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Washington’s Presumption | Paul Craig Roberts
May 7, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- The new president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is cast in Chavez’s mold. On May 4, he called U.S. president Obama the “grand chief of devils.” Obama, who has betrayed democracy in America, unleashing execution on American citizens without due process of law and war without the consent of Congress, provoked Maduro’s response by suggesting that Maduro’s newly ...
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Hugo Chavez | Paul Craig Roberts
March 12, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- On March 5, 2013, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela and world leader against imperialism, died. Washington imperialists and their media and think tank whores expressed gleeful sighs of relief as did the brainwashed U.S. population. An “enemy of America” was gone. Chavez was not an enemy of America. He was an enemy of Washington’s hegemony over other coun...
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Guatemala and War Crimes (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2013 “The enormous gap between what U.S. leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.” - Michael Parenti On Jan. 28, 2013, the New York Times ran a piece by Elisabeth Malkin called “Ex-Dictator Is Ordered to Trial in Guat...
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On The Border | John Michael Greer
Mexican border fence Nov. 28, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- The topic of last week’s post, the likely fate of Israel in the twilight years of American empire, makes a good example of more than one common theme. As I commented in that earlier discussion, Israel is one of several American client states for whom the end of our empire will also be the end of the line. At the same time, it also highligh...
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How It Could Happen, Part Four: Crossing the Line | John Michael Greer
Oct. 26, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- This week’s post is the fourth of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As the war ends, the price has to be paid -- and paying it will push the already fractured United States toward a crisis few citizens could have imagined a short time before. *** The church bells rang all night; perfect stra...
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How It Could Happen, Part Two: Nemesis | John Michael Greer
Oct. 10, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- This week's post is the second of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As already mentioned, this is scenario rather than prophecy -- an outline of what could happen rather than a prediction of what will happen, and thus an exploration of some of the major vulnerabilities in America’s falterin...
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Global systemic crisis/October 2012 - The global economy sucked into a black hole and world geopolitics heated to white-hot | LEAP E2020
Global systemic crisis/October 2012 -- The global economy sucked into a black hole and world geopolitics heated to white-hot: The seven key factors of an unprecedented double shock Sept. 16, 2012 -- Public announcement GEAB N°67 -- (LEAP/E2020) -- As LEAP/E2020 anticipated since the end Of 2011, the end of summer 2012 marks the beginning of the revival for Euroland with the emergence of a posit...
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Honduras Sets Stage for 3 Privately Run Cities | Alberto Arce
Honduras deal sets stage for investors to build three privately run cities to host new industries Sep. 6, 2012 -- TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Investors can begin construction in six months on three privately run cities in Honduras that will have their own police, laws, government and tax systems now that the government has signed a memorandum of agreement approving the project. An internatio...
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Trans Pacific Partnership: Corporate Escape From Accountability | Paul Craig Roberts
July 2, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Information has been leaked about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is being negotiated in secret by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Six hundred corporate “advisors” are in on the know, but not Congress or the media. Ron Wyden, chairman of the Senate trade subcommittee that has jurisdiction over the TPP, has not been permitted to see the text or to k...
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America: The Gasoline War | John Michael Greer
Apr. 11, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- I apologize in advance to those of my readers who find military history uninteresting. The next part of the story I’m exploring just now, the story of the British Empire’s fall and its replacement by today’s American empire, can’t be understood without a sense of the military realities that drove that process, and the decline and fall of the American empire, the...
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Empires Then And Now | Paul Craig Roberts
Mar. 26, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes, but Rome’s calculation that the cost of conq...
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