By Melvin GOODMAN Nearly two decades ago, the Central Intelligence Agency started its vicious program of torture and abuse, and the Department of Defense produced a jail at Guantanamo to evade U.S. law. We are still learning about the horrors of the Global War on Horror. On July 16, military prosecutors finally asked to eliminate […]
But once this last swimming pool of wealth– America’s middle class– has been siphoned dry, then who’s left to stripmine and make use of? Neoliberalism likes markets, because markets make it possible for the wealthy to own whatever that produces income and capital gains. Neoliberalism— the ostensibly appealing notion that opening local markets to international […]
August 9, 2021 Viewed as a complex non-linear system, the pandemic varinants can just be managed by significantly pruning the physical connections between disparate worldwide groups, which suggests successfully ending the unrestricted circulation of people around the world. Simply a few days after the main recognition of the pandemic in late January, 2020, Joseph Norman, […]
If America in some way managed to educate millions of college students without straining them with $2 trillion in debt in 1993, why is it now “impossible” to do so, even as America’s wealth and gross national product (GDP) have both soared greater over the previous 27 years? Predators grow on Americans’ brief memories. Student […]
The inexorable royal rot will go on, a tawdry affair bring no dramatic, aesthetic pathos worthy of a Gotterdammerung. Attacked by cognitive harshness throughout the spectrum, the Empire of Turmoilnow acts as a manic depressive inmate, rotten to the core– a fate more filled with dread than having to deal with a revolt of the […]
The ideal bagholder is one who includes more on every recession (purchase the dip) and who refuses to sell (diamond hands), holding on for the inescapable Fed-fueled rally to new highs. Old-timers on Wall Street have watched out for being bearish for one factor, and no, it’s not the Federal Reserve: the old-timers have been […]
The reality is America has lost its way if commoners pay a rate of 40% however its billionaires pay next to nothing. Similar to everything else in polarized America, billionaires proclaiming space tourism is the next huge thing for humanity neatly divides opinion into two camps: those who laud the initiative, hard work and developments […]
How Washington’s Leading Taiwan Specialist Embraced Separatist Party Leader and Opened a New Cross-Strait Crisis How Washington’s top Taiwan expert welcomed separatist party leader and opened brand-new cross-Strait crisis By Gareth PORTER Known as “America’s leading Taiwan hand,” Richard C. Bush has helped preserve peace between Beijing and Taipei. But as Washington approached dispute, he […]
The worldwide economy may have lastly run up against difficult limits of “limitless alternative” and “boundless expansion” funded by central-bank complimentary cash. We are in a fascinating Hall of Mirrors minute: costs are increasing, yet we’re guaranteed by the Federal Reserve that this inflation is “temporal,” and other voices are insisting the main forces of […]
As I frequently keep in mind here, when you press the pendulum to an extreme of wealth and earnings inequality, it will swing to the opposite extreme minus a tiny bit of friction. The depth of America’s brainwashing can be measured by the undisputed presumption that Capital should earn 15% every year, rain or shine, […]
