Welcome to the Violent World of Mr. Hopey Changey

May 31 2011 by rowan wolf in CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, EUROPE MATTERS, GUEST AUTHOR, IMPERIALISM |No Comments

By John Pilger. Republished from Information Clearing House. When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed … murdered … I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in 1951, should [...]

Balkan Enigma and NATO’s Chains of Progress

May 3 2011 by rowan wolf in EUROPE MATTERS, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, Gaither Stewart, IMPERIALISM |No Comments

By Gaither Stewart. Republished from The Greanville Post. Little known fact: WWI cost Serbia more than one million dead. Relative to its small population, that was a horrific proportion. The image shows Serbian army retreat across Albania. Serbians won decisive victories against the Germans and Austro-Hungarians in the Southeastern front. (Patrice Greanville) (ROME-BELGRADE) NATO seems [...]

US, NATO allies join scramble for Libya’s oil

April 10 2011 by rowan wolf in CORPORADOES, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, GUEST AUTHOR, IMPERIALISM |No Comments

By Bill VanAuken. Republished from WSWS. A US delegation arrived in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi Tuesday for talks with the Transitional National Council, the political arm of the so-called rebels fighting against the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

THE NEW CLASS AND THE WORKERS / Gaither Stewart

April 8 2009 by tom rigbert in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

  WHEN THE YUGOSLAV COMMUNIST MILOVAN DJILAS wrote his book, The New Class, he was referring to a “political” bureaucracy in Yugoslavia. Today’s global New Class consists of the financial class that has bought and subjugated its second component, the political class, which fronts for it, protects it and legislates for it. Today’s New Class [...]

War without Borders: A Geopolitical Assessment of NATO

April 2 2009 by archivist39 in Uncategorized |No Comments

Here we go again: Russia’s encirclement is still America’s option to deal with the eastern landmass superpower. NATO on its 60th anniversary By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco Dateline: Global Research, April 2, 2009 NATO’s 60th anniversary is an event that has sparked a healthy dose of analytical thinking and debate concerning said organization’s historical role [...]

The Anti-Empire Report: NATO is a treaty on wheels

February 5 2008 by ascetorix_ariz20 in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |5 Comments

Illustration by Duci Simonovic, engaged artist and enraged philosopher, Belgrade, Serbia. The power of art is doubled when grounded in moral truth. The NATO intervention in the Balkans, as seen by the victims. A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF NATO’S purposes and activities Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life [...]