Foreclosure Scam: How the Banks Always Win
The foreclosure crisis in the United States is not showing any signs of slowing down. Almost no regions and cities of the country are immune from it. The real estate debacle is affecting every region especially Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan. Detroit and Las Vegas can be considered the two metropolitan areas which have been […]
Thanksgiving for What? 46.2 Million Americans Are Living in Poverty
Thanksgiving is a dubious American holiday. First, for Native Americans, it is the “celebration” of their generosity towards the Pilgrims who promptly paid them back by stealing their land and ultimately committing a genocide against the indigenous population of the new land. Secondly, during Thanksgiving, Americans are supposed to be thankful for what they have. […]
OWS: What Can the Global Occupy Movement Learn from Egypt?
Revolutions are complex phenomenons which do not follow linear or predictable courses. The 1789 French revolution went through many phases encompassing its hardening and journey towards collective psychosis once Robespierre took control during the brutal phase known as the Terror. During this period of madness, so many heads were getting cut off by summary Guillotine […]
Europe: Will the Euro crisis deal a fatal blow to the EU?
The Euro crisis is putting the very survival of the European Union at risk. Greece and Ireland debt problems were the first one to emerge, but now it is the turn of Italy and Spain to clean up their balance sheets. The two healthier economies of the union, Germany and France are now considering some […]
Occupy Movement: Re-energized and Marching
Today thousands of occupy Wall Street movement’s activists are marching and not camping any longer. After the police attack on the camps last week, ordered by Major Bloomberg and deemed illegal by a judge, the OWS (Occupy Wall Street) movement must either change its strategy, after two months, or it will lose its momentum. The […]
