Category Archives: World News
Bashing Ukraine
A previous article said Ukraine dodged a bullet. It abandoned an expected EU alliance. It did the right thing. Western media bashing followed. More on that below. Europe's economy is broken. Wrongheaded policies assure greater trouble ahead. Why board a sinking ship? ECB policy doesn't work. Its Long-Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO) is its version of Fed QE. ...
Massive Fraud, Intimidation And Vote Buying In Honduras
On Sunday, November 24, Hondurans voted. Eight candidates contested for president. Only two mattered. LIBRE party (Liberty and Refoundation) candidate Xiomara Castro challenged ruling National party's Juan Orlando Hernandez. A previous article explained. It said business as usual prevailed. Fraud, intimidation and vote buying were rampant. So were political assassinations. Democracy was nowhere in sight. Honduras has none. ...
EU Warns United Kingdom Not To Enforce Immigration Laws
Brussels has launched stern warnings to the UK, after the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said in an article in the Financial Times plans to hinder access of new immigrants from other EU countries, to change benefits from the social system and even to deport those without work and resources. The UK is at risk of ...
Ukraine Dodged A Bullet
At least so far. On November 21, Ukraine abandoned an expected EU alliance. It did so in the interest of "national security," it said. It intends renewing "active dialogue" with Moscow. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton lied calling it a "disappointment for the people of Ukraine." Signing the pact "would have provided a unique opportunity," ...
America’s ‘Secret Wars’ in Germany Include Drones
Has President Obama broken yet another promise – this one to the German people not to use Germany as a launching pad for drone strikes? As if there wasn’t enough friction between Germany and the United States, this week, Tagesschau is reporting that two of Germany’s most respected journalistic organizations, German Public Television and Süddeutsche ...
Rigged Honduran Elections
In Honduras they're won the old-fashioned way. They're stolen. On Sunday, presidential elections were held. Eight candidates participated. Two mattered most. Business as usual prevailed. Reports suggest fraud, intimidation and vote buying. Activists defied state-sponsored violence. Both sides claimed victory. More on that below. Adrienne Pine is an American University Professor of Anthropology. She's worked in Honduras. She's ...
United States “Threatens” To Remove All Troops From Afghanistan
Wait, isn’t that what everyone wants to see? Wishful thinking does work, doesn’t it? Of course, the so-called threat is nothing more than rhetoric. The White House is unwilling to allow more vagaries by the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, on the content of the security agreement that sets the terms of the stay of U.S. troops ...
Saudi Arabia Warns It Will Strike Iran On Its Own
Saudi Arabia claims they were kept in the dark by Western allies over Iran nuclear deal and says it will strike out on its own. A senior advisor to the Saudi royal family has accused its Western allies of deceiving the oil rich kingdom in striking the nuclear accord with Iran and said Riyadh would follow an independent foreign ...
As The World Focuses On Iran Talks, Japan And China Move Closer To War
A small group of uninhabited islands, the Senkaku Islands if you are Japanese, the Diaoyu Islands if you are Chinese, are causing major friction between the countries. China has created a new ‘air defense identification zone’ over the disputed waters around the islands. The islands are claimed and controlled by Japan and Japan purchased three of the ...
Canada Approving GMO Fish Eggs Leads To Environmental Threat
Two Canadian groups are speaking out against the introduction of AquaBounty's genetically engineered salmon: Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) and Islanders Say No to Frankenfish. Could the approval of GMO fish eggs be the first major stepping stone in pushing GM salmon into the public arena without full approval? They find Canada’s approval of commercial production ...
Why Have 10 Major Volcanoes Along The Ring Of Fire Suddenly Roared To Life?
Ten major volcanoes have erupted along the Ring of Fire during the past few months, and the mainstream media in the United States has been strangely silent about this. But this is a very big deal. We are seeing eruptions at some volcanoes that have been dormant for decades. Yes, it is certainly not unusual ...
Iran Agrees To Limit Its Nuclear Program
Iran and six major powers have achieved an agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program. “We have agreed to an action plan” announced Catherine Ashton, the head of European diplomacy in Geneva, flanked by the foreign ministers of Iran, the U.S., China, Russia, UK, France and Germany. Handshakes between them before the press put an end to ...
7 Volcanoes Erupt Around The World Erupt Within Days Of Each Other
Seven Volcanoes that are thousands of miles from one another all erupted within days of each other starting on November 17th 2013. Many of these eruptions were single day events almost as if earth was releasing energy in an intense but short purge. Nov 17th. Possibly the most impressive eruptions took place in Italy at Mount ...
China Announces That It Is Going To Stop Stockpiling U.S. Dollars
China just dropped an absolute bombshell, but it was almost entirely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States. The central bank of China has decided that it is "no longer in China’s favor to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves". During the third quarter of 2013, China's foreign-exchange reserves were valued at approximately $3.66 trillion. And ...
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