Category Archives: IMPERIAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
War and Dollar: To Protect US Dollar, The FRB, US Bankers Prepare for a Major War
War and Dollar: To Protect US Dollar, The FRB, US Bankers Prepare for a Major War Post Categories: Afghanistan Valentin KATASONOV | Friday, January 23, 2015, 12:14 Beijing Although many funerals have been held for the US dollar, still it … Continue reading
How PROPAGANDA Conquers Democracy
How PROPAGANDA Conquers Democracy Post Categories: Canada Nicolas J S Davies | Friday, January 23, 2015, 23:37 Beijing In recent decades, the U.S. propaganda system has grown more and more sophisticated in the art of “perception management,” now enlisting not … Continue reading
Neocon: Epitome of Evil, Destruction, Greed
Neocon: Epitome of Evil, Destruction, Greed Post Categories: Canada Peter Koenig | Saturday, January 24, 2015, 9:15 Beijing “Civilization” of the Neocons “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” ~Albert Einstein Imagine – … Continue reading
Pigs At The Trough at Davos
Billionaire wags finger at middle class “lifestyle expectations” Billionaire Jeff Greene, who made his fortune as a real estate developer and from fraudulent mortgage securities, told a reporter at this week’s Davos, Switzerland, economic summit that “America’s lifestyle expectations are far … Continue reading
Tomgram: Rory Fanning, Unpacking the War on Terror
Tomgram: Rory Fanning, Unpacking the War on Terror Posted by Rory Fanning at 8:02am, January 13, 2015. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Today’s post features Rory Fanning, author of Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger’s Journey Out … Continue reading
On abstraction and idealization in economics
On abstraction and idealization in economics January 21, 2015 from Lars Syll When applying deductivist thinking to economics, neoclassical economists usually set up “as if” models based on a set of tight axiomatic assumptions from which consistent and precise inferences are … Continue reading
Perpetual War
Perpetual War Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com [This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books.] On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his … Continue reading