IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN LOOKS AT THE GLOBE AND FINDS TURMOIL AND THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IN THE “MIDDLE RUN” FUTURE. While predictions for a given year are a “fool’s mission” and those for centuries in the future only too easy to make, those for the “middle run” of a decade or so hence are subject to [...]
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS: THAT’S HISTORY, ISN’T IT? It is indeed history that 50 years ago the world approached self-annihilation, as a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union brought the world to the brink of that catastrophe when the Soviet Union’s plans to place missiles in Cuba ran against the U.S. [...]
LIBERALS, DON’T GET TOO ENTHRALLED BY THE “ROBERTS COURT” IN THE WAKE OF ITS RULING ON OBAMACARE. (Reader Supported News) Bill Blum issues this warning, noting that the upholding of “Obamacare” in last week’s decision may have been a victory of sorts for health care “coverage” since it sustained the “individual mandate” on grounds that [...]
THE “AL QAEDA” BRAND ON INSURGENCY IN AFRICA IS SELLING QUITE NICELY, THANK YOU, AS A PRETEXT TO WESTERN RE-CONQUEST OF THAT CONTINENT. (Global Research) Focusing on a scary report of a British foreign policy think tank, Finian Cunningham describes intelligence agencies in the U.S., Britain, France and NATO as attempting to raise the “specter” of [...]
TRUST BUT DON’T VERIFY. (Salon) Glenn Greenwald stands on its head Ronald Reagon’s famous admonition to demand evidence of Soviet nuclear disarmament, not to “take their word for it.” Kevin Drum of Mother Jones says—and countless trusting followers of Barack Obama apparently agree—that only a “sociopath” would insist, as did Obama, on the continued imprisonment in [...]
Lawmakers in Virginia have backed off two highly controversial bills that would have been an unprecedented duel assault on the rights and privacy of women in the commonwealth. The rapid disintegration of support for the measures could the clearest evidence yet that a sustainable backlash is developing in what can only be described as a nationwide war [...]
IS THERE A CRISIS IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM? DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LOOK AND AT WHOM YOU ARE LOOKING. (Global Research) Sociologist James Petras does a deconstruction job on the thesis that “the world” is in economic crisis. Actually, the current recession is confined mostly to the European and North American continents, as economies in Asia [...]
“A CIA-M16 PLAN TO STAGE FAKE BORDER INCIDENTS AS AN EXCUSE FOR AN INVASION (OF SYRIA) BY SYRIA’S PRO-WESTERN NEIGHBOURS.“ (Global Research) Sound like something that might be happening in 2012 as the U.S., U.K., France and the Arab League contemplate an “intervention” in a Syria in which anti-government demonstrations are being “brutally suppressed?” Well [...]
FIDEL CASTRO: LOOKING INTO THE ABYSS. (Global Research) The former head of the Cuban government, still ostracized as a “dictator” by world governments and media, pens for Global Research a message for the year 2012, the year of the 50th anniversary of the October 1962 revolution that swept his movement into power. The 85-year-old Castro [...]
THE EUROPEAN UNION COULD BECOME THE GOLDMAN SACHS UNION. (Counterpunch) This is the spectre raised by Mike Whitney as he comments on the little-publicized appointment of Mario Draghi, former Managing Director of GS, to become the head of the European Central Bank, the European equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Off his record at GS, [...]
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