42. Jahrgang Jahrbuch / Juni 2008


? Zeitfragen >Nicht·mit·einem·Winseln
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Kultur und Gespenster 1967/1968
Der Hegelsche Erfahrungsbegriff

Hans Imhoff: Dissertation von 1967

 
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Former Commodity Futures Trade Commission Supervisor and Steering Committee Member of the “Plunge Protection Team”, Prof. Michael Greenberger Testifies Before the United States Senate Committee “Energy Market Manipulations and federal Enforcement Regimes”:

“... if you were to add all of the WTI trading on NYMEX, ICE, and the Dubai exchange, speculation might very well approach 80-90 per cent of the WTI trades executed by U.S. owned exchanges. By any objective assessment, the crude oil market is now overwhelmingly dominated by speculation, most of which is not subject to the age old controls imposed upon speculators in these markets. One can easily see then how Goldman Sachs, a huge trader in these markets itself, could confidently predict that oil will soon reach $200 a barrel.”

Non-Regulation Enabled by the CFTC

“For all of these reasons, the Federal Trade Commission should be urged by this Committee to fulfill aggressively the 2007 Congressional mandate to stop any manipulative practices within the petroleum markets, including activity within the crude oil futures markets distorting crude oil prices. The path for such an investigation has already been well marked by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The FTC should use all of the powers available to it to promulgate its rule and begin it investigation expeditiously. The stability of the American economy demands nothing less.”

Assessing the Peak of (Induced) Oil Price Hysteria
Perhaps 60% of today’s Oil Price is Pure Speculation / I
More on the real reason behind high oil prices / II
By F William Engdahl



Rating Agencies & Securitization
Von Oliver von Schweinitz

Wer ein Wertpapier auf den Kapitalmärkten erwirbt, hat keinen Kontakt zum "Verkäufer" des Kreditrisikos. Das Risiko eines Fehlkaufes ist erheblich. »

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Self-Consumption of World Financial System

F. William Engdahl: The Financial Tsunami
Part I: Sub-Prime Mortgage Debt is but the Tip of the Iceberg, 23.01.07
Part II: The Financial Foundations of the American Century,16.01.08
Part III: Greenspan’s Grand Design, 22.01.08
Part IV: Asset Securitization - The Last Tango, 8.02.08
Part V: The Predators had a Ball, 22.02.08

The 2008 Presidential Election:
Has the Battle for America Begun? *** The 2008 Presidential Election: A Revolution or a Bust? ***
The Tyranny of Money
By Richard C. Cook
(Visit his Website)

America’s Suicidal Statecraft
The Black Death of Financial Collapse
By James Cumes in Asia Times Online, 10.4.08 (*)

Credit, Debt, Cancellation of Debt - Since Antiquity
mp3_icon2Lapham`s The World in Time on Bloomberg
Radio with Michael Hudson - Author of Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Pluto Press, 2003).



60 Years After Kennan: The Good Empire in Agony
Russian TV Docu in 5 Parts Made Legible for English-Speakers


Three Faces of Infantilism: NATO’s Bucharest Summit

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Ballistic Missile defense

Ballistic Missile Defense Deployment to Poland and the Czech Republic

An Assessment by Richard Garwin
1. Will it work in principle?
2. Can it work in practice, with decoys and countermeasures that can be expected with the first Iranian long-range missiles?
3. Does it pose a threat to Russian missiles, by a capability to intercept those launched at Europe or the United States?
4. Is there a better way to do the job?

 

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Sic Incipit Novus Ordo Saeclorum
Die hehre Kunst der Provokation:
Der erste Schuß von Pearl Harbor

 
Von Stefan T. Possony (28. Juni 1967, Hoover Institution
on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, Cal., USA)

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“Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder." Arnold J. Toynbee

America Suicidal StatecraftThe Self-Destruction of a
Superpower:


Preface to America`s Suicidal Statecraft

Vorwort Deutsch

Book Description / Table Of Contents / About the Author

Extra in Wiener Zeitung

 
In July 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the Moon, his great leap for mankind was uniquely an American achievement. American vision and management, American science and technology, American finance and investment, American skill and diligence, American will, planning and dedication accomplished what was arguably the greatest human achievement of the 20th century – perhaps of all time thus far – and America and Americans stood alone as the only country and the only people who could have done it.

 Yet it came just at a point when, as the passing years have increasingly demonstrated, American power had begun to wane. In retrospect, what was a peak of human achievement at that time was also a peak in American power.

