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- Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:10 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: How Reinhard Gehlen built the BND into a state in the state
- Replies: 1
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How Reinhard Gehlen built the BND into a state in the state
Some obvious problems with the not so subtle swipes taken by the folks at WSWS but for the info: How Reinhard Gehlen built the BND into a state in the state By Wolfgang Weber December 9, 2017 The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) has been leaked over 100,000 pages of documents of the former chief of the Fede...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 12:54 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3750
Re: Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur
Sunday, December 17, 2017 United States of America: The World Champion of Extreme Inequality (UN Special Report) "Today's United States has proved itself exceptional in ways shockingly at odds with its immense wealth and its founding commitment to human rights," the United Nations reports. The Unite...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 12:38 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3750
Re: Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur
UN rapporteur “shocked” by deep poverty in US By Eric London 18 December 2017 On Friday, United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston published a report on poverty and democratic rights in the United States titled “Statement on Visit to the USA.” In 1831, the French intellectual and diplomat Alex...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 12:34 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3750
Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur
Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights* Washington, December 15, 2017 I. Introduction 1. I have spent the past two weeks visiting the United States, at the invitation of the federal government, to look at wheth...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:30 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: The “Impending” Russian Maidan
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3193
The “Impending” Russian Maidan
The “Impending” Russian Maidan The coordinated manipulation of global energy prices, a NATO build-up in Eastern Europe, and the rekindling of terrorism in Russia’s southern Caucasus region all appear to be ever-increasing crescendos toward a much larger event – a “Russian Maidan.” The necessary comp...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 2:21 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Korea
- Replies: 69
- Views: 70419
Re: Korea
North Korea – UN Security Council’s “Killer Resolution”,15 to 0: Choking a Country into Submission Pyonyang’s urban skyline, competing with Manhattan and the Trump Tower? The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is being choked into submission if not starvation by the UN Security Council, by...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 2:17 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV
- Replies: 1073
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Re: Footnotes from the Ukrainian "Crisis"; New High-Points in Cynicism Part IV
Cheap dignity of the Ukrainian revolution Written by ORIENTAL REVIEW on 23/11/2017 The interviews with three snipers of Georgian nationality, conducted by an Italian journalist Gian Micalessin and aired last week as a breathtaking documentary on Milan-based Canale 5 (Matrix program), still have not ...
- Mon Dec 25, 2017 3:45 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: We Lived Better Then
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27145
Re: We Lived Better Then
An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now by: F.S. october 2 2013 "The Communist Manifesto now reads as if it was written just a few weeks ago. ... the experience of Eastern Europe and of the Third World shows the vital need for a universalist left as the only real alternative to dive...
- Mon Dec 25, 2017 3:44 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: We Lived Better Then
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27145
We Lived Better Then
We Lived Better Then with 20 comments Over two decades ago Vaclav Havel, the pampered scion of a wealthy Prague family, helped usher in a period of reaction, in which the holdings and estates of former landowners and captains of industry were restored to their previous owners, while unemployment, ho...
- Mon Dec 25, 2017 3:27 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Stalin is trending
- Replies: 105
- Views: 86216
Re: Stalin is trending
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised…Nor Will It Be Brought To You By Russell Brand, Oliver Stone Or Noam Chomsky Stalin Stalin made enormous contributions to socialism, decolonization, and indirectly, to the emergence of the welfare state in the West. He played a lead role in the building of the f...