Foreign Policy
Recent discoveries of not just significant, but huge oil and gas reserves in the little-explored Mediterranean Sea between Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Syria and Lebanon suggest that the region could become literally a “new Persian Gulf” in terms of oil and gas riches. As with the old Persian Gulf, discovery of hydrocarbon riches could as well spell a geopolitical curse of staggering dimension.
Long-standing Middle East conflicts could soon be paled by new battles over rights to oil and gas resources beneath the eastern Mediterranean in the Levant Basin and Aegean Sea. Here we explore the implications of a...
Recently I was taking off from Rutland Airport. As you know, Vermont's taxes against the middle class force many middle class Vermonters to seek work elsewhere, or just plain leave. It had been foggy before dawn, but the day dawned clear and bright. About to take off, clearance from Air Traffic Control was abruptly revoked... they said that Rutland Airport was fogged in! So, for an hour, I just sat there with engines wasting fuel, polluting, polluting... because of some incompetent weather broadcast.
In the old days we had Flight...
Saturday February 18, 2012
House Chamber of The Vermont State House
Montpelier, VT
12 noon-3pm
Peace – Love – Liberty
Join us as we fire up the Ron Paul 
in Vermont and respond to the status quo, party line rhetoric with REAL CHANGE: the message of liberty, freedom and a return to the Constitution...
The recent strikes protesting the government’s abrupt elimination of gasoline and other fuel subsidies, that brought Nigeria briefly to a standstill, came as a surprise to most in the country. Months earlier President Jonathan had promised the major trade union organizations that he would conduct a gradual four-stage lifting of the subsidy to ease the economic burden. Instead, without warning he announced an immediate full removal of subsidies effective January 1, 2012. It was “shock therapy” to put it mildly.
Nigeria today is one of the world’s most important producers of light, sweet crude oil—the same high...
Over and over again in the Middle East, we see the same pattern repeating itself: An oil-rich country takes control of its own oil fields and cuts out the Western oil companies. What follows as the night the day, the western countries overthrow the offending government and reinstall their favorite oil companies. This has happened in both Iran and Iraq.
Right now, the U.S. is threatening Iran with war on grounds that it is making a nuclear weapons. To begin with, Iran is a peaceful country. It hasn’t started a war in hundreds of years. It only fought when Iraq invaded it in 1980. In that war, Iraq used chemical...
We hover like vultures, waiting for the wounded beast to die: The murderous, torturing, depraved beast that the US has become, or always was. To the beast, it’s just a facet of nature, the predator feeding on prey. It’s not an ethical issue, the strong kill the weak in nature all the time. It’s an evolutionary strategy, that feeds the empire for a while and keeps it strong, until the inevitable corruption and decline.
The suffering of millions of victims is irrelevant to its subjects, insulated by distance, propaganda, and narcissism. But, what feeds on the death of others will be food for the vultures...
In response to Obama's duplicitous and delusional state of the disUnion speech, and the ongoing criminal conspiracy that comprises our national government, as defined by the Nuremburg Principles, I offer the readers a copy of my recent letter to the IRS regarding my tax refusal for 2006 and 2007. Substitute Obama for Bush in the letter below and there is no difference. Sheeple, if you are nauseated by your choices this year and by your government you will have to starve the beast. As former Reagan Secretary of State Alexander Haig said, "Let them protest all they want, as long as they pay their taxes."
Dear Miss...
The awesome exertions of the global banking system to evade the mandates of reality finally yield in a sickening slippage to epochal unwind. What a bad idea: to try to juke nature itself. In case you weren't paying attention over the weekend - and who really wants to? - the cosmic Brinks truck of free money went over a cliff, and the darn thing will keep free-falling until (at least) the American markets open again on Tuesday.
So, everybody and his uncle over in Europe got a sovereign debt downgrade and now the math changes for all the pretend bail-outs and back-stops that had been so exquisitely rigged through the long,...
America's Marines Hymn begins with the lines, "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli."
Throughout 2011, Washington and rogue NATO partners committed Nuremberg level crimes. They made Libya a charnel house. Terror bombing caused massacres, mass destruction and human misery. Libya remains wracked by violence, instability, and illegitimate governance. Occupation, colonization, pillaging and exploitation intend raping Libya for profit.
On January 13, Cynthia McKinney said ...
Washington clearly wants ‘finito’ with Russia’s Putin as in basta! or as they said in Egypt last spring, Kefaya—enough! Hillary Clinton and friends have apparently decided Russia’s prospective next president, Vladimir Putin, is a major obstacle to their plans. Few however understand why. Russia today, in tandem with China and to a significant degree Iran, form the spine, however shaky, of the only effective global axis of resistance to a world dominated by one sole superpower.
On December 8 several days after election results for Russia’s parliamentary elections were announced, showing a sharp...
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