Madness in Ukraine
by Stephen Lendman This year's March madness wasn't in America. Nor what continues in April. Or what preceded it. Or perhaps what's likely to follow. It's in Ukraine. It's ground zero. It represents the greatest geopolitical crisis since WW II. It… more »
Talkin’ ‘bout a global revolution
Adam Parsons As the global financial crisis now enters its seventh year, it is time to start asking difficult questions about the right priorities for popular protest if we want to realise a truly united voice of the world’s people. There can be no… more »
The Debtor’s War: A Modern Greek Tragedy
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall Early on Thursday, 7 November 2013, Greek riot police stormed the offices of Greece’s main public broadcaster, which had been under a five-month occupation by workers who opposed the government’s decision to shutdown the… more »
Obama's Way: Waging Financial War on Humanity
by Stephen Lendman Class war rages in America. Institutionalized inequality defines it. Obama continues what began decades ago. He exceeds the worst of his predecessors. He supports capital's divine right. He transferred unprecedented wealth amounts… more »
Real Unemployment at 23% - Dampening the Excitement
By Michael Collins There was a shadow over the national conventions of both political parties. The people know that the economy is much worse than anyone in the power structure will admit. As usual, the people are right. The real rate of unemployment is… more »
Austerity, Adjustment, and Social Genocide: Political Language and the European Debt Crisis
By: Andrew Gavin Marshall Angela Merkel, Jose Manuel Barroso, and Mario Monti: Europe’s champions of austerity and adjustment The following is a sample analysis from my upcoming book on the global economic crisis and global resistance movements. Please… more »
Tags: angela merkel, austerity, competitiveness, european central bank, european commission, european debt crisis, european union, exploitation, growth, herman van rompuy, jean-claude trichet, jose manuel barroso, labour flexibility, mario draghi, nicolas sarkozy, poverty, privatization, structural adjustment, structural reform
Greece: What Can be Done?
James Petras Introduction Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over 23% unemployment, an… more »
Rude Awakening
by Stephen Lendman In 2008, a protracted global depression began, criminally manufactured by Wall Street and Washington scoundrels, complicit with major European partners. Why? To permit greater financial and other corporate consolidation, more power,… more »
Tags: austerity, bailing out banks, capitalism, deregulating, deregulation, devolution, economic crisis, economic decline, global depression, homeless, keynesian, layoffs, predatory capitalism, privatizations, social contract, social unrest, stock markets, unemployment, waging wars, wall street, war profiteers
PASOK: Pan Hellenic Socialist Kleptocrats
James Petras “George Papandreou is not bought, he is rented. He sells public enterprises to the multinationals. He reduces wages, pensions and employment at the behest of the IMF. He turns over the public treasury to the European banks. He supports… more »
Republican Plan to End Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
by Stephen Lendman Public rhetoric obscures important facts about these plans politicians won't discuss in their zeal to end them incrementally. Medicaid is welfare for low-income beneficiaries, jointly funded by the states and Washington, managed at… more »
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