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All Quiet on the Gaza Front
Für wen ist das gut?
Uri Avnery, 21.6.08

Gaza nach BeirutIsrael`s Attempt to Smash Lebanon DoppelPfeil klein

Von Gaza nach Beirut - Israelisches Tagebuch / Uri Avnery`s Buch
zum zweiten Libanon-Krieg


A One-Sided War and a Defeat by Default
Uri Avnery`s Observations and Interventions During the War
DoppelPfeil klein

Jüdischer Mythos und jüdische Geschichte:
Der Löwe und die Gazelle / The Lion and the Gazelle

Truth Against Truth - A Completely Different Look at the Israeli -Palestinian Conflict

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Der "Tresor des jüngsten Gerichts"
in der Arktis

Gates, Rockefeller und die GMO-Giganten wissen mehr als wir


APOKALYPSE und Geopolitik
 

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Century of WarWhere the Prize
ultimately lies


Cheney`s Speech in
London, Autumn 1999


Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War:
Or what happens when Cowboys don`t shoot straight like they used to ...


Путин и геополитика Новой Холодной войны
(War and Peace, Russia)




Confessions of an “ex” Peak Oil Believer
By F William Engdahl, September 14, 2007

“The good news is that panic scenarios about the world running out of oil anytime soon are wrong. The bad news is that the price of oil is going to continue to rise. Peak Oil is not our problem. Politics is. Big Oil wants to sustain high oil prices. Dick Cheney and friends are all too willing to assist.”

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G8

Global Energy Security

“...equal and
non-discriminatory
access to nuclear
technology...”

Statement on Non-Proliferation

Putin: “The most important thing for us is to develop our economy”

Cold War Over Oil and Russian petroleum science

Biological Origins of
Natural Petroleum?

Dismissal of the Claims of a Biological Connection for
Natural Petroleum


J. F. KENNEY, Joint Institute of The Physics of the Earth - Russian Academy of Sciences / Ac. Ye. F. SHNYUKOV,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine / V. A. KRAYUSHKIN,
Institute of Geological Sciences /
I. K. KARPOV, Institute of Geochemistry - Russian Academy of Sciences / V. G. KUTCHEROV,
Russian State University of Oil and Gas
I. N. PLOTNIKOVA, National Petroleum Company of Tatarstan (TatNeft S.A.)


Dubious Peak OilOdell

Prof. Peter R. Odell:
The Global Energy Outlook for the 21st Century


...And what if the validity of the original 18th century hypothesis that all oil and gas resources have been generated from biological matter in the chemical and thermodynamic environments of the earth`s crust. There is an alternative theory - already 50 years old - which suggests an inorganic origin for additional oil and gas (Porfir`yev, 1974, Abbas, 1996; Kenney, 1996; Gold, 1999)


Interview with Prof. Peter Odell, 2006 OPEC Award Recipient
 

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Andre Gunder Frank / 24.02.1929 - 23.04.2005

Message from his sons / Ein alter Brief an Willy Brandt
An obituary by Patrick Manning, World History Network
Odyssee

His Last Essay
Meet Uncle Sam - Without Clothes...
By Andre Gunder Frank, 06.01.05

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It`s Official: The Crash of the US Economy has begun
By Richard C. Cook

Hamilton logoDire Memories of Lasting Defeat for the Democratic Left:
Wall Street and the Left

James Cumes: A Hamilton Project and the Victory Over Want

The Culture of Contentment or What a Hamilton Project could learn from J. Kenneth Galbraith († 29 April, 2006)

The Collapse of the Bretton Woods Regime and the Surviving Monsters
Dollar Hegemony and the US-China Trade Imbalance
By Henry C K Liu

Währung ohne Basis: Abschied vom Goldstandard vor 35 Jahren
Von Heerke Hummel

A Lecture on Super Imperialism by Michael Hudson (iTune)

Der schwarze Schoss der Zeit 2004

Das System der Bank von England gegen die Selbstregierung über Kredit und Geld: Alexander Hamilton im Gedächtnis

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? Global >

Two Axioms on proliferation or Atoms for peace:
Henry A. Wallace to Harry S. Truman / September 24, 1945

After Hiroshima:
Observations Inside the US Cabinet


Albert Wohlstetter`s (*) (†)
Perspective on Nuclear Energy

American Dreams and Albert Wohlstetter:
Intellectual Roots of Neo-Conservative Thinking (SvZ)
Neocons: The men behind the curtain (BAS)

