13 February 2013 — Truthout
Pinch-Penny Pritzker pockets Commerce post
A parade of media reports this week name Penny Pritzker as Obama’s prime choice for Secretary of Commerce. No longer will criminal bankers have to lobby the administration – because now they’ll have one of their own in the Cabinet.
13 February 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 772
On December 9th 2011 the European Council announced a new Fiscal Compact, as part of the series of measures undertaken in order to resolve the Eurozone sovereign debt and banking crises. It was incorporated into the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (TSCG), signed by 25 <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>EU governments in March 2012, subsequently ratified by the signatory national governments, and in force from January 2013.[1] The Compact includes a commitment by those governments to a cap of 0.5% on the ‘structural deficit’ implied by their annual revenue and expenditure plans. It also reinforces the existing Maastricht Treaty fiscal rules through an obligatory adjustment procedure, to be enforced by the European Court of Justice. Continue reading
11 February 2013 — Greanville Post
It has recently become known that the European Commission wishes to privatise the distribution of water across Europe i.e. to make water distribution rights something that can be traded on the stock market for profit.
10 February, 2013 — Global Research
Part I: Africa’s New Thirty Years’ War?
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.
10 February, 2013 — Global Research
Part I: Africa’s New Thirty Years’ War?
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.
The New Dark Age 