By Stephen Lendman Moody’s says Eurozone crisis conditions place all member state credit ratings at risk. It warned 87 European banks to expect downgrades. Moreover, Fitch revised America’s debt outlook to negative. Nonetheless, its AAA rating is unchanged. For how long is another issue. Share on Facebook
By Juan Cole. Republished from Al Jazeera under a Creative Commons license. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN – From Tunis to Tel Aviv, Madrid to Oakland, a new generation of youth activists is challenging the neoliberal state that has dominated the world ever since the Cold War ended. The massive popular protests that shook the globe this [...]
By Rowan Wolf Newt Gingrich is trying to present himself as a new Newt, a Newt 2.0 so to speak. Unfortunately, he seems to be more of a Newt 1.01. So too his 21st Century Contract with America seems much like the 1994 Contract. Certainly the ideology has not changed, but it has gotten even [...]
By Ramzy Baroud When Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey’s prime minister in 2003, he seemed to be certain of the new direction his country would take. It would maintain cordial ties with Turkey’s old friends, Israel included, but also reach out to its Arab and Muslim neighbors, Syria in particular. The friendly relations between Ankara [...]
By Phil Rockstroh I’ve noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to “distract” the citizenry from the wicked machinations of Republicans of the legislative class. Nonsense. Share on Facebook
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… The Iranian people know what it means to earn the enmity of the global godfather. As William Blum documented in Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, 1953′s CIA-organized coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, guilty of the “crime” of nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, [...]
By Joel S. Hirschhorn When Americans who are the most victimized by our cruel economy still believe in something that is demonstrably no longer true, they are deeply delusional. They desperately want to believe in something once great about American society. The reality is that upward economic mobility has been destroyed, replaced by widely observable [...]
By Stephen Lendman An idea whose time has come resonates globally. November 17 marked two months since beginning in New York. Earlier Middle East and European protests inspired it. Now it’s spreading everywhere across North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. In America within weeks, hundreds of large and small cities in all [...]
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