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2009-02-11 Richard Moore “… in the first line of the section on economic policy the government declared, “The economic policy of the government will be based on the programme already established by the authorities and the IMF.” http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/icel-f11.shtml Iceland: New government pledges continuation of IMF austerity programme By Jordan Shilton  11 February 2009 Iceland’s new … Read more

2009-02-11 Richard Moore A provocative threat against North Korea by the top US general in South Korea is a clear indication that President Obama intends to continue the Bush administration’s belligerent stance toward Pyongyang. Asked how the US intended to respond if a missile test took place, General Sharp bluntly warned: “We have all available … Read more

2009-02-11 Richard Moore One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will … Read more

2009-02-11 Richard Moore Any doctor that deviates from that plan would be penalized by the government. That means, for example, that a local doctor who knows the patient and his family, and who is aware of specific local circumstances affecting that patient will no longer be able to apply any of that knowledge in treating … Read more

2009-02-11 Richard Moore http://www.prisonplanet.com/how-we-got-here-it-was-a-deliberate-policy.html David Rockefeller: “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure–one world, if you will. If … Read more

2009-02-11 Richard Moore http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/richard-cook-its-time-to-fix-the-monetary-system-by-mike-whitney/ http://tinyurl.com/ddp3l9 Richard Cook: “It’s Time to Fix the Monetary System” by Mike Whitney Posted on February 10, 2009 by dandelionsalad Sent to DS from Richard C. Cook with permission from the author to post. Dandelion Salad by Mike Whitney February 10, 2009 We Hold These Truths by Richard C. Cook Originally uploaded by Lorri37 Richard … Read more

2009-02-11 Richard Moore http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project Complete 911 Timeline Open-Content investigative project managed by matt, Paul, KJF This is the home page for the Complete 911 Timeline investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The data published as part of this investigation has been collected, organized, and published by members of the public who are registered users … Read more

2009-02-11 Richard Moore http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,606952,00.html 02/11/2009 03:22 PM THE WORLD FROM BERLIN ‘Europe Is Suffering from Too Little Democracy’ Germany’s high court is taking a closer look at the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty, the document meant to replace the failed EU constitution. Early indications are that it doesn’t like what it sees. If Germany says no, … Read more

2009-02-10 Richard Moore Obama declared that, like the Republicans, he supports the primacy of the “private sector”—i.e., the domination of the American and world economy by profit-making corporations. But the government had to intervene to “jump-start” the profit system, he argued. There are two ways of depending on the private sector. One way, always a … Read more

2009-02-10 Richard Moore The social psychology and physiognomy of the financial elite—with its wealth, special privileges and its control over the organs of public opinion—resembles nothing so much as a modern aristocracy. In an earlier period of history the US had its “robber barons,” such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. As … Read more

2009-02-10 Richard Moore Knowing that at a certain juncture the pyramid of trillions of dollars of dubious sub-prime and other high risk home mortgage-based securities would come falling down, they apparently determined to spread the so-called ‘toxic waste’ ABS securities as globally as possible, in order to seduce the big global banks of the world, … Read more

2009-02-10 Richard Moore http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11401 Federal Reserve sets stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation By F. William Engdahl Global Research, December 15, 2008 The Federal Reserve has bluntly refused a request by a major US financial news service to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from US taxpayers and to reveal the assets … Read more

2009-02-10 Richard Moore http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,605887,00.html 02/06/2009 10:23 AM MORE TROUBLE AHEAD Europe’s New Wave of Toxic Debt By Carol Matlack A decade of heavy borrowing has lofted euro zone debt to $11 trillion, and it’s starting to come due just when companies are strapped for cash. Rising defaults could send shock waves through global markets. More … Read more

2009-02-10 Richard Moore The success of Korea and Taiwan convinced the World Bank that EOI [export-oriented industrialization] was the wave of the future. In the mid-1970s, then-Bank president Robert McNamara enshrined it as doctrine, preaching that “special efforts must be made in many countries to turn their manufacturing enterprises away from the relatively small markets … Read more

2009-02-10 Richard Moore http://www.truthout.org/021009O http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0210/p01s02-wome.html As Israelis Vote, It’s All About War and Peace Tuesday 10 February 2009 by: Ilene R. Prusher, The Christian Science Monitor Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud party hawk, leads in polls ahead of Tuesday’s parliamentary election.     Jerusalem – When Israelis go to polls Tuesday, the impact of the country’s two wars … Read more

