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Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
Independent: "Britain's most eminent judges have warned politicians that they will fight any move to undermine their independence, after being accused of thwarting moves to fight terrorism. In a stark warning, the country's senior legal figures warned of a backlash from the courts - and declared that diluting the powers of the judiciary will undermine the basis of democracy."
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Australian: "US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned today that violence in Iraq could worsen, comparing insurgents to desperate Nazi SS officers and Japanese kamikaze pilots at the end of World War II."
Those words from the US Goering have one snag, it's the US that is losing.
MediaMonitors: "This farce of warfare is good for only one thing - increasing recruitment for the insurgency.
This war cannot be won by America. Every day that Americans are in Iraq fighting the insurgency is another day that George Bush is losing ground. Every death of an American soldier is a nail in the coffin of the American Empire."
According to the CRS Report for Congress on American War and Military Operations Casualties, America had in 2002 1,007 deaths, in 2004 the number was 1,887 deaths. The total 'in-theater' deaths between March 19, 2003 and June 25, 2005 was 1,731 deaths and 13,189 wounded.
And Rumsfeld promised the 'insurgency' would worsen. He is right about that. Right under the nose of the Americans "Armed men entered Baghdad's municipal building during a blinding dust storm on Monday, deposed the city's mayor and installed a member of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia."
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That Americans accept a criminal for president is their business, but when the moron wants to rule the world, they must realise that a rejection is in the works.
Bush is losing it on all grounds, in Iraq, in geopolitics where alliances are created to oppose the US and in the goodwill America has always had all over the world. Bush is ruining it, even for the neocons.
Narcosphere: " In a wide-ranging editorial earlier this week, London's Financial Times, expressed deep concerns over the waning influence of the U.S. and the growing influence of Hugo Chavez in Latin America. The article provides a fascinating window into the international financial communities' sober assessment of the floundering corporate agenda in Latin America - an analysis not altogether different from our own.
The Financial Times is more or less conceding that Chávez is threatening corporate interests not by exporting revolution in the traditional sense, but by undermining U.S. hegemony by leveraging economic power to strengthen Latin American solidarity. The editors' conclude, of course, that this is a horrible development and that the U.S. needs to find new strategies to thwart Venezuela and reassert its hegemony."
And the above says it all. The Financial Times and Narcosphere accept the hegemony of the US over Latin-America and the preponderance of corporate interests over national interests. These neocons at the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, and what is worse Western governments, implicitly reject national sovereignty and freedom of nations. This system is bound to crumble at one time or another because it is unjust and breaches national and international laws and principles of justice. And what is worse for the neocons, president Chávez of Venezuela is doing fine and creating prosperity for Latin Americans. Corporations only thrive on cheap labour, that is in countries with a poor population, which is why neocons don't want a prospering population.
"After failing earlier this year, for the first time in OAS history, to get its candidate elected as general secretary, Washington's push for a 'more interventionist' OAS - one capable of defending pro-Washington elite governments against popular movements - was decisively rejected at the meeting."
"Venezuela hosted an energy summit with officials from 16 Caribbean countries on June 29 that furthered President Hugo Chavez's plan to create an alternative trading bloc known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)."
Greenleft: "On June 1, 20,686 people graduated from Mission Ribas, which gives poor Venezuelans their first chance to pass high school. One of the most obvious aspects of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution, led by President Hugo Chavez, the social missions are changing the face of Venezuelan society.
73% of the population had benefited from the social missions."
Paraguay: "On June 30, the Paraguayan lower house, dominated by the ruling Colorado Party, unanimously voted down a bill calling for the privatisation of state-owned utilities that had been passed by the Senate."
Ecuador: "On June 21, President Alfredo Palacio declared that Ecuador will not be signing a treaty granting US troops in the country immunity from prosecution for crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court."
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