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Seven Ways TPP Favours Mega-rich Foreign Investors, Not Canadians
Seven Ways TPP Favours Mega-rich Foreign Investors, Not Canadians And why there’s still time for Trudeau to reject it. The Trudeau government still has options to push for renegotiation or to decline either to sign or to ratify the TPP on Canada’s behalf. Protest photo by arindambanerjee via Shutterstock. The Harper government agreed to the text of the […]
Thanks to TPP, Canada Could Get Caught in Global Privacy Battle
Thanks to TPP, Canada Could Get Caught in Global Privacy Battle Trade deal coupled with EU court decision could spell trouble for our laws. Two unconnected developments — a recent European privacy decision and the TPP — could create a major Canadian privacy problem. Privacy photo via Shutterstock. Amazon’s announcement last week that it plans to establish […]
U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition
U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition A senior Western official familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer told the Guardian that “direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now ‘undeniable.’” ISIS, in other words, is state-sponsored — indeed, sponsored by purportedly Western-friendly regimes in the Muslim world, who […]
Playing Games with War Deaths
Playing Games with War Deaths There’s a double standard in how the U.S. mainstream media reports civilian deaths depending if the U.S. military is fighting the wars or not, accepting absurdly low numbers when the U.S. is at fault and hyping death tolls when “enemies” are involved, a manipulation of human tragedy, says Nicolas J S Davies. How […]
What’s Eroding the Middle Class?
What’s Eroding the Middle Class? This erosion of a self-employed, independent middle class was an important pre-condition for the collapse of Rome and the French Revolution. I have devoted many blog posts to the erosion of the middle class, for the specific reason that when the middle class–the layers of the economy between the Power Elites […]
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home
Saudi Arabia is Buying Up American Farmland to Export Agricultural Products Back Home Just what we need, cornfield crucifixions. Seriously though, this is very troubling. The Saudis are explicitly conserving their own resources at home, while exploiting land and water supplies here in America. CNBC reports: Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries are scooping up farmland in […]
Earthquake Economics
Earthquake Economics Beyond Human Capacity “The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world,” said President Obama, in his State of the Union address, on Tuesday night. What performance metrics he based his assertion on is unclear. But we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Photo credit: Natacha Pisarenko […]
U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version
U.S. Radically Changes Its Story of the Boats in Iranian Waters: to an Even More Suspicious Version When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media — aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression — uncritically cited the U.S. government’s explanation for what happened. One of the […]
This is Where Industrial Production Normally Meets a Recession
This is Where Industrial Production Normally Meets a Recession The only exceptions were in the early 1950s Painful – that’s how you can describe the slew of recent US economic data. And today’s data dump was even worse. On a regional level, there was the Empire State Manufacturing Survey. The Current Activity Index plunged to the […]
US Economy – Slip-Sliding Away
US Economy – Slip-Sliding Away Economic Conditions Continue to Worsen It must be China. Or the weather, which is usually either too cold or to warm – somehow the weather is just neverright for economic growth. Surely it cannot be another Fed policy-induced boom that is on the verge of going bust? Sorry, we completely forgot […]
Energy round-up: six predictions for 2016
Energy round-up: six predictions for 2016 Photo credit: James Russell 2015 proved to be an interesting year for energy and climate issues both globally and in the UK. Will 2016 hold more of the same? Forecasting is a dangerous business, but here are six predictions you should keep an eye on. 1) The showdown on oil prices between […]
U.S. Media Condemns Iran’s “Aggression” in Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships — in Iranian Waters
U.S. Media Condemns Iran’s “Aggression” in Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships — in Iranian Waters News broke last night, hours before President Obama’s State of the Union address, that two U.S. Navy ships “in the Persian Gulf” were “seized” by Iran, and the 10 sailors on board were “arrested.” The Iranian government quickly said, and even the U.S. government […]
Why Transcanada’s $15 Billion Lawsuit Against U.S. is a Bad Omen for Trans-Pacific Partnership
WHY TRANSCANADA’S $15 BILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST U.S. IS A BAD OMEN FOR TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP The latest expression of our corporate-controlled economic structure revealed itself last week when TransCanada, the Canadian-based energy giant that hoped to build the Keystone XL pipeline, filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the United States government for rejecting the pipeline’s construction, […]
The International War on Cash
The International War on Cash Back in 2008, I began warning of increasing capital controls that we would see in the future, as a component in the decline of Western economies (Western in the broad sense, including Japan, Australia, etc.) Along the way, it occurred to me that, at some point, governments might collectively attempt […]
