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The “Friends of Syria” divvy up Syrian economy before conquest

by German Foreign Policy

Berlin (Germany) | 30 June 2012

Proving that the West’s Syrian preoccupations have nothing to do with expressed noble motives of democracy and civilian welfare, the Conference of Friends (sic) of the Syrian People is preparing a plan to pillage the economy upon occupation. In grand colonial tradition, a Working Group, (...)

Big Time Banksters Come Marching In

18 November 2011

According to the Economic Policy Journal, here’s what you need to know about the current crisis in the Eurozone. The big time banksters are getting direct hands-on control:
Mario Draghi (photo) has become president of the European Central Bank as of November 1. He was vice chairman and (...)

Are ‘African lions’ really roaring?

Africa: Latest fibs from world financiers

by Patrick Bond

18 May 2011

According to a new report from the African Development Bank, thirty percent of the African population qualifies as forming part of the middle class and the continent is on the brink of an economic take-off. Not quite, says South African socio-economic analyst Patrick Bond as he breaks down (...)

Egypt: Dictatorship and tyranny by any other name

by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Ottawa (Canada) | 22 February 2011

Since Hosni Mubarak fled from Cairo, the backbone of the Egyptian dictatorship remains in power and the political status quo prevails. Meanwhile the United States and its cohorts are busily forging a malleable brand of opposition, so as to control both sides of the political arena. However, (...)

Hit by the crisis, Spain moves into recession

by Jérome Duval

30 June 2010

Profoundly affected by the financial crisis, the Spanish economy has moved into recession. Madrid has been compelled, or has deemed it necessary, to genuflect before the International Monetary Fund which has saddled it with a harsh austerity plan. The Zapatero government caved in even before (...)

Greece: The Curse of Three Generations of Papandreou’s

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 23 March 2010

From his vantage point as former adviser to one of the Papandreou governments, James Petras examines how the Socialist Papandreou dynasty has, ever since World War II, relentlessly turned Greece into a client state, surrendering sovereignty and sacrificing class solidarity for patronage. (...)

ALBA drops the dollar and envisions a military alliance against the US

17 October 2009

The Heads of State and Government of countries belonging to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA, met in Cochabamba (Bolivia) where they signed a treaty creating a new virtual currency, dubbed the Sucre.
The currency - named after General Antonio José de Sucre, Simón Bolivar’s (...)

Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8

11 July 2009

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a “united future world currency.”
“Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight (...)

Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?

by Vandana Shiva

23 May 2009

The factors that have caused 200,000 suicides in India are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalization which ensnare farmers in a spiral of indebtedness, generating despair.

“The Central America Free Trade Agreement is A Win-Win”

by Robert B. Zoellick

3 June 2005

Henry Stimson is best known for having been Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of war, but before this, 80 years ago, he played a memorable role in the history of Latin America. He acted as a mediator to put an end to the civil war in Nicaragua; negotiated a ceasefire as well as free elections, (...)

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