Neoliberalism

The ideology that dare not speak it's name is actually a New, More Dangerous, Form of Corporatism. This "religion of freedom" (redefinition of the meaning of the word "freedom" and sophisticated speculation on it is at the center of neoliberal religion) is a coercive cult enforced by corrupt, deceitful elite with the explicit goal of milking the adherents

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Introduction

The terms Neoliberalism and Casino Capitalism are used interchangeably. They define the same phenomenon. The term "Casino Capitalism" stresses that neoliberalism glorifies stock market, promotes "financialization" of the economy and creates powerful incentives for financial speculation and excessive risk-taking on the part of the public ("Greed is good"). By a masterstroke of introducing 401K large part of the US population became stock owners are mercilessly fleeced by bog and small financial intermediaries. Mass ownership of stock 401K plans created stable rent rest for financial intermediaries, which increase in size and importance in the economy approximately 100 times. Add to this introduction of "gambling style" financial instruments such as derivatives, "naked" commodity futures (settled in dollars, not in product), currency speculations, intentional blowing of bubbles and even talking public "no-profit" Main Street entrepreneurs (dot-com crisis on 2000). That's why neoliberalism is also "casino capitalism" as markets, especially stock market play in it outsize role.

Like feudalism neoliberalism stipulate existence of three main classes (under feudalism they were aristocracy, merchants and serfs). simplifying we can defined them as billionaires, millionaires and the rest:

1. "Inner party" members (aka the "New Class" -- neoliberal Nomenklatura similar to Busheviks nomenklatura. Inner party consists of mostly consists of billionaires and bought by them politicians. To the New Class the law "protects but does not apply." They are above the law like aristocracy was under feudalism. Catholic church and Clintons family is a good example here (Clinton cash, Bill Clinton sexapades, Hillary email scandal, etc). Other notable examples include McCain (member of Keating Five), Lloyd Blankfein (financial crash of 2018), and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein (of Lolita Express fame) are another examples here. Amorality and criminality of the US neoliberal elite became a political issue in 2016 campaign (Podesta personality and so called Pizzagate conspiracy theory - Wikipedia; an alternative coverage is at PizzaGate Explained - YouTube; also pedophile scandal in Catholic church, in Great Britain and Scandinavian countries )
   
   Te "Inner Party" is dominated by financial oligarchs but several new groups are added to the elite as well. Among them are intelligence agencies brass (with intelligence agencies becoming the real political force, the core of the Deep State) and Silicon Valley moguls who are still short of becoming billionaires, but who run important companies (with top firms became interconnected with surveillance apparatus of the state and Wall Street) and top managers of multinationals and MIC.
   

2. The upper 10% who represent the class of people who benefit form neoliberal globalization and on whom neoliberalism rely for its support and defense. Along with top 1% they are the group which income increased since 1980th, although in much lesser scale then for financial oligarchy. They consist of top level professionals (so called "creative class" in neoliberal New Speak): lawyers, sportsmen, programmers, doctors, engineers, actors, successful entrepreneurs, "lesser" politicians, MSM personalities, top journalists, scientists, university professors, upper military brass, etc.

   They can be tentatively called the class of millionaires as their net worth often exceeds one million dollars (in 2019 dollars). They also can be considered the upper middle class. The them law apply but with exceptions and sentences are usually very lenient. Here are the data for 2016 How Many Millionaires Are There in America Decamillionaires -DQYDJ

   We estimate that there are 14,814,453 millionaires in the United States. Our estimate puts the millionaire net worth goal at the 88.24% wealth bracket in the US in 2016, or 11.76% of all households.

3. The bottom 90% of population so called deplorables. The income and standard of living of this group decreased under neoliberalism. Social security net (especially job security) evaporated. There is a definitely a switch to temporary and contract jobs in this segment, which make their situation even worse. Unemployment is running high with U6 measure above 10% most of the time. In other words they are the main loser of neoliberal globalization. Too them the law applies, but does not protect...

The key social goal of neoliberalism is redistribution of wealth up at the expense of the working class and lower middle class (the bottom 90% of population). It is political project designed to curb the power of labor (see Neoliberalism war on labor). So stagnation of wages and deterioration of the standard of living is not an aberration, but a key feature of neoliberalism. Suppression of wages is done under the false flag of austerity. Important for neoliberals sectors such as MIC (especially intelligence community), law enforcement, financial firm brass bonuses, and tax cuts for rich are not affected by austerity, only worker wages and social programs are.

A new secular religion

Neoliberalism positions itself as a secular religion (which in its core is hostile to Christianity, much like Bolshevism) with the compliance enforced by the state. Somewhat similar God-Building trend in Marxism. For example, the prominent member of Bolsheviks Party Lunacharsky "saw Marxism as having religious components, including its faith in the inevitable victory of socialism."; according to Trotsky(1923) in some of the southern republics around 15% percent of party members were believers in Islam. Developing this insight Erich Voegelin’s on his controversial Political Religions (1938, see discussion at Stalinist Ritual and Belief System- Reflections on ‘Political Religion’) suggested that ideologies can function as secular religions.

For example, both national socialism and Bolshevism were deficient in terms of empirical evidence and had to be accepted on faith. The same is true for neoliberalism. The difference is that most of those movements generated a sense of devotion and mass mobilization with the emphasis of personal sacrifice, reminiscent of religious zeal. This is not the case for neoliberalism which adopted "inverted totalitarism" model

Like Stalinists which protected their narrow interpretation of Marxism from any challenges by power of the repressive apparatus of the state, neoliberals are people who believe that “the market does not and cannot take care of itself,” and indeed neoliberalism is a form of statism — one in which power of the state insulates the unregulated markets (and financial oligarchy which those markets enrich) from democratic attempts to regulate them, as well as from economic nationalism, which threatens neoliberal globalization..

At the center of this civic religion is the redefinition of the word "freedom" as freedom from any kind of coercion (compare with FDR four freedoms). That sophistry resonated very well within Americans and British people and became a "universal opener" using which neoliberal elite opens the door for any harmful for population actions/legislation, including but not limited to the restoration of the power of financial oligarchy. All in the name of freedom ;-). Dirty, but a very effective trick.

Those guys are real masters of deception and elevated it into the art form. In a way neoliberalism can be called the "religion of freedom," a coercive cult enforced by corrupt, deceitful elite with the explicit goal of milking the adherents. Neoliberal ideology is offering a closed, coherent belief system explaining the whole world via unverifiable and unsubstantiated by scientific testing system of dogmas, beliefs and rituals. Deification of markets is just slightly less fantastic then the idea of Paradise. Obviously, neoclassical economics is far removed from what is ordinarily regarded as valid scientific procedure. It is, essentially, a pseudo theory, a flavor of Lysenkoism, if you wish.

As core dogmas of neoliberalism are indefensible from scientific point of view if stated openly, neoliberalism has always been surrounded by an aura of secrecy and "esoteric teaching" (for elite only) which reminds Scientology. Even the name is suppressed in neoliberal MSM (US neoliberal MSMs rarely, if at all, mention this term "neoliberalism"; In UK the only exception is probably Guardian). To protect deplorables from discovering the ugly truth, elaborate pseudo theoretical smoke screen including mathiness was created. Exactly like in Marx famous quote "Religion is the opium of the people." This is actually the first instance when ideology conceived as a secular religion uses perverted mathematics (mathiness, Number racket) to justifies itself (I think Ancient Egypt priests might be the only analogy). As such this is a blatantly dishonest ideology. Like Bolshevism in the past, it also plays dirty tricks with the language in best 1994 style, creating neoliberal NewSpeak: compare for example how "economic freedom" is defined by neoliberals ("freedom of entrepreneurs and financial speculators from coercion and regulation") and how it was defined by FDR ("freedom [of working people and lower middle class] from want"). Indoctrination into "neoliberal newspeak" is done at the Universities using for brainwashing neoclassical economy and "business courses." Much like Soviet students were brainwashed with Marxism-Leninism and Marxist political economy. In both cases you can't graduate without passing mark for those courses. Again like Marxism neoliberalism is hostile to Christianity; some postulates of neoliberalism are closer to Judaism (entrepreneurs and financiers as a higher caste of the society, the inner party), some to Satanism.

Like Bolshevism neoliberalism is striving to rewrite history in the favorable light, or, even better, create conditions that people do not know the history at all. Neoliberalism even more then Bolshevism in the past is profoundly hostile to history. Which is actually a feature of all new cults. But the method neoliberalism uses is suppressing of education and coverage in MSM -- which is methods that characterize it as "inverted totalitarism". How many Us citizens know who Sheldon Wolin was? probably one in hundred or less. But most know who this corrupt stooge of financial oligarchy, "Chicago boy" Milton Friedman was because he is a saint of the church of neoliberalism. Or who was this plagiarist of Nietzschean philosophy, a Russia emigrant Ann Rand was?

Neoliberalism redistributes wealth up, justifying it with another key neoliberal myth -- the so called "trickle down economics" voodoo: the idea is that if the State directly helps the rich by redistributing wealth up, enforcing "market discipline", opening markets were they never existed (healthcare, education), as well as privatizing state assets, the poor will be better off as a by-product. Or as John Kenneth Galbraith quipped: “Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.” In other words, neoliberalism is welfare for the top 1% or 0.1% of entrepreneurs and parasitic financial oligarchy (which state protects), and, at the same time, the "free market" jungle for the rest ("socialism for rich").

It is both an ideological assault, but also an economic assault on the power of labor (and especially organized labor) a political project to squash labor wages. On intuitive level neoliberalism emerged as the result of thinking like “We gotta crush labor, how do we do it?” And they found that neoliberalism can be a legitimizing theory for such a squash. Which again makes it similar to Bolshevism, which despite noble slogans kept working class wages at a very low level (which was noted by Orwell in his Animal Farm parable, and famous John Kenneth Galbraith quote "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite")

And, again, like Bolshevism, this is a self-reassuring, self-gratifying and self-explanatory high demand cult -- a pretty sophisticated and very deceptive ideological rosy glasses, which creates (and then enforces on lemmings) a distorted image of reality. Important part of "reproduction" mechanism if this ideology is that it is deliberately propagated by neoliberal MSM and in neoliberal universities And neoliberal MSM (which are the only game in town in many countries now) as neoliberalism eliminated other forms of press via monopolization mechanism. In the USA lion share of MSM is owned by just six corporations. Along with domination in MSM, neoliberalism creates sophisticated and effective system of indoctrination of population which rivals the same under Bolsheviks in the USSR.

At the same time the cult of greed and denial of tenets of Christian morality like in case of Bolshevism tend to produce monsters. In the absence of a moral filter, as Martha Stout observed in her book The Sociopath Next Door (2006) "Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths... That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow -- but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one." Recent information about child abuse among the neoliberal elite suggests that the proportion of sociopaths among neoliberal politicians is much higher that it was under the New Deal Capitalism. Such neoliberal politicians as Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton (sexcapades , connection to Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express, "Clinton Cash" Scandal), Hillary Clinton ("We came, we saw, he died"), Dick "Vice" Cheney, Donald Trump might well be malignant narcissists. Discovery of pedophilia rings that involve politicians in several Western countries (such as Britain, Vatican, Norway ) is just another manifestation of the same trend: Amorality and criminality of neoliberal elite. And this is not a bug, this is a feature of neoliberalism, connected with neoliberalism core value "personal gratification above everything else". There is no cure for the infiltration of malignant narcissists and outright sociopaths into high echelons of government until moral character is valued by the society and is once again assessed before key promotion decisions are made. Typical for narcissists megalomania, the idea that after the collapse of the USSR the USA can and should rule the globe was a decisive force in the USA foreign policy (which was at the core a neocon foreign policy) since 1990th and precipitates the current decline of the USA as the world power due to overextension typical for all empires.

The neoliberal state justifies its decisions, policies, and rules by deification of the markets and by perversion of the meaning of the term the "freedom". In this Hayek inspired sophistry the negative definition is used as in "freedom from coercion" and interpreted mainly in economic space ( as the freedom of unlimited enrichment of talented and/or ruthless entrepreneurs.) Compare with "Four Freedoms" definition used Roosevelt administration during the New Deal: "freedom from want" and "freedom from fear" are not included in neoliberal definition. Those freedoms are simply denied under neoliberalism for everybody, but the top 10% of population.

Neoliberalism might therefore be defined as the elevation of market-based principles to the level of state religion. Or more correctly the techniques of elevation of market principles to the level of state-endorsed norms and state-sponsored secular religion which displaces Christianity (aka neoliberal rationality). This theological dimension of neoliberalism is very important (some researchers called neoliberalism "perverted Buddhism" in institualized suffering of lower classes ) and like in Marxism, the economics (in the form of neoclassical economics) is used for indoctrination on university students into this ideology. Neoliberals (in a form of adherents to neoclassical economics) dominate economics departments of major universities and not by some chance -- this is result of deliberate policy (borrowed from Trotskyism) of acquiring and maintaining the political power ("Quite coup").

This secular religion in which "market" and "competition" are new deities ("market fundamentalism") is especially visible in university education, were alternative approaches were mercilessly crushed. It is not an exaggeration to say that the main goal of teaching of economics in universities is the indoctrination, and it has very little in common with teaching economic as a complex and contradictory science. Mathematics serves as powerful smoke screen for hiding the neoliberal ideological core (mathiness)

Like neofascism, neoliberalism radically transforms the "welfare state" which was created by the New Deal, prioritizing big corporations over common people. The idea of welfare that was the core of New Deal Capitalism is not completely abolished. But under neoliberalism only corporations are desirable welfare recipients and the bigger they are, the more handouts they suck up. But at the same time neoliberalism and neofascism are mortal enemies: neofascism is at its core a flavor of far right nationalism (cultural or ethnic), while neoliberalism is based on globalism. Only in imperial nations like the USA they can partially merge and intervene (Trump's national neoliberalism is one example).

In labor relations neoliberal pursue a staunch anti-union stance. Labor is atomized, unions suppressed and individuals put on the market "naked" on conditions dictated by employees. Which means squeezing goo paying job in favor of terms and contractors, outsourcing and other anti--labor measure designed to preserve falling profitability in the market condition characterized by falling consumer demand (due to lower standard of living for the majority of population). And this is done at any cost. Even at the cost of human life. That situation gave rise to the term "naked capitalism".

Neoliberalism sees competition as the defining characteristic of human relations. That gave a rise of various (often stupid) "performance metrics" and cult of "performance reviews". It redefines citizens as consumers, who exercise they political power mainly buying and selling, the process which supposedly rewards merit (producing market winners) and punishes inefficiency. It postulates a primitive (and wrong) dogma that “the market” always delivers benefits that are superior and could never be achieved by planning. Which is definitely untrue for military contractors. In a way the "market" under neoliberalism is a kind of "all powerful deity". Which makes neoliberalism a variation of a secular religion (compare with "God building" faction of Bolsheviks Party which included such prominent figures as Lynacharsky). As such neoliberalism, like Marxism before, is hostile to Christianity. And while Marxism absolutize the power of human compassion and redefines paradise as a social system that supposedly can be built on Earth (communism), neoliberalism denigrates the power of human compassion and enforces "greed is good" and "homo homini lupus est" morale. Which turns into law of jungle for lower and middle class. In this sense it is more like a branch of Satanism, with greed as a virtue ("Greed is good"), speculation as a noble activity (while according to Chris Hedges "Speculation in the 17th century was a crime. Speculators were hanged." ) and the slogan "Homo homini lupus est" as one of the key Commandments. See Neoliberalism and Christianity

This social system can be viewed as dialectical denial of socialism and represents the other extreme in classic triad "Thesis, antithesis, synthesis". We do not know yet what the synthesis will be like, but neoliberalism as a social system after 2008 shows definite cracks. Much like the USSR after the WWII when people serving in Red Army discovered what the standard of living in Central and Eastern Europe for workers was far superior that existed in the USSR and start to understand that "state socialism" as practiced in the USSR can't deliver promised higher standard of living for ordinary citizens and that Soviet "nomenklatura" is not that different from the capitalist class in appropriation in Marx terms of "surplus value of labor".

Inverted Totalitarism

Recent spy scandals demonstrated that neoliberal elite (like financial oligarchy in general) is aware of the loss of power of neoliberal ideology and is afraid of losing power. They no longer fully believe in the power brainwashing of population (at least after 2008). Neoliberal ideology started losing its grip on the population, much like Marxism in the USSR in1960th.

So they switched to coercion innovating in this area too: by introducing so called "inverted totalitarism" template of social coercion. This term was instoruced by Professor Shedon Wolin in his famous book ( see kettering.org which provides an introduction tot he book for free).

This template updates Bolsheviks-style repressive mechanisms by relying more the power of intelligence agencies as an enforcement squad of neoliberal agenda and the power of MSM for brainwashing of the population. Dissidents are no longer jailed or killed; they allow them to linger in obscurity carefully "cutting the oxygen" -- and access to media for popularization of their ideas and money for a decent standard of living. You can be a dissident under neoliberalism but prepare to end your life in poverty. So the explicit censorship by the state used under Bolshevism isrepaced by a more several private censorship of MSM controlled by neoliberal oligarchs, who provided to be as good in this area if not better as Bolsheviks (six corporations in the USA control all major MSM).

This development reveals another (and pretty alarming) commonality with Bolshevism -- historically Cheka (OGPU/NKVD/KGB) played prominent, if not decisive, role in defending and ensuring the survival of Bolsheviks' regime. It was betrayal of KCB brass that doomed the USSR in late 1991 -- starting from Andropov they switched sides and started to propagate the conversion of the country to neoliberalism. This negative trend is amplified by appointment, "not so bright", deeply conformist "ladder climbers" as the heads of intelligence agencies. For example, Brennan and Clapper represent the same category of people as a typical Soviet bureaucrat -- a ruthless (and most often corrupt and amoral) careerist with limited intellectual capacities, but devoted to the defense of the ruling oligarchy. Such people understand very well from which side his bread is buttered. Neoliberalism operates differently and does not require, or support mobilization of population. That's why it is viewed by some political scientists as a new mutation of corporatism called "inverted totalitarism" (the term introduced by Sheldon Wolin in his magnificent book and further developed by Wendy Brown in her essay Neoliberalism and the end of liberal democracy and the book Undoing the Demos- Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (2017). Internet as a distributed and democratic system supports mobilization of population. It also makes more difficult to control information flow and free flow of information and existence of critical to neoliberalism websites which summarize and presents in readable form the available information is a threat to neoliberalism. Which, being a secular religion, flourished on ignorance and brainwashing. That's why there is systematic propaganda campaign to associate critics of neoliberalism with Russians (which were chosen as a very convenient scapegoat due to Cold War past). That's why neo-McCarthyism witch hunt was launched after Trump elections with such fierce force.

Like Bolsheviks neoliberals are statists par excellence, using state to enforce and support the neoliberal dogma. In other words, neoliberals believe that "the market does not and cannot take care of itself" In this sense we can view neoliberalism is a form of state enforced regulation -- one that insulates the markets from challenges of democratic forces (with the ideological smoke screen of neoclassical economy, which is pure sophistry) as well as from economic nationalism. The recent Deep State attack on Trump is typical, classic neoliberal reaction on such a challenge from economic nationalism.

While hypocritically shouting "free market", "free market"... neoliberals like Bolsheviks in the past conspire to achieve power via iether by deceiving electorate with "carrots" in regular election mechanism (which after they came to power is neutered ) or by stealth coup d'état (or regime change via color revolution in weaker countries, especially LA(Chile, Brasil, Argentina) and post Soviet republics (Baltic republics, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia) as well as infiltrating and subverting key institutions of the state via IMF and World Bank ("debt slavery") and, especially, intelligence agencies. CIA considered neoliberalism as a useful tool for thier "fight against communism" and was onboard with neoliberalism starting with Pinochet coup in Chile in 1973 done using fifth column of USA educated (read indoctrinated) "Chicago boys".

After coming to power neoliberals behave like Bolsheviks and openly and blatantly use government as an enforcer of their ideology. That includes bailing out financial oligarchy to prevent of meltdown of financial system during Minsky moments. Which are inevitable under neoliberalism as decimation of regulation (especially for financial sector) eliminated the negative feedback loop introduced by the New Deal, while financial institutions create a strong positive feedback loop in economics gradually sliding to more and more reckless behaviour as more time from the previous crisis elapses until the new financial crash hits them (and the socitry as whole) in the head ("stability is destabilizing" as quipped Minsky). At this point neoliberal state bails then our at the expense of ordinary taxpayers and traditional manufactures ("socialism for the financial oligarchy") who bare the main blunt of the crisis.

Trotskyism for the rich

Exaggerating threats to the USA sovereignty to cement the cracks in the neoliberal regime is also a page borrowed from the Stalinist period of the USSR. In the USSR people were accused being British spies. Now in the USA dissidents from neoliberal ideology (even such highly placed as Trump ;-) are, by definition, Russian intelligence service collaborators, or assets. This very useful for defenders of the neoliberal regime paranoia now extends even to contacts with the Ambassador of Russia by any US official which bring us to the set of behaviors at the peak of the USSR Great Terror. In a sense Mueller looks exactly like one of Stalin henchmen -- he tried to justify the view that is almost totally misguided, for the sake of defense of declining neoliberal ideology. Performing functions that are not that different from functions performed by the head of Gestapo or Stasi -- suppression of the political dissent to neoliberalism.

Like in the USSR for intelligence officials it is safer to flow with the neo-McCarthyism trend: the current atmosphere of paranoia makes it difficult for intelligence agencies to present the evidence that contradicts Russian spymania vision. The essence of which is identical to the vision of Stalinist Russia: that the USA is surrounded by two hostile powers (Russia and China) hell-bent on creating political crisis in the country and/or "regime change" and salivating to steal or dismantle the US global neoliberal empire. Which are engaged in stealing technological and military secrets.

Like Soviets, neoliberal policymakers are deeply troubled by the specter of the enemy at the gate, not realizing that the current social crisis in the USA is ultimately connected with the crisis of neoliberalism both as an ideology and the system of governance. Add to this faulty, ideologically distorted system of intelligence gathering and ruthless but intellectually second-rate careerists at the agencies (just look at Strzok, Brennan and Clapper). Like with the discovery of British spies in the USSR, the most obvious motive for Russiagate witch hunt is to cement cracks in neoliberal faced which appeared after 2008 by using for this purpose the external threat.

While many think about neoliberalism as "Ubercapitalism" or return to "Robber Barons" era on a new level, ideologically Neoliberalism is closer to Trotskyism ( and thus can be called Neo-Trotskyism ). It stresses the role of state as the enforcement power, the solidarity of neoliberal elite across the countries, with the dominant role of Anglo-Saxon elite. As well as the role of subversive methods and intelligence agencies in instituting the "regime change" (Trotskyite idea of permanent revolution mutated under neoliberalism into the idea of "permanent color revolution") . In the famous slogan "Proletarians of all countries, Unite!" neoliberalism substituted the word "proletarians" with the word "elites" (as in "Transnational elites, Unite!" ).

The slogan "All Power to [Workers] Councils" is replaced with "All power to financial oligarchy councils", and such clubs as Bilderberg Group, US Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable and similar organization are playing the role of hidden centers of power of the neoliberal regime.

Like Trotskyism neoliberalism in the ideology of "permanent expansion", ideology of neo-colonialism. The idea of "Permanent Revolution" was substituted with the idea of permanent "Color revolutions." Methods used remain a variation and enhancement of methods used by Trotskyites for destabilizing the government, with a special emphasis on use of the students, acquiring the control of mass media, implanting NGO (especially in the area various polls and "control over the legitimacy of elections". ) The latter is pretty nasty trick as people tend to believe the rumors that elections were hijacked. Stalin dictum: it does not matter how they vote, what matters is who is counting the votes is used here in a pretty innovative way. The neoliberal version sounds like: It does not matter how that vote, if elections are close all that matter is who is performing exit polls and cries louder about "irregularities" in the elections in the MSM.

Add to this various financial injection to "dissidents" via network of NGO and you get the picture. Caste of "professional revolutionaries" now consists of well-paid functionaries sitting in comfortable chairs in various, lavishly financed think tanks and NGO. In the USA they constitute the core of both parties which cares very little about the interest of rank-and-file members with "bait and switch" maneuver as the major tool for election success (Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump). Marx is probably rolling in his grave.

Despite being a flavor of Trotskyism, Neoliberalism is still a very interesting, unique social system which by-and-large defeated and replaced both New Deal capitalism and various flavors of socialism (as well as facilitated the dissolution of the USSR by buying out Soviet nomenklatura, including KGB brass). It is the only social system in which the name of the system is somehow prohibited by MSM to mention. In this system, like under Stalin's version of socialism, the state play the leading role in enforcing the social system upon the people, brainwashing them with wall-to-wall 24 x 7 USSR-style propaganda an, if necessary, by state violence (As Sheldon Wolin mentioned neoliberalism tries to use violence selectively, as overuse of state violence undermines the social system, see Inverted Totalitarism).

Like Bolshevism and national socialism neoliberalism lifted intelligence services into full fledged political player (which means that later stage of neoliberal state always evolves into the national security state). They also almost completely control the MSM , major commerce (Amazon), search (Google). and social sites (Facebook). For example, Google was created with the help of intelligence agencies at the initial state. Which means that the regime of total electronic surveillance, reminiscent of STASI is the "new normal" (see, Privacy is dead, get over it).

As we can see in color revolution launched by them against Trump (Trump is the proponent of a newer version of neoliberalism, which can be called "national neoliberalism" or "neocolonization instead of globalization") intelligence agencies now position themselves as "king makers" or Praetorian Guard that de-facto controls the election of the President of the USA. And the color revolution against Trump is not the isolated case when the USA intelligence agencies have gone rogue. It is just a step in natural evolution of neoliberalism and along with total surveillance is a "new normal".

Instead of regulating predatory tendencies of capitalism like under New Deal, state under neoliberalism became just a corrupt policeman that serve interests of the large corporations and financial institutions (especially the latter) and, in most cases, at the expense of the standard of living of the common people. Standard of living of working class and lower middle class typically slides under neoliberalism (this fact is never accepted by neoliberals and hotly disputed).

In this sense any neoliberal country is to a certain extent is an "occupied country", and the neoliberal regime is the occupying regime, much like Bolsheviks (with their theocratic state) were in USSR space. Or like the return on the new level to the Robber Barons era, when the state helped to squash West Virginia miner upraising in 1912-21 by military force.

Foreign policy under neoliberalism is marked by rampant militarism and constant wars for expanding of the global, USA-led neoliberal empire. Neocons dominate the USA foreign policy since early 70th (Chilean putsch and then Carter administration support of mujahedeen against Soviets).

Neoliberalism as an unstable social system with a strong built-in positive feedback loop;
the coming crisis and possible collapse of neoliberalism

Systems with a strong positive feedback loop are known to be unstable. So bailing out private institutions using public money (like happened in the US and Europe in 2008-2010) is not an aberration. but a quintessential feature of neoliberalism. And the crisis of 2008 which caused the regime of "secular stagnation" in Western societies will probably be repeated on a new level in 2020th (we can only guess about possible triggers; might the price of oil, or the size of derivatives market). Simplifying, we can call neoliberalism "Banks uber alles" regime.

The economic inefficiency of the USSR "state capitalism" model (one state -- one giant corporation) helped to undermine the validity and effectiveness of communist propaganda. And once the ideology is undermined, the elite can't restore the trust of population, which start viewing it with suspicion and contempt. The process of irreversible deterioration started and proceed rather slowly. After WWII Bolshevism survived for another 40 years or so, but eventually failed as the elite (aka Soviet nomenklatura) changed sides and joined neoliberal camp.

Like Bolshevism before it, neoliberalism proved to be unstable social system and the collapse of neoliberalism is not question of "if", but "when". A utopian system which is unable to deliver promised benefits to the common people, and which destabilizes capitalism in comparison with New Deal capitalism, producing periodic financial crisis with increasing severity. The first of such crisis was "savings and loans" crisis, followed by dot com bubble burst, and the financial crisis in 2008. The latter led to the Great Recession from which the USA never fully recovered.

In 2008 the large banks, which are the core of neoliberal economics, were saved from facing consequences of their "transgressions" only by massive state intervention. All powerful market was unable to save those sick puppies. The consequences of 2008 crisis did buried neoliberal ideology which from this point looks like cruel and primitive hypocrisy designed to restore the power of financial oligarchy to the level the latter enjoyed in 1930th. That did not mean that neoliberalism became completely toothless. It managed to stage comeback in several Latin American countries (the USA backyard). But in 2016 it led to the election of Trump who managed to defeat establishment candidate, neocon warmonger Hillary Clinton despite all the efforts of the neoliberal/neocon establishment to derail him. Trump pursues the version of neoliberalism which can be called "national neoliberalism" -- neoliberalism limited to the USA with implicit rejection of globalization (or at least large part of it). Which makes Trumpism somewhat similar to Stalinism. Unlike Trotsky, Stalin did not believe in the "World Revolution" mantra.

In the absence of alternatives neoliberalism managed somewhat recover after 2008 debacle, and even successfully counterattacked in some Latin American and European countries (Argentina, Brazil, Greece), but the Great Recession still left of huge and ugly scar on the neoliberal face. In any case glory days of triumphal march of neoliberalism all over globe are over. Crisis of neoliberalism also logically led to increase of share of "guard labor" in economics. On state level this resulted in hypertrophied growth of repressive apparatus including intelligence agencies. So when in 2016 neoliberalism in the USA experienced its first political crisis (when electorate rejected Hillary Clinton and elected Trump, creating the legitimacy crisis of the USA ruling neoliberal elite) the Deep State (the core of which consists of intelligence agencies and "Wall Street" ) launched a "color revolution" to depose him. Fake changes of falling under Russian control concocted by intelligence agencies in order to depose Trump which collectively are called "Russiagate" (which properly should be called Intelligence-gate) is the defining feature of this "color revolution".

With lower standard of living of the middle class is no longer possible to hide that "it 's not enough cookies for everybody" under neoliberal and the myth that rising tide lifts all boats"(Trickle-down economics ) is not applicable.

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith noted that "trickle-down economics" had been tried before in the United States in the 1890s under the name "horse and sparrow theory", writing:

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: 'If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.'

Resentment of working class and lower middle class reached in 2016 unprecedented level, creating a real political crisis in the USA. Which was not unexpected. As Pope Francis aptly noted:

... Such an [neoliberal] economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion. Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality. Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.

Outsourcing and offshoring of manufacturing in the USA -- the citadel of neoliberalism led to epidemic of opiod abuse similar to epidemic of alcoholism among workers in the late USSR. Among the more than 72,000 drug overdose deaths estimated in 2017, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids) with nearly 30,000 overdose deaths ( Overdose Death Rates National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (

Impoverishment of lower 20% of the society (those who have so called McJobs) reached the level when we can talk about a third world country within the USA.

All those factors created pre-conditions for a sharp rise of far right nationalism. In a way neoliberalism naturally generated far right nationalism splash much like Gilded Age and the market crash of Sept 4, 1929 capitalism created precondition for the rise of national socialism. Reading NDSAP 25 points program (adopted in 1920) we can instantly feel that many problem that existed then are now replayed on the new level. After approximately 40 years of global dominance neoliberalism facade shows cracks. Backlash against neoliberal globalization became strong enough to provide upsets, albeit temporary, which demonstrated itself in Brexit, and election of Trump. Who, despite his election-time claims to be a fighter against neoliberal globalization, for restoration of local jobs, and against the wars for expanding neoliberal empire, he essentially folded in two-or three months after the inauguration.

Like Soviet version of Communism before it, Neoliberalism failed to meet its promises of rising standard of living (and the key idea of justifying of raising of inequality and redistribution of wealth up under neoliberalism was "rising water lifts all boats" mantra, or as Kenneth Galbraith famously defined it “Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.” ). We can stress again, that the current opiod epidemics in the USA is not that different from epidemics of alcoholism in the USSR under Brezhnev's "well developed socialism" and has the same social roots.

It is important to understand that under neoliberalism the key priority is the maintenance of global neoliberal empire for the benefits of multinationals (with the associated idea of Global Neoliberal Revolution which, as we mentioned before, makes is similar to Trotskyism). Opening new markets is vital for the interests of transnational corporations and that means that the USA government supports the war for the expansion of the USA-led global neoliberal empire at the expense of interests of regular US citizens. Outsourcing and atomization of the US workforce (squeezing unions) means that neoliberal government has an adversarial attitude towards its common citizenry. They are, by definition, the second class citizens (Undermensch, or as Hillary Clinton elegantly coined it "basket of deplorables" ) . While neoliberal themselves ("creative class") are new Ubermench and like old aristocracy are above the law. So the idea of the "nomenklatura" as a ruling class in the USSR is now replayed on a new level. The fact the Ann Rand was a Soviet émigré tells you something ;-)

Like all other social systems neoliberalism evolved with time ( much like Bolshevism evolved from Leninism to Stalinism, then to Brezhnev's socialism and at last to Gorbachov "perestroika" ). Recently in the USA it morphed into "national neoliberalism" (neoliberalism that stresses the colonial model and direct economic and military pressure of vassals, instead of treaties based globalization model used in "classic" neoliberalism) which has uncanny similarities with "national socialism". This flavor was not well accepted by the current US neoliberal elite and attempts to stage the color revolution against Trump followed (Russiagate).

In various countries it can morph into quite different "regimes", despite the common "market fundamentalism" core. The simplest and pretty precise way to define is to view it as "socialism for the rich, feudalism for the poor" or, more correctly "Trotskyism for the rich" ("Elites of all countries unite !" instead of “Proletarians of all countries, Unite! ...). It is "socialism for the upper strata of population and corporations, especially transnationals". It favors professionals (programmers, lawyers, doctors, university professors, etc), upper level managers and capital owners, so this social system acts inn the interests of top 10% of population, with the special emphasis on interests of top 1% or even 01%. For the rest of population it serves austerity as the only available dish.

In this sense neoliberals are as "internationalists" as communists were at their time, and may be even more (the term "globalism" is commonly used instead of "internationalism".) And like "Communist International", the "Neoliberal International" accepts the elite from any country, but only a very narrow strata of the elite and only on a certain conditions, with the leading role reserved for the USA elite and a part of G7 elite. Much like in Comintern the role of Moscow as a leader was something that can't be even discussed. Only taken for granted. Although spying capabilities of "Neoliberal International" via "five eyes" are tremendously more powerful then the rudimentary capabilities of Comintern. And the technology of staging "color revolutions" is more polished then Trotskyite approach to staging proletarian revolutions.

As a proverb say "One is a bad student, if he can't exceed the level of his teacher". Or "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires" (William Arthur Ward). Neoliberals proved to be a very good students of Trotskyite method of subversion of elected governments, as many of them were actually former Trotskyites.

Neoliberals also have more money and that matters. This fact alone allows them to create a powerful "fifth column" in countries other then G7 who are on the receiving end of neoliberal expropriation of wealth to the top countries of Neoliberal International. Like in Comintern, "all pigs are created equal, but some pigs are more equal then others."

The key idea of obtaining power by training the cadre of "professional revolutionaries" introduced by social-democratic parties and, especially, Bolsheviks are replaced with no less effective the network of neoliberal think tanks. In other words neoliberalism borrowed and perverted almost all major ideas of social-democratic parties. Including the existence of a paid "party core" typical for Bolsheviks, and instrumental to the success of their coup d'état in October 1917 against Provisional government by Kerensky. Under neoliberalism this idea transformed into the network of think tanks that Koch and other billionaires have sponsored.

Monte Perelin society (the initial neoliberal think tank) explicitly tried to adapt successful idea of western social democratic parties and Bolsheviks to neoliberal doctrine. One such "appropriations" is the level of secrecy and existence of "underground" part of the party along with "legal" parliamentary faction, a set of figureheads who are controlled by "invisible hand" (honorable politician is the one who after he was bought stays bought). Some important theoretical work in this direction was done USA renegade Trotskyites (aka neoconservatives, especially by James Burnham as well as staunch neoliberals like James Buchanan (The Guardian)

The papers Nancy MacLean discovered show that Buchanan saw stealth as crucial. He told his collaborators that “conspiratorial secrecy is at all times essential”.

Instead of revealing their ultimate destination, they would proceed by incremental steps. For example, in seeking to destroy the social security system, they would claim to be saving it, arguing that it would fail without a series of radical “reforms”...

