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Professor Bernanke’s Bogus Contra-factual, Part 1: The Myth Of Great Depression 2.0
Professor Bernanke’s Bogus Contra-factual, Part 1: The Myth Of Great Depression 2.0 It took no “courage” whatsoever to inflate the Fed’s balance sheet from $900 billion to $2.3 trillion during just 17 weeks in September-December 2008. What it actually took was an epochal con job by a naïve Keynesian academic whose single idea about economics was primitive, self-serving, borrowed and […]
Lockheed Martin, Boeing Rally Around Saudi Arabia, Wave Off Humanitarian Concerns
Lockheed Martin, Boeing Rally Around Saudi Arabia, Wave Off Humanitarian Concerns Representatives from two major defense contractors whose advanced weaponry is being used in the Saudi Arabia-led bombing campaign that has killed scores of civilians in Yemen were quick to defend the human rights record of the Persian Gulf kingdom in a panel discussion held […]
Ivy League Universities Pushing Oil Industry Agenda With No Accountability
Ivy League Universities Pushing Oil Industry Agenda With No Accountability Harold Hamm isn’t the kind of guy you’d expect to be name dropping Ivy League schools. Born in Oklahoma, his education ended with his graduation from high school. Which didn’t stop him from becoming a multi-billionaire by building his own oil and gas fracking company, […]
Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here’s Why
Putin Just Warned Global War Is Increasingly More Likely: Here’s Why Vladimir Putin is basking in Russia’s triumphant return to the world stage. What began with a land grab in Crimea and escalated with support for the separatists at Donetsk, culminated in Moscow’s dramatic entry into Syria’s protracted civil war. To be sure, the deplorable […]
MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’
MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’ Exclusive: For skilled intelligence operatives, the Internet can be a devil’s playground, a place to circulate doctored photos, audio and documents, making investigations based on “social media” and such sources particularly risky, a point worth recalling in the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, says Robert Parry. The first thing any thinking person learns […]
Did the CIA Boss Bring In the Head of the CIA’s Castro Assassination Team to Kill JFK?
Did the CIA Boss Bring In the Head of the CIA’s Castro Assassination Team to Kill JFK? Well-known journalist David Talbot – founder and lead editor for Salon – said in an interview today that the CIA may well have played a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy: [After JFK fired CIA head […]
Will The Crazed Neocons Bring Us Nuclear Winter?
Will The Crazed Neocons Bring Us Nuclear Winter? As readers know, I have emphasized that the declared neoconservative intention of achieving global hegemony has resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon as Russia and China are most definitely not going to submit, as every European country, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Columbia, and Japan have […]
Russia “Confirms” It Has Plans To Restore Assad Government In Syria
Russia “Confirms” It Has Plans To Restore Assad Government In Syria Watching the US attempt to explain to the public why Washington can’t join the Russians in targeting extremists in Syria has been entertainment gold. The fundamental PR problem revolves around the fact that the West has gone out of its way to hold up […]
Moscow doubles down on Washington
Moscow doubles down on Washington History may eventually decide the ‘New World Order’ started on September 28, when Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama had a 90-minute face off at the UN in New York. Irrespective of spin – “productive” according to the White House, “tense”according to a source close to the Kremlin – facts […]
The New Cold War and the Death of the Discourse
The New Cold War and the Death of the Discourse The truth is often ignored, at first, and when that becomes impossible, truth-tellers are often punished. As two incidents starkly reveal, this is certainly the case when it comes to the civil war in Ukraine and Washington’s unfolding cold war with Russia. The first illustration […]
The Sad Fate Of America’s Whistleblowers
The Sad Fate Of America’s Whistleblowers Paul Craig Roberts believes Washington persecutes America’s greatest patriots… John Kiriakou is an American patriot who informed us of the criminal behavior of illegal and immoral US “cloak and dagger” operations that were bringing dishonor to our country. His reward was to be called a “traitor” by the idiot conservative Republicans […]
Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt ‘Knocking on Putin’s Door,’ Not Obama’s
Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt ‘Knocking on Putin’s Door,’ Not Obama’s Some of the US’s major allies appear more and more convinced that Barack Obama is losing his political influence on the Syrian conflict and the fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State terror group, according an analysis in the US media. Key US partners are increasingly fixing their eyes on Moscow rather than Washington, writes Dan de […]
With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?”
With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: “What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?” The US is in a tough spot militarily. In Syria, Russia and Iran have taken advantage of the fact that the plan hatched by the West and its regional allies to destabilize the Assad regime took […]
US refuses to receive PM Medvedev’s delegation to coordinate anti-terrorist actions in Syria
US refuses to receive PM Medvedev’s delegation to coordinate anti-terrorist actions in Syria Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Government Hour at a State Duma plenary session. © Vladimir Fedorenko / RIA Novosti Washington has refused to receive a Russian military delegation, headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, to discuss coordinated action on the fight […]
