Category Archives: rise and fall of empires
US/Saudi Oil War Will Break Their Own Neck
US/Saudi Oil War Will Break Their Own Neck Post Categories: Canada Cluborlov | Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 8:00 Beijing 358 views Over the course of 2014 the prices the world pays for crude oil have tumbled from over $125 … 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
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
Hard Evidence: Who Uses Veto in the UN Security Council Most Often and for What?
Hard Evidence: Who Uses Veto in the UN Security Council Most Often and for What? Post Categories: Canada Emma McClean | Sunday, January 11, 2015, 10:16 Beijing 131 views On Thursday July 17, 298 people lost their lives when … Continue reading