Month: November 2011
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Libya, the new failed state?
The wire story about the “arrest” of Seif al-Islam Gaddafy doesn’t stack up. It looks more like he has been abducted for ransome.Why? Well, he’s been captured by a Berba military unit and taken to the Berba mountain capital, Zintan.They played a leading role in the fighting to overthrow Gaddafy and they want a slice…
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Netanyahu is a liar – so what’s new?
Don’t be alarmed by the hue and cry over the remark by French President Nicholas Sarkozy to President Barack Obama that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is a liar. That scathing description of “Bibi” Netanyahu is widespread in the corridors of world power. Among the Israeli elite and its commentariat the contempt for the…
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Papandreou drops referendum – and credibility with Greeks
The international bankers have stiff-armed the Greek Government and forced Prime Minister George Papandreou to drop the planned people’s referendum on the Euro zone bail-out. The decision to put the poverty-inflicting measures to a vote followed a marathon session of ministers and senior members of the ruling PASOK, the Pan Hellenic So…cialist Party, which ended…
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Athens – Olympics 2004, Bankrupt 2011
The media has been aghast at the temerity of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to call a referendum on the EU bail-out plan.Listening to the aggrieved cries of TV and radio commentators and reading the outraged reaction of newspaper columnists has been a weird experience. They find abhorrent Papandreou’s plan to hold a popular vote…