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The reign of the US dollar coming to its end
Posted: Sunday, February 27, 2005
Second Thoughts on the Hotel Rwanda
"The US authorities have taken control of the UN system through financial administration and the appointment of officers and staff who are paid directly by the United States. The UN doesn't have the means to appoint senior officers and specialist staff. When these people are selected and paid by a foreign government, they are obviously more loyal to that government than to the UN. As a result, reports presented to the Secretary General and to the Security Council are purged and modified."
Scholars unearth Britain’s dirty war against Mau Mau
Studies by two Western historians show colonial Britain used mass detention without trial, sadistic violence and bent justice far more than previously believed to suppress the revolt. "Things got a little out of hand. "By the time I cut his balls off he had no ears and his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket. Too bad, he died before we got much out of him."
Britain 'shamed' on Mau Mau
With Study of Mau Mau, Prof Creates Masterpiece
Oil-rich Iran pledges to defend 'right to nuclear energy'
Report: Israel to expand settlements
Israel plans to build more than 6000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank this year, an Israeli newspaper has said.
Israel Says Will Strike Syria if Needed
Iran and Russia Sign Nuclear Fuel Deal
Iran and Russia signed a nuclear fuel agreement Sunday, paving the way for Iran to get its first reactor up and running. Russia, which helped build the plant, has agreed to provide the fuel needed to run it - but only if Iran returns the spent fuel to prevent any possibility Tehran would extract plutonium from it to make an atomic bomb. Tehran has agreed.
The reign of the US dollar is obviously coming to its end
The rate of the American currency is sliding on the world markets again. The USD has dropped against the euro, the English pound, the Swiss frank, the Japanese yen and the Russian ruble. Yet another reduction of the US dollar rate occurred because of the decision of the South Korean Central Bank to convert a part of its dollar reserves into euros.
Democracy, terror and fantasy
Most of us know democracy as a system of governance. Our president understands it as a ritual incantation, something summoned as a curative for everything from terrorism to impetigo.
Absent the weapons of mass destruction, the major predicate for our assault on Mesopotamia, George W. Bush now hawks democracy as the remedy for terrorism. Democracy will ameliorate many ills: social restiveness, dispossession, tribal division. But to peddle democracy as the solution to terrorism betrays a cheap misapprehension of both institutions.
The Scalping of Cherokee Indian
Professor Ward Churchill should have taken a lesson from Afro-American Professor Tony Martin of Wellesley College who also stepped on the Jews by writing about their complicity in the African slave trade. Professor Martin, like Ward Churchill, was threatened in 1993 with physical violence and targeted for character assassination by the very same elements that have targeted Professor Churchill today.
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