Gradually they would build a [well-paid] “counter-intelligentsia”, allied to a “vast network of political power” that would become the new establishment.

The control of MSM is another idea borrowed from Bolsheviks. Like Bolshevism, neoliberalism created it's own Neoliberal newspeak and a set of myths ("greed is good", "invisible hand", "the efficient markets hypothesis", "rational expectations scam", Shareholder value scam, supply side voodoo aka "rising tide lifts all boats", etc).

In "neoliberal newspeak" the term "freedom" is used as the excuse for ripping down public protections on behalf of the very rich. For example, "free market" means the market free from any coercion by the state (read "free from regulations") which makes it the corporate jungle where the most powerful corporation dictate the rules of the game and eat alive small fish with complete impunity. In no way neoliberal "free market" is fair. Actually neoliberals try to avoid to discuss the issue of farness of the market. This is anathema for them. As such neoliberalism has distinct Social Darwinism flavor and enforces scapegoating and victimization of poor and unemployed

As neoliberalism inherited consumerism of the New Deal Capitalism, it adapted it for it own purposes. One distinct feature is trying to get into dent the majority of the population of the country as well as "lesser" countries (neo-colonialism)/

On the individual workers levels neoliberalism has sophisticated mechanisms of enforcing excessive debt on unsuspecting population with such mechanisms as credit card companies, mortgages, student debt, etc. And a worker with a large debt is, essentially, a debt-slave. Atomization (neoliberalism is openly and forcefully anti-union) and enslavement of the workforce is exactly what neoliberalism is about: recreation of the plantation economy on a new technological and social levels. Not that unions are without problems in their own right, but crushing the union is the goal of every neoliberal government starting with Thatcher and Reagan. The same model that is depicted in famous song Sixteen Tons. With replacement of the company store debt and private corporate currencies with credit card debt.

On "lesser" countries level IMF and World banks does the heavy lifting of converting countries into debt-slaves. Sometimes with the help of Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs.

Like Trotskyism, neoliberalism is a militaristic creed, the only different is that dream of global Communist empire led from Moscow was replaced by the dream of global neoliberal empire led by Washington. Neocons in this sense is just a specific flavor of neoliberals --" neoliberals with the gun" as in Al Capone maxim "You Can Get Much Further with a Kind Word and a Gun than with a Kind Word Alone" ;-). This "institualized gangsterism" of the US neocons represents probably the greatest threat to the survival of modern civilization.

Neoliberalism elevates of market-based principles and techniques of evaluation to the level of state-endorsed norms. The authority of the neoliberal state is heavily dependent on the authority of neoliberal economics (and economists). When this authority collapses the eventual collapse of neoliberalism is imminent. This is a classic "the castle built of sand story. "

Neoliberalism in Depth

This is the end of the introduction. Due to the size the main article was moved to a separate page -- Neoliberalism in depth

• Introduction
• Role of deception under neoliberalism: elevating deception into a vital political tool
• Neoliberal revolution as an internal color revolution in the USA
• Extremism of Neoliberalism, Neoconservatives as militant faction of neoliberals
• Neoliberalism and Christianity
• Ideology of Financial Elite: how neoliberal lie became hegemonic despite being a lie
• Three principal dimensions of neoliberalism -- political, ideological and cultural
• Trotskyism for the rich; neoliberalism as the replacement of both Marxism and state capitalism
  • Neoliberalism as a strategy of class struggle for transnational elite
  • Idolatry of money and finance; "Greed is good" as the key ethical principle of neoliberalism
• Neofascism and neoliberalism
• Neoliberalism as an integral part of American Messianism
• Redistribution of income and lowering the standard of living of the bottom 80% of population
• Elite and the second and third world countries
• Neoliberalism, cheap hydrocarbons, and economic crisis of 2008
• US neoliberal empire and the stages of development of neoliberalism
• A Decade Long Triumph of Neoliberalism after the Dissolution of the USSR
• Fear of the population and establishment of "National Security State" to protect the interest of transnational elite
• Criminogenic effects of neoliberalism
  • Neoliberalism as a key contributor to growth of amorality and economic crimes
  • Neoliberalism and propaganda of amorality
  • Moral relativism and concept of "Justice for some"
  • Legal arbitrage
  • The Consequences of Neoliberalism in Third World Countries and xUSSR space: stagnation instead of growth
  • Disaster for the lower social classes: pushing poor people into crime
• Neoliberal globalization as a catalyst for the rise of ultra-nationalism and neo-fascism
• Conclusions

