speculation
-
Accusations that disaster capitalists are piling the pressure on Johnson to pursue no-deal Brexit
30 September 2019 — True Publica By TruePublica Editor: “For the first time in 35 years, I am not packing my bag to travel to the Tory party conference tomorrow. The party I joined as a student and first campaigned for in the 1979 general election is suffering a convulsion that makes it — for Continue reading
-
The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Crash: Financial Warfare against Russia, Multibillion Dollar Bonanza for Wall Street By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While the mainstream media casually accuses Moscow without evidence of having orchestrated the shoot down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in liaison with the Donesk rebels, the backlash of the crisis on international financial markets and on Russia’s financial system has passed virtually unnoticed. The conduct of speculative operations both prior and in the wake of… Continue reading
-
NYT's OPCW "He Said, She Said" Reporting Misses Major Judgement
In 2002 José Bustani, the then head of the now Nobel prized Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, was fired because his insistence on bringing Iraq into the Chemical Weapon Treaty conflicted with the war plans of the Bush administration. Continue reading
-
More aggressive’: Greenwald vows to publish more secrets after UK detains partner
Glen Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who first published secrets leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, promised Monday to release more documents, saying the UK would be “sorry” for detaining his partner for nine hours. Continue reading
-
U.S. Successful With Cyber Defense Protection Racket
Based on such scaremongering the U.S. will now – generously – sell software, hardware and training to Gulf monarchies to protect from Iranian “threats” that likely do not exist at all. Those countries will have to pay hundreds of millions dollars for those “services” to “defend” against “threats” that mysteriously came up from unknown sources… Continue reading
-
Julian Assange exposes British eavesdropping agency’s correspondence
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange The UK government eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, is facing embarrassing revelations after its internal correspondence was made public by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
-
Video: Assange’s Christmas Address: Outlines Wikileaks battle plan for 2013
Not much is known about the subject of Assange’s address, but he recently confirmed intentions to run as a candidate for the Australian Senate in 2013. Speculation is also rife that he will use the occasion to officially launch a WikiLeaks political party. Continue reading
-
IT’S TAX TIME: IS IT TIME TO OCCUPY THE IRS? By Danny Schechter
Back in the day, the government used IRS investigations to threaten political activists and intimidate activists that paid their taxes as opposed to those who became tax resisters to refuse to pay for wars. Continue reading
-
U.S. Arms Persian Gulf Allies For Conflict With Iran BY Rick Rozoff
Recent statements by among others the president and defense minister of Israel and a leading candidate for the American presidency in next year’s election – Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak and Mitt Romney respectively – before and after the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program manifest a more stark and menacing… Continue reading
-
Speculation in Agricultural Commodities: Driving up the Price of Food Worldwide and plunging Millions into Hunger By Edward Miller
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has again delayed the introduction of position limits required under the Dodd-Frank Act. These limits are intended to prevent speculation in (among other things) agricultural commodities, speculation which, many critics argue, have driven up the price of food worldwide and plunged millions into hunger. Continue reading
-
Gaddafi extends olive branch? — RT
Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi is ready to negotiate with the rebels to form a transitional government, Moussa Ibrahim, head of Gaddafi’s press service said. Continue reading
-
British Capitalism – the Worm Ouroboros By William Bowles
British capitalism has degenerated into that of a ‘middleman’, creaming profits off the global circuit of capital without contributing anything to real wealth creation and once the inevitable speculative bubble burst, as per usual, it’s the working class that pays the bill. Continue reading
-
Keynes with a neo-liberal twist? By William Bowles
10 November 2008 “Just imagine saying, “production for use leads to stagnation; production for death leads to exchange value and profits.” Now don’t jump on me! Wait, I have to go into capital expansion and its being “the breath of capitalism” and, as yet, no forseeable future opportunities for capital reproduction to the magnitude needed Continue reading
-
Responses From The South To The Global Economic Crisis
The meeting concluded that the situation has worsened in the last few weeks. It has progressed rapidly from being a series of crises in the financial markets of countries in the centre and has turned into an extremely serious international crisis. This meant that countries in the South are in a very difficult situation. Continue reading
-
Kapitalism101: The Falling Rate of Profit
This theory, that increased efficiency drives down the rate of profit has aspects that are both intuitively commonsensical and aspects that seem illogical. It makes intuitive sense that the more there is of a commodity the less it is worth. It doesn’t seem to make sense that capitalists would continue to behave in ways that… Continue reading
-
Are they REALLY Oil Wars? By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH
A most widely-cited factor behind the recent U.S. wars of choice is said to be oil. “No Blood for Oil” has been a rallying cry for most of the opponents of the war. While some of these opponents argue that the war is driven by the U.S. desire for cheap oil, others claim that it Continue reading
-
‘Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’
Source: Global Research A Review of Danny Schechter’s book ‘Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’ by Stephen Lendman Global Research, September 18, 2008 Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, TV producer as well as an author of 10 books and lecturer on media issues. Some call him ‘The News Continue reading
The New Dark Age 