global economy
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Secret Documents Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
ICIJ has just launched the largest investigative reporting project in its 15-year history. Drawing on a leaked cache of 2.5 million records, ICIJ (a project of the Center for Public Integrity) has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts and about 130,000 individuals and agents, exposing hidden dealings of politicians,… Continue reading
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Heal the Planet! By Satya Sagar
Even for a layperson, at very first glance, it is very clear that our planet is indeed at risk of sudden cardiac arrest. The symptoms are all there. Mother Earth suffers from dangerously elevated blood pressure, blockages of key arteries, toxic poisoning, smoked out lungs, a damaged liver and multiple injuries untreatable by existing antibiotics. Continue reading
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SWIFT: Iranian Sanctions Endanger Global Financial System By Charles Gray
Nations that do not agree with the US position or sanctions will find this move making it difficult or impossible for their own businesses to effectively deal with Iran. In effect, if this becomes reality, the economic and foreign policy of nearly every nation on the planet may find itself hijacked by US demands. For… Continue reading
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Apple’s China Comes Home to Haunt Us By Robert Scheer
Four decades ago Richard Nixon, a once famously hawkish Republican president, cut a deal with the Communist overlords of China to reshape the world. The result was a transformation of the global economy in ways that we are only now, with the sharp critiques of Apple’s China operation, beginning to fully comprehend. Continue reading
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How to Make Robin Hood Proud BY David Moberg
Tax Wall Street,’ read a simple, homemade placard high above the crowd of thousands of members of unions, community groups and Occupy activists protesting outside the mid-October convention of bankers and futures traders in downtown Chicago. Curtis Smith, president of the local affiliate of National People’s Action, a network of community organizations focused on the… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 5 – 11 February, 2011
12 February, 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Russia is right about Iran sanctions 11.02.2011 | 17:30 | BHADRAKUMAR Melkulangara (India) There is striking similarity in the predicament that India and Russia face with regard to the situation around Iran. For both, Iran has been and will always remain a key strategic partner… The heart of Continue reading
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Media Lens: “An Existential Threat”: The US, Israel and Iran
The sanctions threat is to ensure that Iran does “not compromise on uranium enrichment by the end of next month.” The Guardian told its readers that not only are sanctions supposed to pre-empt any Israeli military action against Iran, “they are also a bargaining chip offered in part exchange for a substantial freeze on Jewish… Continue reading
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Global Research Selected Articles 17-25 July, 2009, Swine Flu, Global Power and the Economy
Global Research, Swine Flu, Global Power and the Economy, Selected Articles 17-25 July, 2009 Continue reading
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Lies, nothing but damn lies and then there’s the mass media… By William Bowles
The US, along with the UK via their military and economic control, especially over the financial and oil markets are directly responsible for the current crisis, a crisis compounded by the massive financial fraud perpetrated by the major banks and investment corporations, a fraud that ordinary working people are being forced to pay for. Continue reading
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Let the reader be aware By William Bowles
Oh what an irony that the ‘responsible’ press is so prone to quoting Goebbels’ famous line as if by saying it somehow cancels out the lies they tell us. It’s as if they’re telling us, ‘If, by some chance you should be on to us, this is our caveat emptor that lets us off the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 