Editor’s Notes

In case you didn’t know it, Ken Livingston is Mayor of the City of London, England. We can hardly not know that Hugo Chavez is President of Venezuela. The two men are loved or hated. Now we see something that will prompt a lot more of the same for both — London has signed on for bargain-priced oil with Venezuela. Put this high on your reading list.

We learn a lot about Chechen rebels and Russian repression with samples of horrific brutality from both sides but now find that Chechnya is also a member of the oil club, It’s Acting President Ramzan Kadyrov is making noises about challenging Russian domination of the resource. It’s a safe bet that Kadyrov’s sponsor, Valdimir Putin, will find this expression of independence much more palatable than armed conflict.

Then we have Russia proudly announcing that when it comes to arms production and their sale it is in a neck-to-neck race with the United States. Makes one want to set and ponder about the good all the money that is spent on armaments could do were it spread around for the good and welfare of our species. It’s not bleeding heart to think this way. It’s holding up a mirror to the sheer insanity of the exercise in cold-blooded control of the military-industrial complex.

Yulia Latynina, one of the top syndicated Russian columnists and radio talk-show co-host takes the wraps off the deal president Vladimir Putin has made to achieve peace in the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya.

Weekend reading. In Iraq, behind the succession false excuses of weapons of mass destruction, regime change, and spreading democracy, has lurked the truth that the whole blood bath ha been about oil. Big oil, with support of primarily of American and British guns has all but coerced the Iraq puppet government into signing a deal that will give the bloated oil industry 75 percent of oil revenue during the next 30 years. The math is simple. Iraq will be left with 25 percent to restore its rendered country. Dream on about American boys and girls coming home. The only way big oil can secure this robbery is if the boys and girls die there for three more decades. That’s their plan. However, the world has changed. I don’t think the thugs will be able to pull it off.

Next week we’ll tell you who’s going to win the March Quebec elections. And why.

Meanwhile, take it easy but take it.

Looking forward.

Carl Dow
Editor and Publisher.