The U.S. Department of Double Standards: Corporate criminals go free while the Justice Department targets those without expensive lawyers and lobbyists. Police state bill passed to suppress Quebec student strike: Quebec’s National Assembly adopted emergency legislation last Friday that imposes draconian restrictions on the right to demonstrate and criminalizes the fourteen-week, provincewide student strike against plans to raise university tuition fees by more than 80 percent. Canada: Montreal protests result in chaos, mass arrests: 300 arrested Sunday night, and 69 Saturday night, as protesters defy new laws Canada Currency Tumbles as Europe Crisis Overshadows Data: Canada’s dollar dropped the most since November, falling for a third straight week as concern Europe’s debt crisis will worsen overshadowed government data showing inflation and factory sales rose more than forecast. Rising US recession risk poses the real threat to Europe: The US economy has slowed to stall speed. A few lonely forecasters fear that America has already fallen back into recession, replicating the terrible double-dip of 1937.
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Colombia and the Mainstream Media
By James Petras
Extremism in all of its forms permeates Western regimes and finds its justification and rationalization in the respectable media whose job is to indoctrinate civil society and turn citizens into voluntary accomplices to extremism. Continue
The Framework For Suppressing Information
By Prof. James F. Tracy
It is not beyond reason to point out that America is one serious terrorist attack or mass civil disturbance away from the implementation of policies to seriously limit or curtail the traffic of ideas. Continue
By Paul Craig Roberts
When the dollar goes, interest rates will escalate, and bond prices will collapse. Everyone who sought safety in US Treasuries will be wiped out.
We should all be aware that such outcomes are not part of the public debate.Continue
The insolvent United States banking system: Lessons from J.P. Morgan Chase
By Horace Campbell
As central bankers from China to Venezuela and from Argentina to Japan are seeking ways to exit from the contagion of the speculative trading of US bankers, progressive forces must renew the call for the nationalization of the big banks, which are supposed to be too big to fail. Continue
By Russ Choma
15 Democrats and 23 Republicans owned shares in JPMorgan Chase worth a total of between $2.1 million and $3.8 million. Continue
By Mike Whitney
It’s the same everywhere. The banks are keeping houses off the market to trick people into believing that prices have hit bottom. But prices haven’t hit bottom, in fact, they still have a long way to go. Continue
By Paul Buchheit
The betrayals come in many forms. Here are a few of the more outrageous, and destructive, examples: Continue
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