Saturday, February 26, 2011

The elite dilemma

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by Jim O’Reilly from his blog, Comments on Global Political Economy . It is becoming clear that the contradictions inherent in capitalism ...

Libya: How Gaddafi became a Western-backed dictator

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by Peter Boyle from International Journal of Socialist Renewal .  The author provides some interesting details on Gaddafi's variable h...

Libya: Are the US and EU Pushing for Civil War to Justify NATO Intervention?

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by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya from Voltaire. The author raises some interesting questions about US and NATO's intentions regarding Libya,...
Friday, February 25, 2011

The Last Word on Terrorism: Kissinger and the Globalist Agenda [10:44m video]

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by James Corbett from Global Research TV .  Corbett reviews the real history of the Middle East and other areas of interest to global capi...

Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

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by Michael Hastings from Rolling Stone .  There is really nothing new here, it's just that such incidents are rarely reported in mains...

In search of an African revolution

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by Azad Essa from Al Jazeera . Citing the absence of media coverage for the rest of Africa, the writer makes us aware that much of Africa ...

Egypt/Turkey-Israel: ‘A clean break’

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by Eric Walberg from Global Research .  Rarely have I seen so much accurate realpolitik in one article as I see here regarding Israel and...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

The New Latin American “Progresismo” and the Extractivism of the 21st Century

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by Carmelo Ruiz Marrero from Americas Program .  More people in South America are critically looking at the new, "progressive" r...

Open Class Struggle in Wisconsin

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by John Reimann from IWW .  While less than 10% of the private sector work force is organized in unions in the United States, these unions ...

Did Scott Walker Get Crank-Call Pwned? YES!

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Audio and script created by Ian Murphy of The Beast via Mother Jones .  (I am posting this on Mother Jones' site because the Beast site...

Thawing permafrost feedback will turn Arctic from carbon sink to source in the 2020s, releasing 100 billion tons of carbon by 2100

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from Climate Progress .  Countless studies make clear that global warming will release vast quantities of GHGs into the atmosphere this dec...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

MSNBC, HuffPo Finally Air Wilkerson's First Hand Evidence on Iraq War "Hoax"

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by Gustav Wynn from OpEd News .  Always, belatedly, we learn how the government (US) of the ruling class lied to us; and it is always care...

Wisconsin, power, unions, and oligarchy

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by Jim O’Reilly from his blog, Comments on Global Political Economy . Even someone who retired from a career in banking and finance, like ...

“We’re Broke,” Say the Rich, and the Poor Must Pay

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by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report .  A society built on racist lies and outright nonsense will believe anything. Therefore, it is no wo...

From Madison to Manhattan, Workers Defend Union Rights

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by Kanya D'Almeida from IPS . This journalist examines labor protests and Gov. Walker's actions in Wisconsin and discovers a class...

Greek police clash with anti-austerity protesters

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from Reuters .  The Greeks are once again engaging in a 24 hour general strike in their class war:  Greek police clashed with protesters ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The real reason for public finance crisis

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by Richard Wolff from the Guardian . Nothing better shows corporate control over the government than Washington's basic response to th...

Next stop: The House of Saud

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online .   With the information that Escobar has dug up, the situation in Bahrain looks very much the same...

Mideast Meets Midwest: Joining the Surge Against Corrupt Elites

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by Chris Floyd from Empire Burlesque .  Tens of thousands of ordinary people pour into the streets in a desperate bid to stop yet another v...

Time out

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