NEWS CONTENTS

• 20190722 : Neoliberals cosmopolitans ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190722 : Wehret den Anf ngen ( Jul 22, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
• 20190722 : All Hail Europe's Permanent Ruling Class ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190722 : Someone very kindly posted a link to an article in a San Fran newspaper which reveals the astonishing stupidity of the campaign against the mural which, of course, has nothing, really to do with artistic merit and is all about preserving hypocrisies ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190722 : Us culture as eternal now ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190722 : Perhaps the most immediately effective strategy for effecting a realignment of the global economy, ending the US pursuit of global military hegemony and the other planet threatening practices of the US and Western plutocracy would be for other countries to follow the historical precedent set by the United States in its Lend Lease dealings with Great Britain as detailed in Hudson's Super Imperialism > ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190722 : War Profiteers And The Demise Of The US Military-Industrial Complex ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190722 : T>here's a fundamental difference between debt in the past and debt today. In the past debt was owed to the state, today it's owed to some wealthy corporations. Good luck with debt jubilees in the absence of violent uprisings. ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190722 : Michael Hudson pointed out in Super Imperialism how the US can run a big trade deficit as it can just print dollars to cover it. ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190722 : July 22, 2019 at 3:58 am ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190722 : When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated ( Jul 22, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
• 20190722 : A baited banker ( Jul 22, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
• 20190722 : I found out that the average dollar that actually was invested abroad by oil companies was recaptured by the US economy within 18 months. The payback period was that fast. ( Jul 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190721 : I've Had Many Strange Experiences In My Life - Inside Epstein's 'Honey Trap' On E 71st Street ( Jul 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190721 : Michael Hudson U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses naked capitalism ( Jul 21, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190721 : Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a potential co-conspirator in his crimes ( Feb 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190721 : A Bank With $49 Trillion In Derivatives Exposure Is Melting Down Before Our Eyes ( Jul 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190721 : Several years ago Dagong, the Chinese ratings agency, published a report analyzing the physical economy of the States comparing it with those of China, Germany and Japan. ( Jul 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190720 : Dave Collum Goes Deep On Conspiracy Theories 9-11, Epstein, Pizzagate, JFK, The Vegas Shooting Zero Hedge ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190720 : There Were Photos Of Topless Women Everywhere Epstein's Former IT Guy Quit Over Disturbing Pictures ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190720 : Palm Beach Sheriff Launches Internal Investigation Into Handling Of Epstein Work Release ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190720 : How Long Is Jeffrey Epstein For This World ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190720 : "Democratic Party Dilemmas -- An Analysis" (20 July 2019) by Professor Lawrence Davidson ( Jul 20, 2019 , mondoweiss.net )
• 20190720 : Escobar Western Intellectuals Freak Over Frankenstein China ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190720 : The European Union's New Executive Kowtows to the Left ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190720 : New Jersey lawmakers are trying to amend the state's discrimination laws to equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism by Michael Arria ( Jul 19, 2019 , mondoweiss.net )
• 20190720 : And why didn't they interview Julian Assange? And did the FBI look into the Seth Rich murder investigation? ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190720 : Western Interests Aim To Flummox Russia ( Mar 03, 2017 , www.unz.com )
• 20190720 : ... Not the men we thought we were ... - Sic Semper Tyrannis ( Jul 20, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190720 : The UK's Dubious Role in the New Tanker War With Iran naked capitalism ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190720 : Orwell, Inc. How Your Employer Spies On You From When You Wake Up Until You Go To Bed ( Jul 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190719 : Over a dozen years ago, Russo published a pair of massive volumes on the history of organized crime focused on two particular regions, with The Outfit in 2001 discussing Chicago and Supermob in 2006 dealing with California. ( Jul 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190719 : Boeing - Sleazy Deal Confirms Downfall By Walrus. - Sic Semper Tyrannis ( Jul 19, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190718 : Follow Up on the Flynn Plot by Larry C Johnson - Sic Semper Tyrannis ( Jul 18, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190718 : Most of the lost US manufacturing jobs in recent decades probably are not coming back ( Jan 28, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190718 : People hate it . Neoliberalism's sale of state assets, offshored jobs, stripped services, poorly-invested infrastructure and armies of the forcibly unemployed have delivered, not promised efficiency and flexibility to communities, but discomfort and misery by Van Badham ( Dec 25, 2018 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190717 : What did Victoria's Secret Boss Wexner new about epstein and wht he knew it ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190717 : Epstein Sexually Abused Girls During Work-Release Jail Sentence; Settled With Accusers For Millions ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190717 : The Numbers Are In, and Trump's Tax Cuts Are a Bust naked capitalism ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190717 : The Heirs Of MAGA -- Who Will Lead Historic American Nation After Trump by James Kirkpatrick ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190717 : Donald Trump's false comments connecting Mexican immigrants and crime - The Washington Post ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.washingtonpost.com )
• 20190717 : Victoria's Secret Boss Wexner Swears He Didn't Know About Epstein Penchant For Pedophilia ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190717 : Merkel Ally Narrowly Elected To Top EU Post, Averting Major Institutional Crisis ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190717 : A major problem with US neoliberalism: unbelievably shallow people run for the highest office in the US ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190717 : The 'New Right' Is Not a Reaction to Neoliberalism, but Its Offspring ( Jul 17, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190717 : It is neoliberalism since the late 70s that led to the trebling of personal debts on stagnant wages, and finally the collapse of the banks ( Dec 17, 2018 , profile.theguardian.com )
• 20190714 : Putin as an old fashioned liberal who opposes neoliberalism ( Jul 14, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190714* MODELS OF POWER STRUCTURE IN THE UNITED STATES Political Issues We Concern ( Sep 07, 2011 , politicalissues.blog.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190713 : Did Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Work for Mossad by Philip Giraldi ( Jul 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190713 : The return of Weimar Berlin - Lawlessness, Inequality, Extremism, Divisiveness and Crime ( Feb 13, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
• 20190713 : Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a financial conflict of interest questions regarding his relationship with Andrei Shleife ( Jul 13, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
• 20190712 : When Epstein gets released on bond to his mansion....would you want to be one of his bodyguards? ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190712 : Welcome to the Hellfire Club by MICHAEL WARREN DAVIS ( Jul 11, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190712 : Only if Rachel Maddow says it is ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190712 : Lock Him Up - The American Conservative ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190712 : no title ( Jul 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190712 : Epstein story is somewhat uncomfortable for Trump. Looks like he might know That eptein abused under age girls ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190712 : Epstein Island has No Airport and Richard Branson has an Island next to Epstein's Pedo-Island ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190712 : WH probably will use both Epsteins and Iranians, to tilt outcome of the 2020 outcome ( Jul 12, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190712 : It is a small club, and they are in it ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190712 : The British welfare state, the war on poverty/great society policy era, and the Scandinavian social model are not replacements for capitalism. They are forms of capitalism ( Feb 12, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190712 : Neo iberalism is an oxymoron; it is not liberating, but rather constraining ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190712 : Congress and the courts are the enablers of America's destruction. Legislation is morality; it's the definition of how you live together, where people can live together and raise their families. Our Congress instead serves the sex industry ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190712 : The Heart of Darkness: The Sexual Predators Within America's Power Elite: book on the pedophile "epidemic in America and the purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the United States ( Jul 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190711 : Acosta Scrapped 53-Page Epstein Indictment In 2008 -After Secret Negotiations-- Fmr State's Attorney - ( Jul 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190711 : Bombshell- Alex Acosta Reportedly Claimed Jeffrey Epstein -Belonged To Intelligence- - ( Jul 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190711 : Epstein and Schumer "six ways to Sunday" quote ( Jul 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190711 : Is Epstein's arrest and indictment part of Barr's counter-offensive? ( Jul 11, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190711 : American Pravda- Secrets of Military Intelligence by Ron Unz ( Jul 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190710 : Snyder- Epstein Case Has The Potential To Be The Biggest Scandal In American History - ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190710 : Not NY FBI, but a Miami lawyer Paul Cassell who was responsible for reopening this case ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190710 : Jeffrey Epstein Is the Ultimate Symbol of Plutocratic Rot by MICHELLE GOLDBERG ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190710 : I can see this slicing the Gordian knot in multiple ways ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190710 : The True Cost Of Israel ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190710 : Stolen FBI files ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190710 : Epstein vs Weiner ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190710 : Ann Coulter Thinks Epstein Had a State Sponsor ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190710 : RAY MCGOVERN ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190710 : Neoliberal elite suicide rate might increases dramatically over the next six months. ( Jul 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190709 : Will Epstein be finally brought to justice. Zerohedge commeters are not convinced... ( Jul 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190709 : The US government has covered the tracks of countless corrupt functionaries for so long that I doubt that Russiagate scam willl ever be exposed ( Jul 09, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20190709 : Ann Coulter Thinks Epstein Had a State Sponsor Was Running a Blackmailing Operation ( Jul 09, 2019 , www.infowars.com )
• 20190709 : Luongo- Epstein s Arrest Tells Me Trump Is Now Out For Blood by Tom Luongo ( Jul 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190706 : Neoliberal democrats for profit love of minorities ( Nov 10, 2016 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190706* Why is Iran such a high priority for US elite? Because Iran successfully booted out the CIA and CIA-imposed regime out of their country and successfully remained independent since then ( Jul 06, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190706 : The whole globalised neoliberal paradigm - allied to the metropolitan elite s obsession with identity politics at the expense of bottom-line issues - has been broken up by people who now realise centre-left politicians (Clinton/Obama) have presided over whole communities being gutted in the name of free trade (for free trade read labour arbitrage). ( Nov 10, 2016 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190706 : It wasn't just free trade that the white working class voters of the rust belt states were angry about, it was also high immigration ( Nov 10, 2016 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190706 : It always seems very odd to me that so many people who think like that profess to be Christian. 'Poverty equals moral failure' is the complete opposite of what Jesus Christ got into so much trouble for saying. ( Jul 06, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190706 : In order to justify the unjustifiable (a corporate elite exploiting the world as their own private estate), they constructed an artificial equivalence to make it seem that their self-interested economic system was part and parcel of a package of 'democracy', 'multi-racial tolerance', 'LGBT tolerance' etc ( Nov 10, 2016 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190706 : Neoliberalism start collapsing as soon as considerable part of the electorate has lost hope that thier standard of living will improve ( Jul 06, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190706 : Neoliberalism has had its day. So what happens next- - Martin Jacques - Opinion - The Guardian ( Aug 21, 2016 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190706 : >Neoliberal economics and other fairytales about money by Peter McKenna ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190706 : US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home by DAVE LINDORFF ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
• 20190706 : There is a fundamental difficulty here which progressives have not fully faced. It is that more open trade and welcoming immigration policies are, on the one hand, a progressive and moral good (we should feel solidarity with people from the global south; it feels wrong to bar them from our countries and stop them from benefiting from our economies) ( Nov 10, 2016 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190706 : Which is worse - bankers or terrorists ( Jul 06, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190706 : Washington consensus is now known as the Beijing consensus ( Jul 06, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190706 : Peace though procurement malpractice ( Jul 06, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190706 : The Antiwar Movement No One Can See by Allegra Harpootlian ( Jul 02, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20190706 : Ilargi: Memo to the US The Winds Are Shifting ( Jul 06, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190705* Who Won the Debate? Tulsi Gabbard let the anti-war genie out of the bottle by Philip Giraldi ( Jul 02, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190705 : Political and media elites had been captured by unshored corporate money. Our voices had become irrelevant. ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190705 : Confessions of a latent SJW - TTG - Sic Semper Tyrannis ( Jul 05, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190705* Globalisation- the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world - World news by Nikil Saval ( Jul 14, 2017 , www.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190705* The UK public finally realized that the Globalist/Open Frontiers/ Neoliberal crowd are not their friends ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190705 : Inside the 21st-century British criminal underworld ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190705 : The neoliberal elites the policymaking business and financial elites are increasingly hated by common people ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190705 : How Christine Lagarde, Clinton and Nuland Funded a Massive Ukrainian Ponzi Scheme ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190705* The World Bank and IMF 2019 by Michael Hudson and Bonnie Faulkner ( Jul 05, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190704 : There are rumors that Tucker might replace Bolton ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190704 : Nearly half of global wages received by top 10%, survey finds: ILO says bottom half of all workers paid just 6% of total pay with wage inequality rising in developed world ( Jul 04, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190702* Yep! The neolib scum hate poor people and have superiority complex> ( Apr 10, 2018 , www.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190702 : A lot of wanderers in the US political desert recognize that all the two party duopoly can offer is a choice of mirages ( Jan 02, 2019 , caucus99percent.co )
• 20190701 : Kamala Harris as Hillary No.2 Her level of neocon warmongering in foreign policy probably will hurt her chances, but will bring a lot of donor money ( Jul 01, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190701 : The Real College Inequality Democrats Have Yet to Address by Keith Hoeller ( Jul 01, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
• 20190701 : The Return of Sammy Glick by Martin Sieff ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
• 20190701 : A Think Tank Dedicated to Peace and Restraint ( Jul 01, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190701 : Tour d'horizon - 1 July 2019 ( Jul 01, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190701 : Tour d'horizon ( Jul 01, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190630 : New Poll Shows Almost Half Of Americans Think Trump's Trade War Is Bad ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190630 : The Art Of The Deal Vs. The Art Of War by Lance Roberts ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190630 : Life Expectancy Falters In The UK Slow Death But Fast Profits For The Agrochemical Sector by Colin Todhunter ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190630 : Two cheers for chickenhawks ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190630 : Pessimists vs. optimists is an old dichotomy: "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book" ~Cicero ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190630 : Following In Rome's Footsteps Moral Decay, Rising Inequality by Charles Hugh Smith ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190630 : Aggressive US Lies and Misleads to Justify War on Iran by William Boardman ( Jun 26, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
• 20190630 : Systems like the Liverpool Care Pathway may be evil enough to begin with and then they are administered by bureaucratic incompetents that insist they are doing as they are instructed while watching the patients become worse. ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190630 : Harris the perfect tool to carry out oligarchic agendas: charming, commanding, and completely unprincipled ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190630 : Mainstream Media Outraged! That US Missiles Are In Unknown Libyan Rebel Hands ( Jun 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190629 : Christian perspective on non-interventionism ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190629 : The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is Isolationism by Caitlin Johnstone ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190629 : Everyone's Got A Surveillance Score And It Can Cost You Big Money ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190629 : Millennials Blame Unprecedented Burnout Rates On Work, Debt Finances ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190629 : Kamala Harris Is An Oligarch's Wet Dream by Caitlin Johnstone ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190629 : The West's Moral Bankruptcy Exposed ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190629 : The working class of the most developed economies with higher wages continues to lose jobs as the multinational corporations offshore industrial production ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190629 : CLINTON EMAIL hacking in "real-time" from Washington Chinese Firm now confirmed by Congressman. ( Jun 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190629 : A Look at the Poor People's Campaign Theology and Ideology ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190628 : Why some people might still vote for Trump ;-) ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190628 : Yang just blanked out ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190628 : Tulsi Gabbard was interviewed by Tucker Carlson after the debate ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190628 : Tulsi punched well above her weight ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190628 : Neoliberal wing of Democratic Pary (Coinines) are about power and money. Sanders and Gabbard rock the boat and the party establishment will never forgive them for that. ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190628 : Sanders never read Veblen. The rich have no desire to "mingle with the poors" ;-) If state colleges and unis became free, I'm pretty sure the wealthy would literally build a new elite set of tertiary education ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190628 : Identity politics remains the central element of the Democratic Party with Harris as flagbearer ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190628 : Kamala signifies the rot of Democratic politics ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190628 : Biden metamorphose ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190628 : How Russia's President Putin Explains The End Of The '[neo]liberal' Order ( Jun 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190627 : Neoliberal MSM try to denigrate Tulsi success in the first Democratic debate ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190627 : The Real Winner Of Last Night's Democratic Debate ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190627* Western News Agencies Mistranslate Iran's President Speech - It Is Not The First Time Such 'Error' Happens ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190627 : 300,000 demonstrate in Prague against right-wing Czech government by Markus Salzmann ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.wsws.org )
• 20190627 : Private Equity and Institutional Investor Owned UK Utility Engaged in Massive Fraud, Regulatory Evasions, Worker Coercion ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190627 : Putin Eviscerates [neo]liberalism, Calling It Obsolete, In Wide-Ranging Interview Ahead Of G-20 ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190627* The Ongoing Restructuring of the Greater Middle East by C.J. Hopkins ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190627 : Twitter To Censor Trump Tweets Ahead Of 2020 Election ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190627 : Glenn Greenwald: People Who Feel Inadequate In Life Get Purpose And Strength By Calling For War ( Jun 27, 2019 , www.realclearpolitics.com )
• 20190626 : Book Review John Patrick Leary's Keywords The New Language of Capitalism ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190626 : Tucker Carlson attacks on the priorities of the ruling class by Thomas B. Edsall ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
• 20190626 : They are selling our jobs, information and our sovereignty piece by piece. ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190626 : In the first five months of 2019, imports of agricultural products from the US to China declined by half ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190626 : New Software Glitch Found On 737 MAX That Results In Uncontrollable Nosedives ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190626 : The Individual Costs of Occupational Decline ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190626 : Neoliberalism Has Tricked Us Into Believing a Fairytale About Where Money Comes From by Mary MELLOR ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
• 20190626 : How the OPCW's investigation of the Douma incident was nobbled - Working Group on Syria by Paul McKeigue, David Miller, Jake Mason, Piers Robinson ( Jun 25, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190626 : What Boeing should be with already produced MAX planes ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190626 : From MAGA to MIGA -- Trump metamorphosis under influence of Adelson money ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190626* The first rule of political hypocrisy: Justify your actions by the need to protect the weak and vulnerable ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190626 : Trump vs Sun Tsu ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190626 : Black Markets Show How Socialists Can't Overturn Economic Laws Zero Hedge ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190626 : Secret Casualties of the Cold War ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190626 : Lawrence Wilkerson Trump Is Deepening the 'Economic War' Against Iran naked capitalism ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190626 : Signs of neoliberalization: an increase since the 70s in de luxe facilities and bloated administrator salaries ( Jun 26, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
• 20190625 : S>hale is the disaster for drillers and investors by Sharon Kelly ( Jun 24, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190625 : The Human Cost Of Recovery We're Burning Out! ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190625 : Tulsi on Iraq war and Trump administration and some interesting information about Bolton ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190625* Tucker US came within minutes of war with Iran ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190625 : Tucker Washington is war-hungry ( Jun 20, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190625 : Menu ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190625 : HARPER: THE REAL COLLATERAL DAMAGE OF A US-IRAN CONFLICT ( Jun 25, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190625 : Empire and MIC ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190625 : Read THIS Before Cheering the Next War Zero Hedge ( Jun 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190624 : Google's Chrome Web Browser is Spy Software ( Jun 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190624 : Bernie Sanders' Newest Plan Would Wipe $1.6 Trillion In Student Debt, Fund Free State College ( Jun 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190624 : America To Weimar Germany Hold My Beer ( Jun 24, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190624 : This working paper suggests "Late Capitalism" (i.e. neoliberalism + austerity + outsourcing essential public services) is less efficient than the Soviet centralized system: ( Jun 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190624 : Beijing Say that Pompeo Can No Longer Play Role Of Top US Diplomat ( Jun 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190623 : Neoliberalism promised freedom instead it delivers stifling control by George Monbiot ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Hundreds Of 737 Max Pilots Sue Boeing Over Unprecedented Cover-Up ( Jun 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190623 : Neoliberal schools teach to the test, depriving children of a rounded and useful education ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Provoking Iran Could Start A War And Crash The Entire World Economy ( Jun 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190623 : Are Starvation Sanctions Worse Than Overt Warfare ( Jun 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190623 : Elizabeth Warren Demands Reparations For Gay And Lesbian Couples ( Jun 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190623 : Debt: The first 5000 years ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Is Democratic system theoretically sustainable? ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Theory and practice of neoliberalism ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : As former right-wing operative Allen Raymond famously said: "this is not about morality, this is about winning" ( Jun 23, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Neoliberalism must be pronounced dead and buried. Where next? by Joseph Stiglitz ( May 30, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190623* It never stops to amaze me how the US neoliberals especially of Republican variety claims to be Christian ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190623 : Argentina s Economic Misery Could Bring Populism Back to the Country by Peter S. Goodman ( May 10, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
• 20190623 : I've always said that brexit is the shock doctrine in the UK. ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : The Lessons Of Rome Our Neofeudal Oligarchy by Charles Hugh Smith ( Jun 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190623 : Communism and neoliberalism were never as far apart as people imagined. Two sides of a coin. A theological dispute. ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : The Right have been absolutely brilliant at media control and obfuscation. ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623* These submerged policies obscure the role of government and exaggerate that of the market. As a result, citizens are unaware not only of the benefits they receive, but of the massive advantages given to powerful interests, such as insurance companies and the financial industry. ( Jun 23, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190623 : What has been very noticeable about the development of bureaucracy in the public and private spheres over the last 40 years (since Thatcher govt of 79) has been the way systems are designed now to place responsibility and culpability on the workers delivering the services - Teachers, Nurses, social workers, etc. ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : The assessment and monitoring are for the little people - teachers and children, as they can't be trusted. ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Quantomania -- this is the word I have been needing for some time now! ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Public-service workers are now subjected to a panoptical regime of monitoring and assessment, using the benchmarks von Mises rightly warned were inapplicable and absurd ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : As a matter of semantics, neo-liberalism delivered on the promise of freedom...for capitalists ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Only entrepreneurs - those close to the market - can know 'the truth' about anything. ( Jun 23, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : This is a remarkably similar summation of Rand's worldview of entire classes of people: if you are poor, you deserve it ( Jun 23, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : If Jeff Bezos could hire 1st graders he obviously would ( Apr 12, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : T>here has never been free-market capitalism ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623* The return of fundamentalist nationalism is arguably a radicalized form of neoliberalism ( Jun 23, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190623 : "Liberal" originally meant the freedom to trade and do business. Before liberalism trade was controlled by cartels, guilds and gifted by prerogative. ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Two things characterize neo-liberalism. Deception and repression of labor. ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Neoliberalism/'free enterprise' is techno-feudalism. ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Neoliberalism is not an ideology in its practical application. It is a business model for structuring the economy for rent seeking or wealth extraction ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Only the greedy, selfish, well off, egotistical and share holders believe that Public Services should, could and would benefit from privatisation and deregulation. ( Apr 11, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : The competitive tender approach ensures the cheapest bids get the contracts and the cheapest bids are those most likely to employ exploited labour and cheap materials as well as cutting corners ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : I have to agree that whilst some things have flourished once privatised, certain services must remain in public ownership and control to enable governments to improve or reduce, depending on national taxation and expenditure ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Outsourcing government work is the most inefficient way of getting it done for the benefit of taxpayers. ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : Hardly anything has flourished after privatisation. ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : So neoliberalism stumbles on almost as a reflex action. Ben Fine calls it a 'zombie' but I think the better analogy is cannibalism. ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : The central premise used by Governments for privatising public servcies seems to have been that publicly run services are inefficient compared to private companies ( Apr 10, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : How neoliberalism managed to displace the New Deal capitalism ( Mar 06, 2012 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190623 : The Financial War Escalates ( Jun 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190623 : "Escobar: Brazilgate Is Turning Into Russiagate 2.0" ( Jun 23, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190622* Use of science by the US politicians ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190622 : Can any neocons explain why America is in Syria? ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : In February, Iran allegedly hacked a U.S. drone in eastern Syria: The Air Force should of never used "password" for the password ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : Tucker Carlson: John Bolton is a kind of bureaucratic tapeworm ( Jun 22, 2019 , nationalinterest.org )
• 20190622 : A case of shark calling barracuda a piranha. ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : Last seen boarding a Boeing 737 Max ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : Russia Will Help Iran With Oil, Banking If Europe's SPV Payment Channel Not Launched ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : Who Survives The Iran Counter-Offensive ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : The Financial War Escalates ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : The Myopia of Interventionists by Daniel Lariso ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190622 : Iran Activated Air Defenses In Syria After Learning Of US Attack Report ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : Tucker Carlson Tonight 6-21-19 ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190622 : Tucker Carlson seems like the only realist in the MSM. ( Jun 22, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190622 : CNN Helen Thomas 'Jews don't have the right to take other people's land' - YouTube ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190622 : Trade Wars in the Global Value Chain Era by Emily Blanchard ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190622 : China Vows To Fight Trade War To The End As Huawei Sues Commerce Department ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190622 : Over 600 US Companies Sign Letter Supporting Trump Tariffs On China ( Jun 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190621* A Slow Death The Ills of the Neoliberal Academic ( Jun 21, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190621 : Men need not apply: university set to open jobs just to women ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.sciencemag.org )
• 20190621 : The Two-State Solution Is Dead ( Jun 21, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190621 : Disgraced Vice President of Walt Disney Convicted of Child Rape, Gets 6 Years by Matt Agorist ( Jun 21, 2019 , thefreethoughtproject.com )
• 20190621 : Trump Barters For Borders -- And Wins, Big Time by Ilana Mercer ( Jun 21, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190621 : It's Not Over Judge Approves Special Prosecutor For Jussie Smollett Case In Nautical Smackdown ( Jun 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190621 : The War on Normal People The Truth About America s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future Andrew Yang ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
• 20190620 : Using Democratic Institutions to Smash Democratic Aspirations (the Brazil Model) by Vijay Prashad ( Jun 20, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20190620 : Trump Says DOJ Investigating Whether Obama Tapped His Phone ( Jun 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190620 : Brazil under Bolsonaro A Different Form of Hybrid War ( Jun 20, 2019 , www.globalresearch.ca )
• 20190620 : Meritocracy is a Lie by Gary Olson ( May 02, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
• 20190620 : Trump - a man for some seasons - Sic Semper Tyrannis ( Jun 20, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190620 : Dominoes, Hegemonies, The Future Of Humanity ( Jun 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190620* The difference between old and new schools of jounalism: old-school journalism was like being assigned the task of finding out what "1+1 =?" and the task was to report the answer was "1." Now the task would be to report that "Some say it is 1, some say it is 2, some say it is 3." ( Jun 20, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190620 : In the US they never called austerity and militarism to be human rights violations by Ajamu Baraka ( Jun 20, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
• 20190619 : We're All Socialists Now! ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190619 : Bond King Gundlach Says Biden's Time Has Passed, Warns Trump Could Pull Out Of 2020 Race ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190619 : The decline and fall of neoliberalism in the Democratic Party by Ryan Cooper ( Jan 08, 2018 , theweek.com )
• 20190619* America s Suicide Epidemic ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190619* Bias bias the inclination to accuse people of bias by James Thompson ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190619 : Trump Can't Defend Our Border, So He Should Attack Iran! Wait -- What by James Kirkpatrick ( Jun 17, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190618 : Have the neoliberal ruling elite gotten lazy or stupid ( Jun 14, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
• 20190618 : The Worst 2020 Election Interference Will Be Perfectly Legal by Caitlin Johnstone ( May 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190618 : New Clinton Email Review Reveals 'Multiple Security Incidents' ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190618 : America's Managerial Elite Has Failed, But We Can't Get Rid of Them ( Jun 19, 2019 , www.oftwominds.com )
• 20190618 : If Morgan Stanley Is Right, The World Is Now In A Recession ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190618 : Are Microsoft The Pentagon Quietly Hijacking US Elections ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190618 : Iran's UK Ambassador Unfortunately We Are Heading Towards A Confrontation With The US ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190618 : "US Ramps Up Online Attacks on Russian Power Grid, NYT Says" - TTG ( Jun 18, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190618 : Israeli efforts to influence American institutions ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190618 : Trump I Think I Know Who Was Behind 9-11 Attacks ( Jun 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190617 : Matt Taibbi Exposes The Great College Loan Swindle ( Nov 05, 2017 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190617 : Student Loan Debt Is the Enemy of Meritocracy ( economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190617 : The debt trap how the student loan industry betrays young Americans Money by Daniel Rivero ( Sep 06, 2017 , www.theguardian.com The Guardian )
• 20190617 : Student Debt Bondage Becoming More Widespread ( Oct 18, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190617 : I'm a 29-Year-Old With $235k in Student Debt. I'll Never Pay It Back ( Jun 17, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20190616 : Did The 'B-Team' Overplay It's Hand On Iran ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190616 : Think Media Won t Help Lead US Into War With Iran Based On False Intelligence Looks Like They Already Are ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190616 : Attacking Russian Power Grid by Walrus ( Jun 16, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190616 : US Govt's Entire Russia-DNC Hacking Narrative Based On Redacted Draft Of Crowdstrike Report ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190616 : When false information is specifically political in nature, part of our political identity, it becomes almost impossible to correct lies. ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.politico.com )
• 20190616 : Cover-Ups and Truth Tellers ( Jun 16, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20190616 : Trump s Lies vs. Your Brain by Maria Konnikova ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.politico.com )
• 20190616 : The Neoliberal Rearguard: The potshot intelligentsia take aim at the far left ( Jun 16, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
• 20190616 : Economic Growth A Short History of a Controversial Idea naked capitalism ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190616 : Boeing CEO Admits Mistakes Were Made Before 2 Crashes Killed 346 People ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190616 : Cult of the Irrelevant -- National Security Eggheads Academics ( Jun 16, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190615 : Is The US Preparing For War With Russia ( Jun 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190615 : Fake News does more for real journalism than "real journalism" Zero Hedge ( Jun 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190615 : Kamala the Terrible (and uncle joe) ( Jun 15, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190615 : The Persistent Ghost of Ayn Rand, the Forebear of Zombie Neoliberalism by Masha Gessen ( Jun 06, 2019 , www.newyorker.com )
• 20190614 : The Twilight of Equality Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy by Lisa Duggan ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
• 20190614 : Under the proposal Warren released as part of her presidential campaign in April, borrowers with a household income of less than $100,000 would have $50,000 of their student debt cancelled ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190614 : Mean Girl Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
• 20190614 : CPI and Feds ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190614 : Bernie to give a speech on democratic socialism. Clearly sets him apart from others and has huge implications in regards to policy, organizing, and strategy: ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190614 : They won't need to talk about Gabbard after the first debates, unless she can get polling over 2% there will be no more for her. ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190614 : When FiveThirtyEight asked 60 Democratic Party activists whom they didn't want to win, Tulsi Gabbard came in first out of 17 candidates ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190614 : Sanders-Gabbard: cannot say it often enough especially as Tulsi appears to terrify the democratic nomenklatura. ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190614 : Biden is a big reason that most of the over 50 population should be wary of neoliberal politicians. He has a history of clearing the way for any preferred policies of our bankster 'betters. ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190614 : Perhaps Jon Steward had a welding job before comedy? ( Jun 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190613 : The most obvious obstacle for Tulsi is DC's foreign-policy Establishment (aka The Blob) -- the think-tankers and politicians and media personalities and intelligence professionals and defense-company contractors who determine the bounds of acceptable thinking on war and peace. ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190613 : Warren's rise is threat to Sanders ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190613 : I ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190613 : DOJ Investigating CIA Role In Russiagate ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190613 : Something about the Congress legitimacy one one more step toward "Congress as a joke" ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190613 : Leaked Messages Confirm Imprisonment of Brazil's Lula da Silva was Politically Motivated naked capitalism ( Jun 13, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190612 : Robert Mueller Andrew C. McCarthy s Testimony -- Lessons of the Special Counsel Investigation National Review ( Jun 12, 2019 , www.nationalreview.com )
• 20190612 : Trump Threatens Merkel With Pipeline Sanctions, US Troop Cut by Josh Wingrove ( Jun 12, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
• 20190612 : Steele's Shoddy Dossier by Andrew C. McCarthy ( Jun 06, 2019 , www.nationalreview.com )
• 20190612 : The Self-Destructive Trajectory Of Overly Successful Empires ( Jun 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190611* A Word From Joe the Angry Hawaiian ( Jun 11, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190611 : One of the older male anchors on financial TV today noted, in a very condescending tone, that for some reason Elizabeth Warren has an attitude when it comes to corporations ( Jun 11, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
• 20190611 : What is the difference between "SETTLER COLONIALISM" and the concept of "LEBENSRAUM" ? ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190611 : As Steve Bannon might have said, beware the Red Chinaman for he is not like us. ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190611 : How neoliberalism created huge immigration flows: If you live in a vassal country like Ukraine, saddled with World Bank, IMF Debt and currency with ever-declining value pegged to the us dollar immigration might be the best option for you and your falmily. ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190611 : In reality localists, sovereignists etc. don't really want de-globalisation for the sake of it, they mostly want to increase exports and decrease imports, and in fact these localists desires are stronger in countries (USA, UK) that are big net importers, and therefore think they are losing in the globalisation race. ( Jun 11, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190611 : Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian ( Mar 16, 2018 , www.amazon.com )
• 20190611 : Open borders and illegal immigration are NeoLiberal tactics to promote wage arbitrage. ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190611 : Pat Buchanan How Do We Remain One Nation One People ( Jun 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190610 : FAA's Boeing-biased Officials: Recuse Yourselves or Resign by Ralph Nader ( Jun 10, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
• 20190610 : An interesting explanation of head and sholder pattern ( Jun 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190610 : If ever there were a candidate who might be inclined to rethink our relationship with the Saudis, it's Buttigieg. ( Jun 10, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190610 : Are Bonds Peaking-Interest Rates Bottoming ( Jun 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190610 : Energy Dominance Or Flatulence Shale Drillers Bleed Cash Zero Hedge ( Jun 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190610 : The Union Man, The Moscow Honeymooner, Pocahontas and The Chicken Man ( Jun 10, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190610 : Can globalization be reversed Part 1 Trade (wonkish) ( Jun 10, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190610 : China Threatens 'Dire Consequences' If Tech Giants Comply With Trump Ban ( Jun 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190609 : Much More Than A Trade War ( Jun 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190609* The looming 100-year US-China conflict by Martin Wolf ( Jun 04, 2019 , archive.fo ) [Recommended]
• 20190609 : In America and also much of Europe, the current post-war baby boomer generation will be the first that cannot expect their children to get higher living standards than them ( Jun 09, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190608 : Uses and Abuses of Tarps -- Crooked Timber ( Jun 08, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190608 : Uses and Abuses of Tarps ( Jun 08, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190608 : Seventeen Ways to Think About the Finance Curse ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190608 : China-Russia Partnership Threatens US Global Hegemony ( Jun 08, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190608 : Trump has spent more time at the Wailing Wall than on our southern border. ( Jun 08, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190608 : Title 10, Paragraph 1161. Bad news for Mike Flynn - Sic Semper Tyrannis ( Jun 08, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190608 : You are very wrong when you assert that most American citizens want this and are as blood lust as these agencies and other government and military leaders ( Jun 08, 2019 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190607 : The power of neoliberal brainwashing by Jason Holland ( Jun 01, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
• 20190607 : Eight Reasons Why Inequality Ruins the Economy ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190607 : Mueller Caught In Another Deception; Key 'Russia Link' Exposed As Informant For US, Ukraine ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190607 : Possible role of Israel in 2014 coup detat ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190607 : Tucker Carlson: Elizabeth Warren's "Economic Patriotism" Plan "Sounds Like Donald Trump At His Best" ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.realclearpolitics.com )
• 20190607 : Tulsi Gabbard Pushes No War Agenda – and the Media Is out to Kill Her Chances by Philip Giraldi ( Jun 06, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
• 20190607 : Tucker It wasn't 'spying,' it was 'investigating' ( Jun 07, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190607 : The End of Anarchy and The Solidification of the Global Class ( Jun 07, 2019 , dissidentvoice.org )
• 20190606 : Student Debt in America: Lend With a Smile, Collect With a Fist ( Nov 27, 2015 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190606 : Debt Slaves: 7 Out Of 10 Americans Believe That Debt Is A Necessity In Their Lives ( Jul 30, 2015 , zerohedge.com )
• 20190606 : For Profit College, Student Loan Default, and the Economic Impact of Student Loans ( Nov 09, 2015 , naked capitalism )
• 20190606 : It is not a silly question to ask if Boeing Commercial Aircraft will survive this event by Babelfish ( Jun 06, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190606 : A Former For-Profit Deal Maker Takes On the Plight of Nonprofits by Goldie Blumenstyk ( Aug 05, 2010 , chronicle.com )
• 20190606 : Neoliberal Restructuring of University Education ( monthlyreview.org )
• 20190606 : Majority Of Recent College Grads Don't Have Jobs Lined Up, Survey Shows ( Jun 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190606 : Resisting the Neoliberalization of Higher Education A Challenge to Commonsensical Understandings of Commodities and Consumptio ( Jun 06, 2019 , journals.sagepub.com )
• 20190606 : Neoliberalism and Higher Education by Stanley Fish ( Mar 08, 2009 , blogs.nytimes.com )
• 20190606 : Biden's Past Catches Up With Him As 2020 Campaign Mired In Crisis ( Jun 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605 : Look at a quote from one of the former employees of the Mossad front operation Urban Moving Systems ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605* Due to the nature of intelligence agencies work and the aura of secrecy control of intelligence agencies in democratic societies is a difficult undertaking as the entity you want to control is in many ways more politically powerful and more ruthless in keeping its privileges then controllers. ( Apr 27, 2019 , crookedtimber.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190605* Do Spies Run the World by Israel Shamir ( May 22, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190605 : The USA claiming that Iran and its central bank use deceptive financial practices is akin to Stalin telling Mao to be nicer to his citizens. ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605* Taking a long view it was very astute and cleverly conceived plan to to present counter-revolution as revolution; progress as regress; the new order 1980- (i.e., neoliberalism) was cool, and the old order 1945-1975 (welfare-capitalism) was fuddy-duddy. ( Jun 05, 2019 , off-guardian.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190605 : US Threatens Europe With Loss Of Access To US Financial System Over SWIFT-Evading Iran SPV ( May 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605 : A half-century ago, a top automobile executive named George Romney -- yes, Mitt s father -- turned down several big annual bonuses. He told his company s board he believed that no executive should make more than $225,000 a year (which translates into almost $2 million today). ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.nytimes.com )
• 20190605 : Neoliberal mantra: Blessed are the job creators ( Jun 06, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190605 : End of Discussion How the Left s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun) ( Aug 01, 2017 , www.amazon.com )
• 20190605 : If the country was run by shoe shine boys ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605 : Amazon, Uber and predatory pricing ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Amazon changed retail in the USA ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605 : Lawmakers Push To Stop Surprise ER Billing ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : UBI Without Quality Public Services Is a Neoliberal's Paradise ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Walmart and taxes on rich ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Gentleman Prefer Bonds ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Does Iran's Economic Fate Depend on a Lifeline From China? ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Is The Tech Bubble Bursting ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605 : AOC Calls for Ban on Revolving Door as Study Shows 2/3 of Recently Departed Lawmakers Now Lobbyists ( May 31, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Christopher Steele after he produced his totally falsified dossier on Trump now is afraid of repercussions ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Neoliberal MSM trashing Sanders ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : As attorney general Harris was notably muted on some of the state's most fraught issues -- not prosecuting OneWest banker Steven Mnuchin for screwing 80,000 Californians out of their mortgages, then taking a nice campaign donation from him? ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : After dazzling debut, Kamala Harris falls from top of presidential pack ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Mayor Pete gets his facts wrong ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Valerie Jarrett admitting the Affordable Care Act was a Republican policy plan from Mitt Romney in this way is important ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Elizabeth Warren's latest big idea is 'economic patriotism'" ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190605 : Liz Warren Unveils Economic Patriotism Plan Calls For Aggressive Market Interventions, Active Dollar Management ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605 : America's Demise In One Simple Chart - The Path To A FIRE Economy ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190605 : Trump Admin's Latest Rail Safety Rollback Sets up Industry to Make Its Own Rules ( Jun 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190604 : Google Parses Your Gmail For Financial Transactions by Mark Jeftovic ( Jun 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190604 : Steele Cuts Deal; Will Discuss Trump Sex Dossier With DOJ Inspector General ( Jun 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190604 : According to Breitbart s John Nolte, CNN s primetime ratings suffered a 16% collapse in May MSNBC s top conspiracy theorist Rachel Maddow has lost 500,000 viewers who realized life is too short for her bullshit ( Jun 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190603 : Voters in Europe Just Smashed the Mainstream [neoliberal] Establishment ( Jun 03, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190603 : Neoliberalism Is Dead -- Neoliberal Elite Didn't Get the Memo ( Jun 03, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
• 20190603 : A n example of identity stereotyping (in this case anti-Semitism) ( Jun 03, 2019 , russia-insider.com )
• 20190602 : Trump Declares War On Silicon Valley- DoJ Launches Google Anti-Monopoly Probe - ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190602 : As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190602 : Trump 2020 ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190602 : Bernie Supporters Say DNC Sabotaging Him Again By Promoting Biden - ( May 31, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190602 : I feel safe and secure knowing wonderful human beings like Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Obongo, Strzok, Page, Weissmann, Nuland, Soros, Mifsud,Priestap, Carlin, Hillary et al are in control of the most massive spy grid in history. ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190602 : Ralph Nader- Society Is In Decay – When The Worst Is First The Best Is Last - ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190602 : Trump clearly undermines neoliberalism rules of the game, fastening its demise ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190602 : Pompeo Again Threatens Germany- Drop Huawei Or Intelligence Sharing Blocked - ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190602 : May's resignation will do nothing to arrest Britain's decline by Patrick Cockburn ( May 25, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190602 : Clubs, Cartels, And Bilderberg - ( Jun 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190601 : Mathilde Krim and USS Liberty coverup ( Jun 01, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190601 : The Mexican tariff threat is incredibly stupid. Trump pretty much had that trade deal in the bag and this may just ruin it ( Jun 01, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190531 : Comments on Official Response by OPCW to the Engineering Assessment on Douma ( May 29, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190531 : RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 30 MAY 2019 (by Patrick Armstrong) ( May 31, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190531 : Robert Mueller, Total Disgrace by Larry C Johnson ( May 31, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190531 : Threats to the neoliberal world order to be discussed at Bilderberg meeting ( May 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190529 : PIMCO This Is The Riskiest Credit Market Ever, Central Banks' Control Over Markets Is Coming To An End ( May 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190529 : All Of The Economic Momentum Is Moving In Just One Direction Now by Michael Snyder ( May 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190529 : Pelosi, Schumer Refuse To Endorse Impeachment After Mueller Statement ( May 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190529 : Mueller Resigns From DoJ, Says Charging Trump Wasn't An Available Option ( May 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190529 : America will never be safe ( May 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190529 : Different levels of delusions. Same imperial mindset of Trump and Pompeo: US Threatens Europe With Loss Of Access To US Financial System ( May 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190529 : Global Times China Holds Three Trump Cards In War Against US ( May 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190528 : Iran Won't Reward Trump's Aggression by DANIEL LARISON ( May 28, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190528 : he economy is a complex system, our data are imperfect and our models inevitably fail to account for all the interactions ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190528 : Comey Slams Trump's FBI Probe 'There Was No Coup, These Are Lies, Dumb Lies' ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190528 : Trump Trounces Biden And Clinton In One Swipe With Super-Predator Throwback Tweet ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190528 : Attkisson Why Obstruction Cover-Up Claims Smack Of Desperation by Sharyl Attkisson ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190528 : US Government Seeks NGO Help For Removing Iran From Syria ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190528 : Compare two similar sentences ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190528 : PODCAST Michael Brenner on Trump-Russia It's about the Russian mob, not the Russian government -- but Mueller won't go there ( May 23, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190528 : Chinese Military Ditching Microsoft Windows To Avoid CIA's 'Hefty Arsenal Of Hacking Tools' ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190528 : Apple Braces For China's Wrath As Citi Slashes China iPhone Shipments, Cowen Warns Of Profit Plunge ( May 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190527 : How To Prevent Debate While Claiming To Be In Favor Of It ( May 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190527 : A Russian-born British scholar [Svetlana Lokhova] is suing an alleged FBI informant [Halper] and four news outlets for allegedly defaming her by linking her to Russian efforts to influence President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign ( May 27, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190527 : Extremely wealthy invest in narrative control via MSM ownership, think tanks financing and the army of well-paid lobbysts ( May 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190527 : To deny debate.. they simply engineer language ( May 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190526 : Trump Targets UK, Australia And Ukraine Over 'Greatest Hoax In The History Of Our Country' ( May 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190526 : What is remarkable is that Mueller concluded in his Report that "Russians" hacked into the DNC computer or network and then shared that with Wikileaks without any actual investigation ( May 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190526 : Theresa May must answer for Novichok false flag operation ( May 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190526 : Taibbi Avenatti, Wohl, The Krassensteins prove that neoliberal MSM are a hucksters' paradise ( May 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190526 : How To Prevent Debate While Claiming To Be In Favor Of It Zero Hedge ( May 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190526 : May Ends In June by W Stephen Gilbert ( May 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190525* The Belligerence Of Empire by Kenn Orphan ( May 23, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190524 : The Cult of the Entrepreneur by Gabriella Rackoff ( May 24, 2019 , medium.com )
• 20190524 : The Geography of War No Iraq No iIran! by Brett Redmayne ( May 23, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190524 : We need to bring clarity to Russiagate false flag operation ( May 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190524 : Trump Orders FBI, CIA To Fully Cooperate With Barr; Grants Full And Complete Authority To Declassify ( May 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190524 : Microsoft Cuts Ties With Huawei ( May 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190524 : Theresa May Cries As She Announces June 7 Resignation ( May 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190523 : The language metadata artifacts are practically worthless for attribution ( May 23, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190523 : Is Theresa May Finally Over ( May 23, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190523 : FAA Won't Say When Boeing 737 Max Might Fly Again; Foreign Regulators Uppity naked capitalism ( May 23, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190523 : Approximately half of residents of Detroit are functionally illiterate ( May 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190522 : No Wonder Obama Intel Chiefs Panicking - Trump To Declassify Bucket 5 Russiagate Docs ( May 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190522 : Two different types of zombie voters ( May 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190522 : Facts and fiction :-) ( May 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190522 : Hang the traitors! Wait... ( May 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190522 : White House Planned To Use Huawei As Trade 'Bargaining Chip' ( May 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190521 : CounterPunch ( May 21, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
• 20190521 : Google, Intel Others Cut Ties With Huawei As Trade War Heats Up ( May 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190520 : Technology, Convenience.....and Death ( May 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190520 : May be tensions with Iran is the USA neocons strategy of containing China by depriving it economy of oil ( May 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190520 : On The Cusp Of War Why Iran Won't Fold ( May 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190520 : Wang also reiterated the principled stand against the "long-arm jurisdiction" imposed by the United States ( May 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190520 : We must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role. ( May 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190520 : So we went from Russia meddling to China meddling? Really? Is that the new normal in Politics campaigning strategy nowadays? ( May 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190520* "Us" Versus "Them" ( May 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190520* The dirty art of politicians entrapment: Blackmail, smear campaigns, various traps via honey or corruption, hookers, gay sex, pedophilia, or what-have-you, all or in combination ( May 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190520 : Rapid DNA-Testing Reveals Third Of Migrants Lying About Family Relationship To Children ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190520 : Chinese concept of Face and the current trade dispute by walrus. ( May 20, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190520 : On America's Hostile Coexistence with China ( May 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190519 : Tulsi Gabbard Says Boost From Putin Fans Is Fake News ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190519* Some Shocking Facts on the Concentration of Ownership of the US Economy ( May 19, 2019 , russia-insider.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190519 : The US objective is to sustain US tech prominence by stifling Chinese plans to advance its economy. ( May 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190519 : Teresa May has been the common denominator in many of the sick things happening in the UK ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190519 : The OPCW, Douma, The Skripals ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190519 : China State Run Media Broadcasts Anti-American Movies To Millions Amid Deepening Trade War ( May 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190518 : On The Edge Of Disaster 59% Of Americans Are Living Paycheck-To-Paycheck ( May 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190518 : Democracy works in the USA is you abstract from such minor things as the level of connection of past US presidents to CIA, money in politics, pervasive propaganda and so on ( May 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190518 : Americans are good at Doublethink. ( May 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190518 : Are there any articles on how dependent Apple and Boeing are on Chinese components? ( May 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190518 : Trump might get into deeper problem with China that he anticipated: if China assume that US is not desirable partner then can replicate many of key US technological areas and deprive US companies of revenue. ( May 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190518 : Crack Pipe, IDs, And Badge Found In Hunter Biden Rental Car ( May 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190518 : Miracles of adaptation ( May 18, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190517 : Bob Goldstone letter ( May 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190517* Shareholder Capitalism, the Military, and the Beginning of the End for Boeing ( May 17, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190517 : Nothing goes together better then an attorney general badge and a used crack pipe ( May 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190517 : Gregory Travis and Marshall Auerback: Anatomy of a Disaster – Why Boeing Should Never Make Another Airplane, Again ( May 17, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190517 : The level of trust to the top USA diplomats is reverse proportional to their weight in pounts ( May 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190517 : Trump plans to invoke insurrection act to boot illegal immigrants ( May 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190516 : https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-15/farage-gabbard-lions-great-realignment ( May 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190516 : Safety risks for EV may increase as manufacturers work to boost performance and push battery cells closer to their limits ( May 16, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190516 : Farage Gabbard - Lions Of The Great Realignment ( May 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190516 : Warren can steal considerbale chunk of Trump 2016 voters ( May 16, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190516 : I have never seen such transparently obvious bullshit from UK elite befores" ( May 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190516 : The IEA's Dire Warning For Energy Markets: prepare for higher, possible much higher oil prices ( May 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190515 : Geopolitical primacy, not maximum prosperity for Americans, might be the president's true objective ( May 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190515 : Tariffs won't bring back manufacturing jobs... ( May 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190515 : Tucker Media cheats on Beto with Buttigieg ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190515 : Biden's Nafta Vote Is a Liability in the Rust Belt ( May 15, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190515 : Tucker vs critic who calls him cheerleader for Russia ( Jul 12, 2017 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190515 : HARPER JOHN DURHAM'S NEW MISSION TO ROOT OUT RUSSIAGATE ORIGINS ( May 15, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190515 : In Latest Move Against Huawei, Trump To Order New Restrictions On Foreign Telecom Companies ( May 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : China Calls For People's War Against The US, Vows To Fight For A New World ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : Leaked Document Pokes More Holes In Establishment Syria Narrative ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : FOIA Docs Mueller Top Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann Hand-Picked Team of Angry Democrats ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : Gabbard Says She'd Drop All Charges Against Assange And Snowden ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : Pat Buchanan Reflects On A Nation At War With Itself ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : House Dems Issue Friendly Subpoena To Multiple Banks, Probing Different Form Of Trump-Russia Collusion ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : Trump and Air Strip 1 dwellers in Orwell 1984 ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : Tariffs The Taxes That Made America Great ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : Did The FAA Drop The Ball While Certifying Boeing Anti-Stall Software Suspected In 2 Deadly Crashes ( May 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190514 : Employers say this is the most annoying characteristic of new grads ( May 14, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20190513 : Markets Tumble As China Unveils Retaliatory Tariffs, May Dump Some Treasuries ( May 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190513 : Alexander Downer funnelled millions in Australian tax dollars to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary's election campaign ( May 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190513* Not Just Ukraine; Biden May Have A Serious China Problem As Schweizer Exposes Hunter s $1bn Deal ( May 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190513* Angry Bear Senate Democratic Jackasses and Elmer Fudd ( May 04, 2019 , angrybearblog.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190513 : It's time for Trump to stop John Bolton and Mike Pompeo from sabotaging his foreign policy Mulshine ( May 12, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190513 : Sociopaths have only one goal: to enhance themselves, and that in pursuing their self-interest, they lack both normal human empathy for others and a normal human conscience. Cheating, conning, lying, stealing, threatening are all done with no remorse. ( May 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190513 : FBI Used False Premise to Open Trump-Russia Investigation by Andrew C. McCarthy ( May 06, 2019 , www.nationalreview.com )
• 20190513 : Balkanization of the USA is not atypical ( May 13, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190513 : Stone is demanding to see everything related to the case, all evidence, everything in discovery! ( May 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190513* US Foreign Policy as Bellicose as Ever by Serge Halimi ( May 10, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190513 : Americans probably don't understand Russia. Americans don't even mostly understand their own history. ( May 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190513 : Still voting for Big Brother You might be a low-information voter ( May 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190513 : The Collapse of the American Empire ( Sep 12, 2018 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190513 : America The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges ( Sep 05, 2018 , www.amazon.com )
• 20190512 : Trump We Are Right Where We Want To Be With China ( May 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190512 : Odds Point To A Worst-Case Scenario Shocked Traders Respond To Latest Trade War Twist ( May 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190512* Is rabid warmonger, neocon chickenhawk Bolton a swinger? That s a mental picture that s deeply disturbing yet funny at the same time ( May 12, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190512 : Dems voluntarily decided that they can't handle the possible bits of truth that unredacted Mueller report might contain (should we call it Mueller Dossier?) ( May 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190512 : The Brainwashing Of A Nation ( May 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190512 : This campaign against spying liberal elites is a waste of time. The national security state is no partisan. Only popular movements that get really rolling can ever hope to modify the national security state ( May 12, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190511 : America s Industrial Gold Rush is Over ( May 11, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190511 : China Lists The Three Conditions To Agree To Trade Deal ( May 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190511 : Having grown up and gone to university in Germany it is simply incomprehensible to me that there is tuition supporters on the political left in the US ( May 11, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190511 : Politicization of Sports and Sportization of Politics A Global Dangerous Trend by Francesc Badia i Dalmases ( discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20190511 : Is Warren's college plan progressive -- Crooked Timber ( May 11, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190511 : On Eric Hobsbawm and other matters by Corey Robin ( May 9, 2019 )
• 20190511* Has Privatization Benefitted the Public? by Jomo Kwame Sundaram ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190511 : The Shale Boom Is About To Go Bust by Nick Cunningham ( May 10, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190511 : 2006 Biden 'We Need A Border Wall' And To 'Punish American Employers' Who Hire Illegals ( May 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190511 : Boeing Altered Critical MCAS Toggle Switches On 737 MAX Before Deadly Crashes ( May 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190511 : The Shale Boom Is About To Go Bust naked capitalism ( May 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190511 : Biden lead in polls is as fake as Creepy Joe Biden is ( May 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190511 : Biden tells wealthy donors he is from the 'corporate state of Delaware' ( May 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190511 : US Army Colonel Pentagon's Latest China Report A Budget Ploy To Bleed The Taxpayer ( May 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190510 : Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Propose 15% Cap On Credit Card Rates; Visa, MC Tumble ( May 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190509 : Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez Propose 15% Cap On Credit Card Rates; Visa, MC Tumble ( May 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190509 : Economic Might As A Foreign Policy Tool ( May 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190509 : Christopher Steele Made Damning Pre-FISA Confession; FBI Retroactively Classified ( May 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190509 : In the current atmosphere of anti-Russian hysteria, merely passing the salt to a Russian guest at a dinner party makes you "an unregistered foreign agent" of Russia bent on implementing Putin's evil plans ( May 09, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190509* Another face of austerity, or Trump and his mistreses ( Apr 22, 2019 , kunstler.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190508 : Elizabeth Warren Student Loan Debt Forveness propasal: critique from the conservarives ( May 08, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190508 : We Are Not Playing VW Introduces EV Hatchback In $34 Billion Plan To Take Down Tesla ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190508 : How Accurate Are the US Jobs Numbers? by Jack Rasmus ( May 08, 2019 , www.counterpunch.org )
• 20190508 : Tulsi said the US basically needs to let Venezuelans handle their own internal political affairs. ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190508 : Ilargi Mueller Never Wanted The Truth Zero Hedge ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190508 : Barr can get all Dems incriminating correspondence via NSA ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190508 : Finding Barr in contempt is sure to brighten his mood during his investigations ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190508 : Is Former Asst. AG (Head of the NSD National Security Division) John Carlin related to George Carlin ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190508 : America's Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think ( May 08, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190508 : Elizabeth Warren's Watered-Down Populism ( May 08, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190507 : Blowback on Russiagate for 2020 ( May 07, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190507 : How the Medal of Freedom Became a Fraud ( May 07, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190507 : This pathetic sellout Bernie ( May 07, 2019 , theintercept.com )
• 20190507 : 'I'd Call That Spying' CIA's Ex-Counterintel Chief Says FBI Conducted Espionage On Trump Campaign ( May 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190507 : A new political perm: Kochsuckers ( May 07, 2019 , theintercept.com )
• 20190507 : How many CIA fucksticks, or boondoggle procuring disinformation spewing, sell-their-own-mother contractors, like New Knowledge, are out there conspiring to screw people over and install some goomed poodle puppet of the empire like Juan Guido? ( May 07, 2019 , theintercept.com )
• 20190506 : America s $1.6 trillion student debt woe spurring suicidal thoughts: survey ( May 06, 2019 , japantimes.co.jp )
