Friday, 22 April 2011

Who Owns The World?

By Noam Chomsky

Support for democracy is the province of ideologists and propagandists. In the real world, elite dislike of democracy is the norm. Continue



By Robert Scheer

It is time to admit that we are, in practice if not surface appearance, close to the Chinese communist model of state-sponsored capitalism. Continue


QE2 sends margin debt soaring to new highs

By Mike Whitney

When investors start borrowing boatloads of money to buy stocks, then the "big crash" cannot be too far off. Continue


US Government Gun-running To Narco Gangs In Mexico

By Laura Carlsen

A secret operation to run guns across the border to Mexican drug cartels — overseen by U.S. government agents — threatens to become a major scandal for the Obama administration. Continue


‘More than 200 killed in Nigerian unrest’: Post-poll unrest in Nigeria has killed more than 200 people, a rights group said yesterday, as the Muslim opposition candidate who lost alleged rigging but said he did not instigate the riots.

Workers brought into US and 'exploited': Federal agency says treatment amounted to human trafficking even though they had work visas.

US risks creating uneducated 'underclass': study: The United States will create a new Hispanic underclass unless it improves immigrant children's access to education, a report released Wednesday warned.

Single-Payer National Health Insurance: The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $8,160 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.