Mathew D. Rose: Why the US Will Have to Clean FIFA’s Augean Stall
Having the US do the cleanup on FIFA exposes how lax prosecutors were elsewhere, above all in Germany and Switzerland.
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The Geopolitics of American Global Decline: Washington Versus China in the Twenty-First Century
America’s current leadership has failed to grasp the significance of a radical global change underway inside the Eurasian land mass. If China succeeds in linking its rising industries to the vast natural resources of the Eurasian heartland, then quite possibly, as Sir Halford Mackinder predicted on that cold London night in 1904, “the empire of the world would be in sight.”
Read more...New Brunswick: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Found a Really Soft Touch
By Richard Smith It’s high time for an update on this vast fraud story, which has, near its core, Bryan Cook and Thomas Yi, of bogus international investment bank London Capital. Here’s a synopsis of the story so far at NC, and the global press coverage that has ensued. First, there was “Is Power8, Sponsor of […]
Read more...Gaius Publius: Fast Track Will Also Apply to TISA
Fast Track is not just a path to TPP … it’s evil all on its own. There’s now another leaked “trade” deal, called TISA, and Fast Track will “fast-track” that one too. Want your municipal water service privatized? How about your government postal service? Read on
Read more...John Helmer: Chatham House Rule — Propaganda is What Comes Out of Other People’s Mouths, and Pockets
The West is apparently worried about a propaganda gap with Russia, and the solution is truth-telling, provided by Chatham House for a price.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Nancy Pelosi Is Whipping “Almost Daily” for TPP
Why Nancy Pelosi is the White House’s secret weapon for the pending Fast Track bill.
Read more...Thanks for Your Helpful Responses to Our Call to Action
We thank readers for their considerable, valuable input on a recent call to action and discuss how we plan to use their ideas.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Declares War on SEC Chairman Mary Jo White
Elizabeth Warren just put SEC Chairman Mary Jo White firmly in her crosshairs.
Read more...Joe Firestone: Get Ready to Call ‘Em Out On the TPP!
The opposition has done vastly better than expected on stymieing Obama’s toxic trade deals. Thinking ahead to how to block them in the House, and if it gets that far, when the Fast Track fix goes to the Senate.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Sinking the Sanders Campaign Beneath a Wave of Silence
Sanders can win, and that’s one of the reasons the press is going to try to sink him.
Read more...Michael Klare: Delusional Thinking in Washington, The Desperate Plight of a Declining Superpower
How US superpower overreach has hit the breaking point, yet the officialdom acts as if somehow doing more will succeed.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Ukraine’s “Operation Vulture” and Labor Protests
Hudson’s so-called “Operation Vulture,” the strip-mining of what little is left of a functioning economy in Ukraine, comes straight out of the neoliberal playbook.
Read more...The Fed’s Dereliction of Duty and False Capital Flows Morality
The Fed disavows responsibility for the way US interest rate policy sends money sloshing around the world. It’s a huge mistake intellectually and politically.
Read more...Three Former SEC Commissioners Urge Mary Jo White to Stop Protecting Corporate Cronyism via Inaction on Disclosure of Political Spending
SEC Chairman Mary Jo White is caught out at her corporate crony tricks yet again.
Read more...America’s First Black President Throwing Slaves Under the Bus on TPP
The sausage-making on the TPP has gotten messier…..
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