Glenn Greenwald’s Call Same as Bob Parry’s in 1995
Glenn Greenwald’s Call Same as Bob Parry’s in 1995 After resigning from The Intercept when it suppressed one of his stories, Greenwald is calling for a new news outlet whose aim is the same as what the creator of this website established in November 1995. Robert Parry receiving the 2017 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London […]
Open Letter to Gregory Mankiw From Keith Weiner
OPEN LETTER TO GREGORY MANKIW FROM KEITH WEINER Dear Professor Mankiw: I am writing in response to your article in the New York Times, “The Puzzle of Low Interest Rates”. I commend you for recognizing two important truths, which are missed by many other observers. One, that there has been a breathtaking drop in the […]
The Washington Post Can’t Stop Babbling About Russians ‘Hacking Our Minds’
The Washington Post Can’t Stop Babbling About Russians ‘Hacking Our Minds’ The Washington Post has published another article warning its readers that the Russians are “hacking our minds”, this one authored by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. “Russia hasn’t just hacked our computer systems. It’s hacked our minds.” blares the ridiculous, propagandistic headline for an article about “the […]
What Would Happen If the Fed Ceased to Exist?
What Would Happen If the Fed Ceased to Exist? Extremes get more extreme until risk breaks out; then the reversal will be as extreme as the bubble expansion. What would happen if the Federal Reserve ceased to exist? We all know the answer: global markets would instantly collapse and the global financial system, now entirely dependent […]
The “New Confederacy”? Yes, It’s Time For Conservatives To Unite Against The Globalist Reset
The “New Confederacy”? Yes, It’s Time For Conservatives To Unite Against The Globalist Reset The narrative could not be more transparent or obvious, but then again, the elites are becoming lazy in their propaganda and the leftists are not all that bright. Essentially, every time conservatives (or moderates) organize to defend themselves against communist or […]
Meatpacking Plants Idled, Workers Sent Home As Pandemic Rages In North America
Meatpacking Plants Idled, Workers Sent Home As Pandemic Rages In North America In the last five days, the US reported over one million new COVID-19 cases with total virus-related deaths swelling over 311k. The resurgence of coronavirus cases is now affecting meatpacking plants. According to Bloomberg, Cargill Inc. was forced to idle one of its plants […]
Re-regionalisation as a pathway to diverse regenerative economies
Bioregions Map (Image Source: Ecotrust) Re-regionalisation as a pathway to diverse regenerative economies If we want to create healthy economies that protect rather than destroy local ecosystems, we will need to rewrite international trade rules in ways that include the social and ecological costs of production and consumptions, as well as trade. We need to protect […]
Rekindling Family Farming at Owl Oak Acres
Rekindling Family Farming at Owl Oak Acres Just before the sun sets, Evelyn (Evie) offers up the evening feed to all the animals on her family’s small ranch, Owl Oak Acres, in Red Bluff, California. She goes around from pen to pen, patiently throwing dinner over the fences to the eighteen ewes, the thirteen lambs, the […]
Nafeez Ahmed – Taking a Step Back to Move Forward in Times of Transition
Nafeez Ahmed – Taking a Step Back to Move Forward in Times of Transition Systems journalist Nafeez Ahmed joins us to discuss why it is so important to draw on systems thinking to understand global politics. Nafeez Ahmed guides us through the intricacies of systems thinking from within and outside the IR Academy, throwing light […]
How the State Spreads Mass Hysteria
How the State Spreads Mass Hysteria The history of mass hysteria, or mass sociogenic illness is fascinating. Cases of mass hysteria have been documented since the Middle Ages. Let me just mention a few of the more recent cases. When a radio play by Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, was broadcasted in 1938 shortly after the suspension of the Munich agreement, the play allegedly caused […]
From a Hamilton Moment to Perpetual Debt Slaves: This Is the True Face of the EU
From a Hamilton Moment to Perpetual Debt Slaves: This Is the True Face of the EU Over the summer while the U.S. was mired in the worst kind of color revolution with race riots, economic shutdowns and the worst kind of divisive politics, the European Union was celebrating its great achievement. A seven-year budget and […]
Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms
Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms The Facebook-owned platform’s denunciation of a well-established view of Biden shows the dangers of internet censorship and the fraudulent use of “fact-checking.” Presidential candidates former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) during the Democratic presidential […]
Why Site C Construction Should Stop Today
Why Site C Construction Should Stop Today The BC government has failed in its oversight role, say a former BC Hydro CEO and a veteran dam engineer. Construction on the Site C powerhouse continues despite known geotechnical risks. Photo: BC Hydro. Site C is the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history and […]
Survival of the Biggest
Survival of the Biggest Small Business Slaughter Triumph of Bigness Zombie Companies Small Business Startups Are Increasing Final Thoughts and Valuations The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process… At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction. …Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction […]
Our Distance from Dirt
Our Distance from Dirt Many of us on the African continent clutch our unethically sourced pearls and briefly confront the ugly truths about our consumption, writes Takondwa Semphere. But then we forget. 2012: Children gold mining in the eastern DRC. (Sasha Lezhnev/Enough Project, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) It seems that every other month, a different […]
