IMF plans $100b Green Fund to assist poor

(The IMF is moving forward on their Copenhagen 15 type deal anyway. It was such a good scheme they had going to get into nations that wanted nothing to do with their neoliberal structural reform packages, why let a little honesty derail it? Here you go Global Warming people… your new hero… the International Monetary Fund.) [...]

Imagine

Just imagine what we could do if everything wasn’t about war and killing and subjecting entire nations to the wims of bankers and their political lapdogs… Air Jelly Imagine if NASA wasn’t just an R&D arm of the Chamber of Commerce that uses your tax dollars to research technology it then hands over to the [...]

Blair warns that world faces decision to halt Iran’s nuclear programme

by Phil Webster, The Times World leaders might have to go to war to stop Iran developing its weapons programme, Tony Blair suggested yesterday. The former Prime Minister, who is now a Middle East peace envoy, said that Tehran’s actions had made him more afraid today that a rogue state could supply weapons of mass [...]

Jimmy Carter’s Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech

… It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than the humblest citizen, so that we can end once and for all a double standard of justice. … Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. We simply cannot check inflation by keeping [...]

Climategate – How They Did It

New details are emerging about the data sets used to determine the global temperatures. Apparently NASA has been systematically dropping certain recordings from the data set in order to produce the illusion of warming. At one time there were 6,000+ instruments reporting if from all over the globe, and now according to these guys, they are down to about 1,500. [...]

Pipeline Geopolitics: Major Turnaround. Russia, China, Iran Redraw Energy Map

Turkmenistan commits its gas exports to China, Russia & Iran by Amb. M. K. Bhadrakumar, Global Research (from 1/08/2010) The inauguration of the Dauletabad-Sarakhs-Khangiran pipeline in early January connecting Iran’s northern Caspian region with Turkmenistan’s vast gas field may go unnoticed amid the Western media cacophony that it is “apocalypse now” for the Islamic regime in [...]

SCO Secretary-General receives Iran’s Charge D’Affaires to China

SCO Website, Jan. 28th 2010 On 28 January 2010 the SCO Secretary-General M. Imanaliev held talks at the SCO Secretariat with S. Shabistari, the Charge D’Affaires of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the People’s Republic of China. During the talks the two sides discussed the issues of further strengthening of SCO’s interaction with Iran [...]

Senators Seek ‘Crippling’ Iran Sanctions

by Eric Zimmerman, The Hill A bipartisan group of senators is asking President Barack Obama to impose “crippling sanctions” against Iran. In a letter to the president, the group reminds Obama that the year-end deadline he had imposed for “serious improvement” in the standoff with Iran has passed. “Now that this deadline has passed, we [...]

Senate OKs sanctions on Iran’s fuel suppliers

Washington Post The Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would let President Barack Obama impose sanctions on Iran’s gasoline suppliers and penalize some of Tehran’s elites, a move aimed at pressuring Tehran to give up its nuclear program.

Neoconservatives Calling for “Regime Change” in Iran and Meeting the President In the White House

Even if Iran gives in and agrees to the terms of Obama’s offer, the neoconservatives want “regime change” anyway… Regime change is more important than any deal the Obama administration might strike with Iran’s present government on its nuclear program. Even if Tehran were to accept the offer made last year to export some of [...]

U.S. speeds up arms buildup with Gulf allies

Initiatives with Arab nations, military aimed at thwarting Iran attacks by Joby Warrick, MSNBC The Obama administration is quietly working with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to speed up arms sales and rapidly upgrade defenses for oil terminals and other key infrastructure in a bid to thwart future military attacks by Iran, according [...]

Clinton Threatens China With Isolation Over Iran Sanctions

China’s Latest Call for Talks Enrages US by Jason Ditz, AntiWar Chinese officials again stressed their support for additional talks with Iran and objection to sanctions, sparking a surprising condemnation from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.