From Russell (1946) to Bolton (2006) - proliferation of
world government phantasies:
The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War (B. Russell)

Whistleblower Against Vulcans from Very High Up
Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma (1979):
Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the Louis Weiss Foundation Peace Prize to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), at Strasbourg on 11th May 1979 (From SvZ 1979) * Mountbatten was assassinated about 15 weeks after the speech. *

Annotationen zur Rede Mountbattens
& Ein Memo für das Europaparlament
(Dezember 1979)

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? David Hartstein >

Die Vereinigten Staaten und der Krieg

Eine Rede am 8. Mai: Henry Wallace, ein Alter Ego Franklin Delano Roosevelts, 1942 im New Yorker Madison Square Garden und die Zwerge in beider Schatten

Am 11.09. erwiesen sich intelligence und Luftverteidigung der USA als außer Kraft gesetzt: Thomas Friedman und die Einbildungskraft

Der deutsche Weg, das internationale Recht, der George-Kreis, Goebbels und die Neokonservativen: Secret Germany

Deutschland und Roosevelt 2003 - Auch eine Einführung zum Tagebuch von Henry A. Wallace 1945 „Into the Cold War“:
Zeitfrage Roosevelt - New Deal oder nur ein neuer Dealer?

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? Weltmacht > 

The iraq Abyss and The Case for Impeachment DoppelPfeil klein neu

Terror PresidencyA NYT Magazine Preview
Conscience of a Conservative ...
and how to stand up to Cheney`s
State Terror Lawyer Addington


“I probably had a hundred meetings with Gonzales, and there was only one time I was talking about a national-security issue when Addington wasn’t there,” ...

“My conflicts were all with Addington, who was a proxy for the vice president. They were very, very stressful.”



Impeaching Twisted Guts / Stephen Colbert empathizes with George W. Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner

Dereliction of Duty - Three Years Ago
Civil-Military Relations
and Military Disobedience

By David W. Lutz, SvZ, April 2003

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? Iran & IAEA >

IAEA, Iran and Atoms for Peace DoppelPfeil klein neu

In dealing with Tehran anything resembling perception of reality inside or outside the Bush ship of fools must remain classified.

Dealing With Tehran
Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options toward Iran
A Century Foundation Report by Flint Leverett
A New York Times Op-Ed Redacted by Bush`s NSC
The UNSC Iran Vote SC/8928 and its Meaning: Were Russia and China given private assurances by Bush? / Jorge Hirsch

Mnemeion


Johannes Rau
† 27.01.06 und der
West-Östliche Diwan

Tischrede anlässlich eines Abendessens
für den iranischen
Staatspräsidenten Mohammed
Chatami / 11.07.2000

Weimarer Gespräch
12. 07. 2000

Mohammed Khatami
in Weimar am 12.7.2000

Orient und Okzident in Weimar

The Nuclear Suppliers Group and Iran
Raid on Nuclear Fuel Market
By Rudo de Rujter, Independent Researcher, 2 May 2006

The IAEA and the New World Order
Wither Iranian Diplomacy since Khatami (ATol)

Jude Wanniski: In Defense of the Iranians - Saving the NPT

Illegal, immoral orders
should be disobeyed

How the Principles of the Nürnberg Tribunal become Relevant
By Jorge Hirsch in AntiWar.Com
 

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Exploring the Genesis of Economic Innovations:
The Religious Gestalt-Switch
and the Duty to Invent as
Preconditions for Economic Growth

By Erik Reinert and Arno Mong Daastøl

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Einnorden / Von Jochen Scholz

Not so many years ago, many hoped Europe might step up as a counterweight to US imperial policies. Such hopes were focused in particular on Germany - not only as the leading European power, but as a known moderating, non-military force in international politics.

Germany - the Re-engineered Ally
Part 1: Readiness for endless war / By Axel Brot
Part 2: Everything is broken / By Axel Brot
Part 3: Hail to the chief, or else / By Axel Brot


Willkürliche und irregeleitete Fehlwahrnehmung von Völkerrecht
Resolution 1368 & Resolution 1373 & Interpretation des AA
Die Folgewirkungen einer “Public (Zelikow) Presumption”


Ein geostrategisches Konzept für die Linke

Im bisherigen Programmentwurf der WASG wird nicht erkennbar, dass die politischen Prozesse hierzulande in ein weltpolitisches Kräftespiel eingebettet sind. Die unter der rot-grünen Metapher „Agenda 2010“ einschließlich der „Hartz-Gesetze“ vorgenommenen Weichenstellungen haben Bezugspunkte zur Geopolitik, zur (fossilen) Energieversorgung, zum Weltwirtschafts- und Finanzsystem und zu dem weltweiten wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Mainstream, der Begründungen liefert, mit denen spezifische Kapitalinteressen überdeckt werden.

