Saturday, December 11, 2010

The "Great Game" and the Conquest of Eurasia: Towards a World War III Scenario? - Part 1

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by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya from Voltaire .  The author looks at current trends in The Great Game which, as in the past, pose great capita...

Washington’s Geopolitical Nightmare: China and Russia boost economic cooperation

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by William Engdahl from Voltaire .  Engdahl, in my opinion, is one of the most astute political observers in the world. Not that I always ...

Iceland offers risky temptation for Ireland as recession ends

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by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard from The Telegraph .  This noted financial editor looks at countries who refused to bail out their banks. Icel...

Cancún Summit Gives Fossil Fuels a Free Pass

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by Stephen Leahy from IPS .   The main cause of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels, so why are billions of dollars being investe...

Like All Rich People, Louis C.K. Hates Spoiled Rich Kids

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair . Access to unlimited resources consistently undermines any sense of normalcy in the household, and paren...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Wikileaks: A Big Dangerous US Government Con Job

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by William Engdahl from Global Research . The author presents a very good argument that the WikiLeaks event may be essentially a COINTELPR...

Companies Cling to Cash

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by Justin Lahart from The Wall Street Journal . Money, money: (Sung to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?") where ha...

Miami Rice: The Business of Disaster in Haiti

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by Beverly Bell and Tory Field from Toward Freedom .  As we file this article, Port-au-Prince is thick with the smoke of burning tires and ...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

The Obama tax deal with Republicans is insane

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from Real Economics .  Currently there is a big issue before Congress which, as an agent of the ruling class, is about to extend the Bush ...

Naked emperor hails sex by surprise

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online . The author in a lighthearted manor shows the delight that many of us share looking at the naked E...

Some humor to cure whatever ails you

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This was posted on Naked Capitalism 's blog, origin is unknown.      The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Environmentalism and political struggle

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by Frank Rotering from Energy Bulletin . I know nothing of Saba Malik other than what is reported in this article, but I am fully in agree...

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Future of Government

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by Tom Whipple from Fall Church News Press . A completely new paradigm of what we do to sustain life is going to have to emerge or things w...

Hackers seek to 'avenge' WikiLeaks

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from Al Jazeera .  In a new 21st century method of fighting the ruling elites, internet activists are hacking websites of those corporatio...

Selling America’s wars to the people [videos and articles]

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from Russia Today (RT) .  One often has to go to the media of rival capitalist countries to obtain this kind of analysis of US indoctrinat...

Wikileaks and Media Disinformation

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by Gearóid Ó Colmáin from Global Research .  The author cautions us to read critically the WikiLeaks exposures as reported by mainstream p...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Big Banks Are Stifling Economic Growth & Taxing Consumers

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by Dian L. Chu from EconForecast .  The author appears to have a good understanding of the effects of QE2 on the economy. Not surprising, ...

Why do we need the rich?

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by Dan Russell from Socialist Worker .  The author provides an easily understood Marxist perspective on jobs, wealth creation, and capital...

Some questions to ask our quaint little Teaparty friends

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by William Blum from Foreign Policy Journal .  The author provides some unsettling questions for all those anti-government propagandists o...

Climate change scientists warn of 4C global temperature rise

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by Damian Carrington from the Guardian .  A hellish vision of a world warmed by 4C within a lifetime has been set out by an international ...