Tag: middle east

January 16, 2014 0

Thailand: Wall Street to the Rescue

By News Desk

The New York Times admitted in an early 2013 article titled, " In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype ," that:  For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the most important political decisions in this country of 65 million people have been made from abroad, by a former prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile since 2008 to escape corruption charges.  The country’s most famous fugitive,Thaksin Shinawatra, circles the globe in his private jet, chatting with ministers over his dozen cellphones, texting over various social media platforms and reading government documents e-mailed to him from civil servants, party officials say.

Thailand: Protests Neither a "Class Divide" Nor "Anti-Democratic"
January 14, 2014 0

Thailand: Protests Neither a "Class Divide" Nor "Anti-Democratic"

By News Desk

Links Thailand: Protests Neither a "Class Divide" Nor "Anti-Democratic" Protesters are fighting against a loud, violent, and well connected minority led by Thaksin Shinawatra and backed by Wall Street.  January 14, 2014  (ATN) – Even at face value, Eric Sommer’s (under the pen name David Marx) op-ed on Russia’s RT is full of factual errors that call into question both his premise and his conclusion.

January 11, 2014 0

Thailand: Anti-Regime Protesters Tell Their Side of the Story

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Links Thailand: Anti-Regime Protesters Tell Their Side of the Story January 10, 2014  ( ATN ) – Akanat Promphan is a spokesman for Thailand’s current protests. He has created  a series of brief videos  explaining the political conflict from the protesters’ point of view. Quite clearly, the message he is telling is different than what the Western press has attempted to claim

Thailand: Regime’s "Men in Black" Strike Again
January 11, 2014 0

Thailand: Regime’s "Men in Black" Strike Again

By News Desk

These threats come after  Jatuporn’s promise to bring mobs to the city to confront protesters  – as well as numerous threats online  by police themselves that they would use covert violence  to attack protesters if  February 2, 2014’s sham elections  were disrupted.  4. January 11, 2014 : Perhaps the most troubling warning yet comes from the regime’s Western backers at the corporate-financier funded US think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).