The United States, Europe and Russia sold regimes tanks, guns and tear gas in the five years preceding the Arab Spring Gregg Carlstrom and Evan Hill Al Jazeera Last Modified: 20 Oct 2011 08:37 Earlier this year, as mass popular uprisings spread through the Middle East and audiences across the world sat transfixed [...]
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John Pilger: The Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels
Information Clearing House – October 19, 2011 On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United Statesspecial forces troops to Ugandato join the civil war there. In the next few months, UScombat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congoand Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With [...]
Is Herman Cain capable of beating Obama?
By Alan Fisher in Americas on Wed, 2011-10-19 21:37. The US Republican Party is trying very hard. It wants to beat Barack Obama in the US Presidential election 13 months from now; it believes with the economy in the mess it’s in, with unemployment rising and people finding every day a little bit harder, [...]
New Drone Can Be Stored in Soldiers’ Backpacks
Drone technology is advancing and their use is proliferating exponentially, as the public and the law lag behind by John Glaser Antiwar Forum October 19, 2011 Drone technology is advancing faster than the public or the legal system has time to catch up to their now ubiquitous use inAmerica’s many war zones. US troops inAfghanistanwill [...]
Pepe Escobar : Obama, the king of Africa
Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His new book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). Asia Times Oct 18, 2011 If United States President Barack Obama [...]
The Rebellious Media Conference, London, October 8-9 – A Reflection.
THE REBEL GRIOT Wednesday, 12 October 2011 Who better to open a conference on “Rebellious Media” than Noam Chomsky? The arch-rebel of USacademia and proponent of the ‘propaganda model’ of the media, at 82 years old he is now not only the best-known but probably also the longest-serving celebrity critic of USforeign policy in [...]
Report: Arab Spring upheaval cost $55bn
By Peter Biles BBC 14 October 2011 The popular protests this year in North Africa and theMiddle East- known as the Arab Spring – have cost the region more than $50bn, a new report says. The report, by consultancy group Geopolicity, saysEgypt,SyriaandLibyapaid the highest financial price. It warns that without a regional [...]
China’s African mischief
China‘s has proven its willingness to arm Africa’s dictators – even when it votes against such actions at the UN. Yuriko Koike Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former Minister of Defense and National Security Adviser, is Chairman of the Executive Council of the Liberal Democratic Party. Al Jazeera Last Modified: 03 Oct 2011 09:42 AsLibya’s [...]
