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“Something Revolutionary Is In The Air”: Grexit By “Insurrection” Is The “Most Probable” Outcome
“Something Revolutionary Is In The Air”: Grexit By “Insurrection” Is The “Most Probable” Outcome A week ago, we said the following about the situation faced by Greek PM Alexis Tsipras when he and his new finance minister arrived in Brussels for the final round of bailout negotiations earlier this month: …the entire world looked on in horror […]
Is Democracy Hitting theFossil Fuels too Hard?
Is Democracy Hitting the Fossil Fuels too Hard? Stick that in your democracy and smoke it? Over the past few weeks the notion of democracy has been getting its fair share of attention in the media, and quite rightfully so; Greece had a referendum on whether or not it was going to accept new terms […]
The US Hand in the Syrian Mess
The US Hand in the Syrian Mess Exclusive: Neocons and the mainstream U.S. media place all the blame for the Syrian civil war on President Bashar al-Assad and Iran, but there is another side of the story in which Syria’s olive branches to the U.S. and Israel were spurned and a reckless drive for “regime change” followed, […]
An Open Letter to Britain’s Leading Violent Extremist: David Cameron
An Open Letter to Britain’s Leading Violent Extremist: David Cameron Dear Prime Minister David Cameron, It is with deep disappointment that I read excerpts of your speech provided by Downing Street to the press, purporting to set out a five-year strategy to tackle fundamentalist terrorism, which — whatever its intentions — is thoroughly misguided, and destined to plunge this […]
The Death of Democracy in a Byzantine Labyrinth
The Death of Democracy in a Byzantine Labyrinth The project of European Union, and its single currency experiment, were politically an attempt to unite fractious nations in order to put an end to a history of horribly destructive conflict. Economically, the goals were to scale up governance in Europe, to transition from the national to […]
Video of the Day – General Wesley Clark Suggests Putting “Disloyal Americans” in Internment Camps
Video of the Day – General Wesley Clark Suggests Putting “Disloyal Americans” in Internment Camps If these people are radicalized and don’t support the United States, and they’re disloyal to the United States, as a matter of principal that’s fine, that’s their right. It’s our right and our obligation to segregate them from the normal […]
Seeking War to the End of the World
Seeking War to the End of the World Exclusive: Despite the disastrous Iraq War, neocons still dominate Official Washington’s inside-outside game, government policymakers coordinating with think-tank opinion leaders to keep world tensions high and money flowing to military projects, a process personified by Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland, says Robert Parry. If the neoconservatives have their way again, U.S. ground troops will reoccupy […]
The Terrorism Pretext: Mass Surveillance is About Money and Power
The Terrorism Pretext: Mass Surveillance is About Money and Power “We are under pressure from the Treasury to justify our budget, and commercial espionage is one way of making a direct contribution to the nation’s balance of payments” -Sir Colin McColl, former MI6 Chief For years public figures have condemned cyber espionage committed against the […]
The President Of France Wants Eurozone Members To Transfer Their Sovereignty To A United States Of Europe
The President Of France Wants Eurozone Members To Transfer Their Sovereignty To A United States Of Europe The President of France has come up with a very creative way of solving the European debt crisis. On Sunday, a piece authored by French President Francois Hollande suggested that the ultimate solution to the problems currently plaguing […]
Making Excuses for Saudi Misbehavior
Making Excuses for Saudi Misbehavior Exclusive: Saudi-Israeli apologists are doing back flips to justify why the U.S. interest in having peaceful relations with Iran should take a back seat to sectarian and regional desires of Riyadh and Tel Aviv, including that peace with Iran will cause the Saudis to misbehave even more, notes Daniel Lazare. As the former publisher of […]
Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiuary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware
Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiuary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware There are lots of ways that government spies can attack your computer, but a U.S. drone company is scheming to offer them one more. Boeing subsidiary Insitu would like to be able to deliver spyware via drone. The plan is described in internal emails from the Italian company Hacking Team, which makes off-the-shelf […]
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement Obama is being praised as a man of peace for the nuclear agreement with Iran. Some are asking if Obama will take the next step and repair US-Russian relations and bring the Ukrainian imbroglio to an end? If so he hasn’t told Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland […]
What’s Scarce Geopolitically: Stability, Ways to Get Ahead and Innovation
What’s Scarce Geopolitically: Stability, Ways to Get Ahead and Innovation Conserving what is failing is not a path to stability. What’s in demand but scarce is valuable. This is one of those scale-invariant principles: businesses large and small want what’s scarce and in demand, because that’s what generates profits. What’s abundant but not in demand is […]
MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case?
MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case? Exclusive: In 1964, the Tonkin Gulf incident was used to justify the Vietnam War although U.S. intelligence quickly knew the facts were not what the U.S. government claimed. Now, the MH-17 case is being exploited to justify a new Cold War as U.S. intelligence again is silent about what it knows, […]
