Although England and France are facing equally bleak outlooks, with severe cuts to public services and an increasing drain on the working class, they are yet to face the full-blown, dreaded, IMF loan criteria of mass privatization and third world indebtedness being imposed on the GIPSI countries; Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Currently, though [...]
By Anthony Zeitouni In his Mideast remarks “A Moment of Opportunity” President Obama addresses the Syrian popular upraising and sends a clear message to President Bashar al-Assad to either lead a transition to democracy or “get out of the way”. It looks like the Syrian regime has not yet received Obama’s “Either-Or” message, because it [...]
“What will you do when Jesus comes on Saturday? Are you ready?” A man with a placard proclaiming Saturday’s “Judgement Day” and “Rapture” asked me on the street yesterday. “Of course,”I said. “I’ll invite him in to watch the Mets take on the Yankees. Maybe we’ll order in a pizza.” “She who jokes shall be [...]
China is merely doing what all powerful Western nations, especially America, have done to transcend the status of developing nations and become significant economic forces during the last few centuries—use state power to intervene in markets and protect domestic interests.
Yeah, it was a no brainer: Mike Huckabee would rather jam with Ted Nugent on Fox News and hawk books than traipse around in another bus stumping for an unlikely GOP presidential nomination. Lawrence O’Donnell–who admits no punditry muscles were strained or any channeling of John Edward ( the psychic, not the sleazy ex-pol)– were [...]