• 20190506 : Neoliberal Universities are corrupt by definition ( May 06, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190506 : Trade Deal Dead Trump Says 10% China Tariff Rising To 25% On Friday, Another $325BN In Goods To Be Taxed ( May 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190506 : Warren Buffett Slams Private Equity at Berkshire Hathaway Meeting ( May 06, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com )
• 20190506 : Joe Biden Won't Blame the Republicans for Trump ( May 06, 2019 , theintercept.com )
• 20190506 : Major Mueller Report Omissions Suggest Incompetence Or A Coverup ( May 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190506 : President Trump promised to drain the swamp, and he flooded his national security team with that exact swamp ( May 06, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190506 : Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday ( May 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190506 : Think of bomb-bomb-bomb as OPEC by other means ( May 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190506 : Trump is Zionist and neocon' that's why he hired Bolton, Pompeo and Abrams. ( May 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190506 : Just A Human Being Rachel Maddow's Latest Resistance Hero ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190506 : We would have to sacrifice considerable sovereignty to the world organization to enable them to levy taxes in their own right to support themselves. ( May 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190506 : Bernie's Degeneracy That's Democracy For Ya by Ilana Mercer ( May 06, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190505 : The Big Lie That Barr Lied by Andrew McCarthy ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : If rate cuts don't happen soon, is the economy going to tank? Williams says ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : Will Comey, Strzok, Lowrenta, Priestap, McCabe be sacrificed to protect the "Deep State" ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : Two minutes of Joe "buy a shotgun" Biden humor. ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : The Old Political Order Is Just Old ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : Viva to another jolly little war by Eric Margolis ( May 05, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190505 : Operation Bay of Fat Pigs ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : Interim President Bolton ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : War mongers are joined at the hip: Meet the Madcow new love -- Bolton and a new message, almost the same as the old Madcow message. ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : Trump . . . has told friends that if Bolton had his way he'd already be at war in multiple places ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : Are Women, Like New Zealand's Ardern -- Or Gays, Like U.S. Dems' Buttigieg -- REALLY Suited To Politics by Lance Welton ( May 05, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190505 : Apres Moi le Deluge by Paul Craig Roberts ( May 03, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190505 : It was crystal clear on Wednesday that Barr had bigger fish to fry, as well as that he needs protective nets to deflect incoming shells. ( May 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : If the Russian influence thing was true, Facebook would increase their ad rates ( May 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190505 : Does America Have an Economy or Any Sense of Reality by Paul Craig Roberts ( May 02, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190504 : Someone is getting a raise. It just isn't you ( stackoverflow.com )
• 20190504 : The Next US Recession Is Likely to Be Around the Corner naked capitalism ( May 04, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190504 : Papadopoulos even talks about U.S. military attach s, DIA guys, in on this coup. ( May 04, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190504 : This Was Not Spying, It Was Entrapment Bongino Spits Fire As Nunes Demands Mifsud Docs ( May 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190504 : This Was Not Spying, It Was Entrapment : Bongino Spits Fire As Nunes Demands Mifsud Docs by Dan Bongino ( May 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190504 : It's a further irony of the moment that the suddenly leading Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, is neck-deep in that Russiagate spilled garbage, ( May 04, 2019 , kunstler.com )
• 20190504 : America's Global Financial War Is Escalating ( May 04, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190504 : Now we know that the USA and foreign intelligence (especially the UK) and US law enforcement collaborated in a broad effort to bait the Trump team with ostensible Russian entreaties in order to paint Trump as a tool of the Kremlin. ( May 04, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190503 : Tucker Carlson Takes On Venezuela Intervention by Brad Griffin ( May 03, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190503 : Turker Paleoconservatism ( May 03, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190503 : Russiagaters treatment ( May 03, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190503 : There Was Spying NYT Admits Obama Admin Used 'Honeypot' To Spy Against Trump Campaign In 2016 ( May 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190503 : Tucker Carlson: Before The Bombers Take Off, Let's Ask A Few Questions About Venezuela ( May 02, 2019 , www.realclearpolitics.com )
• 20190502 : If The U.S. Economy Is So Great, Why Are So Many Workers Miserable ( May 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190501 : Congress Releases 'Mueller Letter' To AG Barr ( May 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190501 : Nellie Ohr Criminal Referral Being 'Finalized' According To Jim Jordan ( May 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190501 : I think it is an exercise in self delusion when people think they can become educated voters or citizens. It is not happening. ( May 01, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
• 20190501 : Warren twitted that Barr should resign adding to her list of political mistakes yet another one ( May 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190501 : Bill Black If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren't Used, What Can Warren Change ( May 01, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190501 : Evidence exists now that the president has been falsely accused'' of colluding with Russians and even of treason, Barr told the panel ( May 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190501 : No Holds Barred 2020 Candidates Demand Resignation As Dems Spew Fire And Brimstone During Dramatic Hearing ( May 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190501 : Do honest politicans exist ( May 01, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
• 20190501 : Ray Dalio: Capitalism Is Broken; Dalio Was The Highest Earning American Of 2018 ( May 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190501 : Buchanan: Biden Exposed The Left's New 'Old' Strategy For Beating Trump ( May 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190430 : 2016 Post Mortem: Forgotten nothing, learned nothing ( Apr 30, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190430 : Remarks by Senator Warren on Citigroup and its bailout provision ( Dec 12, 2014 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190430 : Elizabeth Warren s Big Ideas on Big Tech by Kenneth Rogoff ( Apr 01, 2019 , www.project-syndicate.org )
• 20190430 : A fossil record ( Apr 30, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190430 : Boeing Changes Its Story, Admits 'Software Glitch' Disabled Critical Alerts On 737 MAX ( Apr 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190430 : Boeing Kept Mum to Customers, FAA About Disabling of 737 Max Warning System ( Apr 30, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190429 : DiGenova Destroys Media's Reckless Promotion Of Trump Tower Meeting As Crime ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190429 : Ralph Nader Calls Out Boeing for 737 MAX Lack of Airworthiness, Stock Buybacks, and Demands Muilenburg Resign by Lambert Strether ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190429 : How AI Systems Could Threaten Democracy naked capitalism ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190429 : When the disaster hit, you need to resolve things quickly and efficiently, with panic being the worst enemy. Amount of training and previous experience become crucial factors in such situations ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190429 : Let's rename Boeing to BidenAir ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190429 : The Evidence In The MH17 Case Doesn't Point To Russia Or Ukraine by William Craddick ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190429 : Deputy AG Rosenstein Submits Resignation Letter Our Nation Is Safer ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190429 : Biden should not be president. ( Apr 29, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190429 : New alarming facts about Russian Interference in the US Presidential Elections ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190429 : It is more probable that some patriots at NSA seeing what was going on hacked and leaked emails not wanting corrupt Hillary and criminal empire taking hold of US gov rather than Russians doing such ( Apr 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190428 : The Real Men Go to Tehran delusion ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190428 : Trump Warns Bernie He's Getting Screwed Again By DNC -- This Time To Help Biden ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190428 : Trump Syria policies are the same as Obama policies ( Apr 28, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190428 : Did The Russians Really Interfere In US Elections ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190428 : Rachel Maddow's Tin-Foil Hysteria Laid Bare In Devastating Twitter Takedown ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190428 : The US Deep State truly exists on another plane of unreality ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190428 : People take this repetition as a substitute for proof due to a glitch in human psychology known as the illusory truth effect, a phenomenon which causes our brains to tend to interpret things we've heard before as known truths ( Apr 28, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20190428* Prisoners of Overwork A Dilemma by Peter Dorman ( Apr 28, 2019 , angrybearblog.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190428 : AI is software. Software bugs. Software doesn't autocorrect bugs. Men correct bugs. A bugging self-driving car leads its passengers to death. A man driving a car can steer away from death ( Apr 28, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190427 : The Essence Of Evil Sex With Children Has Become Big Business In America ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190427 : Ukraine Tapped By Obama Admin To Hurt Trump, Help Clinton And Protect Biden ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190427 : Free Speech, Safety and the Triumph of Neoliberalism naked capitalism ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190427 : Hate speach and neoliberal concept of utility ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190427 : An attempt at a Venn diagram of the Republican party should be attempted. ( Apr 27, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190427 : This hair plugged buffoon would be White Obama 2.0. ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190427 : Trump Makes Post-Mueller Vow To Release Devastating FISA Docs ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190427 : What are the main differences between religion and ideology - Quora ( Apr 27, 2019 , www.quora.com )
• 20190427 : Angry Bear " Free Speech, Safety and the Triumph of Neoliberalism ( Apr 27, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190427* Why despite widespread criticism, neoliberalism remains the dominant politico-economic theory amongst policy-makers both in the USA and internationally ( Apr 27, 2019 , angrybearblog.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190426 : More on Trump betrayal if his foreign policy campaign promises and his alliance with Israel ( Apr 26, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190426 : Biden Campaign Brings In $6.3 Million During First 24 Hours ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190426 : Immigrant neocon class ( Apr 26, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190426 : Do those neocons in Trump administration see massive depression coming and ant to solve is with a new war? ( Apr 26, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190426 : Sic Semper Tyrannis Analysis is not advocacy. The Lebanese should understand that truth. ( Apr 26, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190426 : Two views on Trump ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190426 : Trump managed to serve MIGA instead of MAGA to American people ( Apr 26, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190426 : Then I would have Viagra prescriptions ready for the US Neocons who would assail my office to help them redirect their frustration aggressions and one way tickets to Israel for the Fifth Columnist screaming outside my door ( Apr 26, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190426 : For The Thinking Class, Blowback Is A Harsh Mistress ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190426 : Like Obama, Biden is just a media image that exudes down-to-earth caring and advocacy for regular folks. But his actual record is a very different story. ( Apr 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190425 : Mish Boeing 737 Max Unsafe To Fly, New Scathing Report By Pilot, Software Designer ( Apr 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190425 : Bibi's best bet to solve his intractable Hezbollah problem is when his bitch Trump is in office ( Apr 25, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190425 : Creepy Joe enters the race ( Apr 25, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190425 : The Great Deformation Why Income Inequality Has Become Intractable ( Apr 25, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190425 : A Sign Of The Times Court Documents Indicate 7,819 Boy Scout Troop Leaders Abused 12,254 Victims ( Apr 24, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190425 : Multipolarity has taken a back seat. Europe remains a vassal. There are no prospects for european independence from the looks of it. ( Apr 25, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190424 : We've Endured Years of Bragging From Trump -- What Would an American Trade 'Victory' Look Like ( Apr 24, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190424 : Carl Icahn Greenmail cook ( Apr 24, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190424 : Obama bait and switch maneuver ( Apr 24, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190424 : Trump has done exactly what I hoped he would do; he has shown that our entire election system is rigged by the CIA (obviously not very thoroughly rigged). Like or hate Trump, only a traitor would not be concerned that the CIA is giving marching order to the media and colluding to derail candidates it does not approve of. ( Apr 24, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190423 : CIA, the counerstone of the deep state, might have agenda that is radically different from the US national interest and reflect agenda of the special interest groups ( May 23, 2017 , nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190423 : Transactional Trumpism ( Apr 23, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190423 : Mapping The Countries With The Most Oil Reserves ( Apr 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190422 : Data Tells: China's BRI promotes global trade ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : The starting point is a collapse in US China trade, which falls by 25 30 percent in the short term and somewhere between 30 percent and 70 percent over the long term, depending on the model and the direction of trade. ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : For Mueller the ends justify the means ( Apr 22, 2019 , kunstler.com )
• 20190422 : What is "collusion" ? ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Boeing s 737 Max Debacle The Result of a Dangerously Pro-Automation Design Philosophy ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190422 : Claims of Shoddy Production Draw Scrutiny to a Second Boeing Jet ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : In Search for Leverage, Trump May Be Undercutting His Own Trade Deals ( Apr 19, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : John Helmer The Julian Assange Case Now Puts the US on Trial in a British Court Is There a Get-Out-of-Jail Card for Assange ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190422 : The US regime of total surveillance and Assange ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190422 : Mueller's Lies About George Papadopolous by Larry C Johnson ( Apr 22, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Is Intellectual Property the Root of All Evil? Patents, Copyrights, and Inequality ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : World Economic Outlook: Growth Slowdown, Precarious Recovery ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Private Equity Pillage: Grocery Stores and Workers At Risk ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : the United States has the highest level of inequality among the advanced countries and one of the lowest levels of opportunity -- with the fortunes of young Americans more dependent on the income and education of their parents than elsewhere. ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Interior Secty Bernhardt is corrupt...he's gotta go and right now ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Personally, I was especially shocked when Prince Charles casually compared Putin to Hitler. Oh, and he is not supposed to succumb to his own propaganda ( Apr 22, 2019 , kunstler.com )
• 20190422 : Trump's tone on Mueller report changes after initial upbeat view ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Bernie Sanders and the Myth of the 1 Percent. The very rich are richer than people imagine. ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday called for lawmakers to start impeachment proceedings against President Trump, saying he obstructed Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Trump has been placed in office for purposes of churn for markets because of the deflationary pressures brought about from uncertainty on the finance side of America's balance sheets finance ledgers. ( Apr 22, 2019 , kunstler.com )
• 20190422 : Ken Starr's effort cost 120 million and was just as stupid as this one ( Apr 22, 2019 , kunstler.com )
• 20190422 : Brzezinski s Warning to America by Mike Whitney ( Apr 22, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190422 : Who said anything anti-Semitic? ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : Hitler has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life ( Apr 22, 2019 , kunstler.com )
• 20190422 : The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190422 : For the first time in decades, U.S. politicians and members of the business elite are debating whether American-style capitalism has a future ( Apr 22, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190421 : The FBI Informant Who Monitored the Trump Campaign, Stefan Halper, Oversaw a CIA Spying Operation in the 1980 Presidential Elections by Glenn Greenwald ( May 19, 2018 , theintercept.com )
• 20190421 : An Empire of Bullshit - Kunstler ( Apr 21, 2019 , kunstler.com )
• 20190421 : Mueller went out of his way to leave the obstruction sword hanging over Trump`s head so the political infighting does not end. ( Apr 21, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190421 : Rome burns while Nero fiddles! America disintegrates while Trump tweets! ( Apr 21, 2019 , kunstler.com )
• 20190421 : the current situation is "USSR reversed", in that the US now feels the need to "mute" Russia but Russia does not feel the need to "mute" the US. ( Apr 21, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190421* John Brennan's Police State USA ( Oct 22, 2017 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190420 : Neoliberal education became a tool of social control and brainwashing, not so much developing of the person and his ability of critical thinking. ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190420 : Caitlin Johnstone Debunks All The Assange Smears ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190420 : It's A Mad World... ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190420 : So when Putin came to power, he was very much in the tradition of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. He wanted a strategic alliance with the United States ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190420 : April 19, 2019 at 1:16 pm ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190420 : $1 Million Trump Campaign Sees Donations Spike After Mueller Report Released ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190420 : The reduction in foreign adventurism under Trump is primarily due to the paralysis of his administration, from being so widely distrusted. ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190420 : As Trump is just a marionette of neocons and Israel lobby Russia has only expect harsher and harsher sanctions ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190420 : The Anti-Sanders Press Influenced the 2016 Primary. Will It Do the Same Again naked capitalism ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190420 : When I see the right-of-center DNC supporters saying, "Our democracy has been attacked," I an reminded of the interview Hermann Goering gave while he was waiting to be executed. ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190420 : Is Trump a neofascist due to his aggressive foreign policy and promotion of economic Lebensraum for the USA ? ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190420 : Something about Trump's integrity or, more correctly, the lack of thereof ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190420 : I Spy Trump" Tee short with Obama looking from bushes is on sale now ;-) ( Apr 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190419 : Education as a scam: shadow of Trump university over the USA ( Apr 19, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190419* Tulsi Gabbard: People get into a lot of conversations about political strategies I might get in trouble for saying this, but what does it matter if we beat Donald Trump, if we end up with someone who will perpetuate the very same crony capitalist policies, corporate policies, and waging more of these costly wars? ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190419 : The USSR was a kind of guarantor of sanity of the USA elite, supressing built-in suisidal tendences. With it gove they went off the rail ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20190419 : Trump and General Flynn ( Apr 19, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190419 : Trump Campaign Time To Go After 'Liars' Who Started Witch Hunt ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190419 : Top Mueller Report Takeaways So Far ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190419 : CNN Admits Mueller's Report Looks Bad For Obama Op-Ed ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190419 : The USSR was a kind of garantor of sanity of the USA elite, suppressing built-in suicidal tendences. With it gone they went off the rail ( Apr 19, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20190419 : The free market fundamentalists thinks these questions of culture, family and social cohesiveness are cute but ultimately irrelevant by TAC staff ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190419 : Five Companies Represent 35% Of All The S P 500's Value Creation Over The Last 5 Years ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190419 : US Is Japan On A Larger Scale ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190419 : HARPER RUSSIAGATERS IN IG CROSSHAIRS ( Apr 17, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190419 : You need to judge only by his actions and not his words ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190419 : RussiaGate Is Dead! Long Live Russiagate! ( Apr 19, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190418 : Note of those who believe that Trump betrayal of voters and allies is some kind of four dimensional chess ( Apr 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190418 : Is the USS Ship of Fools Taking on Water ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
• 20190418 : The problem with the west is not so much cultural as it is economic the west is a giant Ponzi scheme that must ultimately collapse as all 'financialized' economies have collapsed since the beginning of money as any careful reader of Michael Hudson can tell you ( Apr 18, 2019 , thesaker.is )
• 20190417 : What Are We to Make of Gina Haspel by Publius Tacitus ( Mar 19, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190417 : Diego Garcia The Unsinkable Carrier Springs A Leak ( Apr 17, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190416 : Reps Cummings, Waters, And Schiff Sign Secret MOUs To Target Trump ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190416 : It s A Wake Up Call 7 Charts That Clearly Show The Middle Class Is Being Left Behind ( Apr 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190416 : Trump reveals himself as a typical neocon -- a lobbyist for MIC and Isreal ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190416 : Yemen war veto as an important message to Trumptards :-) ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190416 : China Confronts Japan Over Huawei 5G Ban During High Level Talks ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190416 : Putin, Xi, Assad, Maduro vs. the American Hegemon ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190416* The incompetent, the corrupt, the treacherous -- not just walking free, but with reputations intact, fat bank balances, and flourishing careers. Now they re angling for war with Iran. ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190416 : In terms of banking, here is a great explanation, including The City of London that owns UK: ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190416 : Why tiny groups are able to control large mass of population ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190416 : Pompeo Has Lost His Mind - China Hits Back At Latin America Remarks ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190416 : Trump's Immigration Choice Kushner or Coulter ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190416 : A country with 4% of the world's population, while consuming at one point 40% of the resources, is certainly not going to go gently from its perch. ( Apr 16, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190415 : Trump Says You cannot break the laws of physics and then fix them with software. ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : 4 Myths About Julian Assange DEBUNKED Zero Hedge ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : Julian Assange Is Guilty Of Only One Thing: Revealing The Evil Soul Of US Imperialism ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : A letter to the> President Trump from former voter ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : Scottish Labour candidate facing questions over links to 'secretive military propaganda unit' ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.heraldscotland.com )
• 20190415 : We have confirmation of" Obama's administration supporting, not fighting terrorism, Patrushev explained. Changing this policy is essential for improving Russian/US relations. ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : Former Massachusetts Gov. To Challenge Trump For Republican Nomination ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : My friend Julian Assange - Alicia Castro former ambassador for Argentina -- Puppet Masters -- Sott.net ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.sott.net )
• 20190415 : Pompeo Has Lost His Mind - China Hits Back At Latin America Remarks ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : Trump Says Boeing Should Rebrand 737 MAX As Airlines Cancel More Flights ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : The Elite prosper from war that is why there has been continual war and slaughter on their behalf ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190415 : Why The Death Of 'King Dollar' Would Benefit American Workers ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190415 : Peaceful Coexistence 2.0 by Dani Rodrik ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.project-syndicate.org )
• 20190415 : Rogue State – Britain Railing Against International Norms Laws ( Apr 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190414 : It has since been revealed that Epstein had 21 different phone numbers for contacting his friend Bill Clinton, who, court records allege, "frequently flew" on Epstein's private jet between 2002 and 2005. ( Apr 14, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190414 : The social groups that support neoliberalism ( May 03, 2017 , www.unz.com )
• 20190414 : Elizabeth Warren is timely candidate: The era of US companies offering pensions is coming to a close. ( Apr 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190414 : The FBI/CIA gang is also very stupid. From Halper-the-spy and his incompetent handler Brennan to the obnoxious Zionists of Ledeen kind they, the members of the "gang", show incompetence and the self-endangering and stupid amorality. ( Apr 14, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190414 : A Veblen Moment: Thorstein Veblen's Lessons from the First Gilded Age Even More Relevant Today ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190413 : How about a paedophile UK Prime Minister never investigated ? ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190413* For those IT guys who want to change the specalty ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190413 : Seriously. In these past 8 years, I've met so many wealthy, well educated, amazing [Russian] people who have to jump through so many hoops and sacrifice so much for the mere chance of a USA tourist visa. If you only knew ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190413* America as a Myth of good life is a powerful tool of color revolutions ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190413* Justice under neoliberalism ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190413 : Pompeo claim that China, Russia Spread Disorder And Corruption In Latin America and the US master list of overthown governments ( Apr 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190413 : Trump Puts America Last by Daniel Larison ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190412 : Trump s Betrayal of White America by Alex Graham ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190412 : Italy How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades naked capitalism ( Apr 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190412 : There is little chance that Western elites will behave any differently than a street corner drug dealer ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190412 : A Dummies Guide To What Dems Will Say When Mueller Report Is Released ( Apr 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190412 : John Bolton Took Money From Clinton Foundation Donor, Banks Tied To Cartels, Terrorists, Iran by William Craddick ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190412 : Suggestion about dismantling neoliberalism in the USA ( Apr 12, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190410 : Boeing Sued For Defrauding Shareholders After Fatal Crashes ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190410* Habakkuk on cockroaches and the New York Times ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.wsws.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190410 : Money-love [ , philochr matia] has always been extreme because wealth is addictive ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190410 : Neoliberalism is a strange cult that believes that short-term greed is the best way to optimize long-term growth. ( Apr 10, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190409* The ruthless neo-colonialists of 21st century ( Apr 09, 2019 , failedevolution.blogspot.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190409 : Part of the problem may be that the American oligarchy is now believing its own bullshit, or put another way, has descended into decadence. ( Apr 09, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190408 : Trump deadly deregulation ( Apr 04, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Herein lies one reason (of several!) why economists should study the history of economic thought. Doing so can show that classic economists knew things which modern ones have forgotten. ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : US "defense" strategy looks more like Queen Victoria's with not a wink toward contemporary reality. ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Robocalls ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Trump's Kakistocracy Is Also a Hackistocracy: The invasion of hucksters has reached the Federal Reserve. ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Simon Kuznets famously argued that inequality is beneficial for economic growth at an early stage of development... but is harmful at a later stage ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Republican Health Care Lying Syndrome: Even Trump supporters don't believe the party's promises ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Senator Elizabeth Warren lobbed another policy grenade into the Democratic primary Friday, announcing she supports drastically changing the Senate by eliminating its legendary filibuster to give her party a better chance of implementing its ambitious agenda. ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : 7 years after the US - led by Obama, Hillary @SamanthaJPower - bombed Libya in the name of "humanitarianism" along with the UK France then utterly ignored it, the country is so violent, unstable dangerous that US troops can no longer safely remain ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : "FullOf Schiff" Russiagater behave like typical members of doomsday cult, when the prophecy was not fulfilled. They just became more fanatical ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Emboldened by Trump, Israel's Netanyahu stirs controversy with pre-election vow to annex West Bank settlements ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : CIA chickens come home to roost After 62 American intervention in foreign elections between 1946 and 1989 the US specialists in color revolution finally organized color revolution at home. ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Insofar as the Fed's "independence" has meant close ties to the financial industry, it has not been good news for most people in this country. ( Apr 08, 2019 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190408 : Deregulation, financialization and Boeing crashes ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.wsws.org )
• 20190408 : Economists are ideologically biased ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190408 : The Delphic Oracle Was Their Davos, by Michael Hudson and John Siman - The Unz Review ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190408 : Journalist Media's Mueller leaks are a sign of desperation ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190408 : Angry Bear Opioid Use since 1968 and Why It s Abuse Increased ( Apr 08, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190408 : Has Privatization Benefitted the Public naked capitalism ( Apr 08, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190407 : The rejection of the USSA version of neoliberalism with its rampant deregulation and corruption has already started ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : Biden doesn't not have a sense of humor about his pedo debacle, but he does like to spray paint his head. ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : Amazon Is Challenging Google And Facebook For Dominance In Digital Advertising ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : The Skeleton In The Electric Car Closet Zero Hedge ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : Watch As Tesla Model 3 Accelerates And Slams Into Car While On Autopilot ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : When you couple the voice of the Washington Post with a company so deeply involved with discovering and archiving detailed files and information about individuals and politicians across America you command a great deal of muscle and clout ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : The Ultimate Pivot Saudi Betrayal Of The Petrodollar ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : New York Sues Big Pharma for Opioid Crisis ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190407 : Kamala Harris handing of subprime mortgage crisis and opioids abuse ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190407 : What Monroe Doctrine ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : The Most Least 'Stressed-Out' States Zero Hedge ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : Muellergate The Discreet Lies Of The Bourgeoisie ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : Was Ending The Draft A Grave Mistake Zero Hedge ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190407 : Operation Gladio The Unholy Alliance Between The Vatican, The CIA, The Mafia ( Apr 07, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190406 : Ethiopian Airlines Abandons Boeing Orders Due To Stigma From 737 Max Crash ( Apr 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190406 : Kondratiev – Riding The Economic Wave (Down Until The 2030s) ( Apr 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190406 : NATO At 70 Years Old... Time For The Zombie To Die ( Apr 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190405 : Ilargi Meijer Boeing's Problem Is Not Software ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190405 : Additional Software Issue Discovered In Boeing 737 MAX ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190405 : A broader tax base that closes loopholes would raise more money than plans by Ocasio-Cortez and Warren by Natasha Sarin and Lawrence H. Summers ( Apr 05, 2019 , larrysummers.com )
• 20190405 : I felt mathematicians were not examining the role of their discipline in the crisis; they were not behaving ethically. ( Apr 05, 2019 , magic-maths-money.blogspot.com )
• 20190405 : Pelosi Accused of Deploying 'Most Dishonest Argument' Against Medicare for All by Jake Johnson ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.commondreams.org )
• 20190405 : Belief in Meritocracy under Neoliberalism Is Not Only False, It's Bad for You by Clifton Mark ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190405 : "Free" Markets and the Attack on Democracy ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.commondreams.org )
• 20190405 : Petrodollar Panic Saudis Threaten To Dump USD-Oil Trades Over OPEC Anti-Trust Bill ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190405 : How does one fight in an Internet-infested, money-dominated political system? ( Apr 05, 2019 , caucus99percent.com )
• 20190405 : Tulsi Gabbard is the only candidate with any real substance on either side of the political divide. ( Apr 05, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190404* How Brzezinski's Chessboard degenerated into Brennan's Russophobia by Mike Whitney ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190404 : If one recognizes that Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard, American Primacy Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997)" in replacing "Lebensraum" with "control over Eurasia", "Tausendj hriges Reich" with "American Primacy" ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190404 : But current American elites have no concept of own actions having consequences ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190404 : Neoliberals are no Christians ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190404 : How much of the present-day US economy is even real i.e., results in the production of actual goods that people might want, as opposed to dodgy financial/insurance transactions which may add a lot of dollar value to GDP, but don't create anything real that enhances the quality of life for the masses? ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190404 : Finance Capitalism came out of London and hopped to America, especially post WW2. ( Apr 04, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190403 : Bad News For Boeing Preliminary Report Shows Anti-Stall Software Sealed Flight ET302's Fate ( Apr 03, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190403 : The software's reengagement is what doomed everybody aboard Boeing Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 ( Apr 03, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190403 : The political genius of supply-side economics by Martin Wolf& ( Jul 25, 2010 , blogs.ft.com )
• 20190403 : There is no democracy in US. There is just a civil war between two dysfunctional and corrupt to the core parties ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190403 : Krugman is irrelevant and his promotion of Hillary is disingenuous ( www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190403* What We Can Learn From 1920s Germany by Brian E. Fogarty ( Apr 03, 2019 , www.commondreams.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190403* Suspected of Corruption at Home, Powerful Foreigners Find Refuge in the US ( Apr 03, 2019 , www.propublica.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190402 : Poroshenko was just a US marionette which helped to loot the country and impoverish Ukrainian people ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190402 : On The Incorrigible Hypocrisy Of The Conservative Neocons ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190402 : Russiagate as a smoke screen for the struggle between two powerful groups of the US elite ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190402 : Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190402 : There will be backlash against the fascists in Brazil, and the right wing leaderships in governments elsewhere in Latin America that the US has maneuvered into place as these leaders fail to deliver material gains to their populations. And fail they will considering we are in late-stage neoliberalism ( Apr 02, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190401 : Retail Layoffs Are 92% Higher In 2019, And Now Even Wal-Mart Is Quietly Closing Stores by Michael Snyder ( Apr 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190401 : People Will Never, Ever Rebel As Long As They're Successfully Propagandized ( Apr 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190331 : Russiagate became a convenient replacement explanation absolving the neoliberal elite for its complicity in fiasco of 2016, and inability to see the mass revolt against neoliberalism coming ( Mar 31, 2019 , moonofalabama.org )
• 20190331* Because of the immediate arrival of the Russia collusion theory, neither MSM honchos nor any US politician ever had to look into the camera and say, I guess people hated us so much they were even willing to vote for Donald Trump ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190331 : Bank Regulation Can t Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose naked capitalism ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190331 : Defying Trump Promises, American Companies Still Playing Offshore Tax Games ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190331 : We can spend unlimited money of Russiagate nonsense, but Enforcement of financial laws is not our thing. Just ask Chuck Schumer of the #Non-Resistance: ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190331 : All I can see in Russigate is that two faction of the US elite seem to be fighting amongst themselves. With Russigate (IMO) providing cover for this power struggle ( Mar 31, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190331 : The Conservation of Controversy Outraged students, helpless teachers, and the President's executive order by Joshua Blair ( Mar 23, 2019 , blog.usejournal.com )
• 20190331 : Mafiocracy Eudaimonia and Co ( Mar 31, 2019 , eand.co )
• 20190330* My suggestion is that Cambridge Analytica and others backing Trump and the Yankee imperial machine have been taking measurements of USA citizens opinions and are staggered by the results. They are panicked! ( Mar 30, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190330 : Why There'll Be No US-Russia Reset Post-Mueller ( Mar 30, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190329 : Boeing Anti-Stall Software Mistakenly Activated Before Deadly Crash, Investigators Believe ( Mar 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190329 : Boeing Doubles Down on 737 Max, Rejects Need for Simulator Training naked capitalism ( Mar 29, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190329 : 8 Cases That Prove The FBI CIA Were Out Of Control Long Before Russiagate ( Mar 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190329 : Trump will have as many problems with Ayn Ryan Congress as Obama/Clinton on economic issues ( Nov 23, 2016 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190329 : Escobar Empire Of Chaos In Hybrid War Overdrive ( Mar 29, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190329* Trumps billionaire coup détat: Donald Trump is about to break the record of withdrawing his promises faster than any other US president in history ( Mar 22, 2017 , failedevolution.blogspot.gr ) [Recommended]
• 20190329 : Trump s success of failure will be measured by one thing: number of factory jobs added or lost ( Jan 22, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190328 : Adam Schiff Furious After GOP Calls For His Immediate Resignation In Explosive Hearing ( Mar 28, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190326 : When Are We Going To Tackle The For-Profit Monopolies Which Censored RussiaGate Skeptics? by Charles Hugh Smith ( Mar 26, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190325 : Over 50% of all wealth in the US is inherited not earned ( Mar 25, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190324 : The Market Won't Provide High Returns Just Because You Need Them ( Mar 24, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190323 : Boeing Crapification 737 MAX Play-by-Play, Regulatory Capture, and When Will CEO Muilenburg Become the Sacrificial Victim by Lambert Strether ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190323 : Travesty of [neo]Liberalism ( Mar 23, 2019 , www.bradford-delong.com )
• 20190323 : College admissions scandal Wealthy parents told to make deal or face more charges - Los Angeles Times ( Mar 23, 2019 , www.latimes.com )
• 20190322 : America's Apartheid of Dollars ( Mar 22, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190322 : Boeing Receives $4 Bln Military Contract Despite Global 737 MAX Grounding ( Mar 22, 2019 , sputniknews.com )
• 20190320 : Sitting Ambassadors Participated In Plot To 'Take Trump Down' Meadows ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190320 : Merkel is the most servile lackey that the US could wish for ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190320 : Neoliberal interpretation of Christianity ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190320 : Meaning of the word "freedom" for neoliberals ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190320 : We must stop the Russians plot to put Trump in office the second time so he can increase the US military budget and bankrupt the Republic ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190320 : Boeing problems and one possible solution ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190320 : After we have legitimized transexuals, why not officially adopt transagists too: women practice this for a long time ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190320 : What Republicans and Billionaires Really Mean When They Talk About 'Freedom' by Thom Hartman ( Mar 20, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190320 : Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou - Observations by Walrus. ( turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190320 : The Opportunity Cost of America s Disastrous Foreign Policy by Vlad Sobell ( Mar 18, 2015 , Russia Insider )
• 20190320 : What will happen if no energy source can cover the decline rate ( Mar 16, 2019 , peakoilbarrel.com )
• 20190319 : "Monopoly" is such an ugly term. ( Mar 19, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190319 : Shotgun Marriage Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank Discuss Merger naked capitalism ( Mar 19, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190319 : Elizabeth Warren had a good speech at UC-Berkeley. She focused on the middle class family balance sheet and risk shifting ( Mar 19, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190319 : Richard Wolff Reveals How Empires End ( Mar 14, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190319 : Richard Wolff on the money behind Brexit ( Mar 19, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190319 : Monopoly: too big to ignore ( Mar 19, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190319 : Corporations must be in the service of the nation, not the other way around ( Mar 19, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190318 : Middle Class Once Meant Stability and Now Means Fragility ( Mar 18, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190318 : Time for both clintons is over: Neoliberals Passing the Baton by Robert Waldmann ( Mar 11, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190318 : College-entrance-exam cheating scandal exposes corrupt aristocracy (Video) ( Mar 18, 2019 , theduran.com )
• 20190318 : The Boeing debacle is the latest example of regulatory capture by D. Saint Germain ( Mar 15, 2019 , medium.com )
• 20190318 : Boeing Drops as Role in Vetting Its Own Jets Comes Under Fire ( Mar 18, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20190318* Doublethink and Newspeak Do We Have a Choice by Greg Guma ( Aug 21, 2017 , www.globalresearch.ca ) [Recommended]
• 20190318* The Why are the media playing lapdog and not watchdog – again – on war in Iraq? ( Oct 10, 2014 , The Guardian ) [Recommended]
• 20190317 : OPEC Threatens To Kill US Shale ( Mar 17, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20190317 : Market Concentration Is Threatening the US Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz ( Mar 17, 2019 , www.project-syndicate.org )
• 20190317 : Bezos Admits His Fortune Is Due to Public Infrastructure....Even as He Fought Paying a Homeless Tax in Seattle, Shakes Down Cities for Subsidies ( Mar 01, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190317* As Hemingway replied to Scott Fitzgerald assertion The rich are different than you and me : yes, they have more money. ( Dec 31, 2015 , nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190317 : Yes, Minister was a neoliberal attack on government as such. It set the entrepreneurial political hero/leader against the corrupt civil service ( Apr 27, 2017 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190316 : If we assume average EROEI equal 2 for shale oil then rising shale oil production with almost constant world oil production is clearly a Pyrrhic victory. Again, putting a single curve for all types of oil is the number racket, or voodoo dances around the fire. ( Mar 16, 2019 , peakoilbarrel.com )
• 20190316 : Martin Wolf Why Economists Failed as "Experts" -- and How to Make Them Matter Again ( Mar 14, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190316 : The European banking system is about to implode with Italian banks in the worst state but French banks probably own the counterparty risks ( Mar 16, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190316 : Pity The Nation War Spending Is Bankrupting America ( Mar 16, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190316 : The Party of Davos have ruled for 40-50 years. We've got unprecedented wealth inequality. We've got endless wars with no benefit for the Deplorables. ( Mar 16, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190316 : May and Merkel Fiddle While Their Unions Burn ( Mar 16, 2019 , www.strategic-culture.org )
• 20190315* Patriots Turning To #YangGang In Response To Trump, Conservatism Inc. Failure by James Kirkpatrick ( Mar 15, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190315 : DOJ And Clinton Lawyers Struck Secret Deal To Block FBI Access To Clinton Foundation Emails Strzok ( Mar 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190315 : Something about Canada ( Mar 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190315 : If Germany tries to close NATO conmmand center very likely, a color revolution will break out in Germany ( Mar 15, 2019 , nationalinterest.org )
• 20190315 : DOJ ... Department of Obstruction of Justice. ( Mar 15, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190314 : Regulatory Capture: The Banks and the System That They Have Corrupted ( Mar 14, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com )
• 20190314 : Blain Global Reset Looms As Inequality Bonfire Burns Out Of Control ( Mar 14, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190314 : Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump triumph by George Monbiot ( Nov 14, 2016 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190313 : Protests sparked when Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Germany, warned German companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia that they could be hit with American economic sanctions ( Mar 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190313 : Austerity Neoliberalism a new discursive formation ( Mar 13, 2019 , www.opendemocracy.net )
• 20190313 : Neoliberalism and austerity ( Mar 13, 2019 , mainlymacro.blogspot.com )
• 20190313 : Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Authoritarianism ( Jun 01, 2015 , newpol.org )
• 20190311* The university professors, who teach but do not learn: neoliberal shill DeJong tries to prolong the life of neoliberalism in the USA ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190311 : Bill Black Analyzes Brad DeLong's Stunning Concession Neoliberals Should Pass the Baton and Let the Left Lead naked capitali ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190311 : Neoliberal MSM want to bury Tucker ( Mar 11, 2019 , www.newsweek.com )
• 20190310 : U.S. SEC to review stock trading rules in big potential shakeup by John McCrank ( Mar 10, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20190309 : Intelligence Contractors Are a real danger to the US national security ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190309 : The USA new class in full glory: rich are shopping differently from the low income families and the routine is like doing drags, but more pleasurable and less harmful. While workers are stuglling with the wages that barely allow to support the family, the pressure to cut hours and introduce two tire system ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190309 : Government-To-Facebook Pipeline Reveals A Corrupt Mix Of Social Media The State ( Mar 09, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190309 : The Incoherence of Larry Summers, a Serious Economist by J. D. Alt ( Mar 07, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190309 : The 1% vs the 0.1% ( Mar 03, 2019 , stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com )
• 20190308 : William Davies reviews 'Family Values' by Melinda Cooper LRB 8 November 2018 ( Mar 08, 2019 , lrb.co.uk )
• 20190307 : Op-Ed Chaos in the West shows that democracy comes in more than one flavor - People's Daily Online by Curtis Stone, Chengliang Wu ( Mar 01, 2019 , en.people.cn )
• 20190306 : The only real growth in the US - ( Mar 06, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190306 : The faces of US elite: The marasmic McCain, marasmic Pelosi, and hysterical Max Boot, the openly lying Clapper and the hate-filled profiteer Brennan ( Jul 27, 2017 , www.unz.com )
• 20190305 : On origin of the phase There ain't no such thing as a free lunch ( Mar 20, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190305 : Milton Friedman now firmly belongs to the dustbin of history ( Mar 05, 2019 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20190305 : Hurrah ! Mankiw to Leave Flagship Harvard Ec 10 Course News by Molly C. McCafferty ( The Harvard Crimson )
• 20190305 : Democratic senator to introduce tax on trading [Video] ( Mar 05, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20190304 : Communitarianism or Populism: The Ethic of Compassion and the Ethic of Respect ( Jan 13, 2017 , www.theworkingcentre.org )
• 20190304 : Trump calls for 21st century Glass-Steagall banking law ( Nov 11, 2016 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190304 : Obama corruption: Warren troubled by Obama speaking fees ( Apr 27, 2017 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190304 : Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Globalization of Organized Crime ( November 16, 2008 )
• 20190304 : It is important to Americans that they always are doing the right thing, the just thing, the altruistic thing, and that nothing so smutty as American profit and financial gain come into it. It is for this reason they are fed such self-serving pablum daily by their news media. ( Mar 04, 2019 , thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com )
• 20190302 : The billionaire Warren Buffett to Trump: "I feel that way no matter who is president, the CEO -- which I am -- should have the ability to pick people that help you run a place." ( Jan 21, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190302 : I don't think much of Trump but it is kind of amusing to see the elites, who screwed over most of the population, now having nervous breakdowns ( Jan 20, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20190302 : The "Exceptional Nation" has now become the "Detestable Nation"! ( Mar 02, 2019 , consortiumnews.com )
• 20190301 : The public sentiment in the USA looks more and more like a replay of 1920th ( Mar 01, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190301 : The Black Bill and the Green New Deal ( Feb 20, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190227 : Nomi Prins Survival of the Richest, The March of Inequality ( Feb 27, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190227 : It's Just Wrong - Fed Chair Powell Destroys MMT Dreams ( Feb 27, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190227 : Angry Bear " Mars Descending U.S. Security Alliances and the International Status of the Dollar ( Feb 27, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190227 : UK's panicked neoliberal regime desperate to build a third loyal party to halt Corbyn's progressive counterattack ( Feb 27, 2019 , failedevolution.blogspot.com )
• 20190226 : Civilizations are only held together by the "glue" of shared beliefs. The deep-state-media-complex has just applied a solvent to the very glue that holds the entire culture together. ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190226 : Neoliberalism might be more resilient that we initially thought due to utilizing the power of survellance over citizens to prevent any meaningful political challenge ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190226 : Instead of class struggle, we have identity politics. Instead of the ownership of the means of production, we have tranny bathrooms. ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190226 : It would seem that many of the Trotskyites of the past have now become neocons favouring capitalism and imperialist military intervention under guise of human rights promotion, as have some other communists ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190226 : "'Free market?!'" he exclaimed. "No such thing. Because it's all crooked. ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190226 : Tucker Carlson Blows Up at Rutger Bregman in Unaired Fox News Interview ( Feb 23, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190226 : Corrupt and decaying neoliberal elite and Gramsci's idea of hegemony ( Feb 26, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
• 20190226* Neoliberalism by Julie Wilson ( Oct 09, 2017 , www.amazon.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190226* THE CRISIS OF NEOLIBERALISM by Julie A. Wilson ( Oct 08, 2017 , www.amazon.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190224 : FDR was also rich guy, but it was he who implemented the New Dela ( Feb 24, 2019 , www.youtube.com )
• 20190223 : It looks like an effort is going on to stamp out news of what these other "bigger fish" were up to ( Feb 23, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190222 : Adam Schiff met with Glen Simpson in Aspen and should really recluse himself ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190222 : How Stupid Do They Think We Are - Plutocrats Using Logical Fallacies to Defend the Health Care Status Quo ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190222* Neo-McCarthyism is used to defend the US empirical policies. Branding dissidents as Russian stooges is a loophole that allow to suppress dissident opinions ( Feb 21, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190222 : Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190222 : An interesting obituary to neoliberalism from unz.com ( Feb 22, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190219* Tulsi Gabbard kills New World Order bloodbath in thirty seconds ( Feb 19, 2019 , www.veteranstoday.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190219* Warmongers in their ivory towers - YouTube ( Feb 19, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190219 : How 1984 turned into an instruction manual by Simon Black ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190218 : It is interesting that in the center of the Dostoevski novel Posessed (published in the 1870's) liberalism is being taken to its distorted extreme by a small group of would-be anarchists whose proposals have a modern twist to them as codified by one of their would-be leaders ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20190218 : Spreading The Fake Smollett MAGA Country Hate Crime A Mainstream Media Montage ( Feb 18, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190217 : Death of the Public University Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy (Higher Education ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.amazon.com )
• 20190217 : GOP Donors Vs. GOP Voters ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190217 : Beware of well dressed ladies who smell of Chanel #5 ( Feb 17, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20190217 : Tucker correctly called out Boot and Kristol for their advocacy of war while possessing no real-world experience when it comes to fighting war. Thos MIC peddlers need to be despised and ignored. But he supported Bush administration in its push for Iraq war as well ( Feb 17, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190216 : Why has the Democratic party turned into the party of the upper class ( Feb 16, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190216 : Why Are These Professional War Peddlers Still Around? Pundits like Max Boot and Bill Kristol got everything after 9/11 wrong but are still considered experts. by Tucker Carlson ( Feb 15, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20190215 : Losing a job in your 50s is especially tough. Here are 3 steps to take when layoffs happen by Peter Dunn ( Feb 15, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20190214 : Pension vs. 401(k) Comparing Retirement Plans ( Feb 14, 2019 , finance.yahoo.com )
• 20190213 : After Collusion Case Collapses, House Dems Set To Launch Vast Russia Probe 2.0 ( Feb 13, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190213 : It is hard not to wonder just how neoliberal ideas and values, which uphold the rationality of the market and exclude notions of the common good, came to shape the conduct of individuals and institutions. ( Dec 24, 2018 , news.yahoo.com )
• 20190213 : Mathiness and game thoery ( Feb 13, 2019 , www.alternet.org )
• 20190213 : Condensate can't replace heavy oil ( Feb 13, 2019 , news.yahoo.com )
• 20190213 : A Study in Professional Power Why Do the Big 4 Accountants Survive by Richard Murphy ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190213 : A glossary of exploitive economics: 'Lean in' and 8 other bad business buzzwords that should be phased out written by Yes! Magazine and TruthDig A radical pessimist's glossary of exploitative economics. ( Jan 17, 2019 , www.alternet.org )
• 20190212 : The neoliberal university is making us sick Who's to blame by Jodie-Lee Trembath ( Feb 12, 2019 , thefamiliarstrange.com )
• 20190212 : The Neoliberal University ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.nupoliticalreview.com )
• 20190212 : How Neoliberalism Is Normalising Hostility ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190212* Older Workers Need a Different Kind of Layoff A 60-year-old whose position is eliminated might be unable to find another job, but could retire if allowed early access to Medicare ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.bloomberg.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190212 : Pelosi Mocks Ocasio-Cortez Green New Deal ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190212 : Social anger at neoliberalization as a material force in 2002 elections ( Feb 12, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190212 : Blain The Current Iteration Of 'Capitalism' Has Spawned Increased Global Poverty, Income Inequality, Urban Deprivation, Squal ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190212 : Angry Bear Hey Rustbelt and beyond, Losing factories is not new ( Feb 12, 2019 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20190212 : Soros Panics Over Populist Revolt EU Is Sleepwalking Into Oblivion ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190212 : Rethinking America's Military Industrial Complex by Tim Kirby ( Feb 12, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190211* The current diploma mills are the result of the consecutive waves of university reforms since the 1990s to ground knowledge production on market principles. If university employees behave like ruthless rent-seekers, it is because they are forced to do so by the incentive structures that have been imposed on them by Johan Söderberg ( Feb 11, 2019 , lse.ac.uk ) [Recommended]
• 20190211 : Universities in the neoliberal age by Rafael Winkler ( Sep 14, 2018 , mg.co.za )
• 20190211 : Beware Proposed E-Commerce Rules naked capitalism ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190211 : Blain The Current Iteration Of 'Capitalism' Has Spawned Increased Global Poverty, Income Inequality, Urban Deprivation, Squal ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20190211 : How the neoliberal dream became the reality of Thatcherism by Brendan Montague ( Feb 11, 2019 , theecologist.org )
• 20190211 : I watched Vice over the Christmas holiday and found it to be somewhat entertaining ( Jan 04, 2019 , theintercept.com )
• 20190211 : Furthermore, the previous religious systems, even if they were packed with big lies, never cut the link between people and the sky. Today, in cutting this link, cutting morality, they have reduced people to a level even below the animal state since with the intelligence, human behavior can be worse than most animals' behavior. ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190211 : Many meaning of the word "free" are different from the "free from coercion" adopted by the Neoliberal Newspeak ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190211 : I would hardly call Europe's [neoliberal] elite liberals ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190211 : AOC Campaign Finance Primer Goes Viral ( Feb 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20190211 : Has neoliberal mirage become apparent by Dr Khisa ( Feb 02, 2019 , monitor.co.ug )
• 20190211 : Neoliberalism has caused 'misery and division', Bernie Fraser says Business The Guardian ( Feb 10, 2019 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20190211 : Neoliberalism From the Left by Stephanie L. Mudge ( Feb 11, 2019 , jacobinmag.com )
• 20190210* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes the Problem of Dark Money in Politics NowThis - YouTube ( Feb 10, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190210* Neoliberalism is dead. Now let's repair our democratic institutions by Richard Denniss ( Oct 31, 2018 , www.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190205* The bottom line is that this preoccupation with the 'headline number' for the current month as a single datapoint that is promoted by Wall Street and the Government for official economic data is a nasty neoliberal propaganda trick. You need to analise the whole time serioes to get an objective picture ( Feb 05, 2019 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190204* Trump s Revised and Rereleased Foreign Policy: The World Policeman is Back ( Aug 09, 2017 , zeroanthropology.net ) [Recommended]
• 20190203* Neoliberalism and Christianity ( May 02, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190203* Pope Francis denounces trickle-down economics by Aaron Blake ( Nov 26, 2013 , www.washingtonpost.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190203* Evangelii Gaudium Apostolic Exhortation on the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today's World (24 November 2013) ( Nov 23, 2013 , w2.vatican.va ) [Recommended]
• 20190202* Michael Hudson Trump s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember US Dollar Hegemony by Michael Hudson ( Feb 01, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190202* The Immorality and Brutal Violence of Extreme Greed ( Jul 22, 2016 , Naked Capitalism ) [Recommended]
• 20190202* According to the recipes devised by Reagan: why the methods which successfully destroyed the USSR do not work with modern Russia? by Alexey Makurin ( www.aif.ru ) [Recommended]
• 20190201* Christianity Opposes Neoliberalism by Robert Lindsay ( Apr 15, 2014 , robertlindsay.wordpress.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190129* The Language of Neoliberal Education by Henry Giroux ( Dec 25, 2018 , www.counterpunch.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190129* A State of Neoliberalism by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson (New African Black Panther Party) ( Nov 16, 2016 , rashidmod.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190129* The Religious Fanaticism of Silicon Valley Elites by Paul Ingrassia ( Jan 10, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190126* Can the current US neoliberal/neoconservative elite be considered suicidal? ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.theamericanconservative.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190124* No One Said Rich People Were Very Sharp Davos Tries to Combat Populism by Dean Baker ( Jan 22, 2019 , cepr.net ) [Recommended]
• 20190123* When neoliberalism became the object of jokes, it is clear that its time has passed ( Jan 23, 2019 , crookedtimber.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190123* We need political mobilization to fight neoliberalism ( Jan 23, 2019 , crookedtimber.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190122* The French Anti-Neoliberal Revolution. On the conditions for its success by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos ( Jan 14, 2019 , www.defenddemocracy.press ) [Recommended]
• 20190120 : Note on students debt peonage ( Jan 20, 2019 , www.truthdig.com )
• 20190119* According to Wolin, domestic and foreign affairs goals are each important and on parallel tracks ( Jan 19, 2019 , www.moonofalabama.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190114* Nanci Pelosi and company at the helm of the the ship the Imperial USA ( Jan 14, 2019 , www.amazon.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190113* Catherine Austin Fitts – Federal Government Running Secret Open Bailout ( Jan 12, 2019 , www.youtube.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190113* Tucker Carlson Routs Conservatism Inc. On Unrestrained Capitalism -- And Immigration by Washington Watcher ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190113* There is no free market! It's all crooked by financial oligarchy! ( Jan 13, 2019 , www.unz.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190112* Tucker Carlson Mitt Romney supports the status quo. But for everyone else, it's infuriating Fox News ( Jan 02, 2019 , www.foxnews.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190112* Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics by Jane Coaston ( Jan 10, 2019 , www.vox.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190111* Blowback from the neoliberal policy is coming ( Jan 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190111* How Shocking Was Shock Therapy ( Jan 11, 2019 , www.nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190108* The smaller the financial sector is the more real wealth there is for the rest of society to enjoy. The bigger the financial sector becomes the more money it siphons off from the productive sectors ( Jan 08, 2019 , neweconomicperspectives.org ) [Recommended]
• 20190108* Rewriting Economic Thought - Michael Hudson ( Oct 05, 2015 , michael-hudson.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190108* The Financial Sector Is the Greatest Parasite in Human History by Ben Strubel ( March 13, 2014 ) [Recommended]
• 20190108* No, wealth isn t created at the top. It is merely devoured there by Rutger Bregman ( Mar 30, 2017 , www.theguardian.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190107* Russian Orthodox Church against liberal globalization, usury, dollar hegemony, and neocolonialism ( May 26, 2016 , orthochristian.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190107* The 1920's were marked by a credit expansion, a significant growth in consumer debt, the creation of asset bubbles, and the proliferation of financial instruments and leveraged investments. Now we have exactly the same trends ( Oct 31, 2008 , jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com ) [Recommended]
• 20190106 : Neocons in US universities: the fact that obviously deranged fanatic Albright has students is a testimony to a sewer level of the US "elite-producing" machine and a pathetic sight contemporary US "elite" represents. ( Jan 06, 2019 , www.unz.com )
• 20190106* British elite fantasy of again ruling the world (with American and Zionist aid) has led to a series of catastrophic blunders and overreaches in both foreign and domestic policies. ( Jan 06, 2019 , turcopolier.typepad.com ) [Recommended]
• 20181227 : Spending cuts reduce demand in the economy, for every dollar spend by the govt at the lowest levels (welfare and essential services) around five to seven dollars of extra economic activity is generated. ( Dec 27, 2018 , discussion.theguardian.com )
• 20181212 : The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education (Routledge Studies in Education) ( Dec 12, 2018 , www.amazon.com )
• 20181119 : Student loans. Now there's a naked fleecing scam by the moneychangers. High interest, zero risk, no forgiveness. A great racket if you can get it, like Medical Insurance, profiteering guaranteed by Obamacare. ( Nov 19, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20181105 : How neoliberals destroyed University education and then a large part of the US middle class and the US postwar social order by Edward Qualtrough ( Aug 24, 2016 , www.amazon.com )
• 20181025 : For-profit college chain files (for receivership) ( Oct 25, 2018 , www.creditslips.org )
• 20181020 : Creating A-Plus Conformists The American Conservative ( Oct 20, 2018 , www.theamericanconservative.com )
• 20181019 : Win for Students Having Loans From For-Profit Educational Institutions ( Oct 19, 2018 , angrybearblog.com )
• 20180916 : Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis ( Sep 16, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20180916 : Challenging Freedom: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Education by Robert Karaba ( Sep 16, 2018 , democracyeducationjournal.org )
• 20180915 : Dershowitz Says Manafort Plea Big Win For Mueller; White House Should Be Alarmed ( Sep 15, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180913 : Today we live in a world of predatory educators ( Sep 13, 2018 , www.moonofalabama.org )
• 20180907 : 30% of America s Student Loan Borrowers Can t Keep Up After Six Years ( Sep 07, 2018 , news.slashdot.org )
• 20180825 : One Holdout Juror Prevented A Ruling On All 18 Counts Against Manafort ( Aug 25, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180825 : Norman - If Paul Manafort Is Going To Prison, Tony Podesta Should Be Joining Him ( Aug 25, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180806 : For Many College Students, Hunger Can 'Make It Hard To Focus In Class' naked capitalism ( Aug 06, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20180727 : Was Rob Goldstone MI6 operative or MI6 stooge ? ( Jul 27, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180727 : Cohen Ready To Flip Will Tell Mueller Trump Knew About Trump Tower Meeting ( Jul 27, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180709 : China will never be able to initiate a land invasion against the Western Hemisphere ( Jul 09, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180701 : The Opportunity Dodge ( Apr 12, 201 , 5economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20180529 : London-to-Langley Spy Ring; The Roots Of Obamagate Become Clearer ( May 28, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180504 : Judge Mulls Dismissal Of Manafort Charges, Sharply Questioned Mueller Overreach Zero Hedge ( May 04, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180424 : Neoliberal indoctrination at universities ( Apr 24, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20180424 : How neoliberal economics in universities achieve tenure ( Apr 24, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20180327 : Over One Fifth of Student Borrowers Used Loans to Gamble on Cryptocurrencies ( Mar 27, 2018 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20180323* Skripal Poisoning a Desperate British Attempt To Resurrect Their American Coup by Barbara Boyd ( Mar 18, 2018 , www.larouchepub.com ) [Recommended]
• 20180318 : Meet Hillary Clinton s Other, More Powerful And Shadowy Oppo Research Firm ( Mar 18, 2018 , www.zerohedge.com )
• 20180314 : Pat Buchanan was mostly right when he said that our U.S Congress is Israeli occupied territory ( Mar 14, 2018 , turcopolier.typepad.com )
• 20180301 : This is why economic policy cannot not be decided by popular opinion. A typical US voter is ignorant about economics and government finance. A typical US voter doesn t want responsibility for these decisions anyway. He would rather let someone else (some authority figure) make these choices for him, no matter how disastrous and against his interest that can be ( Mar 01, 2018 , www.unz.com )
• 20171018 : Why adjuncts should quit complaining and just quit (essay) by Claire B. Potter ( Oct 16, 2017 , www.insidehighered.com )
• 20171011 : The elite schools, and I have taught as a visiting professor at a few of them, such as Princeton and Columbia, replicate the structure and goals of corporations ( Oct 11, 2017 , www.unz.com )
• 20171001 : The allure of adjuncts for neoliberal universities is that they are much cheaper than full-time staff, dont receive benefits or support for their personal research, and their hours can be carefully limited so they do not teach enough to qualify for health insurance ( Oct 01, 2017 , www.theguardian.com )
• 20170523* CIA, the cornerstone of the deep state has agenda that is different from the US national interest and reflect agenda of the special interest groups such as Wall Street bankers and MIC ( May 23, 2017 , nakedcapitalism.com ) [Recommended]
• 20170512 : How Financialization and the New Economy Hurt Science and Engineering Grads ( May 12, 2017 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20170404 : In Neo-classical Economics as a Stratagem Against Henry George ( Apr 04, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20170323 : I love the smell of money-greased credentialism in the morning. ( Mar 23, 2017 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20170227 : Leoliberal privitization of eduction went way too far ( Feb 27, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20170208 : How Universities Are Increasingly Choosing Capitalism Over Education naked capitalism ( Feb 08, 2017 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20170125 : Most college grads are working jobs that do not require a degree. Indeed many jobs routinely filled by high school graduates when I was young now want a college degree. ( Jan 25, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20170125 : Neoliberalism, computer revolution and tranformation of university education ( Jan 25, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20170118 : It was the Left who defended Bill Clinton in the whole Monica Madness era (and before). Mainstream media and "centrist" Democrats, were falling all over themselves to condemn Bill Clinton and his nasty penis, Ken Starr was treated as the second coming of Jesus ( Jan 18, 2017 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20161228 : The Myth of American Meritocracy ( Dec 28, 2016 , www.unz.com )
• 20161118 : Study Finds 1 in 3 Student Loan Holders With Payments Due Are Late With Payments and More Than Half Regret Their Borrowing ( Nov 18, 2016 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20161118 : Privatization of education, Chicago way ( Nov 18, 2016 , economistsview.typepad.com )
• 20161020 : For-Profit Colleges Stay Quietly on Offense ( Oct 20, 2016 , www.truth-out.org )
• 20161013 : CUNY, All Too CUNY Or, what happens when higher-ed hoodlums arent brought to heel ( Oct 13, 2016 , crookedtimber.org )
• 20160929 : The academic precariat in the UK ( Sep 29, 2016 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20160926 : The Financialization of Education and the Student Loan Debt Bubble ( Sep 26, 2016 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20160922 : Academic Penury Adjunct Faculty as the New Precariat naked capitalism ( Sep 22, 2016 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20160916 : ITT Tech Is Officially Closing ( Sep 16, 2016 , news.slashdot.org )
• 20160901 : Demand-Driven University Delivers Pay Dirt for Vice-Chancellors ( Sep 01, 2016 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20160829 : T he Charter Schools as a classic neoliberal and libertarian wet dream ( Aug 29, 2016 , www.nakedcapitalism.com )
• 20160825 : Trump University Was a Massive Scam ( Aug 25, 2016 , www.nationalreview.com )
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[Jul 22, 2019] Neoliberals cosmopolitans

