Winner Takes All: The Super-Priority Status Of Derivatives
Ellen Brown (SA),- Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the "new normal." Bail-in policies are appearing in multiple countries directing failing TBTF banks to convert the funds of "unsecured More...
The Great Social Security Robbery
By James Petras ( James Petras Blog ) Introduction: The leaders of both major parties, Congress, the White House, the editorial writers, journalists of all the principle newspapers and most academic economists More...
UK waging endless wars: Home and abroad
One ugly fact of life is emerging above all else in modern Britain: Permanent economic austerity at home now bestrides permanent war abroad. Last week, in his latest budget statement, the Tory Chancellor George More...
Dollar Collapse: China Will Defeat US Without Arms Race
Dollar Collapse: China Will Defeat US Without Arms Race By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. The Virtual Recovery Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates More...
Toward Barbarism: US Imperialism Unleashed
The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization. Rosa Luxemburg, The Junius Pamphlet With signs of a global economic downturn mounting, US aggression across the Middle East and North Africa More...
Under the Mask of the War on Drugs. Lars Schall interviews Oliver Villar
In the world of the global drug trade the state is pretty much at the very heart of the action, not just simply criminal elements. It is the state that allows gaining and maintaining market share. A prime example More...
Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Domestic and Geo-Political Challenges and US/NATO Ambitions for Global, Full Spectrum Dominance.
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has successfully completed its second transition of leadership since it was founded in 1948. The unexpected death of Kim Jong-il in December 2011 caught many western More...
China, US and Militarization of Asia Pacific at the Center of Gravity of 21st Century Economics and Politics
Broken clocks are right twice a day, and sometimes even propaganda can reveal a truth. And although I would be the last person on the planet to recommend Hillary “We Came, We Saw, He Died” Clinton as a source More...
“World War III of Contending Systems and Ideologies—Socialism versus Capitalism—For Global Hearts and Minds”
Socialism versus Capitalism: Who Will Win? Revolutionary Consciousness as a Material and Motive Force An old aphorism says: “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged; and a liberal is a conservative More...
The Electoral Victory of Political Islam in Egypt by Samir Amin
The Electoral Victory of Political Islam in Egypt By Samir Amin -- The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising. The decline brought More...
