By Anthony Zeitouni Among all the information coming out of Syria, there are two pieces of news that can give us a clear idea about the political activities on both the government and opposition sides regarding the ongoing crisis in Syria. First, we have the two-day conference organized by the official commission for national dialogue. [...]
The discussion of America’s debt ceiling is the talk of the town in Washington and key international financial markets. If you still have the dubious privilege to have a credit card or a line of credit, it is likely that your respective financial institutions have considerably reduced your own “debt ceiling” since the 2008 crash. [...]
The current refrain from the Republican Party is that raising taxes on the most wealthy Americans will be hurting the ‘job creators.’ This reasoning seems to hinge on the belief that the wealthy, given money, will put it back into the economy and generate growth. This is just another rephrasing of the debunked trickle-down economic [...]
by Min Reyes As a politico-economic system, neoliberalism ascends above national and regional politics. Some refer to it as global corporatism whereby multinational corporations have unique resources to exert their political and economic control on national governments as well as international institutions. While each country is now dealing with civil and economic crisis that have [...]
The only numbers that seem to matter to politicians are the corporate contributions for their endless election campaigns and the amount of salary those institutions will pay them when they pass back through the revolving door into private sector political careers such as lobbying, running PACs and Super-PACs; or using their political influence on behalf [...]