2009-02-10 Richard Moore http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Edge-World-Environment-Sustainability/dp/0300136110 Editorial Reviews From The Washington Post Reviewed by Ross Gelbspan Contemporary capitalism and a habitable planet cannot coexist. That is the core message of The Bridge at the Edge of the World, by J. “Gus” Speth, a prominent environmentalist who, in this book, has turned sharply critical of the U.S. environmental … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore The Russian president also said the CSTO was open for cooperation with the United States in the fight against terrorism in Central Asia.  Very difficult these days to figure out what’s going on between the US and Russia. A strange mixture of confrontation and cooperation.  rkm ___ http://www.daily.pk/world/europe/9419-russia-armenia-belarus-kazakhstan-kyrgyzstan-uzbekistan-and-tajikistan-rapid-reaction-force-to-equal-nato.html http://tinyurl.com/c6zslv Russia, Armenia, Belarus, … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/mexi-f09.shtml Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico’s “war on drugs” By Kevin Kearney  9 February 2009 The United States Joint Forces Command (USJFC), charged with anticipating global threats to US imperialism, issued a report last November entitled “Joint Operating Environment 2008 naming Pakistan and Mexico as the nations whose governments … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore One of its major purposes is to provide political cover for what is considered within the ruling elite to be a far more important component of the administration’s economic program—a vast expansion of the taxpayer bailout of Wall Street. The Washington Post said as much in its lead editorial on Sunday, entitled “Saving the … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore But the projects which have proved most effective were those inspired by the German economist Silvio Gesell, who became finance minister in Gustav Landauer’s doomed Bavarian republic. He proposed that communities seeking to rescue themselves from economic collapse should issue their own currency.  Similar projects took off at the same time in … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore Q: Merkel recently called for an international financial oversight body, and concensus on the issue is growing. How realistic do you think it is that governments and companies would give up sovereignty to an international entity? A: Merkel’s idea is a very important one, which I have long supported. You need to have … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore Biden talks of hitting the reset button: seeking a new relationship with Russia, and even Iran, on friendly terms. Nice words, and it avoids tension with Washington’s European allies – but the “reset” is phony. When we get down to the critical issues, Washington is putting forward exactly the same non-negotiable and … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore The regulators, on loan from elite Wall Street firms, get to pick and choose which banks to bail out, and which banks to close down. Here they close down a community bank, just the kind that would actually make loans and get the economy moving. Rather than trying to revive the economy, … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore The new structure, to be outlined in a presidential directive and a detailed implementation document by Jones, will expand the NSC’s reach far beyond the range of traditional foreign policy issues and turn it into a much more elastic body, with Cabinet and departmental seats at the table — historically occupied only … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/ Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets # 6 … Read more

2009-02-09 Richard Moore Reiterating the Bush policy of loosely defined “preventive” warfare outlined in Bush’s National Security Strategy, [Biden] said that the “U.S. will strive to act preventively to avoid having to choose between the risks of war and the dangers of inaction.” Translated into meaningful terms, this effectively means the U.S. will continue to … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore This year’s Munich Security Conference represents a turning point in international relations. The role of the US, which dominated the transatlantic axis for decades, is now being challenged by a number of European countries. Longstanding relationships are being eclipsed, while new relations still remain undeveloped. However, under the diplomatic surface, growing tensions … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9390.php Neil Smith American Empire Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 9 $24.95, £17.95 paperback 978-0-520-24338-5 Available Now 584 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 11 b/w photographs, 10 maps March 2003, Available worldwide Categories: Geography; American Studies; Anthropology; United States History; International Relations Description | Awards | About the Author | Related Books Downloadable eBook version available:Adobe … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.prisonplanet.com/could-this-be-far-worse-than-the-great-depression.html Could this be FAR WORSE than the GREAT DEPRESSION? The Coming Depression  Friday, Feb 6, 2009 There is a high chance a majority of the States within the United States of America could file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. There are currently 46 states with high budget deficits, Arizona being one of … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore Obama’s move more fully formalizes the partnerships between the federal government and faith groups that first began under President Bill Clinton and was expanded by President George W. Bush. But where Bush used the faith office primarily for funding programs — drawing criticism that he was mainly assisting his political supporters — … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore as Thomas Fingar, the U.S. intelligence community’s “top analyst,” suggested … : “[T]he U.S. will remain the preeminent power, but that American dominance will be much diminished over this period of time… [T]he overwhelming dominance that the United States has enjoyed in the international system in military, political, economic, and arguably, cultural … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore A device called the seeker helps the missile detect “insignificant” targets through heat or radiation. The seeker had functioned successfully during the earlier tests of BrahMos. Flummoxed experts could not explain the failure, until they discovered that “US satellites (on which the missile depended totally) blinked during the test window, thereby denying … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore An April 8 internal report by the World Bank found that grain prices increased by 140 percent between January 2002 and February 2008.  “This increase was caused by a confluence of factors but the most important was the large increase in biofuels production in the U.S. and E.U.  “If the current biofuel … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment Fascist America, in 10 easy steps From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all Naomi Wolf The Guardian, Tuesday 24 April 2007 Article … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore If the paladins of Corporate America want to know what really threatens “our way of life,” it is their way of life, their boundless way of pilfering their own system, destroying the very foundation on which they stand, the very community on which they so lavishly feed. I have a great deal … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Thursday described the base in Kyrgyzstan as “vital” to the US war in Afghanistan and declared that the White House was searching for ways to “remedy” the situation. The deal between Moscow and Kyrgyzstan is part of an increasingly aggressive challenge by the Kremlin to US … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore And business groups argue that this rate reduction will not be enough to ease the economic crisis, and will not encourage banks to lend. Of course not. Lowered interests rates encourage people to borrow, not to lend. We have a surplus of would-be borrowers, and a shortage of willing lenders. Lowered returns … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore What makes Geithner so special? The answer, provided by everyone from the president to the media pundits, is that his services are indispensable because he has the expertise in regulating markets needed to preside over the most massive government intervention in the economy. Are they kidding? No, they’re covering, misdirecting. Geithner is special because … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HCR0006.html HCR 6 – AS INTRODUCED 2009 SESSION 09-0274 09/01 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 6 A RESOLUTION affirming States’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles. SPONSORS: Rep. Itse, Rock 9; Rep. Ingbretson, Graf 5; Rep. Comerford, Rock 9; Sen. Denley, Dist 3 COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs ANALYSIS This house concurrent resolution affirms States’ rights … Read more

2009-02-07 Richard Moore http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts02042009.html Endless Propaganda The War on Terror is a Hoax By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections.  Among President Bush’s last words as he left office was … Read more