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I Fear The Greeks, Even When They Bring Gifts
I Fear The Greeks, Even When They Bring Gifts Just another normal morning at the Automatic Earth. Shaking off the local drink – when in Rome.. – and perusing a thousand views and pieces, many on the inevitable topic of ‘Da Referendum’. And I got to say, I can’t even tell whether it’s just me, […]
The People Must Be Overthrown
The People Must Be Overthrown Perhaps I should apologize for writing about Greece all the time. Thing is, not only have I just arrived in Athens last night (and been duly showered in ouzo), but Greece is the proverbial early harbinger of everything that’s wrong with the world (not to worry, I know that’s a […]
Six Tough Questions about the China Trade Deal
Six Tough Questions about the China Trade Deal Gus Van Harten, author of ‘Sold Down the Yangtze,’ breaks down the FIPA’s impacts. In his new book, Sold Down the Yangtze, trade law expert and Osgoode law professor Gus Van Harten takes apart the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China, detailing how he perceives […]
Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism
Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism Legitimizing State Violence In spite of their differing perceptions of the architecture of the totalitarian superstate and how it exercised power and control over its residents, George Orwell and Aldus Huxley shared a fundamental conviction. They both argued that the established democracies of the West were moving quickly […]
Is Telling Lies A Democratic Right?
Is Telling Lies A Democratic Right? While I’m on the Greece topic again today, I can’t help but pointing out some of the changes in tone I’ve noticed in the press recently, shifting towards outright oftentimes vicious if not ridiculous antagonism vs Greece. Remember, there is an agenda, there are pre-cooked narratives galore, and these […]
Democracy on Hold: President of European Parliament Suspends Vote on Secretive U.S.-EU Trade Pact as Tide Turns Against It
Democracy on Hold: President of European Parliament Suspends Vote on Secretive U.S.-EU Trade Pact as Tide Turns Against It Today was supposed to be a historic day — the day when hundreds of MEPs, representing hundreds of millions of European citizens, were to finally get their say on the hugely contentious EU-US trade bill commonly known […]
The Empire Was Temporarily Defeated In Macedonia
The Empire Was Temporarily Defeated In Macedonia Global Research has made available an English translation of Andrew Korybko’s interview with the Macedonian NetPress. Washington’s color revolution for Macedonia has failed for now. Korybko describes how Washington-funded NGOs are used as Fifth Columns to destabilize and to overthrow governments in order to bring countries under Washington’s […]
Democracy Or Oligarchy – You Decide
Democracy Or Oligarchy – You Decide In the interests of clarifying what it is that America has become, we offer this… So which one sounds more accurate?
How America’s ‘News’ Media Killed America’s Democracy: TPP & TTIP
How America’s ‘News’ Media Killed America’s Democracy: TPP & TTIP As I reported on Wednesday, a deal was worked out in the U.S. Senate on the early afternoon of May 13th to “Fast-Track” through to approval U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed trade deals, TPP with Asia, and TTIP with Europe. (It should have been reported on […]
Elections: What Are They Good For?
Elections: What Are They Good For? Sanders or Webb, Does It Make any Difference? Before the 1960 Presidential Election, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the historian who would become John Kennedy’s court intellectual, published a short book called Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? His answer was that it made a big difference because Nixon was […]
Why Not Tell Greece How To Run A Democracy?
Why Not Tell Greece How To Run A Democracy? I know I’ve talked about this before, but it just keeps coming and it keeps being crzay.Bloomberg ‘reports’ that the ‘German Finance Ministry’, let me get this right, “is supporting the idea of a vote by Greek citizens to either accept the economic reforms being sought by […]
How to Change the World Overnight
How to Change the World Overnight Making a Difference Mark Twain said: If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it. In other words, if the government is not trying to stop something, it must not be very important. On the flip side of the coin, the great historian Howard Zinn noted: Protest always looks futile at […]
To Those Who Believe in Voting
To Those Who Believe in Voting Thoughts on the Least Important Decision People Make Every Four Years One morning years ago, as I entered the classroom for a course I taught on U.S. history, I found the students engaged in a discussion of elections. One of them, whom I knew to be a supporter of “progressive” […]
Britain: A Functioning Democracy It’s Not
Britain: A Functioning Democracy It’s Not We at the Automatic Earth always try to steer clear of elections as much as possible, because there are no functioning democracies left in the west -no more than there are functioning markets-, and no journalists reporting on them either. Interesting question, by the way: how can a journalist […]
