China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power
Some Lessons from the Past
By James Petras
The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 and 1800. Continue
Next Leg Of The Ponzi Revealed - Foreign Central Banks To Begin Buying US Stocks Outright Starting Today: While the Fed's charter forbids it from buying US equities outright, it certainly can promise that it will bail out such bosom friends as the Bank of Israel, the Swiss National Bank, and soon everyone else, if and when their investment in Apple should sour.
Greek austerity measures could violate human rights, UN expert says: The United Nations independent expert on foreign debt and human rights warned today that the austerity measures and structural reforms proposed to solve Greece’s debt crisis may result in violations of the basic human rights of the country’s people, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported.
35 Shocking Statistics That Prove That Things Have Gotten Worse In America: #1 Median household income in the United States is down 7.8 percent since December 2007 after adjusting for inflation.
The cost of dying in the USA: The San Jose Mercury News’ Lisa M. Kreiger recounts how $323,000 was spent on her father— a man with “do not resuscitate” and “desire for a natural death” orders — during his last 10 days of life:
Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France: Those prices, for one thing, mean profits for a large number of powerful — and popular — industries. For another, centralized bargaining cuts across the grain of America’s skepticism of government solutions. In the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, for instance, Congress expressly barred Medicare from negotiating the prices of drugs that it was paying for.
By Lauren Williams
Around 13 French officers are being held by Syrian authorities in Syria, sources have confirmed to The Daily Star. Sources said the group is being held in a field hospital in the city. Continue
By RT
Undercover NATO troops are already in Syria despite denials from their parent governments, according to a leaked brief from a highly-placed analyst. Continue
Binyamin Netanyahu at AIPAC 2012
Video and Transcript
"I want to explain why Iran must never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons." Continue
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