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Interview with Thierry Meyssan about the Electoral Process in the United States
2008 Presidential Campaign USA: An Anti-Democratic Show
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Sandro Cruz | Geneva (Switzerland) |
Every four years, the election of the President of the United States takes a big media show that keeps the world in tenterhooks. The US electoral system, which is extremely complex and controlled by the oligarchy, offers a popular sovereignty image, despite the fact that it was created to counter such sovereignty. Thierry Meyssan answers our questions about the hidden operations of «democracy» made in the U.S.A.
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Military or Market-Driven Empire Building: 1950-2008
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James Petras |
As the U.S. presidential campaign predictably displays a competition in militarism and allegiance to Zionist interests, the militaristic model of governance, which has largely prevailed so far in this century within the power circles, has nonetheless failed in terms of empire building. James Petras takes a historical look at the competition between this military powered empire building model, and the market powered one, to point out that eventually, while the inefficient military colonial policy crippled the U.S. economy, it was paving the way for economic competitors to reap the benefits of globalization.
Learning about the Past to Understand the Present
US secret services in between China and Tibet
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Comandante Fidel Castro | La Havane (Cuba) |
The Tibet images published by the CNN are simplistic: on the one hand they show the Chinese as the bad guys because they are communist; on the other hand we have the Tibet people, the Buddhists. But Comandante Fidel Castro warns that all that is but mere propaganda. The history of that Asian region discloses the truth, the old causes and disputes between the United States and China: the adhesion of Tibet to the Kuomintang to fight Mao and the Buddhist guerrilla under the command of the CIA.
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Right to Food: Time to Act!
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Jacques Diouf | Rome (Italie) | Controversies |
Anti-terror hysteria masks the real contemporary political stakes, with the food issue in the first line. 854 million people suffer from hunger, as Jacques Diouf, Director-General for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), reminds us. Our foremost duty is to feed them.
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Information base about Gulf wars
Information base about the 9/11th attacks
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