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November 3, 2014 0

US Struggles to Keep Asia in Dark Age

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Its most recent article, " Thai Power Firm’s Business Tactics ‘Use Burma’s Weak Laws’ ," is a typical representation of these efforts. It reports that:   One of the chief financiers of hydroelectric dams planned on Burma’s Salween River is accused of investing in countries where there is “oppression and limited transparency†in order to achieve its objectives

November 1, 2014 0

Ukraine’s Elections: Stabilization Through Eradication

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Links Ukraine’s Elections: Stabilization Through Eradication November 1, 2014 ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) – Curiously, Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office,  congratulated Ukrainians for their elections  of the parliamentary assembly and hailed them as another important step toward "stabilization." It is a curious statement considering the nature of the elections themselves, carried out under the duress of deadly internal conflict, with multiple regions of the country not even participating in the elections and the intimidation and barring of opposition parties from participating in campaigning and polling. Despite claims of Ukraine’s elections leading to "stabilization," instead it appears they are leading to the rise in prominence of ultra-right Neo-Nazi parties like Svoboda whose supporters are pictured above.

November 1, 2014 0

US Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS

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Links US Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS November 1, 2014 ( Maram Susli – NEO ) – The US is considering bombing pipelines in Syria, which it claims is in an attempt to cut off the huge profits being made by ISIS from captured oilfields. The Independent quotes  Julieta Valls Noyes, the deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs during a visit to London, that ISIS was making $2 million a day off oil sales and that the US would consider airstrikes as well as “kinetic strikes against some pipelines" and "actual physical action to stop the flowâ€

October 26, 2014 0

Putin Exposes Criminal Global Order

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Links Putin Exposes Criminal Global Order October 26, 2014 ( Ulson Gunnar – NEO ) -Russian President Vladimir Putin, before an international audience, exposed an international order capitalizing on the end of the Cold War to reshape the world according to its own interests, sidelining concepts such as basic international relations, international laws, systems of checks and balances, and even the very concept of national sovereignty itself. Amid President Putin’s speech, he would condemn the United States’ support for neo-fascists, terrorists, and its contempt for national sovereignty around the world.

October 17, 2014 0

Iran and the Proxy War in Kurdistan

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Links Iran and the Proxy War in Kurdistan October 17, 2014 ( Eric Draitser – NEO ) - In the midst of the war against ISIS (Islamic State) now taking place in both Iraq and Syria, a possible shifting of alliances that could fundamentally alter the balance of power in the region is taking place, and no one seems to have noticed. Specifically, the burgeoning relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq has the potential to remake the political landscape of the Middle East.