‘America Lives in a Fascist State’ – Trend Forecaster Bailout Indignation Empire Foreclosed? The Tower of Basel Exxon Mobil tops Fortune 500: Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500) was the top selling-company in 2008, with nearly $443 billion in revenue, a jump of almost 19% from the prior year. The Irving, Texas-based oil giant was also the most profitable, with earnings of $45.2 billion
By Russia Today
The merger of corporate and government powers in modern America is plain and simple fascism, believes Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of Trends Journal. Continue
How about a test of your injustice barometer?
By Ralph Nader
You might think that the reckless, avaricious, giant corporations, having shrunk the economy, cost millions of jobs and then demanded that taxpayers be dunned for years into the future for multi-trillion dollar bailouts, would show contrition, regret, or self-restraint of their power over Washington. Continue
By Mark Engler
One current danger is that Obama, while rejecting the brash unilateralism of the Bush administration and pulling back the fist of U.S. hard power, will return to a softer form of imperial power. Under Bill Clinton, the United States used multilateral institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) as primary instruments of foreign policy. While staffed with economists in business suits rather than grunts in fatigues, these bodies exerted considerable control over foreign peoples. Continue
Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency
By Ellen Brown
Do we really want the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issuing our global currency?Continue
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
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