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China, India at Odds Over Oil

Tensions are mounting between China and India over rich oil and natural gas deposits below the South China Sea. China stakes claim to most of the energy resources, but India has acquired rights to some territories from Vietnam, and vows to defend its holdings and economic interests. RT, the Russian global TV network, reports.

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There’s a Riot Going On

Demonstrators and police clashed in Athens Wednesday, with tens of thousands gathering in front of the Greek parliament to protest austerity measures. With Americans already shouldering a larger per capita federal debt than the Greeks, and with the re-election of a spendthrift president who is certain to add immensely to that debt load over the next four years, we can expect to see similar scenes stateside in the not-so-distant future. Footage from RT, the Russian global news network.

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Obama Empowered Extremists

Tawfik Hamid, an ex-jihadist and author from Egypt, says the United States has empowered radical Islamists by adopting a naive diplomatic approach in the Middle East. Hamid faults the Obama Administration for embracing “sudden democracy syndrome,” encouraging the downfall of longstanding regimes and siding with revolutionary forces throughout the region. The problem with that policy, asserts Hamid: Once the militants are in the driving seat, they won’t hesitate to violently turn against their Washington patrons, as evidenced by the brutal murder of the US ambassador in Libya.

Hamid is interviewed here by Russia Today, the Russian global TV network. The Russians have their own motives, of course, for wanting to apply the brakes to Islamic extremism. Not only is Russia flanked on its southern border by several predominantly Muslim nations, but Russia also has propped up Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in his civil war against a rebel alliance that includes militia connected to al-Qaeda.

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DietPepsi Takes On WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is now getting a taste of its own medicine as a hacking group calling itself AntiLeaks has launched a massive denial of service attack against the WikiLeaks website. Led by the shadowy DietPepsi, AntiLeaks also has claimed responsibility for taking down the Ecuadorian president’s website in response to the request by WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange that he be granted political asylum in Ecuador.

“What prompted us to form AntiLeaks is the impending decision by Ecuador to presumably give Julian [Assange] asylum, which should happen within days after the Olympics are over,” DietPepsi wrote in an email to the Des Moines Register, further claiming WikiLeaks is a terrorist organization.

Some have speculated that the American-based AntiLeaks is a US government-sponsored front, but DietPepsi laughed off those rumors. “I want to make it clear to all the conspiracy theorists out there that we have nothing to do with the United States Government…,” DietPepsi wrote. “We find it quite humorous to read all these Twitter comments from people who suspect us of being NSA/CIA/FBI/or even WikiLeaks themself.”

RT, the Russian global TV network, interviewed Loz Kaye, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Pirate Party, about this latest twist in the WikiLeaks saga. The Pirate Party has embraced WikiLeaks’ broadsides against governments worldwide. Pirate Parties exist in several countries, the most active being in Germany, Sweden and the Czech Republic.

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Ayers Predicts US Collapse

Bill Ayers, co-founder of the radical Weather Underground and controversial associate of President Obama, forecasts the collapse of the United States, bankrupted by runaway spending on an out-of-control arms race. “We are entering into a new arms race that’s going to spend us into catastrophe,” he tells a reporter from RT, the global Russian TV network.

In the far-ranging interview, Ayers also extols Occupy Wall Street while castigating NATO as “a military dictatorship” that’s merely “a fig leaf for the United States.” Additionally, he asserts that the US represents a greater threat to global stability than Iran, saying “invasion, aggression and occupation” have been the motivating factors behind all American involvement in wars over the past half-century.

This perhaps explains Obama’s 2008 remark that he intended to campaign in all 57 states — with Iraq, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan and Libya all having been aggressively invaded, occupied, annexed and granted statehood over the past decade.

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