The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire
Michael Oswald’s film The Spider’s Web reveals how at the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid...
View Article“I’ve Never Spent A Year So Completely Baffled By The World As This…”
Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer of The Automatic Earth blog, Try 2021 Had a little email exchange with Dave Collum this week. We go way back, more than two weeks even. It’s been a while though, Twitter...
View ArticleWhat Is Former CIA Director John Brennan So Worried About?
Given the uncertainties of Donald Trump’s actions as he faces a White House exit, the possible declassification of certain documents has the former CIA director sweating. By Ray McGovern and...
View ArticleThe Next Dollar Problem Has Just Arrived
The pace of monetary destruction is making a new leap. In the last two weeks of November, M1 money supply jumped by over 14% — an annualised rate of 367%. By Alistair Macleod and cross-posted from...
View ArticleA Devastating Indictment of the EU
The prominent Left-wing intellectual Perry Anderson has just published a comprehensive and crushing indictment of the EU from its beginnings to the present. Robert Tombs provides a summary for those...
View ArticleMario Draghi Is the Problem, Not the Solution
The advent of a Draghi government speaks volumes about the nature of Italian (post-)democracy, and the perverse effects that the euro has had on the country’s economic, social and political fabric. By...
View ArticleItaly’s Government Is Outsourcing Its Economic Strategy To Private Management...
Last month, former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi formed a new government whose top ministries were handed to unelected technocrats. Now his “government of experts” has outsourced its...
View ArticleAaugh! A Brief List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus
The Director of National Intelligence releases a report, and the press rushes to kick the football again. By Matt Taibbi and cross-posted from TK News. The Office of the Director of National...
View Article‘I’ve Been Targeted With Probably the Most Vicious Corporate Counterattack in...
Steven Donziger has been under house arrest for over 580 days, awaiting trial on a misdemeanor charge. It’s all, he says, because he beat a multinational energy corporation in court. By Jack Holmes...
View ArticleAmerica’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict. By Chris Hedges and cross-posted from Scheer...
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