In the Amnesic Dizziness of a "Turn of the Times" (tags)
When, with the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact, the entire military alliance of this rival collapsed, this could/must have been the prelude, according to rational criteria, to mothballing NATO in return. But exactly the opposite was to occur.
Capitalism and Worldwide Inequality (tags)
Thomas Piketty's motto "Inequality is always a problem when it is excessive" introduces the new World Inequality Report. Inequalities of income and wealth swell globally and in individual regions and nations.
Misguided Calls for More QE (tags)
QE
Market Euphoria: The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes (tags)
markets
Crowning the Dragon: World's Top Economy (tags)
China
Bracing for An Eventual Day of Reckoning (tags)
markets
The United States of Inequality (tags)
class war
Hardwired Inequality in America (tags)
class war
Public Banking: What Better Time Than Now (tags)
public banking
Want to legalize drugs? Vote for Ron Paul!!! (tags)
If you want to end America's insane, unconstitutional war on drugs, Ron Paul is the man to vote for! Same goes for ending the the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and bringing home all the American troops stationed in 100+ countries around the world!
Reagan Revisionism: Planned Centennial Commemoration Hoopla (tags)
revisionism
Quantitative Easing: Elixir or Poison? (tags)
QE indeed poison as being used
The wages of sin have come due.
"In the slipstream of the Iraq war, he carried out one of the greatest tax gifts for the economic elites in the history of the country. He cut pensions and income support and promoted the privatization of schools and the health system. He cut the pay of soldiers.."
How We Know Bush Will "Cut and Run" from Iraq (tags)
It looks like it's official. We're going to "cut and run" from Iraq. Oh, to be sure, that's not what the standard press reports say. They say the president insists, "We will NOT cut and run from Iraq." But the media has proven singularly credulous (that's the most charitable way we can put it) regarding the administration's pronouncements on Iraq.