WORLD NEWS

Veiled Threats Directed against Russia: U.S. Expands Missile Shield Into Black Sea They need not have been, though, as the expansion of the U.S. global, layered, integrated interceptor missile system into the Black Sea was as foreseeable as it is inevitable. ‘Peace Prize’ President Submits Largest War Budget Ever. Obama Seeks Record $708 Billion in Defense Budget.   Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton and Andy Worthington talk to Jeff Farias …I explained the outline of the story, which focuses on the testimony of Army Staff Sgt. Joe Hickman and three other members of the US military, who have presented a coherent explanation for how the men were, in fact, taken to a secret facility outside the main perimeter fence of Guantánamo on the evening of June 9, 2006, where they died – either accidentally, as a result of torture that went too far, or beca…   U.S. Air-Sea Battle Plan in Strategy Review Over Perceived China, Iran Threats

 

 

Before the Bell ~ Early Edition ~ Morning Edition

 

 

Global Village Market: Haiti Earthquake Relief and The Bahamas Red Cross

 

 

Is Stephen Harper crashing the BC Legislature?
Even stranger is that, according to Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer, it was Mr. Harper who invited himself, rather than accepting an offer to speak …

 

 Is There Any Hope for the Philippines?

Dubai will issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Israel is found to be implicated in the murder of a top militant Palestinian in the emirate, The National newspaper reported on Friday.

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS

 

Germany’s Bayer (BAYGn.DE) was ordered by a jury in the United States to pay $1.5 million in damages to three farmers for losses they incurred because of contaminations of Bayer’s genetically modified rice, the second in about 500 similar cases pending.

 

10 STATES ABOUT TO GET MURDERED BY CHINESE IMPORT SLOWDOWN

CURRENCY CRISIS IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS

 

The war profiteers (including those on the ‘left’)  –Today the New York Times offers an editorial on war profiteering in Iraq but we need to remember, it wasn’t just the munitions makers, not just the weapons makers, it was the faux peace set, it was the pseudo activists. It is Amy Goodman, Norman Solomon, Tom Hayden and so damn many others who made like nobody’s heart bled more on your TV and radio pretending to give a damn about the Iraq War – – the ongoing Iraq War – – whenever they ha…

 

The Truth About the Deficit ~ from Marlow B

 

 

A Tribute to Howard Zinn ~ Carolyn Baker

 

 

 

 

Reposted: Supreme Court’s ‘Radical and Destructive’ Decision Hands Over Democracy to the Corporations  One expert calls the Citizens United decision ‘the most radical and destructive campaign finance decision in the history of the Supreme Court’.

 

The governor of the Nigerian state of Anambra is re-elected amid accusations of unfair voting procedures.

 

Farming threat to Kenya’s untamed wetlands.

 

NEW SCIENTIST: DIGITAL DOOMSDAY AND THE END OF KNOWLEDGE  My comment: Communities need to be saving old textbooks, handouts, magazines, information in print to create libraries because they will be the only source of formal education for future generations alongside the practical skills they will be forced to learn.

 

 

 

VIDEOS

This is a must-see: US Contractors Sent to Haiti to Kill Civilians

 

John Morgan: Democratic Talk Radio hosts Ike Gittlin of the Alliance for American Manufacturing this morning at 8:05 on WGPA radio. Ike is also with the  USW Basic Steel Industry Conference.

 

 

 

 

 

Bite Club protest ~ from Jason Miller

 

Tell Chevron to clean up and help the people affected by its irresponsible dumping.

(25,153 signatures)

Help Haiti - Drop the Debt!

 

from Frederick, HRH Prince Frederick von Saxe-Lauenberg, Founder President :- Children of the World 2000 member of the International Peace Bureau World Peace Emissary  www.kyazanga.org/childrenoftheworld»

 

 

 

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