage Crisis
- The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps Spinning
- Public Advocate de Blasio Starts Citizen Campaign Calling On S.E.C. To End Secret Corporate Spending In Elections
- MIDEAST: Into an Unsettled New Year
- US: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not Big Banks
- “Money Isn’t Speech, Corporations Aren’t People”
- Caught in Turbulence
- The Eurasian Triple Entente: Touch Iran in a War, You Will Hear Russia and China
- NEO-NAZISM: United Nations Anti-Nazi Resolution and Falsification of History
- THREATENING CHINA: Australian Militarism in the Asia-Pacific Century
- Bogus Tales of Iran’s Nukes Used to Feed US Militarism
- UK scuttles Obama’s Iran sanctions
- China tiptoes to petrodollar recycling
- A Mountain Almost 70 Years High
- The Politics of Tar Sands
- No-win situation
- An alternative bloc: 33 countries form new regional grouping to strengthen cooperation and challenge U.S. hegemony
- Welfare state
- Murdoch group admits to hacking cover-up
- The last domino
- BP’s Energy Outlook To 2030: Catastrophe For Civilization
- Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale
- The Americans no one wants to talk about
- Taxes at the Top
- Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview
- Stop the Madness
- How to Save the Global Economy: Write Off the World’s Debt
- How to Save the Global Economy: Raise the Minimum Wage. A Lot.
- Why John J. Mearsheimer Is Right (About Some Things)
- Bush’s CIA director: We determined attacking Iran was a bad idea
- US “Duel Track Engagement Policy” Towards Russia
- Iran War “All Options Open”: Ex-Saudi Spy
- Iran War: US Eyes Covert Ops and Middle East Gendarme Role
- Occupy Wall Street at a Crossroads
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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Turkey learns rules of the game in Iraq
Turkey learns rules of the game in Iraq By Seyfeddin Kara Asia Times April 1, 2011 Muffled guffaws would have been an appropriate response from Iraqis to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s claim this week that openness and sincerity … Continue reading
Asia to redraw progress map
Asia to redraw progress map By Joergen Oerstroem Moeller Asia Times April 1, 2011 Asia’s economic growth is locked into high numbers. Global economic and subsequently political power adjusts accordingly. I subscribe to this conventional wisdom but not to the … Continue reading
Responsible China gets what it wants
Responsible China gets what it wants By Benjamin A Shobert Asia Times April 1, 2011 It has been an overused phrase, the challenge from the West that China become a “responsible stakeholder” in international institutions, that the country learn to … Continue reading
EU practices acrobatics with Caspian gas flip-flop
EU practices acrobatics with Caspian gas flip-flop By Robert M Cutler Asia Times April 1, 2011 MONTREAL – The changing geo-economic environment around the Central Asian and South Caucasus hydrocarbon energy producers is reflected in a public flip-flop by a … Continue reading
Compressed gas on the Caspian table
Compressed gas on the Caspian table Robert M Cutler Asia Times March 25, 2011 MONTREAL – Recent progress towards agreement on the possibilities for constructing a Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP), in the context of the European Union’s Southern Corridor Program, … Continue reading
Japan Post’s stalled sale a saving grace
Japan Post’s stalled sale a saving grace By Ellen Brown Asia Times April 1, 2011 When a spokeswoman for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said at a news conference on March 17 that Japan has the financial means to recover … Continue reading
The New Colonialism: Washington’s Pursuit of World Hegemony
The New Colonialism: Washington’s Pursuit of World Hegemony by Paul Craig Roberts Global Research March 31, 2011 What we are observing in Libya is the rebirth of colonialism. Only this time it is not individual European governments competing for empires … Continue reading
Libya and the Holy Triumvirate
Libya and the Holy Triumvirate Is Anyone Keeping Count? By WILLIAM BLUM CounterPunch.org March 30, 2011 The words they find it very difficult to say — “civil war”. Libya is engaged in a civil war. The United States and the … Continue reading
Why Mexico’s Drug War is Unwinnable
Why Mexico’s Drug War is Unwinnable Time to End Prohibition By LAURA CARLSEN CounterPunch.org March 30, 2011 In Matamoros, Tamaulipas, schools close down after officials receive bomb threats. Newspapers timidly report that the threats “could be related to” Gulf Cartel … Continue reading
Housing Market Blues
Housing Market Blues The Bleeding Continues By MIKE WHITNEY CounterPunch.org March 30, 2011 The collapse in housing prices is gaining pace proving that the Fed’s bond purchasing program (QE2) has been an utter failure. While liquidity sloshes around in the … Continue reading
