BY JAMES PETRAS “The story told by the articles and headlines in a single day’s issue of the Financial Times reflects a deeper reality, one that illustrates the great divide in the world today. The Asian countries, led by China, are reaching world power status on the basis of their massive domestic and foreign investments in manufacturing, transportation, technology and mining and mineral processing. In contrast, the US is a declining world power with a deteriorating society resulting from its military-driven empire building and its financial-speculative centered economy…”
Is Social Security going bust? Reforming pensions, revisited When LBO last visited the pension issue (issue #28), it was to argue that the push to cut back on Social Security in the U.S. was part of a generalized attack on public retirement systems around the world. Calling it a plot may be a bit conspiratorial, [...]
GF, Baberowski’s falsification 12.09.doc Baberowski’s Falsification In this essay I examine a fact claim made by Prof. Jörg Baberowski on the first page of a 2003 paper entitled “Zivilisation der Gewalt. Die kulturellen Ursprünge des Stalinismus”. (http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/humboldt-vl/136/baberowski-joerg-3/PDF/baberowski.pdf ) Baberowski occupies an important chair of history at Humboldt University, Berlin. He is one of Europe’s most [...]
The history that “binds” the US and Haiti You won’t hear this from Katie Couric’s lips (or Diane Sawyer’s!) In his statement on the Haitian earthquake Wednesday, President Barack Obama referred to the “long history that binds us together.” Neither he nor the US media, however, have shown any inclination to probe the history of [...]
“Jango” Goulart, last progressive president of Brazil, overthrown by a US-instigated military coup in 1964. Although officially a victim of a heart attack, the evidence is compelling he was killed by poison by agents of the usurping government in Rio, with tacit approval from Washington. Human-rights campaigners have long maintained that Brazil’s military regime originated the idea of the desaparecidos, “the disappeared”, and exported torture methods across Latin America.
