Libya protests analysis: 'For Muammar Gaddafi it's kill or be killed'
• www.guardian.co.ukLibya's leader faces the worst unrest since he seized power, but no-one expects him to give up peacefully
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Confusion over Suez ship crossing
• english.aljazeera.netIran media says two warships used the waterway to reach Mediterranean, a claim dismissed by an Egyptian official.
Alex Jones: Globalist Manipulation Of Mass Protests
• PrisonPlanet.comThe protests that have rocked the Middle East have found their way to the Midwest, as problems from a bad global economy has sparked these demonstrations.
Iran says its warships completed Suez Canal crossing
• www.haaretz.comIran's state broadcaster says vessels reach Mediterranean, despite recent reports that the controversial crossing, the first since 1979, would only take place later this week.
Dictator on the run
• www.dailymail.co.ukGaddafi may have fled Libya already and be on his way to Venezuela, says Foreign Secretary William Hague
On the run: Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Libyan parliament building alight
• www.dailymail.co.ukProtesters appear to have gained a foothold in Tripoli as banks and government buildings were looted while demonstrators have claimed they have taken control of the second city Benghazi.
On the run: Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Libyan parliament building alight
• www.dailymail.co.ukProtesters appear to have gained a foothold in Tripoli as banks and government buildings were looted while demonstrators have claimed they have taken control of the second city Benghazi.
An Israeli Prison to Tahrir Square
• arcleinSami’s political awakening came in 1980, when he was inducted into a highly organized, democratic community and, at the age of 18, began a program of serious study, reading hundreds of books including:
Libya: Protesters, security clash in capital
• news.yahoo.comLibyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli's main square for the first time.
Justin Raimondo: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Arab Awakening
• AntiWar.comThe US government poses as the international champion of democracy and liberty, but the objective real-world consequences of its foreign policy of global intervention effectively hold back progress in this direction.
Belgium No. 1 in days without government
• upi.comBelgium has been without a government for 250 days -- breaking a modern-day record that was held by Iraq -- and some Belgians managed to joke about it.
The Other Captive Nations
• LewRockwell.comOne of the great shocks that has greeted Americans this year has been to discover, perhaps for the first time, that the US has long been running its own bloc of satellite dictatorships in many parts of the world. Just as the Soviet Union had...
Justin Raimondo: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Arab Awakening
• AntiWar.comThe US government poses as the international champion of democracy and liberty, but the objective real-world consequences of its foreign policy of global intervention effectively hold back progress in this direction.
U.S. entering direct talks with Taliban: report
• The New YorkerThe United States has entered into direct talks with leaders of the Taliban in Afghanistan, but contacts are exploratory and not yet a peace negotiation. The talks are to assess who in the Taliban leadership might engage in formal peace negotiations
Pentagon aide 'was killed by hitman' claims distraught widow
• Daily MailProminent Washington aide John Wheeler was assassinated by a hitman in a targeted killing, his widow has claimed. Katherine Klyce said the way her late husband’s body was dumped at a landfill site could only have been carried out by a professional.
Qaddafi’s Son Warns of Civil War as Libyan Protests Widen
• NY TimesThe son of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, warned in a nationally televised address early on Monday that continued anti-government protests could lead to a civil war.
Qaddafi’s Son Warns of Civil War as Libyan Protests Widen
• NY TimesThe son of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, warned in a nationally televised address early on Monday that continued anti-government protests could lead to a civil war.
NATO disputes claims of Afghan civilian deaths
• APTribal elders in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan claimed Sunday that NATO forces killed 64 civilians in air and ground strikes over the past four days. The international coalition denied the claim, saying video showed troops targeting and k
Germans Say No To More European Bail Outs: PIIGS Go To Slaughter?
• ZeroHedge.comAs the results of the first of seven German regional elections hits the wire, the German people are heard loud and clear: "no more bail outs." The outcome of the Hamburg election is nothing short of a disaster for Angela Merkel and her ruling CDU par
China rounds up 100 activists to rapidly quash pro-democracy 'Jasmine Revolution' organised
• www.dailymail.co.ukChinese authorities moved quickly and with force to quash a pro-democracy 'Jasmine Revolution', believed to have been inspired by the recent uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.
Libya protests death toll close to 300
• www.prisonplanet.comLatest figures show the death toll from clashes in Libya’s massive popular uprising against long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi is nearing 300.
Obama's Insidious Plan to Hand the Entire Housing Industry Over to the Big Banks
• alternet.org/Obama should be punishing the big banks that sabotaged the American dream of home ownership -- instead he's giving them the whole enchilada.
The Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt
• ampedstatus.org/The global banking cartel, centered at the IMF, World Bank and Federal Reserve, have paid off politicians and dictators the world over — from Washington to Greece to Egypt. In country after country, they have looted national economies...
Iceland To Put "Suicide Banker" Legislation To A Vote Of The People
• icelandreview.comPresident of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson just announced in a press conference that he will not sign the new Icesave legislation but instead send it to a national referendum. He reasoned that the majority of the nation wants to vote on the...
How "Economic Hit Men" Will Profit Off Emerging Market Food Inflation
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comThey are going to force even more debt on the governments of emerging markets, and cause them to buy questionable agricultural equipment from the global elite through this Global Agriculture and Food Security Program. (Run by the World Bank)
The 15 Most Powerful Members Of 'Skull And Bones'
• BusinessInsider.com/The most famous secret society in America, Skull and Bones was co-founded at Yale in 1832 by the father of a future president and has come to signify everything that attracts and repulses the public about "The Elite." (Photo of Prescott Bush)
Muni Market Will Crash, Housing Will Fall 10-15%, And S&P Is Going To 500
• BusinessInsider.com/First in muni land, he expects massive carnage, and is already setting up a fund to buy closed-end muni funds in the next year when they crash to 40% of their net asset values. What makes the muni market so crisis proone is the nature of investors...
When Armies Decide A Protesters Fate
• NYtimes.comThere comes a moment in the life of almost every repressive regime when leaders — and the military forces that have long kept them in power — must make a choice from which there is usually no turning back: Change or start shooting.
Consumer Metrics Institute: The Great Recession Never Really Left Us
• minyanville.comA couple of charts from the Consumer Metrics Institute show how the economic contraction may be over for Bernanke, Geithner and Goldman Sachs, but is firmly entrenched for the rest of us. (Contraction reaches 400 days)
Meme Theory and Markets
• OfTwoMinds.com/blogGreenspan had to hold the chair well beyond retirement to the age of 75, but he finally got his chance. In 2001, he used every policy measure in the Fed’s arsenal to prevent Kondratiev's winter.
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