The U.S. Military Moves Into Costa Rica By Mark Vorpahl URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20171 Global Research, July 19, 2010 Nestled between Panama to its south and Nicaragua to its north, Costa Rica is a Central American nation roughly the size of Rhode Island. If another nation were to send Rhode Island a force of [...]

More Poverty By Any Measure 15 million unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities By Christine Vestal URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20124 Global Research, July 14, 2010 Stateline – 2010-07-08 More than 15 million Americans are unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities, and 38 million people are receiving [...]

By Rick Rozoff URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20149 Global Research, July 16, 2010 Stop NATO Delayed until after the United States achieved a United Nations Security Council statement on July 9 condemning the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, Washington’s plans for naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea near Chinese territorial waters are [...]

“Today, everything hangs by a thread”…. An incident could set in motion an all out nuclear war By Fidel Castro Ruz URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20130 Global Research, July 15, 2010 Cuba Debate – 2010-07-11 On July 4, I said that neither the United States nor Iran would give in: “one, prevented by the pride [...]

The Insidious Transformation of Markets Into Casinos By Ellen Brown URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20121 Global Research, July 13, 2010 Web of Debt – 2010-07-12 “You all are the house, you’re the bookie. [Your clients] are booking their bets with you. I don’t know why we need to dress it up. It’s a bet.” Senator [...]

By Dahr Jamail URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20101 Global Research, July 12, 2010 Dahr Jamail’s Dispatches – 2010-07-11 Photo by Erika Blumenfeld © 2010 Clint Guidry is a shrimper from Lafitte, Louisiana. As we sit together, he shows me a picture of his house with 18 inches of water in it as a result of [...]

By Mike Whitney URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20088 Global Research, July 10, 2010 Information Clearing House – 2010-07-09 The EU banking system is in big trouble. Many of the Union’s largest banks are sitting on hundreds of billions of euros in dodgy sovereign bonds and non performing real estate loans. But writing down their losses [...]

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20086 Global Research, July 10, 2010 Perdana Global Peace Organization Perdana Global Peace Organization International Conference on Gaza: Breaking the Siege In the Spirit of Rachel Corrie and Mavi Marmara 11, July 2010, Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia We are dealing with a carefully planned [...]

By F. William Engdahl URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20080 Global Research, July 9, 2010 In the postwar history of the Federal Republic, German Chancellors tend to disappear once they pursue political goals that deviate from the Washington global agenda too much. In the case of Gerhard Schroeder, it involved two unforgiveable “sins.” The first was [...]

By Rick Rozoff URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20087 Global Research, July 10, 2010 Stop NATO Three news features appearing earlier this week highlight tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China that, at least in relation to the language used to describe them, would have seemed unimaginable even a few months ago [...]