OpEdNews » Vladimir Putin and the rise of the petro-ruble

Support OEN
With Your
Tax-Deductible Donation

Tags for This Article:

Populum Tag Cloud Control Panel
	Fine tune your search to access content

Articles	Links
Diaries	Products
Events	All

All time
Last 6 mos
Last month
Last week
Last 24 hrs

From:
Month Day Year

To:
Month Day Year

Alphabet Popularity	Count ON Count OFF
This Level	Sub-levels

Tag(s): Economy-Economics- US; Economy-Economics- World; Russia; USA United States Of America
Add to My Group

May 23, 2006 at 11:15:21

Vladimir Putin and the rise of the petro-ruble

by Mike Whitney Page 2 of 2 page(s)

www.opednews.com

SAVE FAVORITES

VIEW FAVORITES

View Ratings | Rate It

The US has purposely strained relations with Russia by putting more military bases in Central Asia, feeding the turmoil in Chechnya, isolating Russia from its European neighbors, and directly intervening in its elections.

When the G-8 summit takes place next week, we should expect a full-throated attack from the corporate media on Putin as the latest incarnation of Adolph Hitler. Watch the fur fly as the forth estate descends on its newest victim like feral hounds to carrion. (Putin’s announcement that Russia would be converting to rubles HAS NOT APPEARED IN ANY WESTERN MEDIA. Like the Downing Street Memo, the firebombing of Falluja, or the “rigged” 2004 elections, the western “free press” scrupulously avoids any topic that may shed light on the real machinations of the US government)

Putin’s challenge to the dollar is the first salvo in a guerilla war that will end with the crash of the greenback and the restoration of parity among the nations of the world. It represents a tacit rejection of a system that requires coercion, torture and endless war to uphold its global dominance. When the dollar begins its inevitable decline, the global-economic paradigm will shift, the American war machine will grind to a halt, and the soldiers will come home. Maybe, then we can rebuild the republic according to the lost values of human rights and the rule of law.

Putin’s plan is set to go into effect on June 8, 2006.

1 | 2

Mike is a freelance writer living in Washington state.

	Contact Author
	Contact Editor
	View Other Articles by Author

Bookmark this page: (what's this?)

(More...)

1 comments

A writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Mark SashineA writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Whom do we like and what do we seek

The main idea of the aticle above is essntially correct,I suppose: the artificial pyramide of the US economic supremacy is collapsing due to ' normal' behavior of the ' nature' so to speak. Putin or not, does not matter. What does matter, though, that any collapse, even the ' natural
one never is 'good' for the average citizen.
1. Most likely our savings will plumett and do we have anything else?
2. Most likely our prices will go up and do we have alternatives?
3. Most likely our mad government will go to war and do we have any way to stop that?
4. Most likely our healthcare will become what it is- the deathcare and do we have any means to prevent that?
5. Most likely we, the average Americans will bankrupt in record numbers, and do we really want it?
6. Most likely the rich will get .. richer and that is what they want.

I do not know about you, folks, but I do not want all of the above. So, what I want is Bush out,our kids here, the President Bill Moyers and Congress full of engineers.

Hey, is that too much to ask?

And by the way, Putin is nicknamed ' Putya' in Russia and that is very much like Dubya here. Putya and Dubya, what a marvellous world we have. This is really Mad, mad, Mad world.

by Mark Sashine (54 articles, 19 quicklinks, 252 diaries, 3603 comments) on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 7:52:25 AM