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Turkey Moving Close to Civil War
Turkey Moving Close to Civil War Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the Turkish opposition leader of the social democratic CHP, has sharply criticized the push by the Turkish government to remodel Turkey into a presidential system. The CHP chief expressed concern about the future of the country. He warned that the rising discontent may lead to a civil war. “What a presidential […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Clears Path to Dictatorship
Turkey’s Erdogan Clears Path to Dictatorship The ouster of Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu marks another troubling milestone in President Erdogan’s consolidation of dictatorial power, a development that Alon Ben-Meir sees as further enflaming the region. The forced resignation of Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu suggests only one thing — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is […]
China Warns US: “Don’t Disturb” Hong Kong Social Order; Threatens “Bad Reaction”
China Warns US: “Don’t Disturb” Hong Kong Social Order; Threatens “Bad Reaction” Over the past few months, tensions have been high between the U.S. and China. Events such as China denying USS John C. Stennis and its escort ships access to a Hong Kong port showed just how strained relations have become between the two countries, and with […]
The Destabilizing Consequences of Globalization
The Destabilizing Consequences of Globalization Gordon T. Long and I discuss the failure of the status quo’s “New Normal” in a new 34-minute YouTube program. It is not possible to coherently discuss the “New Normal” economy without discussing financialization–the substitution of credit expansion and speculation for productive investments in the real economy–and its sibling: globalization. Globalization is […]
Chomsky: Europe Bows to Its ‘Washington Masters’ on Everything From Snowden to Iran
Chomsky: Europe Bows to Its ‘Washington Masters’ on Everything From Snowden to Iran (ANTIMEDIA) United States exceptionalism has created a preternaturally excessive number of military installments, deployments, and bases around the world. In point of fact, as David Vine described for the Nation in September 2015: “While there are no freestanding foreign bases permanently located in the United States, there […]
Amerigeddon: Are You Ready For The Chaos That Will Ensue When The Power Grid Is Brought Down?
Amerigeddon: Are You Ready For The Chaos That Will Ensue When The Power Grid Is Brought Down? What would America look like with absolutely no electricity? Could you survive in a world with no lights, no cell phones, no computers, no televisions, no ATMs, no cash registers and no refrigerators? Such a world is not […]
How Obama ‘Legalized’ the War on Terror
How Obama ‘Legalized’ the War on Terror Among the troubling legacies of Barack Obama’s presidency is his consolidation of the dubious legal principles that George W. Bush cobbled together to justify the Global War on Terror, explains Michael Brenner. President Barack Obama’s uneasy encounters with the law in devising numerous innovative means to prosecute the […]
Is Globalization Really Fueling Populism?
Is Globalization Really Fueling Populism? BRUSSELS – On both sides of the Atlantic, populism of the left and the right is on the rise. Its most visible standard-bearer in the United States is Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. In Europe, there are many strands – from Spain’s leftist Podemos party to France’s right-wing […]
When They Killed JFK They Killed America
When They Killed JFK They Killed America In the JFK administration I was a White House Fellow. In those days it was a much larger program than the small insider program it later became. President Kennedy’s intention was to involve many young Americans in government in order to keep idealism alive as a counter to […]
If Russia Had ‘Freed’ Canada
If Russia Had ‘Freed’ Canada Special Report: The U.S. government defined events in Ukraine as a “pro-democracy” revolution battling “Russian aggression” — at least as far as the world’s mainstream media was concerned. But what if the script were flipped, asks Joe Lauria. As the United States plans to move thousands of NATO troops to Russia’s […]
Ripe for Regime Change
Ripe for Regime Change Russia Today reports: “The Prosecutor General’s Office has ruled…the National Democratic Institute, chaired by a former Secretary of State (Albright,) poses a threat to Russian security and constitutional order. It proposed including this NGO on the list of undesirable organizations. According to NDI’s website the group operated in Russia directly since […]
A Dire Future
A Dire Future Do you remember all the hopes Americans had for Obama when we elected him to his first term? Painful memories. He betrayed the voters on every one of his promises. There was no change, except for the worst as Obama went on to become one of the most vicious war criminals in […]
Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China
Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China Can the world wake up? On September 19, 2000, going on 16 years ago, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraphreported: “Declassified American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European […]
America’s Biggest of All Big Lies (I)
ERIC ZUESSE | 05.05.2016 | WORLD America’s Biggest of All Big Lies (I) On April 26th, Reuters headlined from Romania, «‘We’re Not Here to Provoke,’ Say US Pilots on Putin’s Doorstep», and gave as an example: «‘We’re not here to provoke anybody, we’re here to work with our allies,’ says Dan Barina, a 26-year-old pilot on his first trip to a […]
