Federal Reserve Policy Has Levied a Hidden Tax On All Americans Bloomberg asks whether inflation is the legacy of the Fed: The answer is clearly YES. The dollar’s purchasing power has plummeted from 1913…
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In the coming General Election, condemning the Barisan Nasional (BN) as “totally corrupt” would be the Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) main line of attack. It will be used as a rallying cry to oust the incumbent. Corruption is undoubtedly a major challenge. There is elite corruption in both the public and private sectors. There is petty corruption within various strata of society. It is because it is a challenge that the government recognises combating corruption as one of the seven National Key Result Areas (NKRAs). And since 2004 a number of significant measures have been implemented, among them the establishment of 14 special anti-corruption courts with the mandate to adjudicate all corruption cases within 12 months; the enactment of the Whistleblower Act; the signing of Corporate Integrity Pledges and Integrity Pacts; and the acceptance of open tenders publicised through the media for procurement exercises thus enhancing transparency and accountability.
A THIRD Palestinian uprising is simmering slowly, fuelled by the denigrating policies of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. With the chances for a political resolution steadily diminishing, and lacking other options, the conditions are ripe…
A bit closer to the truth, but of course it is so much different from the American/British version which have their hidden agenda. I read an article by Elisabeth Nauclrs in the Aug…
Arafat Jaradat Palestinian Prisoner Tortured to Death in Israel: State terrorism is official Israeli policy. Torture and cold-blooded murder define it. Arafat Jaradat is Israel’s latest victim. He died wracked in pain Saturday. Israel attributed…
Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War by Michel Chossudovsky Available to order from Global Research in print AND pdf formats! CLICK TO LEARN MORE The US has embarked on…
Delhi. Early this morning, on the busy bylanes of Zamrudpur (Delhi), I passed a young girl being taken to school on a cycle-rickshaw. In her lap she held fast to her day’s homework. It was…
When former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked whether half a million dead Iraqi children who perished under US sanctions was a price worth paying to try to remove Saddam Hussein,…
Counter-Terrorism Is a Ploy, a Phony Diversion, for Achieving Classic Objectives of Imperialism The announcement (Feb. 22) that the US has opened a drone base in Niger has been deliberately couched in abstract…
It’s been five years since a few academics and journalists began to dig up evidence that something was wrong with the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR (pronounced appropriately as “lie-bore.”) The data that curious researchers were…