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Last Updated: May 5th, 2008 - 00:42:47 |
Analysis
Gorbachev number two: Dmitry Medvedev; the West should get ready for a new transition period in Russia
By Andreas Umland
The majority of Russian and Western observers see the
man who will become the new president of the Russian Federation this month as
an only relatively liberal figure, if not as a faceless opportunist.
May 5, 2008, 00:21
Analysis
Perhaps 60 percent of today’s oil price is pure speculation
By F. William Engdahl
The
price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of
supply to demand. It’s controlled by an elaborate financial market system as
well as by the four major Anglo-American oil companies. As much as 60 percent
of today’s crude oil price is pure speculation driven by large trader banks and
hedge funds. It has nothing to do with the convenient myths of Peak Oil. It has
to do with control of oil and its price. How?
May 5, 2008, 00:19
Analysis
Anthony Julius and a journey to the dark Zionist world
By Gilad Atzmon
Anthony Julius is a prominent British lawyer and
academic, best known for his actions on behalf of academic Nazi hunter Deborah
Lipstadt. It was Julius who perpetrated the destruction of history revisionist
David Irving’s career.
Apr 30, 2008, 00:16
Analysis
Global famine? Blame the Fed
By Mike Whitney
The stakes couldn't be higher for Ben Bernanke. If the
Fed chief decides to lower rates at the end of April, he could be condemning
millions of people to a death by starvation.
Apr 29, 2008, 00:19
Analysis
Yinon's prophecy: Is the US waging Israel's wars?
By Linda S. Heard
Many throughout the Muslim world and beyond are asking
this question: What are the real reasons behind the US invasion of Iraq and its
wish to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran?
Apr 29, 2008, 00:15
Analysis
Elusive peace: 60 years of pain and suffering
By
Louay Safi
George
W. Bush, who proposed the boldest peace initiative of any American president to
solve the Palestine issue, managed to deliver only the most meager results
during his two-term presidency.
Apr 28, 2008, 00:18
Analysis
Europe’s roots in social justice: The European Idea
By Gaither Stewart
ROME -- For the first time since Mussolinian Fascism
outlawed them early last century there will be no Socialists and Communists in
the new Italian Parliament elected in general elections in mid-April. The
“radical Left” was swept out of Italy’s parliamentary life by the devastating
victory of the Right, led by the populist Silvio Berlusconi.
Apr 25, 2008, 00:19
Analysis
Memo to Bernanke: Enough with the rate cuts, already!
By Mike Whitney
Last week's stock market blowout added more than 4 per
cent to the Dow Jones Industrials, but it had no affect on Libor rates.
Libor rose steadily from Tuesday through Friday signaling more
troubles in the banking system.
Apr 24, 2008, 00:20
Analysis
Financial collapse will end the Iraq occupation, but it won't come at a time of Washington's choosing
By Mike Whitney
The US Military has won every battle it has fought in
Iraq, but it has lost the war. Wars are won politically, not militarily.
Apr 18, 2008, 00:16
Analysis
Watching and waiting: al-Sadr's strategy to defeat the occupation
By Nicolas J S Davies
On the morning of March 19, on the fifth anniversary
of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I stood with a small group of protesters outside
U.S. Southern Command Headquarters in Miami. A reporter asked me whether I felt
frustrated.
Apr 16, 2008, 00:20
Analysis
American hegemony is not guaranteed
By Paul Craig Roberts
Exactly as the British press predicted, last week’s
congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Green Zone administrator
Ryan Crocker set the propaganda stage for a Bush regime attack on Iran.
Apr 16, 2008, 00:14
Analysis
Want to save the US economy? Spread the wealth and give workers a pay raise
By Mike Whitney
A specter is haunting Wall Street -- the specter of
insolvency. One major player, Bear Stearns, has already gone under, and by
the looks of it, another may be on the way. It's getting ugly out there. The
so-called TED spread -- which measures the willingness of banks to lend to each
other -- has begun to widen ominously, suggesting that the money
markets believe another body will be floating to the surface any day now.
Apr 16, 2008, 00:12
Analysis
When the Fed goes into the investment business
By Rodrigue Tremblay
In 1989, the U.S. government created the Resolution Trust Corp., in effect nationalizing many
savings and loans banks that were in financial difficulties. Similarly, on
February 16, 2008, the British government nationalized the Northern Rock bank and rescued this bank with about £55 billion ($107 billion)
in public loans and guarantees.
Apr 14, 2008, 00:12
Analysis
Is the CIA behind the China-bashing Olympics protests?
By Larry Chin
Around the world, Beijing’s hosting of the 2008
Olympic Games has become the target of unprecedented, well-orchestrated and
extremely hostile mass protests.
Apr 11, 2008, 00:28
Analysis
NATO moved eastward, upping the ante yet again with Russia
By Eric Walberg
The big news at the recent NATO meeting in Romania is
that Croatia and Albania are now happy members of the family of peace-loving
nations conducting a brutal war in Afghanistan. The bad news is that Ukraine,
Georgia and Macedonia didn’t get the green light, with Russian and Greek
revanchism the culprit -- clearly a great setback to the cause of world peace.
Apr 11, 2008, 00:24
Analysis
The fading American economy
By Paul Craig Roberts
According to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, the US economy lost 80,000 private sector jobs in
March, half of which were in manufacturing. Today 13,643,000 Americans are
employed in manufacturing, of which 9,849,000 are production workers.
Apr 10, 2008, 00:14
Analysis
Bernanke and Paulson turn to G-7 for ideas to stem global financial meltdown
By Mike Whitney
In a recent interview with the New York Times, former
Secretary of the Treasury Paul O' Neill, was asked how the problems with
subprime mortgages could lead to a financial crisis of global proportions. O'
Neill said, “If you have 10 bottles of water, and one bottle has poison in it,
and you don't know which one, you probably won’t drink out of any of the 10
bottles; that’s basically what we’ve got here.”
Apr 9, 2008, 00:17
Analysis
Brzezinski’s unconvincing antiwar posturing
By Larry Chin
Neoliberal elite Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the
leading architects of the "war on terrorism” across the Middle East and
the Eurasian subcontinent (and whose book The Grand Chessboard: American
Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives laid the groundwork for 9/11) has
adopted a politically expedient wolf-in-sheep’s clothing role.
Apr 2, 2008, 00:59
Analysis
Arabs divide; Israel rules
By Linda S. Heard
As the Damascus Arab League Summit has illustrated,
the principle of Arab unity has rarely been as fragile. For the people of this
region, this is a tragedy. The more Arabs are divided on crucial issues
affecting their lives, the more unprotected and powerless ordinary people feel.
For in the world of geopolitics small is definitely not beautiful.
Apr 2, 2008, 00:57
Analysis
Paulson's fixit plan for the financial markets: Less regulation, more power to the Fed
By Mike Whitney
It is being billed as a “massive shakeup of US
financial market regulation,” but don't be deceived. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson's proposals for broad market reform are neither “timely” nor
“thoughtful” [Reuters]. In fact, its all just more of the same free market “we
can police ourselves” mumbo jumbo that got us into this mess in the first
place.
Apr 2, 2008, 00:55
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