2012 Financial Prediction: More of the Same but Worse
Those that produce nothing are making more, and more, while those that produce everything are making less, and less… money, that is. We have no one to blame but ourselves. We allow it to happen. We know that we were fleeced, robbed, and extorted, not only in 2007, the most obvious recent example of the […]
Occupy Europe: Fighting the Diktats of the Global Financial Elite
At its inception, the European Union was an attempt to counterbalance the dominant global geopolitical power of the United States and the USSR. The EU was also supposed to offer a better, more democratic social and political system where the 99 percent had a voice and where political decision were made by equal nation partners […]
Borders: The Constructs of Fearful Greedy Children
What we accept as a necessary reality, the division of our planet into exclusive domains, is nothing more than a throw-back to the days of rival Chieftains and Warlords. Tribal thugs. Brutish marauders. We look at our history with a sense of arrogance, assured of our own superiority over our less enlightened ancestors. We wince at […]
Are Islamist Fundamentalists Hijacking The Arab Revolution?
Either in Egypt, Tunisia or Libya, Islamist parties are making some serious gains in the political power plays following the Arab revolution. It is the case for Tunisia and Egypt, and it is likely to spread to Libya in the post-Qaddafi era. It could happen in Syria, unless the Al-Assad brothers maintain their brutal grip […]
Iraq War: Shame on Us
By Ron Steinman The nine-year war in Iraq is over – technically, that is — on the ground in the war zone. Here are some numbers about the war in Iraq that are worth repeating. In the nearly decade long years of war, 4,486 Americans died with 32, 219 seriously wounded. Many more suffered minor […]
