... Threatens Sovereignty and Public Ownership Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed by Paul Jay, Senior Editor The Real News Network (April 09 2013) PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new trade agreement that President Obama and his administration is leading the charge on, … Continue reading Everyone but China TPP Trade Deal … →

by Barbara Chicherio Nation of Change (June 24 2013) Something is looming in the shadows that could help erode our basic rights and contaminate our food.  The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to become the biggest regional Free Trade Agreement in history, both in economic size and the ability to quietly add more … Continue reading Trans-Pacific Partnership and Monsanto →

Putting Profits Before Populations by Ellen Brown The Web of Debt Blog (November 26 2013) "Control oil and you control nations", said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s.  "Control food and you control the people". Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that … Continue reading Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance →

... if It Were in Another Country by Joshua Keating Slate (November 27 2013) The World: How It Works If It Happened There … America's Annual Festival Pilgrimage Begins The long journey home http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_world_/2013/11/27/if_it_happened_there_how_the_u_s_media_would_cover_thanksgiving_if_it_was/107111488.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge.jpg Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images This is the fourth installment of a continuing series {1} in which American events are described … Continue reading How the US Media Would Cover Thanksgiving … →

... Behind the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands by Han-Yi Shaw The New York Times (September 19 2012) http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/09/19/opinion/global/diaoyu-2/diaoyu-2-blog480.jpg Diaoyu Island is recorded under Kavalan, Taiwan in Revised Gazetteer of Fujian Province (1871). I've had a longstanding interest in the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, the subject of a dangerous territorial dispute  between Japan and China. The United States claims to … Continue reading The Inconvenient Truth … →

... with Growing Pressure to Announce "Deal" at December TPP Ministerial, but No Resolution of Major Controversies by Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Naked Capitalism (November 25 2013) A week of intense TPP negotiations, marked with increasingly heavy-handed US tactics, came to an end late Sunday night in Salt Lake City, … Continue reading Salt Lake TPP Talks End … →

Federal Reserve and Wall Street Assassinate US Dollar by Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy (November 22 2013) Since 2006, the US dollar has experienced a one-quarter to one-third drop in value to the Chinese yuan, depending on the choice of base. Now China is going to let the dollar decline further in value.  … Continue reading The Dying Dollar →

Part A to the Insider's Economic Dictionary by Michael Hudson http://michael-hudson.com (July 18 2013) The fallacies that lurk in words are the quicksands of theory; and as the conduct of nations is built on theory, the correction of word-fallacies is the never-ending labor of Science. ... the party in this country, one of whose great … Continue reading The Antidote to Euphemism →

by James Howard Kunstler Clusterfuck Nation - Blog (November 25 2013) The financial wires and pod-waves are all lit up these days like it was happy hour at the Lottery Winner's Lounge.  It appears that the American economy - capital management division - has found the long-wished-for magic alternative energy source: horseshit. It is fueling … Continue reading All Bulled Up With No Place To Go →

Blowing Bubbles With Paul Krugman by Mike Whitney CounterPunch Weekend Edition (November 22 to 24 2013) America's "highest profile economist" thinks we need more asset bubbles to battle negative real interest rates and persistent secular stagnation. In a controversial post on his blogsite, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that bubbles may be necessary … Continue reading Stagnation Hysterics →