Saturday, May 21, 2011

Obama Middle East speech

Article showing that Obama's speech was contrary to his policies.
Article describing how
neoliberal policies caused the economic and unemployment crisis that led to protests in Tunisia and Egypt.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Canada in Iraq War

Article based on wikileaks documents showing that although Canada officially stayed out of the Iraq War, it Linkmade some contributions to it. For example some high-level Canadian soldiers were involved in the planning.

Monday, May 16, 2011

NATO SCO Afghanistan

Excellent article by Bhadrakumar describing the geopolitics in Central Asia and Afghanistan pitting the SCO and NATO against one another.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Greece crisis euro

Weisbrot has a good articLinkle with many good links on Greece's possible exit from the euro.

Mexico drugs money laundering

Mexico and drug money laundering article here, with US "efforts" against it.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Working hours in the world

Mexicans work the most hours in the world and the Belgians the least.

Mexico drugs europe

Article saying that Europe must do more to help Mexico's drug problem.

bin Laden Taliban offers

Gareth Porter shows how the Bush administration rejected diplomatic proposals by the Taliban to catch bin Laden before and after the bombing started in October 2001, and also how it basically focus no military attention to catching him as he was escaping from Afghanistan to Pakistan.
Another article is here.

Torture and bin Laden

Good article showing that torture of detainees did not lead to clues about where bin Laden was.