By Matthias Chang | Future Fast Forward | 23 Nov 2014 All centres of power – Office of the President, Prime Minister, Heads of International Organisations, financial institutions, the military etc. are invariably subject to the “politics of truth”. Speaking truth to power is often a hazardous task. Truth when disclosed often injures one or more vested…
Paul Craig Roberts | 14 Nov 2014 As most Americans, if not the financial media, are aware, Quantitative Easing (a euphemism for printing money) has failed to bring back the US economy. So why has Japan adopted the policy? Since the heavy duty money printing began in 2013, the Japanese yen has fallen 35% against…
Pepe Escobar | Asia Times | 14 Nov 2014 If there were any remaining doubts about the unlimited stupidity Western corporate media is capable of dishing out, the highlight of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing has been defined as Russian President Vladimir Putin supposedly “hitting” on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife –…
By Patrick L. Smith | Salon | 14 Nov 2014 By way of events on the foreign side, the past few weeks start to resemble some once-in-a-while event in the heavens when everyone is supposed to go out and watch as the sun, moon and stars align. There are lots of things happening, and if…
By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh | Global Research | November 14, 2014 There is now a widespread consensus that mainstream/neoclassical economists failed miserably to either predict the coming of the 2008 financial implosion, or provide a reasonable explanation when it actually arrived. Not surprisingly, many critics have argued that neoclassical economics has created more confusion than clarification,…
by Michael Snyder | Economic Collapse | November 13, 2014 Barack Obama is secretly negotiating the largest international trade agreement in history Barack Obama is secretly negotiating the largest international trade agreement in history, and the mainstream media in the United States is almost completely ignoring it. If this treaty is adopted, it will be…
Paul Craig Robert | Institute for Political Economy | 2 Oct 2014 It is amazing how the government manages to continue selling Brooklyn Bridges to a gullible public. Americans buy wars they don’t need and economic recoveries that do not exist. The best investment in America is a highly leveraged fund that invests only in…
Gamal Nkrumah | Al Ahram | 2 Oct 2014 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyShGogzIn4?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner deserves acclaim and commendation from the international community. At the UN Security Council brainstorming session on “terrorism”, Fernández de Kirchner did not mince her words. Her candour was breathtakingly courageous. Fernández set the record straight, much to the consternation…
By Ellen Brown Global Research, September 02, 2014 “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.” —Winston Churchill When an article appears in Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of the policy-setting Council on Foreign Relations, recommending that the Federal Reserve do a money drop directly on the…
By Ellen Brown Global Research, September 02, 2014 “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.” —Winston Churchill When an article appears in Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of the policy-setting Council on Foreign Relations, recommending that the Federal Reserve do a money drop directly on the…