Saturday, November 30, 2013

Surviving Oligarchy

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Click here if you wish to access the source of this posting on Michael Hudson's website. This 8:37m clip is from a 2011 film entitled...

Freedom Or Subjugation? It’s (Not) Your Choice

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Click here to access article by Don Quijones from Raging Bull-Shit .  With each passing day it becomes increasingly clear what this new e...

Inside the high-tech fortresses of the super-rich

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Click here to access this article by Charlie Jane Anders from io9 . (satire) This is another contribution to my practice on Saturdays to ...
Friday, November 29, 2013

What’s Ahead? Lower Oil Prices, Despite Higher Extraction Costs

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Click here to access article by Gail Tverberg from her blog Our Finite World .  This widely respected analyst of energy and concerns rel...

Libya's Hell, Enabled by Canadian Humanitarians

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Click here to access article by Murray Dobbin from The Tyee (Canada).  But we hear nothing from the international choir, led here by Lloy...

Rise Up, Fight Back!

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Click here to access article by Mickey Z. from World News Trust . The author uses a gentrification issue in New York to introduce a bigge...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Timothy Geithner joins the Warburg Pincus Fund

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Click here to access report from VoltaireNet .  A portrait of a director of the ruling class I occasionally make reference to ...

What Is The Real Agenda Of The American Police State?

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Click here to access article by Paul Craig Roberts from World News Trust .  It's wonderful to see old-fashioned conservatives like Ro...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Military hand-me-downs: US police getting leftover armored trucks from Iraq

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Click here to access article from RT . More evidence that our masters in the ruling class view us as much of an enemy as people in foreig...

39 country chart of life expectancy and health spending per captia

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Click here if you wish to access the posting of this information by David Ruccio on Real World Economics Review .  The graph says it all,...

Recognizing the Gates... and the Gatekeepers

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Click here to access article by Mickey Z. from World News Trust .  The author uses an apt allegory to introduce his important thesis: I...

Report: Gas Industry’s Campaign Donations Reach Record Levels

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Click here to access article by Farron Cousins from DeSmogBlog (Canada). Unfortunately, the author implies that the Republican party is ...

How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme -- Again

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Click here to access article by Laura Gottesdiener from TomDispatch . (Note: if you wish to skip the introduction, you will need to scroll ...

That never-ending path to democracy

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Click here to access article by Ursula Lindsey from The Arabist . The writer notices that Empire-speak is in sharp contradiction with rea...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

U.S. Officials Hint at Reservations on Final Nuclear Deal

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Click here to access article by Gareth Porter from Inter Press Service .  The “first step” agreement between Iran and the United States t...

Business Elites Are Waging a Brutal Class War in America

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Click here to access an extract from a book by Noam Chomsky posted on Infoshop News . This is an excerpt from the just released 2nd editi...

Greece: rise of the party, demise of the movement?

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Click here to access article by Leonidas Oikonomakis from Reflections on a Revolution . The author examines the deterioration of grass ro...

The Official Video from the Federal Reserve on How It Creates Electronic Money

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Click here to access article by Pam Martens from Wall Street on Parade . Like this author, there are a number of liberals and old-fashion...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Arming Egypt

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Click here to access article by Nizar Manek from Le Monde Diplomatique . Few Americans have any idea of how our economy is so dependent o...

The June Uprisings in Brazil: Below and Behind the Huge Mobilizations (Part 2)

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Click here to access article by Raúl Zibechi from Up Side Down World . The author concludes this two part series with details on how majo...