By Prof. James Petras | Global Research | October 26, 2014 There is no question that, in the immediate aftermath and for several years following US military conquests, wars, occupations and sanctions, US multi-national corporations lost out on profitable sites for investments. The biggest losses were in the exploitation of natural resources – in particular, gas…
Noam Chomsky | Telesur | 20 Oct 204 An international poll found that the United States is ranked far in the lead as “the biggest threat to world peace today,” far ahead of second-place Pakistan, with no one else even close. Imagine that the lead article in Pravda reported a study by the KGB that reviews major…
By Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya and Kevin Edmonds | Global Research | October 14, 2014 On October 15, the United Nations Security Council will meet to “debate” the extension of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) which has acted as an occupying force in the country since the summer of 2004. MINUSTAH was created…
John Pilger | Oct 2014 In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one…
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy | 6 Oct 2014 The aggressive and mindless stance that Washington’s warmongers have taken toward Russia and China have shattered the accomplishment of Reagan and Gorbachev. Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war and removed the threat of nuclear armageddon. Now the neocons, the US budget-dependent (taxpayer…
Pepe Escobar | Tom Dispatch | 6 Oct 2014 A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s call it the BMB. Its likelihood is being seriously discussed at the highest levels in Beijing and Moscow, and viewed with interest in Berlin, New Delhi,…
Andrew Levine | Counter Punch | 3-5 Oct 2014 There are “get-out-of-jail-free” cards that come with superpower status, but they don’t always work. Still, it is better to be a superpower than to be dependent on one as those get-out-of-jail-free cards lose their value. This is why, bad as things now are in the Land…
By Nicolas J.S. Davies | AlterNet | 28 Sept 2014 The imperial game continues. As the U.S. escalates its bombing campaign against ISIS (or IS or ISIL), U.S. officials seem to have found an enemy we can all love to hate and fear. ISIS beheads hostages, conducts brutal ethnic cleansing and has links to Al-Qaeda. DC…
By Prof. James Petras | Global Research | September 29, 2014 Despite vast amounts of imperial data to the contrary, the great majority of writers on imperialism continue to describe and analyze US imperialism strictly in economic terms, as an expansion of “capital accumulation”, “accumulation on a world scale”. In fact the major and minor US…
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy | 28 Sept 2014 One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas. The public fell for the lie that the Taliban in…