New Left Review 55, January-February 2009
PETER GOWAN
Consequences of the New Wall Street System

Against mainstream accounts, Peter Gowan argues that the origins of the global financial crisis lie in the dynamics of the New Wall Street System that has emerged since the 1980s. Contours of the Atlantic model, and implications—geopolitical, ideological, economic—of its blow-out.

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Obama has selected Leon E. Panetta, “a former Congressman who served as Office of Management and Budget director and White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton“, to “take over the Central Intelligence Agency“.

Wikipedia: Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME)
via Palestine Video

Reports from 2006:
RAI News report | photos (via)

Rory McCarthy: Gaza Doctors Say Patients Suffering Mystery Injuries After Israeli Attacks (18 October 2006)

James Brooks: US and Israel targeting DNA in Gaza? The DIME Bomb: Yet another genotoxic weapon (4 December 2006)

International anarchist communist statement

Demonstration in Jaffa. 27/12/2008. Pictures by ActiveStills

“Hundreds of dead and thousands of injured, sacrificed on the altar of Zionist expansionism and fundamentalism. In Europe, the foreign ministers of every EU country talk about an “exaggerated”, though “legitimate”, reaction on the part of Israel, reversing the true situation with an operation that would make the most cynical illusionist feel proud by making the aggressor, the State of Israel, appear to be the victim.“

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16 April 2008 Philadelphia, PA

The silence that is buying Israelis time to massacre the defenseless, to freeze, starve, and frighten human beings to death, also enables complicit heads of state to exploit the feckless hope that Obama might be an honest and enlightened broker post-inauguration.

Obama will deploy the racist Dennis Ross and the grandiose Samantha Power to create facts on the ground that will enable Israelis and their co-conspirators in the Arab League to attack Iran and reveal the inevitably of a theocratic state in all of historic Palestine in its wake.

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