Russ Baker | WhoWhatWhy | 4 Nov 2014 You know something is going on when the cautious Boston Globe publishes not one, but two, pieces dealing with the “double government.” This cryptic phrase encapsulates a serious claim about the American body politic: That a permanent and largely unaccountable bureaucracy keeps on doing what it wants…
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…
By Katherine Smith | The People’s Voice | 22 Nov 2014 On the anniversary of JFK’s birthday, an edited video of the April 27, 1961 speech “that got John F. Kennedy Killed” was making its way around the Internet [1]: “For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies…
Altair Nurbekov | The Astana Times | 14 Nov 2014 [AM editor’s note: the globalist agenda shifts up a gear with the establishment of the Eurasian Council on Foreign Affairs (ECFA). This organization follows the Trilateral Commission, CFR and RIIA model of the ‘private council of power’ that enables and facilitates the neo-imperial hegemony of…
by Claudio Grass | LewRockwell.com | November 14, 2014 Close alliance among politicians, bankers and big enterprises This paper summarizes an outstanding essay written by Murray N. Rothbard in 1984, which appeared the first time in World Market Perspective and later under the same title as a monograph produced by the Center for Libertarian…
by Joseph T. Salerno | Mises.org | November 11, 2014 All governments are fundamentally oligarchic All governments past and present, regardless of their formal organization, involve the rule of the many by the few. In other words, all governments are fundamentally oligarchic. The reasons are twofold. First, governments are nonproductive organizations and can only…
by F. William Engdahl | November 11, 2014 American media is fond of speaking about “Russian Oligarchs” as if Russia were the only nation that allowed accumulation of such unprecedented wealth. The Yeltsin days of dis-order and collapse indeed saw the rapid rise of many fortunes and oligarchs—persons of very much wealth. Some of them…
Binoy Kampmark | Global Research | 3 Nov 2014 There have been stages in British history when the Establishment, a term popularised by Henry Fairlie in the 1950s, has come in for some rough treatment, if only in cranky press columns. Structurally speaking, the Establishment – that group of individuals whose role is merely to…
by Jordan Michael Smith | Boston Globe | October 20, 2014 The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender…
by Charles Hugh Smith | Of Two Minds | October 17, 2014 A nation is poor precisely because it has been ruled by a narrow elite For those who doubt that America is ruled by a narrow elite: three charts. The book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty neatly summarizes why nations…