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A Quarter Million In Berlin Say No To TTIP!

October 12, 2015 By Endarken 1 Comment

With an estimated 250,000 people in attendance, the Berlin rally to stop the TTIP agreement was next level. Shot from the top of the famous Victory Column in Tiergarten, the below video shows the mass of protesters stretching all the way back to the Brandenburg Gate and beyond. The event kicked off at the Hauptbahnhof station, with Tango dancers dancing in protest against the TTIP.

More than two hours after the event had started, throngs of marchers were still pouring into Tiergarten.

Impressive as the event was and as pretty as the pictures are — what is it really all about?

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Berlin, Germany, globalization, TPP, trade, TTIP

The Real Danger To Israel Isn’t Iran, It’s IT & Globalization

April 14, 2015 By David Seaton Leave a Comment

The selling point of starving or beating Iran into submission has always been that if they had even one atomic bomb they would use it to attack Israel, a nation which has from 80 to 200 such weapons, many of them in the form of long range missiles mounted on submarines, which guarantees Israel an invulnerable “second strike capability.”

The idea that Iran is planning to turn Israel, its Jewish inhabitants and a considerable number of Palestinian Muslims into a radioactive Auschwitz in exchange for having their entire nation and its 75,000,000 people turned into ashes is totally absurd. The Persians, though notably strict in their religious practice, are eminently rational and have been for thousands of years. They are just as rational as Khrushchev’s USSR was. They would not start an atomic exchange that would mean the annihilation of their country.

The biggest problem brought on by the Iranians having a bomb would be that all the other countries in the region would want one too. That sounds terrible, but even if (Allah forbid) the Islamic State took over Saudi Arabia, I doubt that — nutty as they are — even they would want to see the Kaaba, Mecca and Medina turned into molten glass on their watch. And I would think that the Egyptians (about the only existing nation older than Persia) are certainly as rational as the Persians.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: globalization, Iran, Israel, nuclear, technology

Great Britain’s Phony Anti-Imperialism And The Language Of Globalization

February 27, 2015 By Nu’man Abd al-Wahid Leave a Comment

By all honest accounts the British establishment has visited war, carnage, slavery, genocide, terrorism, imperialism, colonialism, impoverishment, starvation and concentration camps on mankind over the last four hundred years. In most cases, especially in the earlier period, such grisly adventurism was executed under the pretext of civilising the native, that is, the aboriginal peoples of the earth.

This unsolicited global carnage made England a rich country. The wondrous booty of the establishment’s maritime entrepreneurialism trickled down to the cheering populace and they tugged their forelocks in appreciation and in reciprocation the multitude conferred legitimacy on their wise leaders. The populace migrated to the establishment’s new foreign possessions which in itself eased economic tensions on the home front — with many migrating abroad, there were less challenges to the order of things on the home front.

It is difficult to imagine Albion would have reached such stupendous levels of effortless affluence without resort to such single-minded blood-lust inflicted on the aboriginal peoples of the earth, which herein was the very foundation of its Empire. As Winston Churchill argued in a cabinet meeting in January 1914:

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: globalization, Great Britain, history, imperialism, United Kingdom

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