To Western Media, Prosecuting Bolivian Coup Leaders Is Worse Than Leading a Coup

22 March 2021 — FAIR

Guardian: Cycle of retribution takes Bolivia's ex-president from palace to prison cell

The Guardian (3/17/21) pretends not to understand the difference between overthrowing a government and arresting someone for overthrowing a government.

One can imagine an editor of the London-based Guardian (3/17/21) shaking her head sadly as she typed the headline: “Cycle of Retribution Takes Bolivia’s Ex-President From Palace to Prison Cell.”  The subhead told readers, “Jeanine Áñez’s government once sought to jail the country’s former leader Evo Morales for terrorism and sedition—now she faces the same charges.”

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The Lies of our (Financial) Times By James Petras

5 October 2018 — James Petras

The leading financial publications have misled their political and investor subscribers of emerging crises and military defeats which have precipitated catastrophic political and economic losses.

The most egregious example is the Financial Times (FT) a publication which is widely read by the business and financial elite.

In this essay we will proceed by outlining the larger political context that sets the framework for the transformation of the FT from a relatively objective purveyor of world news into a propagator of wars and failed economic policies.

Lies of Our Financial Times [PDF]

Washington Islamist strategy in crisis as Morsi toppled by F. William Engdahl

5 July 2013 — Voltaire Network

The swift action by Egypt’s military to arrest Mohamed Morsi and key leaders of his Muslim Brotherhood organization on July 3 marks a major setback for Washington’s “Arab Spring strategy of using political Islam to spread chaos from China through Russia across the energy-rich Middle East. Continue reading

Financial Cleansing: The Cyprus Bail-in Template By grtv

11 April 2013 — grtv

The recent bail-in in Cyprus has given the world a glimpse at the future of the banking landscape. Now, as Canada gets set to hardwire the bail-in process into law, analysts like Michel Chossudovsky are warning how the big banks can use this template to further consolidate their monopoly of economic control. This is the GRTV Backgrounder on Global Research TV.

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Hillary Clinton: Thwarting “Re-Sovietization” or Imposing Americanization? By Boris Volkhonsky

7 December, 2012Voice of Russia

“We are trying to figure out effective ways to slow down or prevent it.”

Indeed, they are. For that, the US has launched full-scale wars in close vicinity to the region (not to mention local clashes and a “limited” use of drones on a wider number of countries), slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, depriving them of the basic human right – the right to live; successfully destabilized the situation in their “Greater Middle East”, flooded the whole of Central Asia with Afghan opium and heroin (with metastasis reaching as far as Russia and Western Europe). And after that Ms. Hillary is trying to present her country as a champion of human rights and finds it OK for herself to criticize others.

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Greek Lessons: Democracy versus Debt-Bondage By David McNally

26 February 2012The Bullet • A Socialist Project e-bulletin No. 602

It is a truism to say that democracy began with the Greeks – less so to say that it originated in popular rebellion against debt and debt-bondage. Yet, with the Greek people ensnared once more in the vice-grip of rich debt-holders, it may be useful to recall that fact. For the only hope today of reclaiming democracy in Greece (and elsewhere) resides in the prospect of a mass uprising against modern debt-bondage that extends the rule of the people into the economic sphere.

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The Global Stagnation and China

13 February, 2012 — Monthly Review

Review of the Month  

 John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, Editors, Monthly Review

Five years after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–09 began there is still no sign of a full recovery of the world economy. Consequently, concern has increasingly shifted from financial crisis and recession to slow growth or stagnation, causing some to dub the current era the Great Stagnation.1 Stagnation and financial crisis are now seen as feeding into one another. Thus IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde declared in a speech in China on November 9, 2011, in which she called for the rebalancing of the Chinese economy:

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The Next Marx? By John Feffer

31 January 2012 — World Beat

marx-large.jpgLenin graces the cover of a recent issue of The Economist. The Financial Times is running an entire series on the “crisis in capitalism.Francis Fukuyama, a recovering neoconservative, makes a plea in Foreign Affairs for the left to get its intellectual act together. And that noted class warrior Newt Gingrich has been assailing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for being a ruthless moneybags.

Excuse me? Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? What parallel universe did we all just stumble into?

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This Is How Israel Runs The British Press

7 October 2011 — Gilad Atzmon

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: The following is a glimpse into the Israeli Hasbara’s/Mossad’s/Sayanim’s operation in the UK. It explains how Israel and its agents manage to dominate  news coverage in Britain and beyond. It seems from the following leaked email as if BICOM (British Israel Communication & Research Centre) runs the News desk for the BBC, Sky and the FT. I guess that last week the Guardian also joined the party. It is now  an offical Israeli propaganda outlet. 

Shockingly enough, not a single British paper was brave enough to report the story or publish the leaked email. Surely they know who their masters are. The message is pretty clear. British press is not trustworthy. It is as  Zionised as our political system. 


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Follow the Money: Behind the European Debt Crisis Lie More Bank Bailouts By David McNally

23 September 2011 — The Bullet Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 547 – www.davidmcnally.org

While I was cursing the inane mainstream commentary on the global economy recently, I was reminded of a pivotal scene in the 1976 movie, All the President’s Men. As two young reporters investigate the burglary of Democratic Party offices in the Watergate Hotel, a disgruntled, high-ranking FBI agent, code-named Deep Throat, advises, “Follow the money. Always follow the money.”

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The Left’s Crisis By Leo Panitch

15 August 2011 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 536

A common response of the left to the financial crisis that broke out in the USA in 2007-08 was often a kind of Michael Moore-type populist one: Why are you bailing the banks out? Let them go under. This kind of the response was, of course, utterly irresponsible, with no thought given to what would happen to the savings of workers, let alone to the paychecks deposited into their bank accounts, or even to the fact that what was at stake was the roofs over their heads.

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Alan Maass: Right-wing terror in Norway

25 July, 2011 — Socialist Worker

A tribute of flowers and candles in Oslo to remember the victims of a right-wing terror attack

A tribute of flowers and candles in Oslo to remember the victims of a right-wing terror attack

 CLOSE TO [76] people died in Norway at the hands of a far-right fanatic whose connections to the organized racists and Islamophobes extend to the anti-Muslim bigots in the U.S.

Anders Behring Breivik is accused of setting a car bomb in downtown Oslo. At least seven people died in the blast in front of the Oil Ministry, but which also apparently targeted a 17-story office tower that contained the offices of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, leader of the governing Labor Party.

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Book Launch, London: Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution By Richard Gott

BOOK LAUNCH: Thursday July 14, 18.30- 21.00. At the Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU

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Places available – please email info@venezuelasolidarity.co.uk to reserve your place today! With rum cocktails, complimentary refreshments, music, stalls and much more!

Plus special guests including:

  • Richard Gott
  • Ambassador Samuel Moncada
  • And more to be announced

Praise for Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

  • “A colourful and readable account of Chávez’s background and beliefs.”
    Financial Times
  • “Gott is always an interesting, well-informed, and engaging writer.”
    Foreign Affairs
  • “Chávez, as Richard Gott’s readable profile makes clear, is no ordinary caudillo.”
  • Times Higher Education Supplement
    – “Gott is, if nothing else, a true believer of the revolutionary process in Latin America and brings his own sense of moral indignation every time he mentions the United States. It is worth reading a text that is so ideological yet effectively explains how many people in the upper ranks of the Chávez government perceive the world around them.”
    – Center for Strategic and International Studies

This event is free, but please pre-register by emailing info@venezuelasolidarity.co.uk
Organised by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in association with Verso Books and the Marx Memorial Library.