Webster G. Tarpley PhD: US and Pakistan are close to Open War!

China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington's planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1058-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war from the US-Pakistan confrontation. Responding to reports that China has asked the US to respect Pakistan's sovereignty in the aftermath of the Bin Laden operation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu used a May 19 press briefing to state Beijing's categorical demand that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan must be respected. According to Pakistani diplomatic sources, cited by the Times of India, China has warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China. This ultimatum was reportedly delivered at the May 9 China-US strategic dialogue and economic talks in Washington, where the Chinese delegation was led by Vice Prime Minister Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo. Chinese warnings are implicitly backed up by that nation's nuclear missiles, including an estimated 66 ICBM's, some capable of striking the United States, plus 118 intermediate-range missiles, 36 submarine-launched missiles, and numerous shorter-range systems.

Goethe: "Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being Preached "

Goethe, Germany's greatest poet, once said: "Truth has to be constantly repeated, because Error is also being preached, not just by the few, but also by the multitudes. In the press and in Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge that the Majority is on its side. Though Goethe made his insightful observation two hundred years ago, and before my mother, grandmother and I had to escape our home in Breslau, now re-named Wcoclaw, Poland, my father had an extensive library of Goethe's works, which he read ravenously. Because we were not able to bring his books with us from Breslau, we had to re-create much of it after we were able to emigrate to Canada, and later to the United States. The aim of the Center for Research on Globalization and Global Research is to battle the tidal waves of misinformation and propaganda washing over our minds on a daily basis. We have separated ourselves from their corporate masters. The "mainstream media" owned by bankers and corporate kingpins. Not only that, but it has been infiltrated by covert government agencies, seeking to deceive and propagandize their agendas. Before I served in Vietnam, Steve Mayfield, whom I had met while I was Intelligence Operations Officer of our 4th US Armored Division in Goeppingen in Germany, wanted me to spy for the United States in East Germany. I declined, and Aantero Aakkula, the first man who had been asked to join our Intelligence Services by act of Congress, backed me up, by lecturing me: "This is NOT James Bond". If you take this assignment, you will rot in some filthy, rat-infested East German Jail, and the US government will NOT try to get you out! I took his advice, and, to my knowledge, I have not been bothered by our country's increasingly idiotic intelligence efforts.

Chomsky: When did America Jettison the Rule of Law?

I have always admired Noam Chomsky, but now he has fallen into Obama's trap, which was only designed to fool the ignorant: No, "Osama was NOT killed by "Navy Seals". The best evidence indicates that he died a long, long, time ago, when he died of a serious illness, so the Navy Seals were not involved in his death. The whole lurid story was merely a desperate attempt by Obama to boost his "credibility" so that the idiots who voted for him would be somewhat mollified, and permit him one more term in office. The Bush administration captured thousands of suspected militants and sent them to detention camps in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay. There was NO autopsy, because the body had been dead for many months, or perhaps even years. FBI head Robert Mueller supposedly said that: "Investigators believe the idea of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon came from al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan. Wrong again: As we know, "al Qaeda" did NOT destroy the "Trade Center". That was done by its owner, Silverstein, who was too cheap to rip out the harmful Asbestos, so he had the innocent occupants of his buildings whacked, just to save a few dollars. In addition, no planes flew into the Pentagon: Immediately after that "event", I watched a relatively small missile, completely covered by a tarp, wheeled out of the main entrance of that building. We also know that the Pentagon was NOT destroyed, but has now been "resurrected" by the Obama Administration to guide the wanton killings by drones over Afghanistan.