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somebody , Jul 22 2019 7:55 utc | 113

Trumpism turns elitist .

On the final night of this past week's National Conservatism Conference, Senator Josh Hawley -- a graduate of Stanford and Yale and a former instructor at an English private school -- warned the attendees gathered in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Washington, D.C., about the threat of élite cosmopolitanism. "The politics of those left and right have been informed by a political consensus that reflects the interests not of the American middle but of a powerful upper class and their cosmopolitan priorities," he intoned. "This class lives in the United States, but they identify as citizens of the world. They run businesses or oversee universities here, but their primary loyalty is to the global community, and they subscribe to a set of values held by similar élites in other places." He went on to name those values: "The importance of global integration and the danger of national loyalties; the priority of social change over tradition, career over community and achievement and merit and progress. Call it the cosmopolitan consensus."

"Let us be candid," she concluded. "Europe and the first world, to which the United States belongs, remain mostly white for now, and the third world, although mixed, contains a lot of nonwhite people. Embracing cultural-distance nationalism means, in effect, taking the position that our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites. Well, that is the result, anyway. So, even if our immigration philosophy is grounded firmly in cultural concerns, it doesn't rely on race at all. And, no matter how many times we repeat the mantra that correlation is not causation, these racial dimensions are enough to spook conservatives."

[Jul 22, 2019] Wehret den Anf ngen

Jul 22, 2019 | jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com

"To reduce a complex argument to its bare bones, since the Depression, the twin forces of managed democracy and Superpower have opened the way for something new under the sun: 'inverted totalitarianism,' a form every bit as totalistic as the classical version but one based on internalized co-optation, the appearance of freedom, political disengagement rather than mass mobilization, and relying more on "private media" than on public agencies to disseminate propaganda that reinforces the official version of events.

It is inverted because it does not require the use of coercion, police power and a messianic ideology as in the Nazi, Fascist and Stalinist versions (although note that the United States has the highest percentage of its citizens in prison -- 751 per 100,000 people -- of any nation on Earth). According to Wolin, inverted totalitarianism has 'emerged imperceptibly, unpremeditatedly, and in seeming unbroken continuity with the nation's political traditions.'

The main objectives of managed democracy are to increase the profits of large corporations, dismantle the institutions of social democracy (Social Security, unions, welfare, public health services, public housing and so forth), and roll back the social and political ideals of the New Deal. Its primary tool is privatization [and deregulation].

Chalmers Johnson, Inverted Totalitarianism: A New Way of Understanding How the U.S. Is Controlled

"Thus the elements are in place: a weak legislative body, a legal system that is both compliant and repressive, a party system in which one (I would in 2019 now say either) party, whether in opposition or in the majority, is bent upon reconstituting the existing system so as to permanently favor a ruling class of the wealthy, the well-connected and the corporate, while leaving the poorer citizens with a sense of helplessness and political despair, and, at the same time, keeping the middle classes dangling between fear of unemployment and expectations of fantastic rewards once the new economy recovers.

That scheme is abetted by a sycophantic and increasingly concentrated media; by the integration of universities with their corporate benefactors; by a propaganda machine institutionalized in well-funded think tanks and conservative foundations; by the increasingly closer cooperation between local police and national law enforcement agencies aimed at identifying terrorists, suspicious aliens and domestic dissidents."

Sheldon Wolin, Inverted Totalitarianism

"The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we wanted to cross them... It wasn't God who was dead. We were."

Ray A., Practice These Principles

"Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none act with fear of the gods?"

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

"Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life.
But now we are witnessing a transformation: a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, that we are not going to be judged."

Czeslaw Milosz, The Discreet Charm of Nihilism

[Jul 22, 2019] All Hail Europe's Permanent Ruling Class

Notable quotes:

"... That said, Germany's military readiness directly relates to the invasion threat from Russia Europe actually faces. I.e., ZERO. Washington should take note but of course it won't because there is no money in it for the American Merchants of Death. And the Generals inside the Pentagon just have too much fun fear-mongering about illusory existential enemies. ..."

"... As Politico recently reported, "an investigative committee of the German parliament -- the toughest instrument that lawmakers can use to probe government misdeeds -- is digging into how lucrative contracts from her ministry were awarded to outside consultants without proper oversight ..."

"... Yet another U.S. mirror image. Because that is exactly how inside baseball works in the Pentagon acquisition system. von der Leyen as a European Hack is no worse than the Washington / Pentagon Hacks on the other side of the Atlantic. Note, MIC lifer and Raytheon parasite Mark Esper currently sitting in the Big Seat in the Pentagon. You can be sure that DoD reform is way down on his bucket list. ..."

Jul 22, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Meet Ursula von der Leyen, the new president-elect of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union.

Like all those soon to occupy positions of power in the EU, von der Leyen did not run in the recent European elections for the position she is about to hold. She did not participate in the debates in front of various national electorates. But she was chosen -- after the elections -- by the political class in Brussels, ostensibly for her faith in and loyalty to the European superstate, and personally to the German chancellor Angela Merkel.

Since 2013, von der Leyen has been the German defense minister. During that time, a parliamentary report exposed German planes that can't fly and guns that don't shoot. Fewer than a fifth of Germany's helicopters are combat ready. Luftwaffe revealed that most of its 128 Typhoon jets were not ready to leave ground. All of Germany's six submarines were out of commission.

Another report by the Rand Corporation , a think tank, revealed that it would take Germany a month to mobilize in the case of a Russian invasion of the Baltic States. Von der Leyen is very unpopular in the German army , but very popular with the Eurocrats. She's a fervent supporter of a European army and a "United States of Europe" -- the ultimate qualification for being president of the European Commission.

But there is more to the von der Leyen story. As Politico recently reported , "an investigative committee of the German parliament -- the toughest instrument that lawmakers can use to probe government misdeeds -- is digging into how lucrative contracts from her ministry were awarded to outside consultants without proper oversight, and whether a network of informal personal connections facilitated those deals."

The scent of corruption is a common element among those who are to hold key positions in the European Union over the next few years. Josep Borrell, minister of foreign affairs for the socialist government of Spain, was fined 30,000 euros for insider trading. He is expected to hold the foreign policy post in the European Commission.

Christine Lagarde, most recently chief of the IMF, was involved in the case of an arbitration panel that awarded a massive payout to a French tycoon while she was the finance minister of France. A special court for ministerial misconduct found her guilty of "negligence" but "waived any punishment or criminal record, citing her 'international reputation' and role in dealing with 'the international financial crisis.'" A marvelously L'état, C'est Moi form of legal reasoning. Lagarde is expected to be the next president of the European Central Bank.

The common threads of corruption, incompetence, and lack of accountability are what unites a political class that has divorced itself from the concerns of the average European. In the last days before her confirmation, von der Leyen pursued a charm offensive that included a commitment to a "Green New Deal," a continuation of an open borders policy , and a further deepening and enlargement of the European superstate. This included the story of her having offered hospitality to a Syrian immigrant who "now speaks German fluently."

Emmanuel Macron: Trade Wars for Me, But Not for Thee Voters in Europe Just Smashed the Mainstream Establishment

Obviously von der Leyen would never have won the May elections running on an agenda like that. But of course, she never had to run a campaign to win the votes of the peoples of Europe. The campaign that she did run was premised on her having built "an extensive international network in politics and business," as another Politico story put it .

Von der Leyen thrived in the networking atmosphere of World Economic Forum meetings, where she "serves on the organization's board of trustees," Politico noted, adding, "She's also forged close ties to powerful figures outside the world of politics, most notably Bertelsmann, Europe's largest media company, which owns RTL, the Continent's largest commercial broadcaster, book publisher Random House and a stable of magazines."

A senior Green quoted for the article said her fluency in French has helped her establish a rapport with the French political class that is unrivaled in Berlin.

It's clear that von der Leyen's domestic record appears to have had little effect on her election -- what matters is that she is universally liked by the who's who. "What matters most in these circles is the personal connection," said an adviser to the leader of one of the EU's smaller member states.

Those who count and those who are to be ruled are not the same group of people. That seems to be the essence of modern European politics: a political class and ideological cult that masquerades as a competent technocratic elite, despite its long and disastrous history. Von der Leyen's terrible record as defense minister meant nothing. Neither did Lagarde's record as head of the IMF, where, for instance, the Greek debt crisis was transformed into a social catastrophe. The deciding factor was their dedication to something that "those who count" are committed to. Elections are merely a necessary, archaic ritual of legitimization.

Napoleon Linarthatos is a writer based in New York.

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Parrhesia • 10 hours ago

On Monday 22 July 1940, a major meeting was held at the Reich Economic Ministry in Berlin, under the chairmanship of Minister Walther Funk, to discuss a directive issued by Hermann Göring on 22 June, concerning the organization of a Greater European Economic Area under German leadership. The Germans were well advanced with their plans for a post-war settlement. One of the difficulties of planning lay in the fact that the Führer's aims and decisions were not yet known and the military measures against Britain were not yet concluded.

Plus ça change........

Lars • 10 hours ago

What? A techno-managerial clique ruling the rest of us Great Unwashed (see "Deplorables")? It couldn't happen here, could it? It's OK if they went to the right schools, isn't it?

genocidal_maniac • 10 hours ago

Too much use if the word disastrous. Disastrous is what Wilhelm II did to the German empire. This is not disastrous, but it is concerning like a rudderless ship.

Salt Lick • 7 hours ago

Today's Holy Roman Empire.

Voltaire's comment back then still rings true."It was neither Holy, Roman nor an Empire."

Sid Finster • 7 hours ago

Don't be asinine. Russia is not going to invade anything and has no claim on any part of western Europe. The only thing the German military is good for is for sucking up additional budgetary funds.

SteveM • 6 hours ago

Another report by the Rand Corporation, a think tank, revealed that it would take Germany a month to mobilize in the case of a Russian invasion of the Baltic States.

For the sake of completeness, the Rand Corporation is actually a marketing arm of the Pentagon fully funded by the U.S. government.

That said, Germany's military readiness directly relates to the invasion threat from Russia Europe actually faces. I.e., ZERO. Washington should take note but of course it won't because there is no money in it for the American Merchants of Death. And the Generals inside the Pentagon just have too much fun fear-mongering about illusory existential enemies.

Of course that does not dismiss the charges of cronyism and corruption associated with Ursula von der Leyen. But re:

But there is more to the von der Leyen story. As Politico recently reported, "an investigative committee of the German parliament -- the toughest instrument that lawmakers can use to probe government misdeeds -- is digging into how lucrative contracts from her ministry were awarded to outside consultants without proper oversight , and whether a network of informal personal connections facilitated those deals."

Yet another U.S. mirror image. Because that is exactly how inside baseball works in the Pentagon acquisition system. von der Leyen as a European Hack is no worse than the Washington / Pentagon Hacks on the other side of the Atlantic. Note, MIC lifer and Raytheon parasite Mark Esper currently sitting in the Big Seat in the Pentagon. You can be sure that DoD reform is way down on his bucket list.

The real story is that taxpayers on both NATO poles are played for chumps by the Power Elites.

[Jul 22, 2019] Someone very kindly posted a link to an article in a San Fran newspaper which reveals the astonishing stupidity of the campaign against the mural which, of course, has nothing, really to do with artistic merit and is all about preserving hypocrisies

Jul 22, 2019 | www.moonofalabama.org

bevin , Jul 22 2019 12:41 utc | 132

Russ,
1/Only last week the House of Representatives passed a motion calling on the Federal Government to investigate the possibility that Lyme Disease arose after a biowarfare experiment led to the accidental release of infected ticks into the wild.

2/ Re the mural. Someone very kindly posted a link to an article in a San Fran newspaper which reveals the astonishing stupidity of the campaign against the mural which, of course, has nothing, really to do with artistic merit and is all about preserving hypocrisies.

The notion that First Nations descendants ought to be protected from depictions of the genocide practised against their race is American Hypocrisy of the first water. Ditto the idea that Black people should not be made to endure reminders that their ancestors (or those who did not rape slaves) were kidnapped and enslaved.

It is amazing that those insisting that the murals have the merit of depicting historical realities, too often swept under carpets, are elderly white bigots is idiotic.
3/

On the subject of American Culture see 2 above- from those pretending that Epstein's involvement in prostitution is inexplicable, to those arguing that Venezuela is being attacked and an attempt to install a white dictatorship mounted in order to bring democracy to the country's poor people, to the ID politicos in San Fran who have been responsible, through the politicians they have supported for racist incarceration policies, decades of bloody war and the lowering of living standards and life expectancy throughout the USA-all is Hypocrisy, lies socially imposed.

[Jul 22, 2019] Us culture as eternal now

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William Gruff , Jul 22 2019 11:23 utc | 122

Russ @107

Of course America has nothing that could be compared with culture in many other parts of the world. Anything that could provide the present with historical context is erased, bulldozed, or painted over. Even the remaking of "classic" movies is done in part to separate people's sense of the present from America's past. What America has in place of culture is an eternal now , with the past being ephemeral and contingent upon the needs of the narratives of the moment. Iconic American food culture is just ground and pureed mystery protein and carbonated corn syrup water. The consumer doesn't want to know where those come from, and ten minutes after consuming them they have largely forgotten the experience.

Since the Apollo missions are in the news lately I will point out that we should expect an effort in the not too distant future similar to what we are seeing in San Francisco to erase the reality of that part of America's history. After all, the Apollo astronauts were all white men, and that is traumatizing for the feeble-minded neolibs.

But you know, it isn't a bad thing to want to try to develop genuine and historically anchored culture.

[Jul 22, 2019] Perhaps the most immediately effective strategy for effecting a realignment of the global economy, ending the US pursuit of global military hegemony and the other planet threatening practices of the US and Western plutocracy would be for other countries to follow the historical precedent set by the United States in its Lend Lease dealings with Great Britain as detailed in Hudson's Super Imperialism >

Notable quotes:

"... Hudson may be hinting at this with his de-dollarization strategy suggest of "Deprivatization and buyouts of US assets abroad." ..."

Jul 22, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

Steven , July 22, 2019 at 10:35 am

Perhaps the most immediately effective strategy for effecting a realignment of the global economy, ending the US pursuit of global military hegemony and the other planet threatening practices of the US and Western plutocracy would be for other countries to follow the historical precedent set by the United States in its Lend Lease dealings with Great Britain as detailed in Hudson's Super Imperialism :

Britain was near the end of its financial tether. Its gold and dollar reserves had fallen to $1 billion by September 1940, when it nationalized the overseas investments of its large corporations and put them up for sale abroad. (p. 119)

(I am assuming Britain didn't do this voluntarily.) Hudson may be hinting at this with his de-dollarization strategy suggest of "Deprivatization and buyouts of US assets abroad."

This would expose the whole rotten edifice of Western finance capitalism, perhaps provoking a dangerous planet suicidal response. But one or two shots over the bow would be far more effective in curbing the wealth addiction and predatory propensities of the West's plutocracy than Trump's tariffs.

It would also provide the Western money worshipping public with a powerful lesson they need a better definition of wealth than the price of stocks.

[Jul 22, 2019] War Profiteers And The Demise Of The US Military-Industrial Complex

Jul 22, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

Authored by Dmitry Orlov via Club Orlov blog,

Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national defense strategy. Office for acquisition and sustainment and office for industrial policy spends some $100,000 a year producing an Annual Report to Congress. It is available to the general public. It is even available to the general public in Russia, and Russian experts had a really good time poring over it.

In fact, it filled them with optimism. You see, Russia wants peace but the US seems to want war and keeps making threatening gestures against a longish list of countries that refuse to do its bidding or simply don't share its "universal values." But now it turns out that threats (and the increasingly toothless economic sanctions) are pretty much all that the US is still capable of dishing out -- this in spite of absolutely astronomical levels of defense spending.

Let's see what the US military-industrial complex looks like through a Russian lens.

It is important to note that the report's authors were not aiming to force legislators to finance some specific project. This makes it more valuable than numerous other sources, whose authors' main objective was to belly up to the federal feeding trough, and which therefore tend to be light on facts and heavy on hype. No doubt, politics still played a part in how various details are portrayed, but there seems to be a limit to the number of problems its authors can airbrush out of the picture and still do a reasonable job in analyzing the situation and in formulating their recommendations.

What knocked Russian analysis over with a feather is the fact that these INDPOL experts (who, like the rest of the US DOD, love acronyms) evaluate the US military-industrial complex from a market-based perspective! You see, the Russian military-industrial complex is fully owned by the Russian government and works exclusively in its interests; anything else would be considered treason. But the US military-industrial complex is evaluated based on its profitability! According to INDPOL, it must not only produce products for the military but also acquire market share in the global weapons trade and, perhaps most importantly, maximize profitability for private investors. By this standard, it is doing well: for 2017 the gross margin (EBITDA) for US defense contractors ranged from 15 to 17%, and some subcontractors - Transdigm, for example - managed to deliver no less than 42-45%. "Ah!" cry the Russian experts, "We've found the problem! The Americans have legalized war profiteering !" (This, by the way, is but one of many instances of something called systemic corruption, which is rife in the US.)

It would be one thing if each defense contractor simply took its cut off the top, but instead there is an entire food chain of defense contractors, all of which are legally required, no less, to maximize profits for their shareholders. More than 28,000 companies are involved, but the actual first-tier defense contractors with which the Pentagon places 2/3 of all defense contracts are just the Big Six: Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynmics, BAE Systems and Boeing. All the other companies are organized into a pyramid of subcontractors with five levels of hierarchy, and at each level they do their best to milk the tier above them.

The insistence on market-based methods and the requirement of maximizing profitability turns out to be incompatible with defense spending on a very basic level: defense spending is intermittent and cyclical, with long fallow intervals between major orders. This has forced even the Big Six to make cuts to their defense-directed departments in favor of expanding civilian production. Also, in spite of the huge size of the US defense budget, it is of finite size (there being just one planet to blow up), as is the global weapons market. Since, in a market economy, every company faces the choice of grow or get bought out, this has precipitated scores of mergers and acquisitions, resulting in a highly consolidated marketplace with a few major players in each space.

As a result, in most spaces, of which the report's authors discuss 17, including the Navy, land forces, air force, electronics, nuclear weapons, space technology and so on, at least a third of the time the Pentagon has a choice of exactly one contractor for any given contract, causing quality and timeliness to suffer and driving up prices.

In a number of cases, in spite of its industrial and financial might, the Pentagon has encountered insoluble problems. Specifically, it turns out that the US has only one shipyard left that is capable of building nuclear aircraft carriers (at all, that is; the USS Gerald Ford is not exactly a success). That is Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport, Virginia. In theory, it could work on three ships in parallel, but two of the slips are permanently occupied by existing aircraft carriers that require maintenance. This is not a unique case: the number of shipyards capable of building nuclear submarines, destroyers and other types of vessels is also exactly one. Thus, in case of a protracted conflict with a serious adversary in which a significant portion of the US Navy has been sunk, ships will be impossible to replace within any reasonable amount of time.

The situation is somewhat better with regard to aircraft manufacturing. The plants that exist can produce 40 planes a month and could produce 130 a month if pressed. On the other hand, the situation with tanks and artillery is absolutely dismal. According to this report, the US has completely lost the competency for building the new generation of tanks. It is no longer even a question of missing plant and equipment; in the US, a second generation of engineers who have never designed a tank is currently going into retirement. Their replacements have no one to learn from and only know about modern tanks from movies and video games. As far as artillery, there is just one remaining production line in the US that can produce barrels larger than 40mm; it is fully booked up and would be unable to ramp up production in case of war. The contractor is unwilling to expand production without the Pentagon guaranteeing at least 45% utilization, since that would be unprofitable.

The situation is similar for the entire list of areas; it is better for dual-use technologies that can be sourced from civilian companies and significantly worse for highly specialized ones. Unit cost for every type of military equipment goes up year after year while the volumes being acquired continuously trend lower -- sometimes all the way to zero. Over the past 15 years the US hasn't acquired a single new tank. They keep modernizing the old ones, but at a rate that's no higher than 100 a year.

Because of all these tendencies and trends, the defense industry continues to lose not only qualified personnel but also the very ability to perform the work. INDPOL experts estimate that the deficit in machine tools has reached 27%. Over the past quarter-century the US has stopped manufacturing a wide variety of manufacturing equipment. Only half of these tools can be imported from allies or friendly nations; for the rest, there is just one source: China. They analyzed the supply chains for 600 of the most important types of weapons and found that a third of them have breaks in them while another third have completely broken down. In the Pentagon's five-tier subcontractor pyramid, component manufacturers are almost always relegated to the bottommost tier, and the notices they issue when they terminate production or shut down completely tend to drown in the Pentagon's bureaucratic swamp.

The end result of all this is that theoretically the Pentagon is still capable of doing small production runs of weapons to compensate for ongoing losses in localized, low-intensity conflicts during a general time of peace, but even today this is at the extreme end of its capabilities. In case of a serious conflict with any well-armed nation, all it will be able to rely on is the existing stockpile of ordnance and spare parts, which will be quickly depleted.

A similar situation prevails in the area of rare earth elements and other materials for producing electronics. At the moment, the accumulated stockpile of these supplies needed for producing missiles and space technology -- most importantly, satellites -- is sufficient for five years at the current rate of use.

The report specifically calls out the dire situation in the area of strategic nuclear weapons. Almost all the technology for communications, targeting, trajectory calculations and arming of the ICBM warheads was developed in the 1960s and 70s. To this day, data is loaded from 5-inch floppy diskettes, which were last mass-produced 15 years ago. There are no replacements for them and the people who designed them are busy pushing up daisies. The choice is between buying tiny production runs of all the consumables at an extravagant expense and developing from scratch the entire land-based strategic triad component at the cost of three annual Pentagon budgets.

There are lots of specific problems in each area described in the report, but the main one is loss of competence among technical and engineering staff caused by a low level of orders for replacements or for new product development. The situation is such that promising new theoretical developments coming out of research centers such as DARPA cannot be realized given the present set of technical competencies. For a number of key specializations there are fewer than three dozen trained, experienced specialists.

This situation is expected to continue to deteriorate, with the number of personnel employed in the defense sector declining 11-16% over the next decade, mainly due to a shortage of young candidates qualified to replace those who are retiring. A specific example: development work on the F-35 is nearing completion and there won't be a need to develop a new jet fighter until 2035-2040; in the meantime, the personnel who were involved in its development will be idled and their level of competence will deteriorate.

Although at the moment the US still leads the world in defense spending ($610 billion of $1.7 trillion in 2017, which is roughly 36% of all the military spending on the planet) the US economy is no longer able to support the entire technology pyramid even in a time of relative peace and prosperity. On paper the US still looks like a leader in military technology, but the foundations of its military supremacy have eroded. Results of this are plainly visible:

• The US threatened North Korea with military action but was then forced to back off because it has no ability to fight a war against it.
• The US threatened Iran with military action but was then forced to back off because it has no ability to fight a war against it.
• The US lost the war in Afghanistan to the Taliban, and once the longest military conflict in US history is finally over the political situation there will return to status quo ante with the Taliban in charge and Islamic terrorist training camps back in operation.
• US proxies (Saudi Arabia, mostly) fighting in Yemen have produced a humanitarian disaster but have been unable to prevail militarily.
• US actions in Syria have led to a consolidation of power and territory by the Syrian government and newly dominant regional position for Russia, Iran and Turkey.
• The second-largest NATO power Turkey has purchased Russian S-400 air defense systems. The US alternative is the Patriot system, which is twice as expensive and doesn't really work.

