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by chlamor
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
Views: 3072

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...
by chlamor
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...
by chlamor
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...
by chlamor
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...
by chlamor
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...
by chlamor
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...
by chlamor
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
Views: 325852

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 ...
by chlamor
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...
by chlamor
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...
by chlamor
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...