Europe’s governing financial technocrats are working to preserve a financial system which is, in the best case scenario, edging towards a severe recession or in the worst case scenario on the brink of a collapse. Regardless, European leaders are setting themselves up for a hot spring, which will undoubtedly shore up the ranks of the [...]
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 [...]
The Occupy movement has changed the overall political discourse, and it is helping define what could be a global left. Needless to say, US Democrats, at large, are so center right that they do not offer anything which the Occupy movement could remotely support. Even in Europe the mainstream left, Socialist parties in France, Spain [...]
By Ron Steinman The 9 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 we have been seeing in the past few weeks that are worth repeating. In the nearly decade long years of war, 4,486 [...]
Various prophecies of doom and gloom or even of an Apocalypse have been linked to calendar year 2012. An Apocalypse ( Greek etymology: “lifting the veil” or “revelation”) is often wrongly viewed as the end of all things, but of course the very etymology of the word contradicts this notion. As a powerful revelation, an [...]
