Daily Archives: 16. Oktober 2011


16.10.2011 - 21:53 [ Youtube ]

John Pilger, Julian Assange, Brian Eno, many more at Anti-war Assembly 08/10/11

On the 10th anniversary of the Afghanistan war and the ‚war on terror‘, Stop the War Coalition held an Antiwar Mass Assembly in Trafalgar Square, London, with speakers, performers, musician, films and art, featuring among others John Pilger, Julian Assange, Jemima Khan, Ahdaf Soueif, Lowkey, Mark Rylance, and many more. This film captures the spirit of the day and includes speeches and interviews with many of the speakers.

16.10.2011 - 21:20 [ Lew Rockwell ]

Blundering Forward in the Graveyard of Empires

Washington’s national security establishment – what used in Britain to be called „imperialists“ – is in a growing panic over the war in Afghanistan which, in spite of America’s vast military and economic power, and cornucopia of high tech wizardry, is being slowly beaten by a bunch of lightly-armed but very fierce Pashtun mountain tribesman.

16.10.2011 - 21:13 [ AntiWar ]

War Breeds War, Peace Breeds Prosperity

War breeds war. That is all it can do. War does nothing but devour valuable resources and destroy precious lives for the sole purpose of perpetuating itself.

16.10.2011 - 20:58 [ The National Interest ]

Imperial by Design

IN THE first years after the Cold War ended, many Americans had a profound sense of optimism about the future of international politics. President Bill Clinton captured that mood when he told the UN General Assembly in September 1993:

16.10.2011 - 19:20 [ RIA Novosti ]

Griechenland entschlieĂźt sich zu neuen kurzfristigen Krediten

Am 18. Oktober will die griechische Agentur für die Verwaltung der Staatsschulden einen dreimonatigen Diskontkredit für 1,25 Milliarden Euro (mit einer möglichen Erweiterung bis auf zwei Milliarden Euro) aufnehmen. Kurzfristige Kredite sind wegen ihrer hohen Zinssätze unvorteilhaft, Griechenland muss jedoch dazu greifen, um die Forderungen der früheren Wertpapiere zu refinanzieren.

16.10.2011 - 18:46 [ Military Times ]

Subs may serve attack, guided-missile functions

n only eight years, the Navy will need to begin building a new class of ballistic-missile submarines. Not long after that, in the mid-2020s, a new attack submarine class is scheduled to be developed. And by the back half of the 2020s, the fleet’s four guided-missile submarines will be worn out and need replacement — and with them will go nearly two-thirds of the sub fleet’s cruise-missile tubes.

16.10.2011 - 15:21 [ Spiegel ]

Ackermann verhandelt ĂĽber Griechen-Pleite

Wie die „Bild“-Zeitung meldet, ist Ackermann in seiner Funktion als Vorsitzender des Internationalen Bankenverbandes (IIF) zentral an den Gesprächen beteiligt. Dabei gehe es darum, dass die Banken Griechenland 50 Prozent seiner Schulden erlassen sollten – und zwar formal freiwillig.

Ein Sprecher der Deutschen Bank wollte den Bericht auf Anfrage von SPIEGEL ONLINE nicht kommentieren.

16.10.2011 - 12:04 [ Spiegel ]

Franzosen wollen Gratis-Fregatten an Griechenland liefern

Es ist ein Geschäft, das der deutschen Konkurrenz gar nicht gefällt. Denn sie hatte ebenfalls seit Jahren um den Auftrag gekämpft. In einem Brief ans Berliner Kanzleramt kritisiert ein Vertreter des Konzerns ThyssenKrupp zeigen, dass die französischen Schiffe letztlich vom deutschen Steuerzahler mitbezahlt wĂĽrden – wegen der möglichen Pleite Griechenlands.

16.10.2011 - 11:41 [ toke of the town ]

Marijuana: Why The Feds Are Afraid Of Cali 2012

California NORML estimates that there are somewhere between 750,000 to 1.25 million medical marijuana patients registered in California. If President Obama and his Justice Department have their way, that‘s a potential of a million or more new criminals to go after.

16.10.2011 - 11:17 [ Examiner ]

Big media outlets ignore subpoena of entire top tier of Obama Administration

Perhaps the biggest story in the political world since the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Bill Clinton in the 1990s, although the Senate refused to remove him from office, is the fact that this week a subpoena from the House was issued to the entire top tier of the Obama Administration. Yet as of today the big media outlets–ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post–have ignored the story entirely.