tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71261192277193167742011-11-28T09:18:34.420+08:00Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.Solaris Marxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08369777684572859867noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126119227719316774.post-23622831239954050062007-02-26T11:58:00.000+08:002007-02-26T12:00:57.990+08:00

It’s become crystal clear that controlling oil access is the cornerstone of U.S. Middle East policy. But now, given the tough situation Washington is facing in the region in response to its continuous attempts to transform the region, planning regime changes in many states, laying hands on the Middle East and the Arab world oil wealth proved difficult than the Bush administration and previous U.S

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Addressing a joint news conference Saturday with Prime Minister John Howard, visiting U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up threats against Iran, saying that the U.S. would consider "all options" to stop Tehran, which has defied UN deadline to stop its nuclear activities, from acquiring what Washington claims are nuclear weapons."They have made some fairly inflammatory statements," Cheney

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Bangsa Melayu terkenal dengan sifat merendah diri, lemah-lembut, sopan santun dan kuat beragama. Namun akhir-akhir ini kita dapat melihat perubahan pada orang-orang Melayu dengan cara yang mendadak. Perubahan ini bukan dari segi kenaikan taraf hidup ataupun kejayaan. Perubahan pada orang-orang Melayu ini pada kerutuhan akhlak, keciciran, keganasan serta perbuatan-perbuatan yang tidak

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By Kate Randall20 February 2007Thousands of US troops went house to house through mostly Shiite areas in northeastern Baghdad February 13 in the opening phase of Operation Law and Order, the “surge” plan announced by the Bush administration January 10.The plan aims to deploy an additional 21,500 US combat troops, the vast majority going to the Iraqi capital. The operation reportedly will involve

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IranOver Iran, the US has been compelled to reverse its policy of 27 years in offering talks with a regime described by Bush as one of the "axis of evil". Although US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, declares that there is no 'grand bargain' on offer to Iran, it is clear that the US has miscalculated. Its sabre-rattling has not succeeded in eliminating Iran's nuclear programme. One observer

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HatredIraq will never be democratic or free on a capitalist basis. This was underlined by Bush's visit to Iraq on 13 June. He told the new Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki: "I have expressed our country's desire to work with you but I appreciate you recognise the fact that the future of the country is in your hands." Yet, the 'independent' Iraqi prime minister received precisely five minutes

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Civil warYes and no. A widespread nationalist resistance exists in Iraq, as in Vietnam, reflected in the insurgency.However, at present the insurgency involves the predominantly five million Sunni Iraqi Arabs. The killing of al-Zarqawi - who in any case played a minor role in the resistance - will do nothing to quell this movement, as even Bush and Blair have conceded. At the time of the capture

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The US is the world’s only superpower yet, despite its overwhelming military might, in relation to Iraq, Afghanistan and now Somalia it has become embroiled in situations that it cannot control. Peter Taaffe examines the perspectives for US imperialism.The United States is the strongest power the world has ever seen.Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, England and WalesIt has an army

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February 14, 2007 3:38 The demonstration in Beirut on the second anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was quite calm. Lebanon's army and police were out in such force that one checkpoint was being run by the Judiciary Police. Clearly, the government was taking no chances and put every available man on the street.The major concern was that the pro-goverment

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February 14, 2007 9:04 In Hebron recently, I met one of the 500 Jewish settlers who live surrounded by 120,000 Arab neighbors. It's tense. In Hebron, the Arabs and the Jews fear and hate each other, and so do their children. One settler said that a few days before, an Arab --a robber or a terrorist, he wasn't sure which, but presumed that the intruder was a terrorist--- had broken into an

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As the ice atop the Cordillera Blanca, the largest glacier chain in the Tropics, continues to melt, Peru's "White Mountain Range" may soon be in for a name change.Due to rising tempretures, the once snowy-white caps of the glacier chain are turning brown, underlining the growing effects of global warming on the worls's glaciers.Scientist say this trend is also endangering future water supplies to

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FORMER Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad arrived in Johor Bahru a few days ago to speak to his supporters after staying quiet for a few months.Besides directing his attack s at Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, he raised the water issue again, which had affected relations between Malaysia and Singapore.He said Malaysia sold raw water to Singapore at only three sen per 1,000 gallons and, in

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ReviewSince the early 1980s, world capitalism has followed a trajectory based on globalisation and neo-liberal policies. In Capitalism Unleashed, Andrew Glyn analyses this turn to fundamentalist, free-market policies and examines its impact on economic growth and stability, and on the distribution of wealth between the super-rich and the working class. Reviewed by Lynn Walsh.Since the early 1980s

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Those unjustly maligned Malays are some of the nicest folks in the world. At least those I befriended. I've been to the remotest of kampungs and always get invited into a stranger's home for a meal or a cuppa. Try knocking on a Chinese farmer's door and he'll probably take aim at you with a wild boar hunting rifle. Of late, even some of those sweet Malays are turning and tossing in bed at night

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Thank you for contacting the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) for more information and for taking an interest in our ideas and activities.The CWI is an international socialist organisation fighting for the interests of working class people, across the globe, with affiliated parties and organisations in nearly 40 countries, and on all continents.The purpose of this letter is to give

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CUBA AFTER CASTRO?Ever since Fidel Castro gained power in 1959, Washington and the Cuban exile community have been eagerly awaiting the moment when he would lose it -- at which point, the thinking went, they would have carte blanche to remake Cuba in their own image. Without Fidel's iron fist to keep Cubans in their place, the island would erupt into a collective demand for rapid change. The

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Interview with Anthony ArnoveBy: Kevin ZeeseKevin Zeese: I see two broad types of groups that need to be convinced that we should get out of Iraq. The first are people who believe that the war was wrong, but now that we are there we have to finish the job, stabilize the country, make things better. These folks believe that if we leave things will certainly get worse. What do you say to these

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Yesterday the British intelligence announced that it foiled a major "terror" plot to blow up at least 10 U.S.-bound planes, an attack that UK officials say could have surpassed 9/11.Britain and the United States immediately raised their nationwide terror alerts to the highest levels, indicating that an attack is "imminent". UK intelligence officials say, without providing any shred of evidence,

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Following latest developments in Lebanon, an extraordinary meeting of the Socialist International to examine the grave situation in that country was held in Beirut last Saturday 16 December. The meeting was hosted by the Progressive Socialist Party, PSP, a member of the SI, and also included the participation of leaders and representatives of the different political forces which make up the 14

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The Socialist International, deeply concerned at the continuing conflict in the Middle East, by the pain and tragedy which continues to afflict innocent civilians, women and children, once again strongly reiterates its call for an end to the hostilities in the region and for an urgent and immediate ceasefire.The logic of peace, not war, should prevail in these testing times for the international

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Lenin's Speech at unveiling of a monument to Marx and Engels on November 7, 1918, first anniversary of the Russian revolutionWe are unveiling a monument to the leaders of the world workers' revolution, to Marx and Engels.Humanity suffered and languished for ages under the oppression of a tiny handful of exploiters who tortured millions of toilers. But while the exploiters of the previous epoch,

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