Imperialism is getting something for nothing. It is a strategy to obtain other countries’ surplus without playing a productive role, but by creating an extractive rentier system. An imperialist power obliges other countries to pay…
Category: Economy
Since June 2009 Americans have lived in the false reality of a recovered economy. Various fake news and manipulated statistics have been used to create this false impression. However, indicators that really count have not supported the…
America’s Collapsing Because it’s the World’s First Poor Rich Country There are days I feel like I read dystopian statistics for a living. And then there are day when the dystopian statistics take even my…
[Editor’s note: The article was originally published in December 12, 2016 after the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was elected to become the 45th US President in January 20, 2017.] On Dec. 12, President-elect Donald…
Tory leader Theresa May’s days have been numbered for months, her nearly three years as UK prime minister a colossal failure by any standard. She’s been ridiculed and reviled as “mean…crude…stupid (and) the prime minister…
Wherever I look at US policy, foreign or domestic, I see only insanity, ignorance, and incompetence. Take the issue of tariffs, which is Trump’s mistaken approach to bringing the jobs back home. The tariff “solution”…
Trillions of dollars in Pentagon spending have just disappeared into thin air. The Pentagon failed its first ever audit last year. There is so much off-the-books spending that no one has a clue where it’s…
Pigs at the trough: New Report Names Nearly 4,000 Companies Profiting Off of Private Prison Industry
“Today, more than half of the $80 billion spent annually on incarceration by government agencies is used to pay the thousands of vendors that serve the criminal legal system.” A new report provides information on…
While the crazed and corrupt people who comprise the Democratic Party and US print and TV media continue to insist that Russiagate is real, a very real threat is emerging in Russia, China, North Korea,…
Beijing promises an investment deal by next year, to curb industrial subsidies and the need for tech transfers, while the EU promises its own transport network Sparks did fly in Brussels, but in the end…
