Geopolitical – Week of 12.16.2012


Global Warfare: US Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries

Global Research | 25 December 2012
The United States Army will be deploying troops to nearly three-dozen…


“Fiscal Cliff” Efforts in Disarray as U.S. Lawmakers Flee

Reuters | 21 December 2012
Efforts to avoid the looming U.S. “fiscal cliff” were thrown into disarray on Friday…


Which Obama Should we Believe?

Middle East Monitor | 15 December 2012
As the news of the Connecticut school massacre sinks in, it would take…


Benghazi report leaves lawmakers with more questions for State Department, Clinton

CBS News | 20 December 2012
Lawmakers want to know why security was “grossly inadequate” at the U.S. diplomatic…


Unionized Teachers, So Vilified By the Right, Are the Heroes of Sandy Hook

Alternet | 18 December 2012
The teachers, workers and education professionals of Sandy Hook Elementary School saved dozens of children…


My Personal Pledge of Resistance Against Any Attemp to Disarm Us by Means of an “Assault Weapons Ban”

Oath Keepers | 19 December 2012
My conscience, and the urgency of our current situation, compel me to speak out.


Court Rules Peace Activists can Sue the U.S. Military for Infiltration

Op Ed News | 18 December 2012
In a potentially precedent-setting decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled…


Hollywood Legend Ed Asner Has Outraged Republicans Over This Animated Short

MoveOn.org and Youtube | 10 December 2012


A Greater Killer Than Rifles: Should These Be Banned?

Economic Policy Journal | 16 December 2012
About 500 people a year are murdered with rifles, about the same number of people who die from falling out of bed.


The Fiscal Cliff Is A Diversion: The Derivatives Tsunami and the Dollar Bubble

Paul Craig Roberts | 17 December 2012
The “fiscal cliff” is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers…


NRA Releases Statement on Conn. Shooting

USA Today | 18 December 2012
The National Rifle Association has put out a statement saying it is…


Global Banking Under Siege as Nations Tighten Local Rules

Bloomberg | 05 December 2012
Global banking, a model promoted for more than 30 years by financial conglomerates…


Portland Mall Shooter Stopped by CCW holder, Media lies by omission.

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Youtube | 15 December 2012


Yet Another Fiscal Cliff Infographic

Zero Hedge | 17 December 2012
By now everyone should know what is at stake in the Fiscal Cliff, which unless resolved…


Hillary Fainted and Won’t Testify on Benghazi

Politix | 15 December 2012
Hillary Clinton projects invincibility, so it was shocking to many that she fainted…


Leszek Balcerowicz: The Anti-Bernanke

The Wall Street Journal | 14 December 2012
As an economic crisis manager, Leszek Balcerowicz has few peers.


Britain Gives Millions in ‘Climate Aid’ to Tackle Flatulent Colombian Cows… Plus £31m to Turkish Wind Farms and Funding for Talks with Kenyan ‘Rain-Makers’

The Daily Mail Online | 08 December 2012
Millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money has been spent on a scheme aimed at…


With Gap Wide and Time Short, Obama and Boehner Meet

The New York Times | 13 December 2012
With time running short to work out a deal to avert a year-end fiscal crisis…


China Submits East China Sea Islands Claim to UN

BBC | 14 December 2012
It argues that certain geological features prove its territory extends out to…


U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens

The Wall Street Journal | 12 December 2012
Top U.S. intelligence officials gathered in the White House Situation Room in March to…


Monsanto Gets Its Way in Ag Bill

The Progressive | 13 December 2012
“The Farmers Assurance Provision” is the title of a rider, Section 733…


The US Military Wants To ‘Microchip’ Troops

Business Insider | 06 May 2012
DARPA is at it again. This time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced…