By Rodrigue Tremblay URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16645 Global Research, December 25, 2009 “I am as intolerant of imperialistic designs on the part of other nations as I was of such designs on the part of Germany. The choice is between two ideals; on the one hand, the ideal of democracy, which represents the rights [...]

By Rick Rozoff URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16653 Global Research, December 24, 2009 Stop NATO The first of 33,000 more U.S. troops have arrived in Afghanistan for a Christmas surge and they will soon be joined by as many as 10,000 additional non-American troops serving under NATO in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Washington [...]

By Ellen Brown URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16643 Global Research, December 22, 2009 Web of Debt – 2009-12-17 Europe’s small, debt-strapped countries could follow the lead of Argentina and simply walk away from their debts. That would shift the burden to the creditor countries, which could solve the problem merely by a change in accounting [...]

By Sara Flounders URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16609 Global Research, December 19, 2009 International Action Center – 2009-12-18 In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is important [...]

NATO’s Doctrine of Collective Security By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16573 Global Research, December 21, 2009 Why are American and NATO troops in Afghanistan? What is the justification for waging war on a country of 28 million people? What justifies Obama’s military surge? Both the media and the US government, in chorus, continue [...]

Interview with Eva Golinger By Mike Whitney URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16604 Global Research, December 18, 2009 Mike Whitney—-The US media is very critical of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He’s  frequently denounced as “anti-American”, a “leftist strongman”, and a dictator.  Can you briefly summarize some of the positive social, economic and judicial changes for which [...]

By Rick Rozoff URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16571 Global Research, December 15, 2009 Stop NATO Yemen will become a battleground for a proxy war between the United States and Saudi Arabia – whose state-to-state relations are among the strongest and most durable of the entire post-World War II era – on one hand and Iran [...]

US: Soldiers Forced to Go AWOL for PTSD Care By Dahr Jamail URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16530 Global Research, December 13, 2009 Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches – 2009-12-11 MARFA, Texas, Dec 11 (IPS) – With a military health care system over-stretched by two ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, more soldiers are deciding to go [...]

By Mike Whitney URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16569 Global Research, December 15, 2009 Upbeat reports in the financial media, belie the effects of the ongoing credit contraction. Massive injections of central bank liquidity have prevented the collapse of financial markets, but have done little to ease the deleveraging of households or stimulate activity the broader [...]

By Tom Burghardt URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16617 Global Research, December 20, 2009 Antifascist Calling… – 2009-12-19 The Obama administration’s recent declaration on bioweapons would simply be another run-of-the-mill example of our “change” president’s duplicity were it not such an unmitigated disaster. Recapitulating sinister Cold War practices that informed American ruling class consensus when it [...]