All of this points to the fact that the US is no longer much a military power at all. This is good news for at least the following four reasons.

First, the US is by far the most belligerent country on Earth, having invaded scores of nations and continuing to occupy many of them. The fact that it can't fight any more means that opportunities for peace are bound to increase.

Second, once the news sinks in that the Pentagon is nothing more than a flush toilet for public funds its funding will be cut off and the population of the US might see the money that is currently fattening up war profiteers being spent on some roads and bridges, although it's looking far more likely that it will all go into paying interest expense on federal debt (while supplies last).

Third, US politicians will lose the ability to keep the populace in a state of permanent anxiety about "national security." In fact, the US has "natural security" -- two oceans -- and doesn't need much national defense at all (provided it keeps to itself and doesn't try to make trouble for others). The Canadians aren't going to invade, and while the southern border does need some guarding, that can be taken care of at the state/county level by some good ol' boys using weapons and ammo they already happen to have on hand. Once this $1.7 trillion "national defense" monkey is off their backs, ordinary American citizens will be able to work less, play more and feel less aggressive, anxious, depressed and paranoid.

Last but not least, it will be wonderful to see the war profiteers reduced to scraping under sofa cushions for loose change. All that the US military has been able to produce for a long time now is misery, the technical term for which is "humanitarian disaster." Look at the aftermath of US military involvement in Serbia/Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen, and what do you see? You see misery -- both for the locals and for US citizens who lost their family members, had their limbs blown off, or are now suffering from PTSD or brain injury. It would be only fair if that misery were to circle back to those who had profited from it.

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[Jul 22, 2019] T>here's a fundamental difference between debt in the past and debt today. In the past debt was owed to the state, today it's owed to some wealthy corporations. Good luck with debt jubilees in the absence of violent uprisings.

Notable quotes:

"... As Mael Colium says, the US picks off individual countries by isolating them. ..."

"... there's a fundamental difference between debt in the past and debt today. In the past debt was owed to the state, today it's owed to some wealthy corporations. Good luck with debt jubilees in the absence of violent uprisings. ..."

"... The difference is they internalize profit and externalize cost. And that's fundamentally different from all other epochs in the past. Even the birth of nation state was out of their rationalization of how to maximize profit extraction and cost externalization in the 1st place. Good luck with debt jubilees. ..."

"... How would this occur aside from a repudiation of the almighty buck one wonders, and would it be based on reserves in the vault, or actual use as money? ..."

"... The Eurozone and China could run trade deficits, thereby creating an opportunity for their currencies to become reasonably viable alternative reserves. But they don't because they don't want to cede control of their manufacturing and export-driven economic bases away. ..."

"... The sine qua non of our economic empire (which I learned here) is that a global currency requires global trade deficits, which must grow as quickly as the global economy to fulfill its role. ..."

"... So American deficits are structural. Our debt-ceiling controversies are theater. And our dollar is exceptional until the instant it isn't–then the Fed electron-tranfers trillions more to the speculators whose notional dollars just evaporated, keeping the currencies in the air with their new casino chips. Is this a loan? A gift? An electron cloud? It's the fog of war by other means . . . ..."

"... Resources and the critical health of the planet bother me a lot. Money and "gold" are, in the end, both fictitious obsessions. ..."

"... You'll find few authors willing to provide their seminal work for free online– 2nd Edition PDF . I think it fair for those unfamiliar with Hudson's work to read his analysis prior to being judgmental. ..."

Jul 22, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

"On a similar note, I've wondered why Russia has not defaulted on it's considerable USD and EUR debt (also too, why is Russia still doing debt in USD and thus strengthening U.S.?)"

It should be noted that Russia has almost zero foreign public debt and that the private foreign debt has been much reduced and now amounts to US dollars 450 billion.

As Russia has a surplus of more than US dollars 100 billion on the current account the total foreign debt amounts to 4 years current account surplus only.

Ad to this that Russias international currency reserves amounts to ca. US dollars 500 billion which meens that Russia is in a very strong fiscal position as it is capable of paying off its entire foreign debt any time it chooses.

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Ian Perkins , July 21, 2019 at 9:16 am

Along the same lines, the summary starts with, "The first existential objective is to avoid the current threat of war by winding down U.S. military interference in foreign countries and removing U.S. military bases as relics of neocolonialism."

Either would be taken as proof of evil anti-US intentions, leading to sanctions, coups, assassinations, regime change, and eventually outright war. As Mael Colium says, the US picks off individual countries by isolating them.

Off The Street , July 21, 2019 at 9:19 am

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jsn , July 21, 2019 at 11:50 am

When we have MMT paying for arts, history, journalism and particularly editors, I won't be so irritated by these kinds of criticisms.

We live in a very advanced world of Bernaysian propaganda where the communicative industries are privately owned and directed to ensure deep criticisms of the hyper-exploitative current reality CANNOT be published and promoted.

When someone takes the effort to produce something, like this or the book other commenters on this thread are also slighting, at great personal expense to themselves without corporate backing or institutional support, a decent reply would be "Thank you!", rather than tasking them or our hosts here at this site to "go back and clean up this mess??"

If you had any decency, you might suggest clarifying edits in comments, like changing "– so that it can taxing its own citizens." at the end of the 23rd paragraph to, "– so that it can avoid taxing its own citizens", to help the people you are criticizing for making things so difficult for you.

Jonathan Holland Becnel , July 21, 2019 at 1:43 pm

Michael Hudson is a modern day Saint! Who cares about a few typos when his ideas are truly REVOLUTIONARY!

For example, i had no idea about Debt Jubilees in early civilizations 3000 years ago! The pyramids built by FREE MEN! Liberty and Freedom originating from canceling debts! Torches and Beacons of light as representatives of said Debt Jubilees!

If you ask me, the #HudsonHawk is trying to awaken the Workers of the World in Forgiveness, Peace, Love, and Solidarity.

HUDSON 2024

softie , July 21, 2019 at 3:27 pm

I didn't know that until I read anthropologist David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years.

But there's a fundamental difference between debt in the past and debt today. In the past debt was owed to the state, today it's owed to some wealthy corporations. Good luck with debt jubilees in the absence of violent uprisings.

Kurtismayfield , July 21, 2019 at 5:20 pm

And those corporations get favorable rates on money printed by the government.. and the government backs trillions in mortgage and student loans.

Not much different.

softie , July 21, 2019 at 10:22 pm

The difference is they internalize profit and externalize cost. And that's fundamentally different from all other epochs in the past. Even the birth of nation state was out of their rationalization of how to maximize profit extraction and cost externalization in the 1st place. Good luck with debt jubilees.

Wukchumni , July 21, 2019 at 10:15 am

That is why Russia, China and other powers that U.S. strategists deem to be strategic rivals and enemies are looking to restore gold's role as the preferred asset to settle payments imbalances.

How would this occur aside from a repudiation of the almighty buck one wonders, and would it be based on reserves in the vault, or actual use as money?

Keep in mind that there isn't a human alive now who ever proffered a monetized gold coin in order to purchase something, and increasingly relatively few that have ever used a monetized silver coin for the same purpose.

Clive , July 21, 2019 at 10:44 am

I don't have a huge amount of sympathy. The Eurozone and China could run trade deficits, thereby creating an opportunity for their currencies to become reasonably viable alternative reserves. But they don't because they don't want to cede control of their manufacturing and export-driven economic bases away.

The US doesn't mind and doesn't care about the domestic repercussions. For how much longer that can continue, especially as Trump's America First policy is putting that under some strain, is an open question. But for now, it's willing to be satisfied with a little rowing back rather than wholesale reversal (back to, for example, an immediate-post war position of significant trade surpluses although the article is correct to point out this was due to the US being the last man standing, in terms of having a manufacturing base still intact).

The Eurozone and China are not only not showing any signs of a policy change, they've continued embedding and strengthening the current modus operandi. You pays your money, you takes your choices. Here as elsewhere. If they'd rather not have the US$ having a more-or-less monopoly position in then global financial system as a reserve currency, they'll need to make the compromises needed to set up these challenger currencies as viable alternatives.

But they can't have their economic cakes and eat them, too.

And it's not just currencies. You need legal systems which are deemed to be (which can only come through real, observational experience) investor-friendly -- not just prone to supporting or at the very least given an easy ride to domestic stalwarts. Again, this has repercussions if you then have to stop cosseting domestic "champions". The US legal system is ridiculously business friendly. But it doesn't, overtly, differentiate between US and non-US companies in a commercial dispute.

barefoot charley , July 21, 2019 at 11:31 am

The sine qua non of our economic empire (which I learned here) is that a global currency requires global trade deficits, which must grow as quickly as the global economy to fulfill its role. Tell that to Germany! If your silly little euro or yen or renminbi tries to go global, the dollar-based currency speculators will shrivel it like Soros did the pound in the 90s.

So American deficits are structural. Our debt-ceiling controversies are theater. And our dollar is exceptional until the instant it isn't–then the Fed electron-tranfers trillions more to the speculators whose notional dollars just evaporated, keeping the currencies in the air with their new casino chips. Is this a loan? A gift? An electron cloud? It's the fog of war by other means . . .

It may have been Hudson who explained that a quarter (or was it half?) of all corporate profits after WWII went to American companies, when our economy was that much of the world's. Now we're a much smaller fraction of the global economy, but our corporate sector still profits as much as it did when it was producing, rather than marketing, real goods. Another exceptional achievement.

Summer , July 21, 2019 at 1:20 pm

Really all we know is that such a plan would create a different order. That so many countries have continued to pauper their populations long after the obviousness that "development" is a sham doesn't bode well for their intentions even after the USA is brought to heel.

hunkerdown , July 22, 2019 at 5:20 am

Agreed. The likes of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership are still under negotiation and still, like every other multilateral investment agreement of recent vintage, apparently primarily concerned with creating supranational rights for landlords, especially of the absentee variety, at the expense of citizens in their collective capacity.

Susan the other` , July 21, 2019 at 2:30 pm

This is a good summary of our irrational world. MMT and the GND can save the situation but only if we industrialized humans forego any more fossil fuels except for long-term survival purposes. Ration it with draconian discipline. That in turn will discipline our military and turn our energies to things we can no longer ignore. Money doesn't bother me much. Resources and the critical health of the planet bother me a lot. Money and "gold" are, in the end, both fictitious obsessions.

karlof1 , July 21, 2019 at 4:56 pm

Thanks for providing this transcript prior to Hudson posting it to his own website. He was the first political-economist to lay out the Outlaw US Empire's game plan when he published Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire in 1972.

You'll find few authors willing to provide their seminal work for free online– 2nd Edition PDF . I think it fair for those unfamiliar with Hudson's work to read his analysis prior to being judgmental.

[Jul 22, 2019] Michael Hudson pointed out in Super Imperialism how the US can run a big trade deficit as it can just print dollars to cover it.

Jul 22, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

Sound of the Suburbs , July 22, 2019 at 7:57 am

This is the US (46.30 mins.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg

This comes from an MMT talk and you can see how the trade deficit balloons around 2000.

Michael Hudson pointed out in Super Imperialism how the US can run a big trade deficit as it can just print dollars to cover it.

Putting the two together.

It looks like the system used to work by allowing the Government deficit to cover the trade deficit.

Now, they have tried to balance the Government budget causing problems for the private sector and financial crises.

It all sums to zero and something needs to cover that trade deficit.

It worked when the Government deficit covered it, but not now.

[Jul 22, 2019] July 22, 2019 at 3:58 am

Jul 22, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

"On a similar note, I've wondered why Russia has not defaulted on it's considerable USD and EUR debt (also too, why is Russia still doing debt in USD and thus strengthening U.S.?)"
It should be noted that Russia has almost zero foreign public debt and that the private foreign debt has been much reduced and now amounts to US dollars 450 billion.

As Russia has a surplus of more than US dollars 100 billion on the current account the total foreign debt amounts to 4 years current account surplus only.

Ad to this that Russias international currency reserves amounts to ca. US dollars 500 billion which meens that Russia is in a very strong fiscal position as it is capable of paying off its entire foreign debt any time it chooses.

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Ian Perkins , July 21, 2019 at 9:16 am

Along the same lines, the summary starts with, "The first existential objective is to avoid the current threat of war by winding down U.S. military interference in foreign countries and removing U.S. military bases as relics of neocolonialism." Either would be taken as proof of evil anti-US intentions, leading to sanctions, coups, assassinations, regime change, and eventually outright war. As Mael Colium says, the US picks off individual countries by isolating them.

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Off The Street , July 21, 2019 at 9:19 am

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[Jul 22, 2019] When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated

Jul 22, 2019 | jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com

"When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing,"

Chuck Prince, CEO Citigroup, July 9, 2007

[Jul 22, 2019] A baited banker

Jul 22, 2019 | jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com

"A baited banker thus desponds,
From his own hand foresees his fall,
They have his soul, who have his bonds;
'Tis like the writing on the wall.

How will the caitiff wretch be scared,
When first he finds himself awake
At the last trumpet, unprepared,
And all his grand account to make!

For in that universal call,
Few bankers will to heaven be mounters;
They'll cry, 'Ye shops, upon us fall!
Conceal and cover us, ye counters!'

When other hands the scales shall hold,
And they, in men's and angels' sight
Produced with all their bills and gold,
'Weigh'd in the balance and found light!'

Jonathan Swift, A Run Upon the Bankers

[Jul 22, 2019] I found out that the average dollar that actually was invested abroad by oil companies was recaptured by the US economy within 18 months. The payback period was that fast.

Notable quotes:

"... I thought all these foreign countries were international." He explained that "international" means countries that are not really countries. They're Liberia and Panama, countries that only use the US dollar, not their own currency. So the oil industry doesn't have a currency risk. They are flags of convenience and they don't have any income tax. ..."

"... He explained to me that Standard Oil sold its oil at a very low price from the Near East to Liberia or Panama or Lagos, or wherever they have a flag of convenience and no income tax. Then they would sell it at a very high price to its refineries in Europe and America, at such a high price that these "downstream" affiliates don't make any income. So there's no tax to pay. ..."

"... Standard Oil and other U.S. oil companies – and also mining companies – don't earn an income there, because they sell it so low, all the profits are reported to be taken in Liberia or Panama. These are non-countries. ..."

"... Here is a report. I'm from the State Department (I assumed that this meant CIA). "We want to calculate how much money the US could get if we set up bank branches and became the bank for all the criminal capital in the world." He said, "We figured out we can finance, (and he said this in an elevator), we can finance the Vietnam War with all the drug money coming into America, all of the criminal money. Can you make a calculation of how much that might be?" ..."

"... I found that the entire US balance of payments deficit in the 1960s, since the Vietnam War, the entire balance of payments deficit was military spending abroad. The private sector's trade and investment was exactly in balance; tourism, trade and investment were exactly in balance. All the deficit was military. ..."

"... Mr. Barsanti said that McNamara said that Arthur Andersen would never get another government contract if it published my report. ..."

"... There were three people, known as the Columbia Group, saying the Vietnam War was going to destroy the American monetary system as we know it. The group was composed of Terence McCarthy, my mentor; Seymour Melman, a professor at Columbia University's School of Industrial Engineering where Terence also taught; and myself. We would basically go around the New York City giving speeches. ..."

Jul 22, 2019 | www.nakedcapitalism.com

mauisurfer , July 21, 2019 at 6:33 pm

Re: Michael Hudson, SuperImperialism

Here is a recent interview where MH reviews his book.

https://michael-hudson.com/2019/06/food-blackmail-the-washington-consensus-and-freedom/

And here is a wonderful autobiographical article

https://michael-hudson.com/2018/08/life-thought-an-autobiography/

a quote (hope it is not too long for you)

I worked at Chase Manhattan until 1967, then finally I had to quit to finish the dissertation. I spent a year on that. At Chase I had become the specialist in the oil industry's balance of payments. When the Vietnam War began and escalated, President Johnson in January 1965, right after I joined the bank in December 1964, passed the voluntary – in reality, compulsory – foreign investment rules blocking American companies from investing more than 5% of the growth of the previous year's investment. The oil industry objected to that. They came to David Rockefeller and said we've got to convince the government that we're ripping off other countries so fast, we're able to exploit them so rapidly, that it really helps the US balance of payments to let us continue investing more abroad. Can you help us show this statistically?

So David Rockefeller asked me to do a study of the balance of payments of the oil industry. Rockefeller said, "We don't want to have Chase's oil and gas department do it, because they would be thought of as lobbyists. Nobody knows who you are, so you're neutral. We want to know what the real facts are, and if they're what we think they are, we'll publish what you write; if we don't like it we'll keep it to ourselves, but please just give us the facts." He said, "You can ask the oil companies all the questions you want. They will fill out the forms you design for a statistical accounting format. We'll give you a year to write it all up." To me this was wonderful. Oil was the key sector internationally. It turned out I found out that the average dollar that actually was invested abroad by oil companies was recaptured by the US economy within 18 months. The payback period was that fast.

The report that I wrote was put on the desk of every senator and every representative in the United States and I was celebrated for being the economist of the oil industry. So this taught me everything about the balance of payments which, as I said, is a topic that's not taught in any university. So I finished that, finished the dissertation, and then I developed a methodology for the overall US balance of payments. Most of the balance of payment statistics were changed when they designed the gross national product accounts. The accounts now treat exports and imports as if they were paid for fully for cash. So if you make a million dollars worth of grain exports, you are assumed to bring a million dollars into the economy. And if you export a million dollars of arms, of military, it all comes back.

What I found out is that only a portion actually of exports actually comes back. And imports have an even lower balance-of-payment costs as compared to their nominal valuation. For instance, all of America's oil imports are from American oil companies, so if you pay a hundred dollars for oil, maybe thirty dollars of that is profit, thirty dollars is compensation to American management, thirty dollars is the use of American exports to physical equipment, oil drilling equipment and others to produce the oil.

The closest people that I worked with for the study were at the Standard Oil Company, which was always very close to the Rockefellers, as you know. So I went over the statistics and I said, "In the balance of payments, I can't find where Standard Oil makes the profit. Does it make the profit by producing oil at the production end? Or does it make it selling it at the gas stations, at the retail sales end?" The treasurer of Standard Oil said, "Ah I can tell you where we make them. We make them right here in my office." I asked how. "What countries could I find this in? I don't find it in Europe, I don't find it in Asia, I don't find it in Latin America or Africa." He said, "Ah, do you see at the very end of the geography headings for international earnings, there's something called international?"

I said, "Yes that always confused me. Where is it? I thought all these foreign countries were international." He explained that "international" means countries that are not really countries. They're Liberia and Panama, countries that only use the US dollar, not their own currency. So the oil industry doesn't have a currency risk. They are flags of convenience and they don't have any income tax.

He explained to me that Standard Oil sold its oil at a very low price from the Near East to Liberia or Panama or Lagos, or wherever they have a flag of convenience and no income tax. Then they would sell it at a very high price to its refineries in Europe and America, at such a high price that these "downstream" affiliates don't make any income. So there's no tax to pay. For all US oil investment in Europe, there's no tax to pay because the oil companies' accountants price it so high, and pay so little per barrel to third world countries such as Saudi Arabia, that they only get a royalty. Standard Oil and other U.S. oil companies – and also mining companies – don't earn an income there, because they sell it so low, all the profits are reported to be taken in Liberia or Panama. These are non-countries.

That gave me the clue about what people these days talk about money laundering. In the last few months that I worked for Chase Manhattan in 1967, I was going up to my office on the ninth floor and a man got on the elevator and said, "I was just coming to your office, Michael. Here is a report. I'm from the State Department (I assumed that this meant CIA). "We want to calculate how much money the US could get if we set up bank branches and became the bank for all the criminal capital in the world." He said, "We figured out we can finance, (and he said this in an elevator), we can finance the Vietnam War with all the drug money coming into America, all of the criminal money. Can you make a calculation of how much that might be?"

So I spent three months figuring out how much money goes to Switzerland, from drug dealings, what's the dollar volume of drug dealings. They helped me with all sorts of statistics on that, and said, "We can become the criminal capital of the world and it'll finance the dollar and this will enable us to afford the spending to defeat communism in Vietnam and elsewhere. If we don't do that, the bomb throwers will come to New York."

So I became a specialist in money laundering! Nothing could have better prepared me to understand how the global economy works! I had all the statistics, I had the help of the government people explaining to me how the CIA worked with drug dealing and other criminals and kidnappers to raise the money so it would be off the balance sheet funding and Congress didn't have to approve it when they would kill people and sponsor revolutions. They were completely open with me about this. I realized they'd never done a security check on me.

So I wanted to do a study of the balance of payments of the whole United States. I went to work for Arthur Andersen, which was at that time was one of the Big Five accounting firms in the United States. Later it was convicted of fraud when it got involved in the Enron scandal and was closed down. But I was working before the other people went to jail, before they closed down Arthur Andersen. So I spent a year applying my balance of payments analysis to the US balance of payments. When I finally finished, I found that the entire US balance of payments deficit in the 1960s, since the Vietnam War, the entire balance of payments deficit was military spending abroad. The private sector's trade and investment was exactly in balance; tourism, trade and investment were exactly in balance. All the deficit was military.

So I turned in my statistics. My boss Mr. Barsanti, came in to me three days later and he said, "I'm afraid we have to fire you." I asked, "What happened?" He said, "Well, we sent it to Robert McNamara." (who was the Secretary of Defense and then became an even more dangerous person with the World Bank, which probably is more dangerous to the world than the American military. But that's another story). Mr. Barsanti said that McNamara said that Arthur Andersen would never get another government contract if it published my report.

In all of the Pentagon Papers that later came out of McNamara's regime, there's no discussion at all of the balance-of-payments cost of the Vietnam War. This is what was driving America off gold. At Chase Manhattan from 1964 until I left, every Friday the Federal Reserve would come out with its goal, its weekly statistics. We could trace the gold stock. Everybody was talking about General de Gaulle cashing in the gold, because Vietnam was a French colony and the American soldiers and army would have to use French banks, the dollars would go to France and de Gaulle would cash it in for gold.

Well, Germany actually was cashing in more gold than de Gaulle, but they didn't make speeches about it. So I could see that the war spending was going to drive America off gold. There were three people, known as the Columbia Group, saying the Vietnam War was going to destroy the American monetary system as we know it. The group was composed of Terence McCarthy, my mentor; Seymour Melman, a professor at Columbia University's School of Industrial Engineering where Terence also taught; and myself. We would basically go around the New York City giving speeches.

[Jul 21, 2019] I've Had Many Strange Experiences In My Life - Inside Epstein's 'Honey Trap' On E 71st Street

Notable quotes:

"... The golden boy of Manhattan and Palm Beach society now sits in a grim jail cell accused of having sex with underage girls. He's been doing this in plain view since the early 1990's but, until recently, he seemed bullet-proof. ..."

"... More important than indelicacy, as an old observer of intelligence affairs, to me this offer reeked of ye old honey trap , a tactic to ensnare and blackmail people that was old when Babylon was young. A discreet room with massage table, lubricants and, no doubt, cameras stood ready off the main lobby . ..."

"... Besides sexual frolics, Epstein and Maxwell were up to many odd things. The FBI found diamonds, cash and a fake passport when raiding his mansion and documents showing his net worth at $559,120,954.00. The IRS tax people will be eager to review the sources of this income. ..."

"... It seems likely that political influence was brought to bear on then US attorney Alexander Acosta (he just resigned under fire last week) to make a sweetheart deal with Epstein, who had been charged by Florida with child molestation. Epstein got off with a token, 13-month jail sentence that allowed him to work from his office much of the day. ..."

"... Were Trump or Clinton involved? How much did they "party" with Epstein and revel in his fleshmart? There was talk of some sort of "intelligence" angle to the affaire Epstein that spared him a harsh sentence. ..."

"... A respected former CIA official, Phil Giraldi has come right out and accused Epstein of being an Israeli agent of influence. ..."

"... To Giraldi and this writer, the Epstein "massage" operation was a classic intelligence operation designed to blackmail men of influence into doing Israel's bidding. Clinton had reportedly already fallen into this trap years earlier while still president. ..."

"... Trump is a Mafia punk, protege of Roy Cohn, dead of AIDS in 1986. Only the brain dead would believe Trump is the lamb in this orgy. As for Epstein being a Mossad asset, probably. As for the CIA & NSA not knowing, absolutely impossible! This operation was most probably overseen, if not created, by the CIA, with NSA help, and tit bits handed to Mossad for European and ME operations. ..."

"... Trump was likely warned about Epstein by his mobster mentors/friends from the start. No doubt Trump did tell his buddy Epstein to keep that **** out of his properties, who wouldn't? ..."

"... Clinton knew as well but never gave a crap because He and HRC were probably protected CIA assets extending back to the AR drug smuggling days. ..."

"... Because it is a strange business, costing lots of money and achieving ..... what exactly? Ah ...., national security -- ain't that nice!! ..."

"... Anyone taking bets that Epstein will not live to tell all his tales? He probably has two years because he cannot be removed before all the excitement's died down but removed he will be. ..."

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"I've Had Many Strange Experiences In My Life" - Inside Epstein's 'Honey Trap' On E 71st Street

Authored by Eric Margolis via EricMargolis.com

I've had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs. These run from being invited to KGB HQ in Moscow, Chinese intelligence in Beijing, US intelligence in Virginia, Libyan intelligence in Tripoli, South African intelligence, and even Albanian intelligence in Tirana.

But none was odder than the day I was invited to lunch in New York City with the by now notorious figure Jeffrey Epstein. The golden boy of Manhattan and Palm Beach society now sits in a grim jail cell accused of having sex with underage girls. He's been doing this in plain view since the early 1990's but, until recently, he seemed bullet-proof.

​Soon after I walked into the entrance of Epstein's mansion on E 71st Street, said to be the city's largest private home, a butler asked me, "would you like an intimate massage, sir, by a pretty young girl?" This offer seemed so out of place and weird to me that I swiftly declined .

More important than indelicacy, as an old observer of intelligence affairs, to me this offer reeked of ye old honey trap , a tactic to ensnare and blackmail people that was old when Babylon was young. A discreet room with massage table, lubricants and, no doubt, cameras stood ready off the main lobby .

I had arrived with Canada's leading lady journalist who was then close to Epstein's sometime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell and, it was said, procuress – something Maxwell denies. Bizarrely, Maxwell believed that I could get KGB Moscow Center to release satellite photos that showed the murder on his yacht of her father, the press baron Robert Maxwell, who was a well-known double agent for Israel and KGB, and a major criminal.

Also present was the self-promoting lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who had saved the accused murderer Claus von Bulow, as well as a titan of the New York real estate industry (not Trump) and assorted bigwigs of the city's elite Jewish society. All sang the praises of Israel.

Epstein reportedly had ties to Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Britain's Prince Andrew and repeatedly flew them about in his private jet, aka "the Lolita Express." All guests deny any sexual activity. I turned down dinner with Prince Andrew.

Epstein's residence in Manhattan and Palm Beach, both of which I visited, were stocked with young female "masseuses." All were working class girls making big money in their spare time. I did not see any interactions between these girls and the guests.

Epstein and Maxwell became too big for their britches. They flaunted their sexual adventures and laughed at New York society. Everyone wondered about the source of Epstein's lavish income but no one knew its origins. He claimed to be an exclusive money manager for a group of secretive millionaires. But the only one identified was billionaire Leslie Wexner, the owner of L Brands and Victoria's Secret. Wexner denied any knowledge of Epstein's alleged crimes.

Besides sexual frolics, Epstein and Maxwell were up to many odd things. The FBI found diamonds, cash and a fake passport when raiding his mansion and documents showing his net worth at $559,120,954.00. The IRS tax people will be eager to review the sources of this income.

It seems likely that political influence was brought to bear on then US attorney Alexander Acosta (he just resigned under fire last week) to make a sweetheart deal with Epstein, who had been charged by Florida with child molestation. Epstein got off with a token, 13-month jail sentence that allowed him to work from his office much of the day.

Were Trump or Clinton involved? How much did they "party" with Epstein and revel in his fleshmart? There was talk of some sort of "intelligence" angle to the affaire Epstein that spared him a harsh sentence.

A respected former CIA official, Phil Giraldi has come right out and accused Epstein of being an Israeli agent of influence. Epstein was let off with a slap on the wrist on his first child abuse charge, says Giraldi, because of his powerful Israel connections.

To Giraldi and this writer, the Epstein "massage" operation was a classic intelligence operation designed to blackmail men of influence into doing Israel's bidding. Clinton had reportedly already fallen into this trap years earlier while still president.

Now watch this stinking pile of corruption be hurriedly covered up. Talk about draining the swamp.

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ChaoKrungThep , 29 minutes ago link

Trump is a Mafia punk, protege of Roy Cohn, dead of AIDS in 1986. Only the brain dead would believe Trump is the lamb in this orgy. As for Epstein being a Mossad asset, probably. As for the CIA & NSA not knowing, absolutely impossible! This operation was most probably overseen, if not created, by the CIA, with NSA help, and tit bits handed to Mossad for European and ME operations.

Uh oh Speggeti-oh , 14 minutes ago link

Trump was likely warned about Epstein by his mobster mentors/friends from the start. No doubt Trump did tell his buddy Epstein to keep that **** out of his properties, who wouldn't? 'Don't **** where I eat'. Clinton knew as well but never gave a crap because He and HRC were probably protected CIA assets extending back to the AR drug smuggling days.

Yog Soggoth , 43 minutes ago link

'I've had many strange experiences in my decades of covering intelligence affairs." So have many is my answer.

uhland62 , 24 minutes ago link

Because it is a strange business, costing lots of money and achieving ..... what exactly? Ah ...., national security -- ain't that nice!!

Anyone taking bets that Epstein will not live to tell all his tales? He probably has two years because he cannot be removed before all the excitement's died down but removed he will be.

[Jul 21, 2019] Michael Hudson U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses naked capitalism

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Today's world is at war on many fronts. The rules of international law and order put in place toward the end of World War II are being broken by U.S. foreign policy escalating its confrontation with countries that refrain from giving its companies control of their economic surpluses. Countries that do not give the United States control their oil and financial sectors or privatize their key sectors are being isolated by the United States imposing trade sanctions and unilateral tariffs giving special advantages to U.S. producers in violation of free trade agreements with European, Asian and other countries.

This global fracture has an increasingly military cast. U.S. officials justify tariffs and import quotas illegal under WTO rules on "national security" grounds, claiming that the United States can do whatever it wants as the world's "exceptional" nation. U.S. officials explain that this means that their nation is not obliged to adhere to international agreements or even to its own treaties and promises. This allegedly sovereign right to ignore on its international agreements was made explicit after Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State Madeline Albright broke the promise by President George Bush and Secretary of State James Baker that NATO would not expand eastward after 1991. ("You didn't get it in writing," was the U.S. response to the verbal agreements that were made.)

Likewise, the Trump administration repudiated the multilateral Iranian nuclear agreement signed by the Obama administration, and is escalating warfare with its proxy armies in the Near East. U.S. politicians are waging a New Cold War against Russia, China, Iran, and oil-exporting countries that the United States is seeking to isolate if cannot control their governments, central bank and foreign diplomacy.

The international framework that originally seemed equitable was pro-U.S. from the outset. In 1945 this was seen as a natural result of the fact that the U.S. economy was the least war-damaged and held by far most of the world's monetary gold. Still, the postwar trade and financial framework was ostensibly set up on fair and equitable international principles. Other countries were expected to recover and grow, creating diplomatic, financial and trade parity with each other.

But the past decade has seen U.S. diplomacy become one-sided in turning the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, SWIFT bank-clearing system and world trade into an asymmetrically exploitative system. This unilateral U.S.-centered array of institutions is coming to be widely seen not only as unfair, but as blocking the progress of other countries whose growth and prosperity is seen by U.S. foreign policy as a threat to unilateral U.S. hegemony. What began as an ostensibly international order to promote peaceful prosperity has turned increasingly into an extension of U.S. nationalism, predatory rent-extraction and a more dangerous military confrontation.

Deterioration of international diplomacy into a more nakedly explicit pro-U.S. financial, trade and military aggression was implicit in the way in which economic diplomacy was shaped when the United Nations, IMF and World Bank were shaped mainly by U.S. economic strategists. Their economic belligerence is driving countries to withdraw from the global financial and trade order that has been turned into a New Cold War vehicle to impose unilateral U.S. hegemony. Nationalistic reactions are consolidating into new economic and political alliances from Europe to Asia.

We are still mired in the Oil War that escalated in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq, which quickly spread to Libya and Syria. American foreign policy has long been based largely on control of oil. This has led the United States to oppose the Paris accords to stem global warming. Its aim is to give U.S. officials the power to impose energy sanctions forcing other countries to "freeze in the dark" if they do not follow U.S. leadership.

To expand its oil monopoly, America is pressuring Europe to oppose the Nordstream II gas pipeline from Russia, claiming that this would make Germany and other countries dependent on Russia instead of on U.S. liquified natural gas (LNG). Likewise, American oil diplomacy has imposed unilateral sanctions against Iranian oil exports, until such time as a regime change opens up that country's oil reserves to U.S., French, British and other allied oil majors.

U.S. control of dollarized money and credit is critical to this hegemony. As Congressman Brad Sherman of Los Angeles told a House Financial Services Committee hearing on May 9, 2019: "An awful lot of our international power comes from the fact that the U.S. dollar is the standard unit of international finance and transactions. Clearing through the New York Fed is critical for major oil and other transactions. It is the announced purpose of the supporters of cryptocurrency to take that power away from us, to put us in a position where the most significant sanctions we have against Iran, for example, would become irrelevant."[1]

The U.S. aim is to keep the dollar as the transactions currency for world trade, savings, central bank reserves and international lending. This monopoly status enables the U.S. Treasury and State Department to disrupt the financial payments system and trade for countries with which the United States is at economic or outright military war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin quickly responded by describing how "the degeneration of the universalist globalization model [is] turning into a parody, a caricature of itself, where common international rules are replaced with the laws of one country."[2]That is the trajectory on which this deterioration of formerly open international trade and finance is now moving. It has been building up for a decade. On June 5, 2009, then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev cited this same disruptive U.S. dynamic at work in the wake of the U.S. junk mortgage and bank fraud crisis.

Those whose job it was to forecast events were not ready for the depth of the crisis and turned out to be too rigid, unwieldy and slow in their response. The international financial organisations – and I think we need to state this up front and not try to hide it – were not up to their responsibilities, as has been said quite unambiguously at a number of major international events such as the two recent G20 summits of the world's largest economies.

Furthermore, we have had confirmation that our pre-crisis analysis of global economic trends and the global economic system were correct. The artificially maintained uni-polar system and preservation of monopolies in key global economic sectors are root causes of the crisis. One big centre of consumption, financed by a growing deficit, and thus growing debts, one formerly strong reserve currency, and one dominant system of assessing assets and risks – these are all factors that led to an overall drop in the quality of regulation and the economic justification of assessments made, including assessments of macroeconomic policy. As a result, there was no avoiding a global crisis.[3]

That crisis is what is now causing today's break in global trade and payments.

Warfare on Many Fronts, with Dollarization Being the Main Arena

Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991 did not bring the disarmament that was widely expected. U.S. leadership celebrated the Soviet demise as signaling the end of foreign opposition to U.S.-sponsored neoliberalism and even as the End of History. NATO expanded to encircle Russia and sponsored "color revolutions" from Georgia to Ukraine, while carving up former Yugoslavia into small statelets. American diplomacy created a foreign legion of Wahabi fundamentalists from Afghanistan to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya in support of Saudi Arabian extremism and Israeli expansionism.

The United States is waging war for control of oil against Venezuela, where a military coup failed a few years ago, as did the 2018-19 stunt to recognize an unelected pro-American puppet regime. The Honduran coup under President Obama was more successful in overthrowing an elected president advocating land reform, continuing the tradition dating back to 1954 when the CIA overthrew Guatemala's Arbenz regime.

U.S. officials bear a special hatred for countries that they have injured, ranging from Guatemala in 1954 to Iran, whose regime it overthrew to install the Shah as military dictator. Claiming to promote "democracy," U.S. diplomacy has redefined the word to mean pro-American, and opposing land reform, national ownership of raw materials and public subsidy of foreign agriculture or industry as an "undemocratic" attack on "free markets," meaning markets controlled by U.S. financial interests and absentee owners of land, natural resources and banks.

