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The European Union is absolutely devastated. It remains unclear exactly why this is happening. The European Union is absolutely devastated. It remains unclear exactly why this is happening….
By destroying the teacher, the neoliberal West is destroying something even more important: our self-awareness! Much has been said about the crisis in the West and especially in…
Today a new master is added to the plebiscitary oligarchy of Italy’s slavers: BlackRock. Giorgia Meloni’s leadership is bringing great joy to Italians: unrestrained immigration, taxes and excise…
This is what lies behind the German elections, Hugo Dionísio writes. The elections in Thuringia and Saxony, seen as a referendum on the Scholz/Baerbock government and a foretaste…
A European Union that has not only given up, but is using its own people. This is the legacy of Ursula von der Leyen and all those who…
Being an “ally” with the USA does not guarantee immunity against economic interference, subversion and sabotage, quite the opposite. The Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, once said that…
Despite public protestations, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is helping Israel transfer 1.4 million Palestinians from Rafah to tent cities in the Sinai Desert On Saturday, western news…
The World Economic Forum gives us the exceptional privilege of a study that only living fossils can give The World Economic Forum gives us the exceptional privilege of…
It is so long since Brzezinski originally formulated the Mackinder notion, that classical diplomacy has become etiolated. In 1997, Zbig Brzezinski, the original ‘driver’ behind the making of…
The growing favouritism towards central bank digital currencies, such as the Russian digital ruble, launched on August 1, is underpinned by the great potential to create a new,…
Look carefully at the chart above. What do you see? You see the development of a high-speed rail system that is unrivaled anywhere on earth. You see the actualization…
Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean….
A recent press release announces a new partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the multibillion-dollar Rockefeller Foundation. Stating that the aim is to strengthen the WHO’s so-called ‘Hub…
It’s been a week since the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the US at the time of its collapse and reportedly a…
Interview of Paul Craig Roberts by the Russian Geopolitical institute GEOFOR. There are two main avenues to a potential US financial crisis. Such a crisis, because of US financial…
The tremors in the financial system felt around the world triggered by the run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the United States, its subsequent closure and being…
The future of humanity will be decided on a battlefield in Ukraine. That’s no exaggeration. The conflict between the United States and Russia will determine whether global economic integration…
The Anglo-American foreign policy hawks imagine that the world is yearning to be liberated from Beijing’s nefarious agenda to end poverty As the trans-Atlantic world is pulled into…
Money is no mystery The Federal government gave up all pretensions that money is backed by the gold held at the Federal Reserve, or backed by anything concrete,…
Clinton was selected to be president precisely because he is a high-level psychopath able to usher neoliberal policies In September, former president Bill Clinton said Russia did not…
A virtually unregulated investment firm today exercises more political and financial influence than the Federal Reserve and most governments on this planet. The firm, BlackRock Inc., the world’s…
Soon enough it is probable that most countries, however reluctantly, may have to choose which of the two incompatible financial systems they want to align with. And one…
The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled [Eamon McKinney – Strategic Culture Foundation, 08.03.2022]
Anger is erupting around the world, and people have much to be angry about. Covid, famine, energy shortages, inflation. “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing…
The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the…
Well, it is nice to be free again, though as I said on release, I shall never really feel free while Julian is still imprisoned and while Scotland…
The uncomfortable fact which too many commentators tend to run away from out of fear, ignorance or intellectual dishonesty, is that the world financial system is sitting on…
We hear a lot lately about the US billionaires increasing their wealth by more than $1 trillion over the past year, as Covid precipitated the most severe recession…
When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful….
Failing to help those in most need COVID19 is devastating on older persons. The numbers are staggering, more than 80 percent of the fatalities due to coronavirus in…
On July 6, 2020 I posted my extended view and analysis why the 3rd quarter US GDP would falter–and lead to a W-shape recovery, as it typical of…
Like everyone, I would love to live in a pollution-free world. I would love to see human civilization strike a balance with nature and at the risk of…
As I have told my friends for many years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is incapable of helping nations grow their economies. I do not believe the IMF…
Stan Cox on Building a More Humane, Robust Way of Putting Food on the Table Covid-19 outbreaks are now reaching far beyond the meatpacking industry. Migrant farmworkers in fruit orchards…
Last week the French National Assembly convened an inquiry into the “genealogy and chronology” of the Coronavirus crisis to examine the evident failures in its handling and will interview government…
Mainstream economics consistently fails to predict the future. I’m talking about those ‘schools’ of mis-thought, ranging from Paul Krugman on the ‘left’ to Glenn Hubbard and other apologists…
There appears to be no shortage of claims from multiple informed and independent sources that the WHO has two primary functions, the first as a tool for world…
The spin is in! Trump administration economic ‘message bearers’, Steve Mnuchin, US Treasury Secretary, and Kevin Hasset, senior economic adviser to Trump, this past Sunday on the Washington…
I’m squatting on a round piece of concrete, and a 72-year-old man is sitting in the gutter, his walking stick beside him. He tells me that after being…
The Coronavirus has been wrecking the US and global economies. While focus has been on addressing the biological devastation wrought by the virus, the economic devastation keeps growing….
As Republican and democrat politicians hold emergency meetings to decide how to avoid a meltdown of Wall Street, the smell of hyperinflation looms in the air as much…
Let us remember that when Macri started his mandate in December 2015 he accepted all the injunctions formulated by a New York magistrate, who had ruled in the…
Over this weekend, China’s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not…
Modern fractional reserve banking is ultimately a confidence game. If lenders or depositors are confident their bank is solvent, it stands. If confidence is broken, that historically leads…
Europe’s biggest investment bank, Deutschebank, is in big trouble. This Sunday it will announce a major restructuring. It’s also a harbinger of a bigger problem with European banks…
This past week, on March 20, 2019, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell announced the US central bank would not raise interest rates in 2019. The Fed’s benchmark rate,…
Invasion of Venezuela by US and its proxies is just around the corner! This past week vice-president Pence flew to Colombia once again—for the fifth time in recent…
The big push is on to convert Greece into a bastion of liberal democracy and godlessness. At least this is what the latest news from Athens presages. Prime…
Amidst waves of anti-immigrant populism that have crashed into European politics, the focus of what drives migration demands more attention. In Africa, specifically, the unchecked exploitation of the…
Washington’s Silent Weapon for Not-so-quiet Wars [William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook, 08.20.2018]
Today by far the deadliest weapon of mass destruction in Washington’s arsenal lies not with the Pentagon or its traditional killing machines. It’s de facto a silent weapon: the…
The vicious circle of illegitimate debt grapples the Argentine people once again IMF’s $ 50 billion loan surpasses Greece’s previous record Sergio Ferrari from Berne, Switzerland interviewed Eric…