Sunday, April 28, 2013
India's PM Tries to Lower China Tensions
Ladakh Dispute Legacy of 1962 Border War
An alleged armed incursion by China into a disputed region claimed by India sparked a sudden rise in tensions between the countries that fought a border war in 1962.
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Renewed Fears of North Korean Missile Test
EARLY WARNING
North Korea is preparing a major military exercise that is likely to include test-firing of missiles.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Europe's Recession Deepens because of Austerity
Savage Spending Cuts Killing Continent
The recession is deepening; the unemployment crisis, worsening.
Austerity--draconian cutting of government spending in the name of "reform" when stimulus is called for--is ending entire ways of life, destabilizing democracies, pauperizing the middle classes, transferring wealth upward to the privileged few, etc. The Continent is being devastated by class warfare--from the top--as powerful, wealthy elites strive to further degrade and ultimately destroy trade unions, dismantle social services, roll back all progressive, postwar gains, and basically bring the middle classes down to the level of China's factory workers.
The Austerians' strategic objective is coming into sharper focus. They appear to be aiming for a world of workers with few, if any rights, permanently poised on the edge of extinction, with just enough disposable cash to keep the consumer economy going.
On the Rosenberg Family's Remarkable Recovery of Stolen Art
The Nazis looted billions of dollars of art, including an amazing collection amassed by one of the world's most successful art dealers, Paul Rosenberg of Paris. His descendants' quest to recover the family's property--including a painting held by the daughter of one of France's top traitors/Nazi collaborators--reads like page-turning fiction. But it's all true--a must-read for the weekend. Click here.
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