:: United States
“Labor Reform”: Proposals to Maximize Workplace Bullying
07.13.2014Introduction: Leading management consultants, top government officials and prominent financial journalists are proposing, what they dub, labor reforms as the solution for double-digit unemployment and underemployment, economic stagnation and the decline of capital investments.
The Soaring Profits of the Military Industrial Complex And the Soaring Costs of Military Casualties
06.21.2014Introduction: There are two major beneficiaries of the two major wars launched by the US government: one domestic and one foreign. The three major domestic arms manufacturers, Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOG) and Raytheon (RTN) have delivered record-shattering returns to their investors, CEOs and investment banks during the past decade and a half.
An Open Letter to the Graduates of West Point: Refuting President Obamas Lies, Omissions and Distortions
06.07.2014Introduction: On May 2014 President Obama delivered the commencement address to the graduates of United States Military Academy at West Point. Beyond the easy banter and eulogy to past and present war heroes, Obama outlined a vision of past military successes and present policies, based on a profoundly misleading diagnosis of the current global position of the United States.
Multiple Ways Kleptocrats and Militarists Fleece Americans
04.28.2014Introduction: American living standards are plunging and its not simply because they are paid less, work longer (or shorter hours) under highly stressful workplace conditions and pay a higher percentage of their income for health and pension coverage.
US Proxy Terror War on Venezuela
03.17.2014Introduction: Protest, dissent and the destructive terror of war are obviously very distinct forms of expressing opposition and bringing about change. The Obama-Kerry regime support the opposition in Venezuela as a protest movement composed of peaceful democratic opponents expressing their discontent with economic conditions, while they denounce the democratically-elected Maduro Administration as an authoritarian regime violently repressing legitimate dissent.
Obamas Ukrainian Power Grab, Sanctions and the Boomerang Effect
03.11.2014Introduction: In the biggest power grab since George Bush seized Eastern Europe and converted it into a NATO bastion confronting Russia, the Obama regime, together with the EU, financed and organized a violent putsch in the Ukraine which established a puppet regime in Kiev.[1]
Obamas Advancing Empire: Putsch, Pillage and Duplicity
03.08.2014Introduction: The Obama regime, in coordination with its allies and proxies, has re-launched a virulent world-wide campaign to destroy independent governments, encircle and ultimately, undermine global competitors, and establish a new US EU centered world order.
The Israel First Industry and CEO Profiteering
01.14.2014Introduction: During the first half of the 20th century, socially conscious Jews in the United States organized a large network of solidarity and charity associations financed mostly through small donations, raffles, dues by working and lower middle class supporters.
The Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts
12.20.2013Introduction: Following the Vietnam War, US imperial intervention passed through several phases: In the immediate aftermath, the US government faced a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the Vietnamese liberation forces and was under pressure from an American public sick and tired of war.Imperial military interventions, domestic espionage against opponents and usual practice of fomenting coups détat (regime change) declined.
The Decline of the US (and Everyone Else )
11.24.2013The world political economy is a mosaic of cross currents: Domestic decay and elite enrichment, new sources for greater profits and deepening political disenchantment, declining living standards for many and extravagant luxury for a few, military losses in some regions with imperial recovery in others.
The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
11.16.2013Introduction: Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
Israel Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations
11.02.2013 The question of war or peace with Iran rests with the policies adopted by the White House and the US Congress. The peace overtures by newly elected Iranian President Rohani have resonated favorably around the world, except with Israel and its Zionist acolytes in North America and Europe
Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling the Budget Deficit and the Samson Solution
10.17.2013Introduction: US and world political and economic leaders are faced with what they describe as a systemic catastrophe: the inability to pay global creditors, including domestic and foreign banks, investors and governments, who hold $16.7 trillion in US Treasury notes.
Fifteen Minutes an American President
10.11.2013Introduction: Obamas rhetorical exercise in peace talk at the United Nations General Assembly impressed few delegations and even fewer Americans: Far more eloquent are his five years of wars, military interventions, cyber-spying, drone murders, military coups and the merciless prosecution of patriotic truth tellers.
US- Venezuela Relations: A Case Study of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism
10.05.2013Introduction: US relations with Venezuela illustrate the specific mechanisms with which an imperial power seeks to sustain client states and overthrow independent nationalist governments.
Obama with Israel and Against the World
09.09.2013Introduction: As President Obama announces plans for another war, adding Syria to the recent and ongoing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, a profound gap has emerged between the highly militarized state and US public opinion.
Obamas Politics of War and US Public Opinion: The Great Divergence
09.05.2013Introduction: As President Obama announces plans for another war, adding Syria to the ongoing and recent wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere, a profound gap has emerged between the highly militarized state and US public opinion.
The Obama Regimes Military Metaphysics Rejects Diplomatic Opportunities
08.23.2013Introduction: Political and economic changes in recent years have opened possibilities for the end of international and national conflicts. Regime changes, pragmatic leaders and the promise of serious negotiations in the Middle East, North Africa, Russia, Southwest Asia, China and elsewhere provided the Obama regime an opportunity to end long standing and costly wars, to access new markets and resources and to reduce domestic deficits and external trade imbalances.
The Obama Regimes Fabricated Terror Conspiracy in Defense of the Police State
08.13.2013Introduction Representative democracies and autocratic dictatorships respond to profound internal crises in very distinctive ways: the former attempts to reason with citizens, explaining the causes, consequences and alternatives; dictatorships attempt to terrorize, intimidate and distract the public by evoking bogus external threats, to perpetuate and justify rule by police state methods and avoid facing up to the self-inflicted crises.
Wall Street Take-Off: 2012 2013
07.22.2013 On July 16, 2013, Goldman Sachs, the fifth largest US bank by assets announced its second quarter profits doubled the previous year to $1.93 billion. J. P. Morgan, the largest bank made $6.1 billion in the second quarter up 32% over the year before and expects to make $25 billion in profits in 2013.
Presidential Rule by Deception: Obama, the Master Con-man
06.23.2013Introduction: In an electoral system, run by and for a corporate oligarchy, deception and demagoguery are essential elements - entertaining the people while working for the wealthy.
The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America
06.14.2013Introduction: The exposure of the Obama regimes use of the National Security Agency to secretly spy on the communications of hundreds of millions of US and overseas citizens has provoked world-wide denunciations.