Part I: Global Warfare By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20403 Global Research, August 1, 2010 Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in “an advanced state of readiness”. Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed. This military adventure has been on the Pentagon’s drawing board [...]
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China Calls Our Bluff
The US is Insolvent and Faces Bankruptcy as a Pure Debtor Nation By Washington’s Blog URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20252 Global Research, July 25, 2010 Washington’s Blog – 2010-07-23 America’s biggest creditor – China – has called our bluff. As the Financial Times notes, the head of China’s biggest credit rating agency has said America is insolvent and [...]
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Unlike Greece, It Is Actually Sovereign By Ellen Brown URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20249 Global Research, July 24, 2010 Web of Debt – 2010-07-23 Last week, a Chinese rating agency downgraded U.S. debt from triple A and number one globally, to “double A with a negative outlook” and only thirteenth worldwide. The downgrade renewed fears [...]
Full Story »US War Crimes: Cancer Rate in Fallujah Worse than Hiroshima
By Tom Eley URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20241 Global Research, July 23, 2010 The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004. According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of Fallujah are [...]
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By Tom Burghardt URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20210 Global Research, July 21, 2010 Antifascist Calling… – 2010-07-20 When investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker broke the story four years ago that a DC-9 (N900SA) “registered to a company which once used as its address the hangar of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, Florida Airport which [...]
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By Matthias Chang URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20176 Global Research, July 19, 2010 For all intent and purposes, the United States is insolvent. This is not my personal assessment but that of world renowned “experts” and economists, and financial institutions. Just google “US Debts” and you can find thousands of analysts stating that there is [...]
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Deep Forces, Coups d’Etat, Narcotics and Terror By Peter Dale Scott URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20126 Global Research, July 14, 2010 The Asia-Pacific Journal – 2010-07-13 Will the current crisis in Kyrgyzstan lead to greater instability, and perhaps an expansion of the current conflict in Central Asia? There are good reasons to be concerned. Deep [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Full Story »Confronting both China and Russia: U.S. Risks Military Clash With China In Yellow Sea
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 [...]
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