Africa
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Nothing Gold Can Stay: Mali, Mercury, Manipulation & More | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 25, 2013 “So we're told this is the golden age/And gold is the reason for the wars we wage.” - Bono As the West (this time, with France mostly taking the lead), unl ...
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Mali: West Africa’s Gate to Convenient Chaos, Intervention | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 19, 2012 France is insisting on "rapid" military intervention in Mali. Its unmanned drones have reportedly been scouring the desert of the troubled West African ...
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Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All | Chris Hedges
Illustration by Mr. FishNov. 19, 2012 (Truthdig) -- Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through sp ...
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Deterrence in an Age of Decline | John Michael Greer
Nov. 14, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- There are times, and this is one of them, when I wonder if somewhere in the last few weeks we all somehow got teleported into an alternate universe where nothing w ...
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How It Could Happen, Part Five: Dissolution | John Michael Greer
Oct. 31, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- This week’s post is the last of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As a bankrupt and divided nati ...
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How It Could Happen, Part Three: To The Brink | John Michael Greer
Oct. 17, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- This week's post is the third of five parts of a fictional narrative tracing out a scenario of American imperial defeat and collapse. As the war in Kenya reaches a ...
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How It Could Happen, Part One: Hubris | John Michael Greer
Oct. 3, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- Over the course of this year, my posts here on The Archdruid Report have tried to outline the trajectory of America’s global empire and explore the reasons why that ...
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Growing Isolation: Boycott of Israel Crosses to Governments’ Realm | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 12, 2012 Should Israel be worried? Very much so, for the age of total impunity is coming to an end. Critical voices of the Israeli occupation and mistreatment o ...
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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 -- ...
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The Children Are Still Dying: Violence is Not News | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust August 22, 2012 Somewhere in my home I have a set of photo albums I rarely go near. I fear the flood of cruel memories that might be evoked from looking at the countl ...
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Time to Talk Camp David | Ramzy Baroud
Will New Egypt Meet Old Expectations? Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 11, 2012 -- Despite early assurances by Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi regarding his “commitment to international tre ...
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