A major byproduct of warfare has always been refugees, and today's wave fleeing ISIS, Al Qaeda and other U.S.-backed Near Eastern proxies is flooding Europe. A similar wave is fleeing the dictatorial regimes backed by the United States from Honduras, Ecuador, Colombia and neighboring countries. The refugee crisis has become a major factor leading to the resurgence of nationalist parties throughout Europe and for the white nationalism of Donald Trump in the United States.

Dollarization as the Vehicle for U.S. Nationalism

The Dollar Standard – U.S. Treasury debt to foreigners held by the world's central banks – has replaced the gold-exchange standard for the world's central bank reserves to settle payments imbalances among themselves. This has enabled the United States to uniquely run balance-of-payments deficits for nearly seventy years, despite the fact that these Treasury IOUs have little visible likelihood of being repaid except under arrangements where U.S. rent-seeking and outright financial tribute from other enables it to liquidate its official foreign debt.

The United States is the only nation that can run sustained balance-of-payments deficits without having to sell off its assets or raise interest rates to borrow foreign money. No other national economy in the world can could afford foreign military expenditures on any major scale without losing its exchange value. Without the Treasury-bill standard, the United States would be in this same position along with other nations. That is why Russia, China and other powers that U.S. strategists deem to be strategic rivals and enemies are looking to restore gold's role as the preferred asset to settle payments imbalances.

The U.S. response is to impose regime change on countries that prefer gold or other foreign currencies to dollars for their exchange reserves. A case in point is the overthrow of Libya's Omar Kaddafi after he sought to base his nation's international reserves on gold. His liquidation stands as a military warning to other countries.

Thanks to the fact that payments-surplus economies invest their dollar inflows in U.S. Treasury bonds, the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit finances its domestic budget deficit. This foreign central-bank recycling of U.S. overseas military spending into purchases of U.S. Treasury securities gives the United States a free ride, financing its budget – also mainly military in character – so that it can taxing its own citizens.

Trump Is Forcing Other Countries To Create an Alternative to the Dollar Standard

The fact that Donald Trump's economic policies are proving ineffective in restoring American manufacturing is creating rising nationalist pressure to exploit foreigners by arbitrary tariffs without regard for international law, and to impose trade sanctions and diplomatic meddling to disrupt regimes that pursue policies that U.S. diplomats do not like.

There is a parallel here with Rome in the late 1 ^st century BC. It stripped its provinces to pay for its military deficit, the grain dole and land redistribution at the expense of Italian cities and Asia Minor. This created foreign opposition to drive Rome out. The U.S. economy is similar to Rome's: extractive rather than productive, based mainly on land rents and money-interest. As the domestic market is impoverished, U.S. politicians are seeking to take from abroad what no longer is being produced at home.

What is so ironic – and so self-defeating of America's free global ride – is that Trump's simplistic aim of lowering the dollar's exchange rate to make U.S. exports more price-competitive. He imagines commodity trade to be the entire balance of payments, as if there were no military spending, not to mention lending and investment. To lower the dollar's exchange rate, he is demanding that China's central bank and those of other countries stop supporting the dollar by recycling the dollars they receive for their exports into holdings of U.S. Treasury securities.

This tunnel vision leaves out of account the fact that the trade balance is not simply a matter of comparative international price levels. The United States has dissipated its supply of spare manufacturing capacity and local suppliers of parts and materials, while much of its industrial engineering and skilled manufacturing labor has retired. An immense shortfall must be filled by new capital investment, education and public infrastructure, whose charges are far above those of other economics.

Trump's infrastructure ideology is a Public-Private Partnership characterized by high-cost financialization demanding high monopoly rents to cover its interest charges, stock dividends and management fees. This neoliberal policy raises the cost of living for the U.S. labor force, making it uncompetitive. The United States is unable to produce more at any price right now, because its has spent the past half-century dismantling its infrastructure, closing down its part suppliers and outsourcing its industrial technology.

The United States has privatized and financialized infrastructure and basic needs such as public health and medical care, education and transportation that other countries have kept in their public domain to make their economies more cost-efficient by providing essential services at subsidized prices or freely. The United States also has led the practice of debt pyramiding, from housing to corporate finance. This financial engineering and wealth creation by inflating debt-financed real estate and stock market bubbles has made the United States a high-cost economy that cannot compete successfully with well-managed mixed economies.

Unable to recover dominance in manufacturing, the United States is concentrating on rent-extracting sectors that it hopes monopolize, headed by information technology and military production. On the industrial front, it threatens disrupt China and other mixed economies by imposing trade and financial sanctions.

The great gamble is whether these other countries will defend themselves by joining in alliances enabling them to bypass the U.S. economy. American strategists imagine their country to be the world's essential economy, without whose market other countries must suffer depression. The Trump Administration thinks that There Is No Alternative (TINA) for other countries except for their own financial systems to rely on U.S. dollar credit.

To protect themselves from U.S. sanctions, countries would have to avoid using the dollar, and hence U.S. banks. This would require creation of a non-dollarized financial system for use among themselves, including their own alternative to the SWIFT bank clearing system. Table 1 lists some possible related defenses against U.S. nationalistic diplomacy.

As noted above, what also is ironic in President Trump's accusation of China and other countries of artificially manipulating their exchange rate against the dollar (by recycling their trade and payments surpluses into Treasury securities to hold down their currency's dollar valuation) involves dismantling the Treasury-bill standard. The main way that foreign economies have stabilized their exchange rate since 1971 has indeed been to recycle their dollar inflows into U.S. Treasury securities. Letting their currency's value rise would threaten their export competitiveness against their rivals, although not necessarily benefit the United States.

Ending this practice leaves countries with the main way to protect their currencies from rising against the dollar is to reduce dollar inflows by blocking U.S. lending to domestic borrowers. They may levy floating tariffs proportioned to the dollar's declining value. The U.S. has a long history since the 1920s of raising its tariffs against currencies that are depreciating: the American Selling Price (ASP) system. Other countries can impose their own floating tariffs against U.S. goods.

Trade dependency as an Aim of the World Bank, IMF and US AID

The world today faces a problem much like what it faced on the eve of World War II. Like Germany then, the United States now poses the main threat of war, and equally destructive neoliberal economic regimes imposing austerity, economic shrinkage and depopulation. U.S. diplomats are threatening to destroy regimes and entire economies that seek to remain independent of this system, by trade and financial sanctions backed by direct military force.

Dedollarization will require creation of multilateral alternatives to U.S. "front" institutions such as the World Bank, IMF and other agencies in which the United States holds veto power to block any alternative policies deemed not to let it "win." U.S. trade policy through the World Bank and U.S. foreign aid agencies aims at promoting dependency on U.S. food exports and other key commodities, while hiring U.S. engineering firms to build up export infrastructure to subsidize U.S. and other natural-resource investors.[4]The financing is mainly in dollars, providing risk-free bonds to U.S. and other financial institutions. The resulting commercial and financial "interdependency" has led to a situation in which a sudden interruption of supply would disrupt foreign economies by causing a breakdown in their chain of payments and production. The effect is to lock client countries into dependency on the U.S. economy and its diplomacy, euphemized as "promoting growth and development."

U.S. neoliberal policy via the IMF imposes austerity and opposes debt writedowns. Its economic model pretends that debtor countries can pay any volume of dollar debt simply by reducing wages to squeeze more income out of the labor force to pay foreign creditors. This ignores the fact that solving the domestic "budget problem" by taxing local revenue still faces the "transfer problem" of converting it into dollars or other hard currencies in which most international debt is denominated. The result is that the IMF's "stabilization" programs actually destabilize and impoverish countries forced into following its advice.

IMF loans support pro-U.S. regimes such as Ukraine, and subsidize capital flight by supporting local currencies long enough to enable U.S. client oligarchies to flee their currencies at a pre-devaluation exchange rate for the dollar. When the local currency finally is allowed to collapse, debtor countries are advised to impose anti-labor austerity. This globalizes the class war of capital against labor while keeping debtor countries on a short U.S. financial leash.

U.S. diplomacy is capped by trade sanctions to disrupt economies that break away from U.S. aims. Sanctions are a form of economic sabotage, as lethal as outright military warfare in establishing U.S. control over foreign economies. The threat is to impoverish civilian populations, in the belief that this will lead them to replace their governments with pro-American regimes promising to restore prosperity by selling off their domestic infrastructure to U.S. and other multinational investors.

US Warfare on Many Fronts Dedollarization defense

Military warfare (the Near East, Asia) NATO and bilateral treaty (Saudi, ISIS, Al Qaida). color revolutions and proxy wars.		Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and pressure for Europe to withdraw from NATO unless the U.S. alleviates its New Cold War threats.
Dollarization is monetary warfare. The US Treasury-bill standard finances the mainly military U.S. balance-of-payments deficit. SWIFT threatens to isolate Iran and Russia		Dedollarization will refrain from foreign central banks financing U.S. overseas military spending by keeping their savings in dollars. Creation of alternative payments clearing system.
The IMF finances US client regimes and seeks to isolate those not following US policy.		An alternative global financial organization, such as Europe's INSTEX to circumvent US anti-Iran sanctions, and Russo-China alternative to SWIFT.
Creditor policy forcing austerity on debtor economies, forcing them to privatize and sell off their public domain to pay debts.		An international court empowered to write down debts to the ability to pay, based on the original principles that were to guide the BIS in 1931.
The World Bank finances trade dependency on US food exports and opposes national food self-sufficiency.		An alternative development organization based on food self-sufficiency. Annulment of World Bank and IMF debt as "odious debt."
Unilateral US trade war based on levy of US protectionist tariffs, quotas and sanctions,		Countervailing sanctions, and creation of an alternative to the WTO or a strengthened organization free of US control.
Cyber War, spycraft via US internet platforms, and Stuxnet sabotage.		Work with Huawei and other alternatives to US internet options.
Class War: austerity program for labor		MMT, taxation of rentier income and capital gains.
Neoliberal monetarist doctrine of privatization and creditor-oriented rules	Promotion of a mixed economy with public infrastructure as a factor of production.
US patent policy seeks monopoly rents.	Non-recognition of predatory monopoly patents.
Investment control	Deprivatization and buyoutsof US assets abroad.
International law and diplomacy	The U.S. as the world's "exceptional nation," not subject to international laws or even to its own treaty agreements. Veto power in any organization it joins. The basic principle that the U.S. is not subject to any foreign say over its laws and policies.

Global Problems caused by US Policy Response to U.S. Disruptive Policy

U.S. refuses to join international agreements to reduce carbon emissions, Global Warming and Extreme Weather. U.S. diplomacy is based on control of oil to make other countries dependent on U.S. energy dominance.	Trade and tax sanctions against U.S. exporters and banks. Taxes on U.S. tax avoidance by the oil industry's "flags of convenience" (convenient for tax avoidance). Taxation or isolation of U.S. exports based on high-carbon production.
Attempt to monopolize new G5 Internet technology, Sanctioning of Huawei, insistence on US priority in high-tech.	Rejection of patents on basic IT, medicine and other basic human needs.
Patent laws in pharmaceuticals, etc.	Taxation of monopoly rents.

There Are Alternatives, on Many Fronts

Militarily, today's leading alternative to NATO expansionism is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), along with Europe following France's example under Charles de Gaulle and withdrawing. After all, there is no real threat of military invasion today in Europe. No nation can occupy another without an enormous military draft and such heavy personnel losses that domestic protests would unseat the government waging such a war. The U.S. anti-war movement in the 1960s signaled the end of the military draft, not only in the United States but in nearly all democratic countries (Israel, Switzerland, Brazil and South Korea are exceptions).

The enormous spending on armaments for a kind of war unlikely to be fought is not really military, but simply to provide profits to the military industrial complex. The arms are not really to be used. They are simply to be bought, and ultimately scrapped. The danger, of course, is that these not-for-use arms actually might be used, if only to create a need for new profitable production.

Likewise, foreign holdings of dollars are not really to be spent on purchases of U.S. exports or investments. They are like fine-wine collectibles, for saving rather than for drinking. The alternative to such dollarized holdings is to create a mutual use of national currencies, and a domestic bank-clearing payments system as an alternative to SWIFT.Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela already are said to be developing a crypto-currency payments to circumvent U.S. sanctions and hence financial control.

In the World Trade Organization, the United States has tried to claim that any industry receiving public infrastructure or credit subsidy deserves tariff retaliation in order to force privatization. In response to WTO rulings that U.S. tariffs are illegally imposed, the United States "has blocked all new appointments to the seven-member appellate body in protest, leaving it in danger of collapse because it may not have enough judges to allow it to hear new cases."[5]In the U.S. view, only privatized trade financed by private rather than public banks is "fair" trade.

An alternative to the WTO (or removal of its veto privilege given to the U.S. bloc) is needed to cope with U.S. neoliberal ideology and, most recently, the U.S. travesty claiming "national security" exemption to free-trade treaties, impose tariffs on steel, aluminum, and on European countries that circumvent sanctions on Iran or threaten to buy oil from Russia via the Nordstream II pipeline instead of high-cost liquified "freedom gas" from the United States.

In the realm of development lending, China's bank along with its Belt and Road initiative is an incipient alternative to the World Bank, whose main role has been to promote foreign dependency on U.S. suppliers. The IMF for its part now functions as an extension of the U.S. Department of Defense to subsidize client regimes such as Ukraine while financially isolating countries not subservient to U.S. diplomacy.

To save debt-strapped economies suffering Greek-style austerity, the world needs to replace neoliberal economic theory with an analytic logic for debt writedowns based on the ability to pay. The guiding principle of the needed development-oriented logic of international law should be that no nation should be obliged to pay foreign creditors by having to sell of the public domain and rent-extraction rights to foreign creditors. The defining character of nationhood should be the fiscal right to tax natural resource rents and financial returns, and to create its own monetary system.

The United States refuses to join the International Criminal Court. To be effective, it needs enforcement power for its judgments and penalties, capped by the ability to bring charges of war crimes in the tradition of the Nuremberg tribunal. U.S. to such a court, combined with its military buildup now threatening World War III, suggests a new alignment of countries akin to the Non-Aligned Nations movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Non-aligned in this case means freedom from U.S. diplomatic control or threats.

Such institutions require a more realistic economic theory and philosophy of operations to replace the neoliberal logic for anti-government privatization, anti-labor austerity, and opposition to domestic budget deficits and debt writedowns. Today's neoliberal doctrine counts financial late fees and rising housing prices as adding to "real output" (GDP), but deems public investment as deadweight spending, not a contribution to output. The aim of such logic is to convince governments to pay their foreign creditors by selling off their public infrastructure and other assets in the public domain.

Just as the "capacity to pay" principle was the foundation stone of the Bank for International Settlements in 1931, a similar basis is needed to measure today's ability to pay debts and hence to write down bad loans that have been made without a corresponding ability of debtors to pay. Without such an institution and body of analysis, the IMF's neoliberal principle of imposing economic depression and falling living standards to pay U.S. and other foreign creditors will impose global poverty.

The above proposals provide an alternative to the U.S. "exceptionalist" refusal to join any international organization that has a say over its affairs. Other countries must be willing to turn the tables and isolate U.S. banks, U.S. exporters, and to avoid using U.S. dollars and routing payments via U.S. banks. To protect their ability to create a countervailing power requires an international court and its sponsoring organization.

Summary

The first existential objective is to avoid the current threat of war by winding down U.S. military interference in foreign countries and removing U.S. military bases as relics of neocolonialism. Their danger to world peace and prosperity threatens a reversion to the pre-World War II colonialism, ruling by client elites along lines similar to the 2014 Ukrainian coup by neo-Nazi groups sponsored by the U.S. State Department and National Endowment for Democracy. Such control recalls the dictators that U.S. diplomacy established throughout Latin America in the 1950s. Today's ethnic terrorism by U.S.-sponsored Wahabi-Saudi Islam recalls the behavior of Nazi Germany in the 1940s.

Global warming is the second major existentialist threat. Blocking attempts to reverse it is a bedrock of American foreign policy, because it is based on control of oil. So the military, refugee and global warming threats are interconnected.

The U.S. military poses the greatest immediate danger. Today's warfare is fundamentally changed from what it used to be. Prior to the 1970s, nations conquering others had to invade and occupy them with armies recruited by a military draft. But no democracy in today's world can revive such a draft without triggering widespread refusal to fight, voting the government out of power. The only way the United States – or other countries – can fight other nations is to bomb them. And as noted above, economic sanctions have as destructive an effect on civilian populations in countries deemed to be U.S. adversaries as overt warfare. The United States can sponsor political coups (as in Honduras and Pinochet's Chile), but cannot occupy. It is unwilling to rebuild, to say nothing of taking responsibility for the waves of refugees that our bombing and sanctions are causing from Latin America to the Near East.

U.S. ideologues view their nation's coercive military expansion and political subversion and neoliberal economic policy of privatization and financialization as an irreversible victory signaling the End of History. To the rest of the world it is a threat to human survival.

The American promise is that the victory of neoliberalism is the End of History, offering prosperity to the entire world. But beneath the rhetoric of free choice and free markets is the reality of corruption, subversion, coercion, debt peonage and neofeudalism. The reality is the creation and subsidy of polarized economies bifurcated between a privileged rentier class and its clients, eir debtors and renters. America is to be permitted to monopolize trade in oil and food grains, and high-technology rent-yielding monopolies, living off its dependent customers. Unlike medieval serfdom, people subject to this End of History scenario can choose to live wherever they want. But wherever they live, they must take on a lifetime of debt to obtain access to a home of their own, and rely on U.S.-sponsored control of their basic needs, money and credit by adhering to U.S. financial planning of their economies. This dystopian scenario confirms Rosa Luxemburg's recognition that the ultimate choice facing nations in today's world is between socialism and barbarism.

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[1]Billy Bambrough, "Bitcoin Threatens To 'Take Power' From The U.S. Federal Reserve," Forbes , May 15, 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/05/15/a-u-s-congressman-is-so-scared-of-bitcoin-and-crypto-he-wants-it-banned/#36b2700b6405.

[2]Vladimir Putin, keynote address to the Economic Forum, June 5-6 2019. Putin went on to warn of "a policy of completely unlimited economic egoism and a forced breakdown." This fragmenting of the global economic space "is the road to endless conflict, trade wars and maybe not just trade wars. Figuratively, this is the road to the ultimate fight of all against all."

[3]Address to St Petersburg International Economic Forum's Plenary Session, St Petersburg, Kremlin.ru, June 5, 2009, from Johnson's Russia List, June 8, 2009, #8,

[4] https://www.rt.com/business/464013-china-russia-cryptocurrency-dollar-dethrone/ . Already in the late 1950s the Forgash Plan proposed a World Bank for Economic Acceleration. Designed by Terence McCarthy and sponsored by Florida Senator Morris Forgash, the bank would have been a more truly development-oriented institution to guide foreign development to create balanced economies self-sufficient in food and other essentials. The proposal was opposed by U.S. interests on the ground that countries pursuing land reform tended to be anti-American. More to the point, they would have avoided trade and financial dependency on U.S. suppliers and banks, and hence on U.S. trade and financial sanctions to prevent them from following policies at odds with U.S. diplomatic demands.

[5]Don Weinland, "WTO rules against US in tariff dispute with China," Financial Times , July 17, 2019.

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Mael Colium , July 21, 2019 at 8:53 am

Views from an economist who has been promoting neoclassical ideology for decades and then wonders when there are no alternatives to escape the narrative? Completely ignores how a monetary sovereign capacity can move away from US hegemony. The countries under the heel of the US are there because the IMF has engineered their economies in favour of the US. They could all threaten default at the same time and scare off the IMF horses – the US picks off individual countries by isolating them. Play the united game and the power of division practiced by the US would crumble. Just saying.

timbers , July 21, 2019 at 9:13 am

"They could all threaten default at the same time and scare off the IMF horses – the US picks off individual countries by isolating them. Play the united game and the power of division practiced by the US would crumble."

This is interesting. On a similar note, I've wondered why Russia has not defaulted on it's considerable USD and EUR debt (also too, why is Russia still doing debt in USD and thus strengthening U.S.?).

But only after she sells off all her U.S. holdings which will be (and have been already) seized by Out Law America.

I believe Russia would be on some sort of legal ground in doing so in response to the illegal sanctions imposed upon by by the EU and U.S.

And it will be interesting to see if Germany backs down on Nordstream II. Will she be a total puppet of the U.S.?

Of course, it's depressing Russia has not reformed it's internal economy so that she can grow faster. Maybe because while Putin and others don't want to take orders from Washington they are trapped in neoliberal economic thinking and can't think outside the box?

Until Washington changes, I firmly believe Russia and other nations must act as if their future hold one totally without U.S. interdependence and must create completely independent economies the U.S. can not touch. China? Hard to include China in that right now with so much trade with the U.S. but on the other hand their are reports U.S. related firms are starting to move out of China.

Synoia , July 21, 2019 at 11:57 am

Among the reports of companies leaving China, I've not seen any who declare they will return manufacturing to the US.

One of the major objectives of Tariffs, historically, is to favor local manufacture over imports. Other than defense, is that happening?

Boeing appears to be the poster child of how well a company with a large defense arm performs in the commercial sector.

Oh , July 21, 2019 at 12:44 pm

The corporations that moved manufacturing to Mexico and then subsequently to China will continue to seek cheaper labor so that their management can feather their own nests. They're not going to bring back manufacturing to the US. Look at these greedy corporations that sell Hanes underwear for example. They get rid of labels on their product to save less than a cent per item and spend money and spend millions in extolling the virtues of not having labesl on their tee shirts (Michael Jordon is the spokesman in the ad). Greed has no limits.

lazycat1984 , July 21, 2019 at 12:23 pm

"Maybe because while Putin and others don't want to take orders from Washington they are trapped in neoliberal economic thinking and can't think outside the box?"

Probably a lot there. Maybe the idea is that the system can work but needs to be fiddled with to make it more fair to B stringers like Russia and China.

The only time anyone has had any success escaping Anglo-American finance was Germany, Japan and the USSR in the 1930-45 period. The Soviets managed to keep their thing going until much later, but internal corruption ( where isn't this a factor?) did them in.

Oh , July 21, 2019 at 1:03 pm

Post WWII Japan kept away from the stranglehold of US Financiers by only purchasing technology and protecting their markets which other countries have to emulate.

Plenue , July 21, 2019 at 2:30 pm

"I've wondered why Russia has not defaulted on it's considerable USD and EUR debt (also too, why is Russia still doing debt in USD and thus strengthening U.S.?)"

They have. Russia has dropped 84% of the Treasury Securities it held. https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/30/investing/russia-us-debt-treasury/index.html

Notice how this hasn't effected anything; other parties just happily bought it all up. The Russians were stupid to drop it because Treasury Securities are a guaranteed return on investment. Because, stick with me here on this, the US government can't run out of US dollars.

Roger Boyd , July 21, 2019 at 4:10 pm

They have removed those assets from the very great possibility of seizure by the US and others (like the Venezuelan gold seized by the UK). When push comes to shove the US and its minions have no ethics abut breaking whatever laws they deem to be in their way.

They bought quite a lot of gold, which seems to be doing pretty well these days.

timbers , July 21, 2019 at 5:35 pm

You misunderstood me. Russia borrows USD and EUR from Western banks. That makes US – Russia's enemy – stronger. Russia should borrow from Russia not the US. I'm asking why don't they default on that debt. Your response assumed I was referring to Russia holding US assets. That's different. BTW I don't agree with you that Russia made a mistake getting rid of US assets given the US has stolen Russian real estate holdings in the US and other nations property held in US banks like Venezuela's USD deposits and gold.

Ian Perkins , July 21, 2019 at 9:16 am

Along the same lines, the summary starts with, "The first existential objective is to avoid the current threat of war by winding down U.S. military interference in foreign countries and removing U.S. military bases as relics of neocolonialism." Either would be taken as proof of evil anti-US intentions, leading to sanctions, coups, assassinations, regime change, and eventually outright war. As Mael Colium says, the US picks off individual countries by isolating them.

flora , July 21, 2019 at 1:11 pm

I noticed that. I think Michael Hudson is a classical economist pushing back against the currently reigning neo-classical economists. Classical economics is not Neo-classical economics. Saying Hudson promotes neo-classical economics is a mistake.

http://heteconomist.com/classical-vs-neoclassical-economics-tax-and-rent/

RBHoughton , July 21, 2019 at 9:42 pm

I believe his hope is for the world to recognise that Athens, Rome and Constantinoiple collapsed economically due to legislatively favoring creditors over debtors. Its a process we see alive in North America and Europe today. That's where he is coming from

jsn , July 21, 2019 at 11:36 am

"Views from an economist who has been promoting neoclassical ideology for decades and then wonders when there are no alternatives to escape the narrative?"

Really, you should read the article you posted this note under. What text is this comment in reference to?

Vato , July 21, 2019 at 12:57 pm

Michael Hudson promoting neoclassical ideology for decades?? Are we talking about the same Michael Hudson from UMKC?
Could you please provide one single link to a paper that was written by him relying on inductive methodology-based equilibrium theory??

Thank you

Off The Street , July 21, 2019 at 9:19 am

Peripherally related MMT 2nd of 3 articles

Trey N , July 21, 2019 at 9:20 am

There are a number of such "unclear sentences" in the article. Is the original article so poorly written/edited, or is it errata in the transcription here?

Either way, it's a shame that such errors detract from the clarity of the ideas presented. Is there any way to go back and clean this mess up??

barefoot charley , July 21, 2019 at 10:05 am

Reading Michael's fascinating history of debt forgiveness isn't much different. I'm grateful for his writing but suffer from his typing. Have proofreaders gone the way of buggy whips?

(And we must stipulate that typos here on NC are so buggy they're a feature. Which makes me wonder if/when Roman inscriptions went illiterate–first century BC civil wars, or third century AD Christian takeover? Valuable historic perspective!)

ex-PFC Chuck , July 21, 2019 at 12:36 pm

" Have proofreaders gone the way of buggy whips?"

Yes. The job has been outsourced to Spellcheck.

Vato , July 21, 2019 at 1:04 pm

The translations of his books into German are even worse. Lots of typos and often contentual mistranslation.

Adams , July 21, 2019 at 10:09 am

Support. I would go further and say the article should be taken down for editing. Needs to be translated into English.

Also, too, the final sentence: "This dystopian scenario confirms Rosa Luxemburg's recognition that the ultimate choice facing nations in today's world is between socialism and barbarism." is a rather large jump from the text. While many regular NC readers will agree, the connection for others is obscure.

Monty , July 21, 2019 at 6:02 pm

You should ask for a refund!

Oh wait

Anon , July 21, 2019 at 8:42 pm

Wait the final sentence is what it is because it comes after everything before it. The quote distills much of what precedes it: The US is determined to be "the winner" in all dealings and nations acquiescing to US goals will likely lead to barbarism (austerity) for those populations.

Sometimes a phrase hits to the core of a wider meaning: "Send Her Back!" (a racist chant in any language).

jsn , July 21, 2019 at 11:50 am

When we have MMT paying for arts, history, journalism and particularly editors, I won't be so irritated by these kinds of criticisms.

We live in a very advanced world of Bernaysian propaganda where the communicative industries are privately owned and directed to ensure deep criticisms of the hyper-exploitative current reality CANNOT be published and promoted.

When someone takes the effort to produce something, like this or the book other commenters on this thread are also slighting, at great personal expense to themselves without corporate backing or institutional support, a decent reply would be "Thank you!", rather than tasking them or our hosts here at this site to "go back and clean up this mess??"

If you had any decency, you might suggest clarifying edits in comments, like changing "– so that it can taxing its own citizens." at the end of the 23rd paragraph to, "– so that it can avoid taxing its own citizens", to help the people you are criticizing for making things so difficult for you.

sporble , July 21, 2019 at 1:14 pm

+1

Jonathan Holland Becnel , July 21, 2019 at 1:43 pm

Michael Hudson is a modern day Saint!

Who cares about a few typos when his ideas are truly REVOLUTIONARY!

For example, i had no idea about Debt Jubilees in early civilizations 3000 years ago! The pyramids built by FREE MEN! Liberty and Freedom originating from canceling debts! Torches and Beacons of light as representatives of said Debt Jubilees!

If you ask me, the #HudsonHawk is trying to awaken the Workers of the World in Forgiveness, Peace, Love, and Solidarity.

HUDSON 2024

softie , July 21, 2019 at 3:27 pm

I didn't know that until I read anthropologist David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years.

But there's a fundamental difference between debt in the past and debt today. In the past debt was owed to the state, today it's owed to some wealthy corporations. Good luck with debt jubilees in the absence of violent uprisings.

Stephen Gardner , July 21, 2019 at 4:45 pm

Uprising? Whatever it takes.

Kurtismayfield , July 21, 2019 at 5:20 pm

And those corporations get favorable rates on money printed by the government.. and the government backs trillions in mortgage and student loans.

Not much different.

softie , July 21, 2019 at 10:22 pm

The difference is they internalize profit and externalize cost. And that's fundamentally different from all other epochs in the past. Even the birth of nation state was out of their rationalization of how to maximize profit extraction and cost externalization in the 1st place. Good luck with debt jubilees.

Oh , July 21, 2019 at 3:17 pm

I agree. I can read through typos, missing words, etc as long as the writing conveys the intended meaning. I think the criticism of the document for grammatical perfection is not warranted. I enjoyed the article myself anad I thank the author.

Wukchumni , July 21, 2019 at 10:15 am

That is why Russia, China and other powers that U.S. strategists deem to be strategic rivals and enemies are looking to restore gold's role as the preferred asset to settle payments imbalances.

How would this occur aside from a repudiation of the almighty buck one wonders, and would it be based on reserves in the vault, or actual use as money?

Keep in mind that there isn't a human alive now who ever proffered a monetized gold coin in order to purchase something, and increasingly relatively few that have ever used a monetized silver coin for the same purpose.

Synoia , July 21, 2019 at 3:51 pm

I've used Copper .

Clive , July 21, 2019 at 10:44 am

I don't have a huge amount of sympathy. The Eurozone and China could run trade deficits, thereby creating an opportunity for their currencies to become reasonably viable alternative reserves. But they don't because they don't want to cede control of their manufacturing and export-driven economic bases away.

The US doesn't mind and doesn't care about the domestic repercussions. For how much longer that can continue, especially as Trump's America First policy is putting that under some strain, is an open question. But for now, it's willing to be satisfied with a little rowing back rather than wholesale reversal (back to, for example, an immediate-post war position of significant trade surpluses although the article is correct to point out this was due to the US being the last man standing, in terms of having a manufacturing base still intact).

The Eurozone and China are not only not showing any signs of a policy change, they've continued embedding and strengthening the current modus operandi. You pays your money, you takes your choices. Here as elsewhere. If they'd rather not have the US$ having a more-or-less monopoly position in then global financial system as a reserve currency, they'll need to make the compromises needed to set up these challenger currencies as viable alternatives.

But they can't have their economic cakes and eat them, too.

And it's not just currencies. You need legal systems which are deemed to be (which can only come through real, observational experience) investor-friendly -- not just prone to supporting or at the very least given an easy ride to domestic stalwarts. Again, this has repercussions if you then have to stop cosseting domestic "champions". The US legal system is ridiculously business friendly. But it doesn't, overtly, differentiate between US and non-US companies in a commercial dispute.

barefoot charley , July 21, 2019 at 11:31 am

The sine qua non of our economic empire (which I learned here) is that a global currency requires global trade deficits, which must grow as quickly as the global economy to fulfill its role. Tell that to Germany! If your silly little euro or yen or renminbi tries to go global, the dollar-based currency speculators will shrivel it like Soros did the pound in the 90s. So American deficits are structural. Our debt-ceiling controversies are theater. And our dollar is exceptional until the instant it isn't–then the Fed electron-tranfers trillions more to the speculators whose notional dollars just evaporated, keeping the currencies in the air with their new casino chips. Is this a loan? A gift? An electron cloud? It's the fog of war by other means . . .

It may have been Hudson who explained that a quarter (or was it half?) of all corporate profits after WWII went to American companies, when our economy was that much of the world's. Now we're a much smaller fraction of the global economy, but our corporate sector still profits as much as it did when it was producing, rather than marketing, real goods. Another exceptional achievement.

barefoot charley , July 21, 2019 at 11:41 am

Oops, and I meant to begin with strong agreement, Clive, just developing your point about the need for deficits to 'buy' control with unpayable debt. And it's an excellent point that "The US doesn't mind and doesn't care about the domestic repercussions." Just imagine if we did.

The Rev Kev , July 21, 2019 at 11:05 am

Oh man, this is definitely a two coffee cup read with a ton of material to absorb. Definitely a keeper this. I'll just make a brief comment as it is late here. Maybe what is key here is that there are so many trends working against the US as power shifts from a unipolar to a multipolar world that a determination has been made in Washington to try to set out a unilateral domineering position with regards the rest of the world to stop the loss of prestige and power. This is just not Trump but the Washington political establishment backing him up to put the US in a domineering position for at least the first half of this century.

Peter , July 21, 2019 at 12:29 pm

This is the first serious article I've seen linking opposition to climate action with the US strategic focus on securing oil. The current oil wars may have started in 2003, but we've really been fighting them for longer, at least since the Tanker War of the late 80s, which led into the first Gulf War (which was explicitly for oil). We've been openly preparing for such wars since the Carter Doctrine of the late 70s as well. Those dates matter because the public generally became aware of global warming with the congressional hearings in 1988, and the oil companies (and thus presumably the rest of the deep state) became aware of the science as early as the 70s.

US military strategy has been based around ensuring climate change happens for as long as climate change has been known about. Why isn't this more of a scandal? Why isn't this more openly discussed as a justification for changing US foreign policy? Why isn't reducing imperial adventures discussed as a side benefit of any policy, like a Green New Deal, that seriously attempted to cut carbon emissions? It boggles the mind, and seems like the sort of thing that'll be obvious to future generations so long as civilization hasn't collapsed by then.

Daniel Rich , July 21, 2019 at 8:57 pm

@ Peter,

Perhaps we'll get an 'Easter Island V2.0 – The Extended Edition' rehash

Summer , July 21, 2019 at 1:20 pm

Really all we know is that such a plan would create a different order. That so many countries have continued to pauper their populations long after the obviousness that "development" is a sham doesn't bode well for their intentions even after the USA is brought to heel.

Susan the other` , July 21, 2019 at 2:30 pm

This is a good summary of our irrational world. MMT and the GND can save the situation but only if we industrialized humans forego any more fossil fuels except for long-term survival purposes. Ration it with draconian discipline. That in turn will discipline our military and turn our energies to things we can no longer ignore. Money doesn't bother me much. Resources and the critical health of the planet bother me a lot. Money and "gold" are, in the end, both fictitious obsessions.

karlof1 , July 21, 2019 at 4:56 pm

Thanks for providing this transcript prior to Hudson posting it to his own website. He was the first political-economist to lay out the Outlaw US Empire's game plan when he published Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire in 1972. You'll find few authors willing to provide their seminal work for free online– 2nd Edition PDF . I think it fair for those unfamiliar with Hudson's work to read his analysis prior to being judgmental.

Jonathan Holland Becnel , July 21, 2019 at 6:56 pm

Thanks for the link!

flora , July 21, 2019 at 10:25 pm

One quibble with the closing Summary:

The first existential objective is to avoid the current threat of war by winding down U.S. military interference in foreign countries and removing U.S. military bases as relics of neocolonialism.

US Naval base in Subic Bay, Philippines was closed in 1992 after a leasing disagreement with the Philippine govt .
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/28/world/philippines-orders-us-to-leave-strategic-navy-base-at-subic-bay.html

Clark Air Force base in Angeles City, Philippines had closed the year earlier in 1991.

China is growing power and challenger to shipping freedom of the South China Sea trading route, building artificial fortified islands and aircraft carriers. History has not ended. Power abhors a vacuum.

I agree with Hudson's point about the dangers of misdirected militarism, but I don't think closing military bases around the world necessarily guarantees the end of military adventurism dangers by other rising powers.

ElViejito , July 21, 2019 at 10:50 pm

Subic Bay is back in business as a resupply port for U.S. exercises in the Phillipines. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2015/1112/US-Navy-edges-back-to-Subic-Bay-in-Philippines-under-new-rules

[Jul 21, 2019] Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a potential co-conspirator in his crimes

Notable quotes:

"... "I wanted to tell you that I have compiled a list of 34 confirmed minors," Villafana wrote to Lefkowitz. "There are six others, whose name [sic] we already have, who need to be interviewed by the FBI to confirm whether they were 17 or 18 at the time of their activity with Mr. Epstein." ..."

