corruption
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Wikileaks: Israeli corruption impedes flow of goods into Gaza – IDF involved
U.S. businesses allege that corruption by Israeli officials at Karni crossing is impeding their access to the Gaza market. Continue reading
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Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a Hero? Glenn Greenwald Debates Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News
WikiLeaks is coming under attack from all sides. The U.S. government and embassies around the world are criticizing the whistleblowing group for releasing a massive trove of secret State Department cables. The WikiLeaks website is struggling to stay online just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure. The U.S. State… Continue reading
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CORRUPTION COUNTERS CHINA'S PLANNING
So in one of our earlier interviews, we talked about whether or not China was really pulling out of the global recession and how much it had been affected. At the time, you’d suggested that a lot of this was really just state stimulus spending and circulating of more money. To what extent do you… Continue reading
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CORRUPTION COUNTERS CHINA’S PLANNING
So in one of our earlier interviews, we talked about whether or not China was really pulling out of the global recession and how much it had been affected. At the time, you’d suggested that a lot of this was really just state stimulus spending and circulating of more money. To what extent do you… Continue reading
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The problem with politics By Jim Jepps
As a class [politicians have] not helped themselves. When the previous speaker of the house resigned it was not simply because he had failed to tackle the expenses regime – he was making vigorous use of it and was taken down in the very scandal he should have prevented in possibly one of the first… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Hired Hands – Part 1: Iran, Obama, Gaza, And MPs’ Expenses
Inevitably, then, corporations do not restrict themselves merely to the arena of economics. Rather, as John Dewey observed, “politics is the shadow cast on society by big business”. Over decades, corporations have worked together to ensure that the choices offered by ‘representative democracy’ all represent their greed for maximised profits. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Make no mistake about it, there's an all-out war going on out there! Roy S. Carson
While President Hugo Chavez Frias seems fixated on external threats imposed by the United States of America — more specifically from the multi-nationals and delinquent banks that have the Obama presidency in their stranglehold — there’s a festering nether world at work in Venezuela that is probably more insidious than the collective efforts of the… Continue reading
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Video: Music of Resistance – Seun Kuti – Part 1
Fela Kuti is one of the most significant musicians to ever come out of Sub-Sharan Africa. Through his music he confronted government corruption, multi-national corporations, and police brutality in Nigeria. Only 14 when his father died, his son Seun has decided to carry on his legacy. Music of Resistance went to meet him. Continue reading
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Is it the 1930s all over again? By William Bowles
The bottom line then is that the crisis of capital has only two outcomes: remove the competitors or, face the end of capitalism and build a socialist alternative. If the former, then general war (whatever its form, ie “endless war”) is the only conclusion, thereby consuming the over-accumulated capital, ‘taking out’ the major competitors and… Continue reading
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The continent from another planet By William Bowles
Have you noticed that events in Africa are reported in a contextual vacuum? And predictably, coverage in the press has been nothing short of scandalous. Either, it’s ‘warlords,’ ‘corruption,’ ‘tribalism,’ ‘humanitarian crisis,’ ‘failed state,’ or some combination of the above. As far as Western media coverage is concerned, Africa has no history that’s of any… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 