Verfassungskrisen / Von David Hartstein DoppelPfeil klein02

Das Ungeheuer von Maria Laach
Von Spengler DoppelPfeil klein07

The Making of a China-EU World
By David Gosset DoppelPfeil klein02

Ein Palimpsest zur Melancholie
Sonderdruck aus “Perspektiven” 1954
Edgar Salin: Die USA und Europa
Edgar Salin: Um Stefan George - Schluß: Winke und Lehren

Paul Lüth: Bürger und Partisan
Über den Widerstand gestern, heute und morgen

Partisanen Links von der (neuen?) Mitte
Von David Hartstein & Carl Winter

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? Europa >

Europa, Geld und die soziale Frage

Wilhelm Nölling - Der Ökonom als Politiker

Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag

Ein Mezzogiorno
von Erfurt bis Brest-Litowsk?

Gedanken zum Aufbau Mittel- und Osteuropas

 

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? Eurasien > 

reOrient256Andre Gunder Frank

Asian Economy
until appx 1763

Money Went Around the World and Made the World
Go Round (from reOrient)

“But why and how did this money make the world go round? Why did anybody—indeed everybody !—want this money so much as to drive up its price, and in Asia and especially in China to keep the money that arrived from elsewhere? Because people and companies and governments there were able to use money to buy other commodities, including precious metals such as gold and silver. ... No less and no more than anywhere else, either then or today. That is, the money supported and generated effective demand, and the demand elicited supply. Of course , additional demand could only elicit additional supply where and when it could. That is, there had to be productive capacity and/or the possibility to expand it through investment and improved productivity.”

“The argument here is that that expansion was possible and did happen , especially in many parts of Asia. Otherwise, the Asians would not have demanded and bought the additional foreign and domestic money either by supplying commodities or other money for it. If supplies of commodities had not been able to expand, any increased demand for them would just have driven up the price of existing commodities through what is called inflation—and/or there would not have been demand to import this additional new money in the first place! That is, the new silver and copper money, not to mention the additional credit it supported, increasingly monetized and stimulated production in the world, regional, "national," and many local "economies," that is in these parts of the single global economy. ... The combination of these arguments here supports my thesis that there was only one world economy/system and that it had its own structure and dynamic. Money played an important part during the period of global development from 1400 to 1800. Money went around the world and made the world go round in this global casino in which it supplied and vastly increased the lifeblood that fueled and oiled the wheels of agriculture, industry, and commerce.”


Novissima Sinica

Historiam nostri temporis illustratura

Das Neuste von China

Zur Erhellung der Geschichte unserer Zeit

Zur Relevanz der Novissima Sinica

Vorwort 1979

Leibniz und Russland

Begegnungen zwischen Leibniz und Peter dem Großen

Glasfaserseidenstraße Deutschland - China

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? Weltfinanz > 

Global Monetary System

Debt Execution or Common Weal

A brief Exchange on Debt Restructuring between Nouriel Roubini and Kunibert Raffer

The Essence of Insolvency
and Chapter 9 of US Code on Bankruptcy

Before describing insolvency procedures pursuant to the US Chapter 9 in detail a brief general point about the essence of all insolvency regulations seems advisable to clarify their very essence. As already shown above there is the need for an efficient procedure to solve cases of overindebtedness, as phantom debts otherwise continue to grow creating problems to anyone, including creditors. Historical evidence proves that even debt prisons cannot make unpayable debts paid. Once it is clear that creditors cannot get all payments to which they are entitled, it becomes obvious that a procedure to share losses is necessary and advisable. Such procedures were developed by all civilised legal systems.

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The Lost Science of Money
A Speech at the US Treasury by Stephen Zarlenga

A Perfect Fit: Wolfowitz at the World Bank / A Memo on this margin from Jude Wanniski

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? Weltmacht > 

NarkyssosJames Cumes
The Human Mirror
The Narcissistic Imperative
in Human Behaviour

The Rise and Fall of Empires


Noopolitik versus Realpolitik

An American Grand Strategy not yet elaborated: The Emergence of Noopolitik / A RAND Study by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt

Neo Con Figures

American Power: A great debate has just begun / What are neo-conservatives?