The New Yorker has published a story planted on Nicholas Schmidle by unidentified sources who claim to be familiar with the alleged operation that murdered Osama bin Laden. There is no useful information in the…
Category: Global Issues
Last week Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) joined a demonstration in Washington D.C. to protest the refusal of President Obama to use his executive powers to halt the deportations of the undocumented. Gutierrez’ arrest came only…
The courageous struggle of the prisoners at Pelican Bay should make many more people sit up and take notice and ask—and find the answers to—some important questions about the U.S. prison system. Why does the…
Clear proof of the decline of the global profit system is the agonizing poverty and conflict in today’s Africa. With the worldwide economic crisis, competition is intensifying between big capitalists engaged in frenzied buying of…
After the tears have dried and the cries of outrage fallen silent, we may begin to recognise that the cinematic qualities of the Utoya Massacre were drawn from trashy horror flicks. It is a recurring…
Government officials from the US and North Korea held talks from July 28 to July 29 in New York City. But these were not the only talks in which Americans and North Koreas were involved….
Global Research Editor’s Note The following article focusses on the Protest movement in Syria in mid-July. it does not cover recent events. It nonetheless suggests that mainstream media sources are systematically manipulating the relevant numbers…
Listen to Michel Chossudovsky’s interview on Bonnie Faulkner’s Guns and Butter, Pacifica (KPFA): AUDIO “America’s Fiscal Collapse – Obama’s Budget Will Impoverish America” March 2009 “We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States…
The even sadder part is that as Obama’s ineffectual election shows, the US (and its Western lackeys) is being driven further and further into bankrupting, criminal wars of aggression that will cause more victims of violence and social mayhem at home and abroad. And it’s all because democracy in the US (and elsewhere in the West) is non-existent. The US is a dictatorship. And Mr Obama is too ineffectual (save for the masters) and irrelevant to be even loosely called its dictator.
The answer is obvious when one looks at why this fail-safe check was introduced in almost every country of the world. Throughout modern history, war has been the major cause of a rising national debt. Most governments operate in fiscal balance during peacetime, financing their spending and investment by levying taxes and charging user fees. War emergencies push this balance into deficit – sometimes for defensive wars, sometimes for aggression.