Category: Politics

Political positions, or information related to world politics

The Iranian Revolutionary Road

June 22, 2009 Off

I’m sure many people have been following the Iranian uprising. What we could also be seeing is the death of corporate journalism. The control by the government regime of corporate and foreign journalists has put the power and obligation of reporting of the uprising back in the hands of the Iranian people. With the current…

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Brazil, China and Russia dumping U.S. currency

June 10, 2009 Off

As I’ve mentioned before, the U.S. currency has been under threat of massive deflation if it reverts from it’s reserve currency status. In the past, the threat has been from the rise of PetroEuros due to the diversified European political decision making and it’s oil dependence. This Clark hypothesis saw oil as the main trigger…

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Bushfire blamestorming

February 12, 2009 Off

It only takes a short time before the spectre of disaster capitalism appears in relation to the devastating Australian bush fires. In this case, it is attempting to scapegoat environmentalists as the cause of the bush fires. The claim is that the blazes are due to not clearing undergrowth and that was prevented by lobbying…

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The Siege of Gaza

January 3, 2009 Off

The news that the Israeli defence force (IDF) is now using artillery only emphasises the indiscriminate nature of their attacks against the Gaza strip. Artillery is uncontrolled and practically untargetted (even with observers several rounds have to be fired to fix a target). It is almost guaranteed to kill innocent people. Gaza is one of…

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Recommendations for Obama’s cabinet (guest blog)

November 9, 2008 Off

Dear President-elect Obama, Please think big when it comes time to choose your cabinet. You campaigned on change, and that is what your constituents are expecting. This list of recommendations is designed to reflect racial and gender diversity, recognize those who have served in the name of change, and those who clearly wish to have…

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Japanese Whale Killers Set Sail

November 20, 2007 Off

It seems indicative of a return of Japanese rising nationalism and imperialism for the country to be throwing off it’s obligations to conform to world law and instead throw a sop to it’s politically powerful fishing industry and nationalist sentiments.

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It’s all about the Oil

March 1, 2007 Off

If you’ve been living under a rock, or worse, subscribing to the bogus claims of the Bush administration to be bringing democracy to Iraq, the recently leaked legislation for Iraq’s oil (written by U.S. consultants in English and then translated) should prove the popular claim that Iraq was invaded to seize control of it’s oil…

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Iranian kidnappings, the new Gulf of Tonkin?

February 12, 2007 Off

William Clark presciently addressed reasons for the Bush administrations drive to invade Iraq in 2002. He hypothesised the preservation of the petrodollar as the monopoly oil reserve currency as the real (under-reported) reason to invade Iraq (since Saddam in Nov 2000 changed to selling his oil in Euros). Clark recently released a new article that…

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