Imran Khan: US Drone Strikes Fueling Terrorism in Pakistan

Pakistan's opposition leader Imran Khan believes that Obama's so-called "war on terror" is breeding extremism and terrorism. In addition, US drone attacks in the country's tribal regions are a breach of sovereignty in his country! Khan, who on Saturday and Sunday led massive rallies in Karachi, demanded an end to illegal US drone strikes on Pakistani soil. He said that had the political leaders of his country heeded his advice, taken a stand against the US attacks, and opted out of the US-led coalition, this situation would not have emerged, according to Pakistan's English daily "Dawn"! The drone attacks in the tribal regions of the country, where, according to the US only militants are targeted, kill more than 90% civilians. In addition, the drones have fuelled extremism and terrorism in Pakistan's Pashtun belt, that have recently spread to other parts of his country. Tens of thousands of anti-US protesters gathered near the port of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, to stage a two-day sit-in against what they call "violations of Pakistan's territory" by the US and NATO forces. Khan called for the blocking of NATO's supply line to put a stop to the unpopular drone attacks!

Chinese Threat: Pakistan and China Warn our US About War

China has officially put our United States on notice that Washington's planed attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression against Beijing. This BLUNT warning represents the first known strategic ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the grave danger of general war growing from the US-Pakistan confrontation. Responding to reports that China has asked the US to respect Pakistan's sovereignty in the aftermath of the Bin Laden operation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu, used a May 19 press briefing to state Beijing's categorical demand that the "sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan must be respected". According to Pakistani diplomatic sources cited by the "Times of India", China has "warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China". This ultimatum was reportedly delivered at the May 9 China-US strategic dialogue and economic talks in Washington, where the Chinese delegation was led by Vice Prime Minister Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo. Chinese warnings are implicitly backed by that nation's nuclear missiles, including an estimated 66 ICBM's, some capable of striking the US, plus 118 intermediate-range missiles, 36 submarine-launched missiles, and numerous shorter-range systems.

McClatchy Washington Bureau: It was ALL ABOUT THE OIL

In 2006, three years after the Russian government had charged Mikhail Khodorkovsky, then the country's wealthiest businessman with fraud and moved to break up his Yukos oil company, US diplomats had had enough. Gazprom, which grew out of the former Soviet Union's state gas ministry, had been busy buying up Yukos' far-flung empire, stoking American fears that soon Russia and its tough leader, Vladimir Putin, would control virtually all of the natural gas flowing to Europe. The United States wanted to stop that from happening, so the American embassy in Slovakia hired a Texas-based oil consultant and began secretly advising the Slovakian government on how to buy the 49 percent stake Yukos had held in Transpetrol, the Slovakian oil pipeline company. With no oil experience of its own, the Slovakian government didn't know how much it should pay. The consultant, who sat in on the negotiations, assured Slovakia's economy minister, Lubomir Jahnatek, that the $120 million price offered by the group disposing of Yukos' assets was a bargain. Gazprom was actually willing to pay much more! "We have made it clear to all parties that we do not want to publicize our role as technical advisers", the embassy said in an Aug. 10, 2006 cable that outlined what eventually became a deal. "Jahnatek is clearly appreciative of the input provided by the consultant, and will continue to look to him and the US embassy for information as he faces the challenges to the deal in the coming weeks."

Mike Whitney: Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn Trying to Torpedo the Dollar?

Our entire world is based on "perception management". The media is trying to dig up as much dirt as they canon Dominique Strauss-Kahn, so that they can hang the man before he ever sees the inside of a courthouse. It reminds me of the Terry Schiavo case, where devoted-husband Michael was pegged as an insensitive slime-ball for carrying out the explicit wishes of his brain-dead wife. Do you remember how the media conducted their their disgraceful 24-hour-a-day "Blitzkrieg" with the endless coverage of weepy Christian fanatics on the front lawn of the hospital, while Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Reilly fired away with their sanctimonious claptrap? Now you're telling me that the same media is just "doing their job?". Give me a break! Whoever wants to nail the IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has already pulled out all of the stops. Their agents have been rummaging through diaries, hotel registries, phone records, yearbooks, etc. etc. The UK Telegraph even paid a visit to a high-priced DC shop to get a little dirt from Madame Botox - whatever it takes to make a randy banker look like a South Hill rapist, and they are doing a good job! The cops have made certain that that the "Great Seducer" always appears handcuffed, and dressed as a pervert with three-days stubble before they parade him in front of the media.