"... Epstein agreed to a 30-month sentence, including 18 months of jail time and 12 months of house arrest and the agreement to pay dozens of young girls under a federal statute providing for compensation to victims of child sexual abuse. .the U.S. Attorney's Office promised not to pursue any federal charges against Epstein or his Named and Un-Named co-conspirators. ..."

"... His legal team? Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, Ken Starr, and Alan Dershowitz. ..."

"... The federal non-prosecution agreement Epstein's legal team negotiated immunized all named and unnamed potential co-conspirators in Epstein's child trafficking network, which includes those who allegedly procured minors for Epstein and any powerbrokers who may have molested them." ..."

Feb 23, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

William Dorritt , 3 hours ago link

LOLITA EXPRESS...ORGY ISLAND...ELITE PEDOPHILE RING ?-2006

* George W Bush President: January 20, 2001 – Jan. 20, 2009

* Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General USA: Feb. 3, 2005–Sept. 17, 2007

* Michael Bernard Mukasey, AG. USA: Nov. 9, 2007 – Jan. 20, 2009

* Eric Holder, A G. USA: Feb. 3, 2009 – April 27, 2015

* Loretta Lynch, Attorney General USA: April 27, 2015 – Present

* Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafana

* Epstein's Attorneys: Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, Ken Starr, Alan Dershowitz.

+ "He (Epstein) is an enthusiastic member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations."

+ Bill Clinton...26 trips aboard the "Lolita Express"

Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727 is equipped with the necessary hardware for him to wake up, roll out of bed, and start trading.

+ Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.

+ Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen -- have been repeatedly accused in court filings of acting as pimps. Oxford-educated Maxwell, recently seen dining with Clinton at Nello's on Madison Avenue. Manhattan-London G. Maxwell, daughter of the mysteriously deceased media titan Robert Maxwell.

+ A new lawsuit has revealed how Clinton took multiple trips to Epstein's private island where he 'kept young women as sex slaves'

+ Clinton was also apparently friends with a woman who collected naked pictures of underage girls for Epstein to choose from

+ Clinton invited her (pimp) to Chelsea's wedding

+ According to former child sex slave Virginia Roberts and a class action lawsuit against convicted billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, former President Bill Clinton was present during sex parties involving up to twenty underage girls at Epstein's secluded island in the Caribbean.

+ 20 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 said were sexually abused by Epstein, Palm Beach Police and FBI

+ 35 female minors sexually abused, Epstein settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims since 2008; the youngest alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.

..............................Source: FBI & Federal Prosecutors

+ flights on Epstein's planes 1997 to 2005, include Dershowitz (FOX NEWS, Harvard Law), former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers, Naomi Campbell, and scientist Stephen Pinker.

+ In the most recent court documents, filed on December 30, Roberts further claims she was sex-trafficked to "many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders." Roberts said Epstein trafficked children to politicians, Wall Streeters and A- listers to curry favor, advance his business, and for political influence.

The FIX

2015 Doc Release by Judge:

Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie Villafana wrote to Epstein lawyer Jay Lefkowitz in a Sept. 19, 2007, email. "I will include our standard language regarding resolving all criminal liability and I will mention 'co-conspirators,' but I would prefer not to highlight for the judge all of the other crimes and all of the other persons that we could charge ... maybe we can set a time to meet, if you want to meet 'off campus' somewhere, that is fine. I will make sure that I have all the necessary decision makers present or 'on call' as well."

"I wanted to tell you that I have compiled a list of 34 confirmed minors," Villafana wrote to Lefkowitz. "There are six others, whose name [sic] we already have, who need to be interviewed by the FBI to confirm whether they were 17 or 18 at the time of their activity with Mr. Epstein."

In a December 2007 letter, the prosecutor acknowledges some notifications of alleged victims but says they were sent after the U.S. Attorney's Office signed the plea deal and halted for most of the women at the request of Epstein's lawyers.

"Three victims were notified shortly after the signing of the Non-Prosecution Agreement of the general terms of that Agreement," Villafana wrote, again to Lefkowitz. "You raised objections to any victim notification, and no further notifications were done."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/07/judge-unseals-more-details-in-jeffrey-epstein-underage-sex-lawsuit-210065

Original Deal Hidden

On Sept. 24, 2007, in a deal shrouded in secrecy that left alleged victims shocked at its leniency,

Epstein agreed to a 30-month sentence, including 18 months of jail time and 12 months of house arrest and the agreement to pay dozens of young girls under a federal statute providing for compensation to victims of child sexual abuse. .the U.S. Attorney's Office promised not to pursue any federal charges against Epstein or his Named and Un-Named co-conspirators.

Sources:

Fox By Malia Zimmerman, May 13, 2016

Daily Mail Reporter 19 March 2014

Gawker Nick Bryant 01/22/15

Western Journalism Kris Zane March 27, 2014

Politico By Josh Gerstein 07/07/15

New York Magazine, By Landon Thomas Jr.

• http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/
• http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/23/24FC867300000578-2922773-image-a-1_1422040373109.jpg
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• http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/22/2461078600000578-2921637-Dershowitz_said_any_legal_success_he_has_against_the_woman_named-a-3_1421933700669.jpg
• 
  http://dcxposed.com/wp-content/uploads/prince-andrew-epstein.jpg
• https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article214210674.html

THE FIX IS IN

"In 2006 the FBI counted at least 40 underage girls who had been molested by Epstein. Authorities searched his Florida mansion and found two computers containing child *********** and homemade video and photographs from cameras hidden in bedroom walls which had been used to film sex acts. The case was airtight for many counts of sexual crimes but Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer and the Justice Department stepped in and offered Epstein a plea deal. In 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty in a Florida court to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex. His punishment was 13 months of "8 hour nights only" at a halfway house. No other charges about raping underage girls nor running an underage sex trafficking ring were mentioned in the plea. His legal team? Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, Ken Starr, and Alan Dershowitz.

The federal non-prosecution agreement Epstein's legal team negotiated immunized all named and unnamed potential co-conspirators in Epstein's child trafficking network, which includes those who allegedly procured minors for Epstein and any powerbrokers who may have molested them."

http://dcxposed.com/2015/01/26/bilderberg-pervs-island-sin-scandal-threatens-ultra-elite-politicians-lawyers-royalty/

William Dorritt , 3 hours ago link

The Talented Mr. Epstein

Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-flying style has been drawing oohs and aahs: the bachelor financier lives in New York's largest private residence, claims to take only billionaires as clients, and flies celebrities including Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey on his Boeing 727. But pierce his air of mystery and the picture changes. Vicky Ward explores Epstein's investment career, his ties to retail magnate Leslie Wexner, and his complicated past.

• Vicky Ward

June 27, 2011 12:00 am

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303

Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery

So how do termite grouping patterns fare as an investment strategy? Again, facts are hard to come by. A working day for Epstein starts at 5 a.m., when he gets up and scours the world markets on his Bloomberg screen -- each of his houses, in New York, St. Thomas, Palm Beach, and New Mexico, as well as the 727, is equipped with the necessary hardware for him to wake up, roll

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/index3.html

[Jul 21, 2019] A Bank With $49 Trillion In Derivatives Exposure Is Melting Down Before Our Eyes

Jul 21, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

Deutsche Bank is the most important bank in all of Europe, it has 49 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives, and most of the largest "too big to fail banks" in the United States have very deep financial connections to the bank. In other words, the global financial system simply cannot afford for Deutsche Bank to fail, and right now it is literally melting down right in front of our eyes. For years I have been warning that this day would come, and even though it has been hit by scandal after scandal , somehow Deutsche Bank was able to survive until now. But after what we have witnessed in recent days, many now believe that the end is near for Deutsche Bank. On July 7th, they really shook up investors all over the globe when they laid off 18,000 employees and announced that they would be completely exiting their global equities trading business

It takes a lot to rattle Wall Street.

But Deutsche Bank managed to. The beleaguered German giant announced on July 7 that it is laying off 18,000 employees -- roughly one-fifth of its global workforce -- and pursuing a vast restructuring plan that most notably includes shutting down its global equities trading business.

Though Deutsche's Bloody Sunday seemed to come out of the blue, it's actually the culmination of a years-long -- some would say decades-long -- descent into unprofitability and scandal for the bank, which in the early 1990s set out to make itself into a universal banking powerhouse to rival the behemoths of Wall Street.

These moves may delay Deutsche Bank's inexorable march into oblivion, but not by much. And as Deutsche Bank collapses, it could take a whole lot of others down with it at the same time. According to Wall Street On Parade , the bank had 49 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives as of the end of last year

During 2018, the serially troubled Deutsche Bank – which still has a vast derivatives footprint in the U.S. as counterparty to some of the largest banks on Wall Street – trimmed its exposure to derivatives from a notional €48.266 trillion to a notional €43.459 trillion (49 trillion U.S. dollars) according to its 2018 annual report. A derivatives book of $49 trillion notional puts Deutsche Bank in the same league as the bank holding companies of U.S. juggernauts JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, which logged in at $48 trillion, $47 trillion and $42 trillion, respectively, at the end of December 2018 according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). (See Table 2 in the Appendix at this link .)

... ... ...

In particular, some of the largest “too big to fail banks” in the United States are “heavily interconnected financially” to Deutsche Bank. The following comes from Wall Street On Parade…

We know that Deutsche Bank’s derivative tentacles extend into most of the major Wall Street banks. According to a 2016 reportfrom the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Deutsche Bank is heavily interconnected financially to JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America as well as other mega banks in Europe. The IMF concluded that Deutsche Bank posed a greater threat to global financial stability than any other bank as a result of these interconnections – and that was when its market capitalization was tens of billions of dollars larger than it is today.

Until these mega banks are broken up, until the Fed is replaced by a competent and serious regulator of bank holding companies, and until derivatives are restricted to those that trade on a transparent exchange, the next epic financial crash is just one counterparty blowup away.

As long as I have been doing this, I have been warning my readers to watch the global derivatives market. It played a starring role during the last financial crisis, and it will play a starring role in the next one too.

The fundamental structural problems that were exposed during 2008 and 2009 were never fixed. In fact, many would argue that the global financial system is even more vulnerable today than it was back during that time.

And now it appears that the next “Lehman Brothers moment” may be playing out right in front of our eyes.

Now more than ever, keep a close eye on Deutsche Bank, because it appears that they could be the first really big domino to fall.

bshirley1968 , 14 minutes ago link

" Deutsche Bank is the most important bank in all of Europe, it has 49 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives, and most of the largest "too big to fail banks" in the United States have very deep financial connections to the bank. "

Hey, Mike, ever heard of TBTF? Well, you just defined it.

DB has been bankrupt for at least a decade but keeps plugging along. Germany will never let it go under as it is Gemany's only seat at the world banking forum.

There are a couple of Italian banks in much worse shape, that should have gone under again, but they are being propped up. That's right, Italian banks. So no, I don't see anyone letting DB fail.

Riddle me this, after Lehman collapsed, the central banks came in and had things back up and running within a matter of months.....simply by pampering over everything, and have been doing so ever since......if it is a matter of paper in over problems, what make you think this will ever go down?

Things......or DB......will "collapse" when TPTB are ready for it to collapse so they can rearrange whatever it is they want to rearrange. But you can bet your ***, it will be a building 7 moment.......controlled demolition.

[Jul 21, 2019] Several years ago Dagong, the Chinese ratings agency, published a report analyzing the physical economy of the States comparing it with those of China, Germany and Japan.

A large part of the US GDP is FIRE business and that alone makes the USA GDP fake metric of economic growth. .

Notable quotes:

"... The conclusion was that the US GDP was something between $5 to $10 trillion instead of $15 trillion as officially reported by the USG . We assume that the official data, especially economic, released by governments is fake, cooked or distorted in some degree. ..."

Jul 21, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

BuyDash , 9 minutes ago link

As you can see from the soon collapse of the western financial system, the valuation metrics that we have looked to for stability and "the truth" have been mostly fake and gamed.

Inflation, currency supply, housing data, economic growth or lack thereof, all of these data points are manipulated, faked and gamed. Just like the Soviet Union was known in the West to be "faking" their econ data, so too is the west engaged in the same practice.

Deagel.com 2025 population forecast explanation

For example, several years ago Dagong, the Chinese ratings agency, published a report analyzing the physical economy of the States comparing it with those of China, Germany and Japan.

The conclusion was that the US GDP was something between $5 to $10 trillion instead of $15 trillion as officially reported by the USG . We assume that the official data, especially economic, released by governments is fake, cooked or distorted in some degree.

Historically it is well known that the former Soviet Union was making up fake statistics years before its collapse. Western as well as other countries are making up their numbers today to conceal their real state of affairs.

We are sure that many people out there can find government statistics in their own countries that by their own personal experience are hard to believe or are so optimistic that may belong to a different country.

Well, the old boys are back at their old tricks again.

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Chain Man , 10 minutes ago link

FASAB 56 has made government financial reporting unreliable. They can hide financial statements. It gives them the right to move around money to hide where money is spent or not report spending at all. I think they used it's loop holes to hide the 17 trillion in drug money.

FASAB is a dream come true for Bank money laundering and embezzlers. The Fed is a joke all these Bank are crooked the way things are set up they can say what ever they want and just screw Nations of the world. End the Fed go to MMT Hybrid system for the sake of the living now, each Nation with it's Own money.

[Jul 20, 2019] Dave Collum Goes Deep On Conspiracy Theories 9-11, Epstein, Pizzagate, JFK, The Vegas Shooting Zero Hedge

Jul 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

Cornell professor, and long-time friend, David Collum recently appeared on an episode of the Quoth the Raven podcast to talk all things conspiracy. Collum is an economic commentator, chemist, Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University and is known for writing his "Year in Review", which appears here on Zerohedge at the end of every year.

On the episode, host Chris Irons notes that Collum's appearance was prompted by a recent Tweet he put out, in defense of being a conspiracy theorist which sparked a massive social media response and outpouring of reactions, both pro and con.

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On the podcast, Collum and host Chris Irons tap into every major conspiracy theory over the last couple of decades, as well as several current events and the world of finance.

Some highlights:

Collum Thinks Jeffrey Epstein Could Have Been Working For "Powerful People" And "Setting People Up"

The discussion starts with analysis of the current Jeffrey Epstein fiasco and Collum ponders what "can of worms" could open for Bill Clinton and Donald Trump as a result of Epstein going to trial and documents relating to his indictment coming to light.

"It's going to be bi-partisan," Collum says about the Epstein allegations. "Epstein was working for powerful people, to get dirt on powerful people. Epstein wasn't just a dirtball, he was setting people up," he continues.

Collum comments:

"Nowadays getting photographed on a boat with a blonde sitting on your lap doesn't even cause you to lose a vote. Now they gotta get you with something much dirtier. I think that's where the underage kids come in. I think Epstein has been building a portfolio of dirt, like J. Edgar Hoover."

"What if that crazy ass pizzagate conspiracy turns out to be true?" he asks.

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Collum Doesn't Buy The 9/11 Narrative - "Physics Tells Me There's Problems"

Collum then discusses why he doesn't believe the mainstream narrative behind the 9/11 attacks. He cites physics, Building 7 and the lack of video footage of the plane crashing into the Pentagon as two of the big reasons that he questions the official story.

"I think there's problems with 9/11, but no one wants to say that because they're embarrassed to say that. But the laws of physics tell me there's problems. I don't give a shit about the squibs or Larry Silverstein saying they decided to pull the building. When I watch two towers come down perfectly and I go 'chaos theory alone says they should have gone asymmetric and stopped tumbling'..."

Collum continues:

"" I can't believe Building 7 should have fallen . There's really not a shred of footage of the plane hitting the pentagon. Not one frame. The official frame isn't a frame. If someone's got the footage, let me see it."

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Scipio Africanuz , 29 minutes ago link

Epstein is tripartisan - Democrats, Republicans, and Likudist, cheers...

captain noob , 40 minutes ago link

Las Vegas CIA

9/11 Israel

Eipstein Mossad

Posa , 1 hour ago link

There's conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact... important distinction... The Congressional 9/11 Inquiry strongly points to CIA- FBI collaboration with the Saudis (the 28 pages redacted by Bush) to stage the 9/11 Terror Spectacle...

Willie the Pimp , 1 hour ago link

I am a "conspiracy theorist". I believe men and women of wealth and power conspire. If you don't think so, then you are what is called "an idiot". If you believe stuff but fear the label, you are what is called "a coward".

So well said.

Ignorance is bliss , 1 hour ago link

I was on Yahoo commenting on a stupid article about Trump and some Kurdish lady asking for asylum. All the comments were anti-Trump. I posted a couple of above board comments and they were all erased. Yahoo articles are heavily censored and bots are posting most of their liberal views. I wonder how long before sites like ZeroHedge will last.

847328_3527 , 1 hour ago link

Good article. However, i am still waiting for even one, at least ONE, demoRat or pedophile to be indicted on anything.

[Jul 20, 2019] There Were Photos Of Topless Women Everywhere Epstein's Former IT Guy Quit Over Disturbing Pictures

Jul 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

Jeffrey Epstein's former IT contractor, Steve Scully, says that he ended his business relationship with the 66-year-old pedophile over hordes of young women all over his infamous private island, as well as an extensive collection of photographs depicting topless women displayed in the island's various compounds , according to Good Morning America.

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Scully told ABC News that he owned and operated a telecommunications business on nearby St. Thomas island when he was hired by Epstein to set up a communications network on Little St. James, also known as 'Pedo Island.' He visited the island over 100 times, and says that his memories of Epstein are 'vivid.'

" He was the most intense person I ever met ," said Scully.

Epstein wanted phone or internet access nearly everywhere on the 72-acre island, Scully said, including in a secluded cove that the financier referred to as "the grotto." Given his work in high-volume financial trading, Scully said, Epstein "never wanted a call to drop" because of weak digital coverage on the island .

The island's primary compound was arranged in a "Danish style" layout -- with individual bedroom suites in individual buildings surrounding a courtyard, Scully recalled, including a pair of large cockatoo statues lording over the island's gardens. He said that at one point, he recalled Epstein wanting to change the name of the island from "Little St. James" to "Little Saint Jeff."

According to Scully, that the strange 'temple' structure was actually a gym , which contained a massive framed photo of a topless woman.

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Give Me Some Truth , 6 minutes ago link

Yes, Epstein and Maxwell were obviously operating a major "sex trafficking" operation that involved plenty of girls who were underage.

But Epstein was also, in effect, operating a bordello. A whore house. One assumes that any man who "paid" to be in Epstein's company, had his choice of women or girls.

This is why these places are so "out of the way" and secluded. The island and the ranch in New Mexico.

cleg , 5 minutes ago link

On season St Thomas is awash in bimbo tourists from all over the US & Europe

Ask the St Thomas police how many are reported missing and the estimate of those never reported. Cruise ships don't care..they leave. Airplane don't wait. The assumption is that they got drunk or went native. If they don't show up somewhere looking for a ride home, is any one really looking for them ? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Offer them a party on a PRIVATE Island !..A helicopter or boat ride ! Keep em fed..$2.00 a quart duty free rum...keeping the island stocked with bimbos is the easy part...especially for his less discerning quests. Now the " prime stock " of young uns is a different matter but just keeping a " horde " of bimbos in stock is a breeze for his staff.

When they get stale or become troublesome...drop them back on St Thomas and let the authorities send them back to whence they came with a nice annual retainer to the local constabulary. Rounding up drunks and miscreants and putting them on airplanes is routine duty in island life

I'm sure New Mexico offers the same opportunities and that has its own airstrip.

Give Me Some Truth , 18 minutes ago link

It seems that Vanity Fair is taking the lead in producing informative articles about Epstein's "world."

I gather from a recent story that The Miami Herald might, in fact, be trying to "follow the money."

Both good developments. The more "mainstream" journalists who get involved - and score "scoops" and produce content with big audiences - the more other news organizations might say, "Let's join in and do the same thing."

That's when big stories get exposed - when a pack of journalists and news organizations are simultaneously pursuing different avenues of the same story.

... I still haven't seen a story where authorities explain why they haven't arrested Ghislaine Maxwell or raided the islands or the ranch in New Mexico . So it's not like the press is actually "fishing where the (big) fish are." At least not yet.

... But they might be getting closer to going here.

Your Good Friend , 24 minutes ago link

Epstain has all the behaviors of a bonafide homosexual.

And we all know the predatory nature of homosexuals.

buzzsaw99 , 28 minutes ago link

epstein motto: no child left behind.

[Jul 20, 2019] Palm Beach Sheriff Launches Internal Investigation Into Handling Of Epstein Work Release

Notable quotes:

"... Edwards said during the press conference that he raised the accusation to challenge the idea that Epstein was a model citizen while in jail. Edwards also said that Epstein was in his office most of the day during his 18-month sentence, of which he served 13 months, and that he had female visitors under the age of 21 . ..."

"... Edwards said Epstein had sexual interactions with the female visitors that constituted abuse and were similar in nature to the abuses described in the indictment and charges Epstein faces in court, which are one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. - Business Insider ..."

Jul 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has launched an internal affairs investigation into how it handled convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's work release following a 2007 plea agreement that allowed him to work out of his Palm Beach office for up to 12 hours per day, according to the Miami Herald - which has been instrumental in Epstein's arrest 12 years later.

Specifically, it will look at the decision more than a decade ago to allow Epstein to be free 12 hours a day on work release while serving a short sentence in the county stockade on a prostitution-related charge.

On Friday, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw -- the same sheriff who oversaw the controversial work release arrangement -- ordered the investigation be done.

" Sheriff Bradshaw takes these matters very seriously and wants to determine if any actions taken by the deputies assigned to monitor Epstein during his work release program violated any agency rules and regulations, during the time he was on PBSO work release program," a news release said. - Miami Herald

Epstein was given a slap on the wrist over allegations that he sexually abused girls as young as 14 - many of whom were coerced into sex acts after being told they were there to offer massages.

The US Attorney's office, headed by disgraced former Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, scrapped a 53-page sex-trafficking indictment against Epstein , instead allowing him to plea guilty to solicitation of a minor - a much lesser charge. He served 13 months in the county stockade vs. the decades-long sentence he faced under the federal indictment , according to the Herald .

Epstein has been accused of sexually abusing girls while on work release , according to attorney Brad Edwards, who represents some of Epstein's accusers.

During a Tuesday press conference in New York City, Edwards introduced a woman named Courtney Wild, who says Epstein began abusing her when she was 14-years-old, according to Business Insider .

Edwards said during the press conference that he raised the accusation to challenge the idea that Epstein was a model citizen while in jail. Edwards also said that Epstein was in his office most of the day during his 18-month sentence, of which he served 13 months, and that he had female visitors under the age of 21 .

Edwards said Epstein had sexual interactions with the female visitors that constituted abuse and were similar in nature to the abuses described in the indictment and charges Epstein faces in court, which are one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors. - Business Insider

Wild appeared in court on Monday during Epstein's bail hearing, saying "I was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein starting at the age of 14," while standing just feet from the pedophile money manager.

Epstein was denied bail on Thursday , with Wild's appearance cited in Judge Richard M. Berman's decision.

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White Nat , 2 hours ago link

SND #42 Whitney Webb Talks On Her Groundbreaking Epstein Report!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQNtEDedLk

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case

https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/

Good in-depth look into how ruthless zionist gangsters control our political process through blackmail.

Bronfman, Cohn, Epstein, Wexner, Dalitz, Lansky, Rosensteil - all here.

Now you know why DC sucks zio-****.

Jumanji1959 , 3 hours ago link

Find the common denominator:

• Eric Schneiderman Former AG in NY **likes it rough, poor women*****
• Eliot Spitzer
• Anthony Wiener
• Harvey Wienstein
• Jeffrey Epstein
• Steven Hoffenberg (Fraudster)
• Robert Maxwell
• Ghislaine Maxwell
• Alan Dershowitz
• Les Wexner
• Clare Bronfman, NXIVM (Keith Raniere NXIVM founder)
• Sara Bronfman NXIVM
• Kristen Kreuk. NXIVM
• India Oxenberg NXIVM
• Nancy Salzberg NXIVM
• Lauren Salzberg NXIVM
• Ehud Barak
• Dustin Hoffman
• Woody Allen
• Charlie Rose
• Prince Andrew (he is jewish according to many sources regarding Royal Family)
• Henry Kissinger
• Maurice Strong
• Rothschild family
• Rockefeller family
• Francesca von Habsburg
• Lord Peter Mandelson,
• Nick Pritzker,
• Leon Koffler,
• Jonathan Soros,
• Jacqueline and Mortimer Sackler
• Richard Rockefeller,
• Barry Diller.

Straddling-the-fence , 4 hours ago link

...that he sexually abused girls as young as 14 - many of whom were coerced into sex acts after being told they were there to offer massages.

Why in the hell were fourteen-to-seventeen year old girls even "giving massages??????" That should be a clear indicator right there!

MsCreant , 3 hours ago link

Are you blaming the girls, that they should have known better? Or?

Asking to get clear.

Straddling-the-fence , 3 hours ago link

I wouldn't say "blame" is the right word at all. In fact, I wasn't even posting that coming from the viewpoint/consideration of the girls.

But, for the sake of being the devil's advocate, let's take that route:

Let's say you are a 14 or 15 year old child. Why would an older, rich man even be approaching you for.....anything? Further, why would you them give them the time of day, let alone go to their house/apartment. Further, why would you then allow yourself to be in the position of being alone with them? Further still, why would you then "agree" to "give them a massage?"

The only reasons I can come up with are: 1) Homelessness/Poverty/Hunger/some other extreme condition of life or health, 2) Attention/the promise of gifts or money, 3) Wanting to **** an older guy and/or daddy issues.

MsCreant , 3 hours ago link

#1 and #3 = vulnerable, which is why our culture has decided to protect this age group.

I have step daughters. At 16, I had one who was dressed to kill, going to a party with a lot of older men. I sat her down and explained to her how she looked and the attention she would draw. I did not judge her, I flattered her and told her it was a responsibility. Later, I was made the bad guy for being mean and "scaring her." She cried that I had spoiled her party, that men were not really like that. I had to back off.

My point? So many parents don't talk to their girls about this stuff. And by the time you get to them, if they have not been gently brought along, they think you are trying to control them, and may actually rebel.

Berspankme , 4 hours ago link

Corrupt dept investigates itself. What could go wrong?

White Nat , 4 hours ago link

The real investigation should be into Barry Krischer, the jewish democrat State Prosecutor who only charged his fellow *** Epstein with solicitation despite the mountains of child molestation evidence provided by the Palm Beach PD.

Florida Dem Who Gave Epstein a Pass is Providing "Training" on Prosecuting Sexual Violence Crimes

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274255/florida-dem-who-gave-epstein-pass-providing-daniel-greenfield

Would be interesting to know who waived off Acosta and what intelligence agency was involved.

And did Acosta become Labor Secretary in a quid pro quo? If so, who made that deal?

[Jul 20, 2019] How Long Is Jeffrey Epstein For This World

Notable quotes:

"... Mr. LLargi, you need to ask, "Why did this Epstein thing go public now?" This is hard core betrayal of an arrangement Epstein had with government entities and it was done for a reason. Probably a political reason. ..."

"... Epstein seems to be a fairly smart guy, academic-wise, even without the formal degrees. But his inclinations and then being adopted by Mossad entirely corrupted his being. ..."

"... Chances are few elites will go down with Epstein. However, it is very likely the Blackmail material changed hands on who controls it. When it comes to the power structure of the western world, that is a very big deal. ..."

Jul 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

This I found interesting, Fox, also from July 18, because it targets Prince Andrew. Is MI6 going to be able to muffle away the obviously very strong and long-term connection between Epstein and Andrew? I'm thinking they'd probably have to get those 2,000 pages re-sealed. Or, you know, burned down. Nuked.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/DQ1JQvi3GSA

And then there's George Webb. Now he is, I understand, someone who's known as a conspiracy theorist, but then many people are in some circles, including myself, This video was posted on July 8 2019, 2 days after Epstein's arrest. My thought while watching this is he may be wrong on some things, he may even be making a few points up, but when you're that detailed on events that occurred over such a long time, you're either on very powerful drugs or you're not entirely wrong. Check for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RZlDb6vG6XM

To summarize my thoughts on this, and the reason I started writing this, I can't see Epstein living much longer. There are too many people who would rather see him dead, including perhaps himself. And there are very few people who want him to get into lengthy talks with prosecutors who are actually looking for the truth.

Now of course we must wonder if any prosecutor wants that truth. Alex Acosta left his US government job because "Epstein is intelligence" was not enough to let him keep his job. And if we can believe some of the stories about the CIA, the State Dept and Mossad being linked to Epstein (and we got worse than that), it looks like he's just got to go. Unless someone, or some party involved, has a reason to protect him against all odds. If only to handicap some other people.

After this piece I really hope I never have to write about this topic again. My hopes of that are not overly high, but I do have to say I have a very hard time thinking about child -sex- abuse. I also think we must think much harder about why it is that we pick predators to lead our societies. Because this hardly ever fails, doesn't it? A bunch of sexual deviants rise to the top everywhere.

Sexual predation appears to be some inevitable part of political power. Not everywhere and not all the time, but far too much for comfort.

Let's hope enough of those predators are exposed through the Jeffrey Epstein case. But, you know, listening to George Webb, you think of the oil sheikhs and the girls being trafficked by Epstein and others, from the Balkans and dirt poor African countries, and you ask yourself, what are the odds of full exposure?

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Baron von Bud , 11 minutes ago link

Mr. LLargi, you need to ask, "Why did this Epstein thing go public now?" This is hard core betrayal of an arrangement Epstein had with government entities and it was done for a reason. Probably a political reason.

There has to be some systemically critical reason to expose certain people on that list. Epstein never imagined he would be used as criminal evidence against them. Lured back to America, he goes from mega rich with money from unknown sources to a super-max where he can never speak the truth to anyone. I'd guess #2.

Thom Paine , 7 minutes ago link

There seems to be an attempt to rewrite Epstein's history of attendance at Dalton School as a math's teacher. Changing the dates of Epstein's attendance and who employed him. Not sure why, but must be something behind it.

Don Barr was headmaster there and put his resignation in Feb 1974 and left in June 1974. He hired Epstein apparently, though the assertion now is that Epstein started in Sept 1974. Barr as the story in the news back then goes had a habit of employing effective smart people for the job rather than just relying on qualifications.

And stories of Epstein's tenure at Dalton School showed that he was charismatic and a very effective teacher, though some kids have since reported being uncomfortable at times, most liked him., so of the students said though that they saw Epstein flirting with the girls.

Don Barr was the absolute opposite of Epstein in every way imaginable (video interviews of the1970s) and had trouble with the school board for being too strict and conservative when they wanted progressiveness (NY Times of the day). After Barr quit many members of the school committee wanted him re-employed and had a lot of support for him, but the Admin didn't offer it back to him.

The guy that replaced Barr as Headmaster then got into trouble for pedophilia accusation, getting some familys' daughter to 'live in' in his home and provide housework support for the family, in exchange for him paying for her school admittance.

It seems that Epstein has had an early predilection for under age girls? and one wonders if that new headmaster introduced him to the world, or it was coincidence that they both ended up in the school together.

Epstein seems to be a fairly smart guy, academic-wise, even without the formal degrees. But his inclinations and then being adopted by Mossad entirely corrupted his being.

Ms No , 22 minutes ago link

Its very clear now why the British government, American government and the Catholic Church were stacked with pederasts.

Mossad and their puppet CIA run everything. Edit: You can see the dominoes fall by following ownership of currency. There is no global power that they wont target.

rag_house , 44 minutes ago link

Chances are few elites will go down with Epstein. However, it is very likely the Blackmail material changed hands on who controls it. When it comes to the power structure of the western world, that is a very big deal.

[Jul 20, 2019] "Democratic Party Dilemmas -- An Analysis" (20 July 2019) by Professor Lawrence Davidson

Jul 20, 2019 | mondoweiss.net

Misterioso on July 20, 2019, 9:42 am

Not precisely on topic, but relevant and important:

"Democratic Party Dilemmas -- An Analysis" (20 July 2019) by Professor Lawrence Davidson

Part I -- On the Domestic Front

The rise to power of Donald Trump destroyed the traditional Republican Party. Most of the moderate conservatives fled into the ranks of the independents and were replaced by a radical right amalgamation of racists, misogynists, conspiracy theorists, assorted "tea party" types and warmongers. In the background also exists support from religious fundamentalists yearning for Armageddon. If you want to get a snapshot of Trump's new Republicans, just read up on the 200 rightwing social media radicals the president hosted at the White House on Thursday, 11 July 2019. Perhaps their greatest collective desire is to smear Democrats generally and, specifically, malign progressives. These are Trump's new Republicans. They certainly reflect a segment of the American population. A crucial question is just how large a segment are they.

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Part II -- On the Foreign Policy Front

It is painfully clear that most Democrats are confused and inconsistent when it comes to foreign policy. Consider this sequence of events:

-- Back in March of 2019, "Nearly 400 members of Congress, from both chambers -- roughly 75 percent of all federal US lawmakers -- signed an open letter calling on President Trump to escalate the war in Syria, in the name of countering Iran, Russia, and Lebanese Hezbollah. Among the signatories are 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Cory Booker." Also signing the petition was Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

-- Then four months later, in July of 2019, "Lawmakers passed two amendments to the House's more than $730 billion national defense budget that would restrict Trump's ability to go to war with Iran without congressional approval, and also put a check on Trump's relationship with Saudi Arabia, an alliance the administration has been using to escalate tensions with Iran."

So what happened between these two events? Between March and July the Trump administration increased its sanctions on Iran and has threatened the Europeans with sanctions if they fulfill their contractual obligations to Iran under the original nuclear agreement. Then the president sent a naval and air armada to the Persian Gulf area. This constituted a form of brinkmanship whereby any small accidental encounter of American and Iranian forces could escalate into war.

Part III -- Theory and Practice

We can look upon the March petition as a form of theory. Probably drawn up by real warmongers in the Congress, almost everyone jumped on board. They did so to show -- to show whom? -- that they were tough on the nation's alleged enemies. At the time, it seemed a costless show of face. Then, come July, theory looked like it was about to turn into practice and the ghosts from wars in Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan started to appear before the bipartisan eyes of members of Congress.

While very few lawmakers will admit it publicly, Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah represent absolutely no threat to the United States. Take the case of Syria. The Syrian government has all but won its war against rebelling factions and fanatical religious elements. Its interests and capabilities are limited to consolidating that hard-fought victory. The continuing violence in the country comes largely from the military activity of the U.S., Britain, Israel, and Turkey. At least in the case of the U.S. and Israel, the main reason for this continued victimization of the people of Syria is to keep the country destabilized and fragmented.

Specifically, why would the American government want to see Syria destabilized and fragmented? Is it because Syria constitutes a real threat to the national security of the United States? That proposition is almost laughable. Is it because Iran, an ally of Syria, constitutes a real threat to the United States? In no practical terms is this the case, though it is certainly the case that the U.S. constitutes a real threat to the national security of Iran.

So why the hostility to Syria, Iran and even Hezbollah? Whom were all those March petitioners trying to impress? And who would really benefit from continuing turmoil in Syria? The answer to all these questions is Israel.

The unfortunate truth is that American leaders from President Trump, Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Pompeo, and National Security Adviser Bolton on down to most run-of-the-mill congresspersons and senators have no clear and accurate knowledge of what is going on in the Middle East. They have a large and expensive intelligence apparatus with whom they get irritated and angry every time their experts tell these politicos what they don't want to hear. And what is it that they do want to hear? Well, that might depend on ideology, religion, financial arrangements and other such things that can warp an objective picture of national interest and security. And who manages to tell them things that seem to satisfy most of these ideological, religious, and financial considerations? The answer is again Israel.

Putting aside all the real damage the Zionists actually do -- I really don't want to sound like a broken record -- there is a an outstanding irony in this present situation. And that is, from all we know, President Trump does not want war with Iran. It's just that his abrasive and blusterous personality, which seems never to have outgrown the spoiled bullying nature of his youth, has literally led him to the habit of a blitzkrieg approach to whatever passes in his mind for negotiations. In the case of Iran, he has unthinkingly destroyed the painstakingly wrought nuclear deal of his predecessor (perhaps for no other reason than he hates everything Barack Obama accomplished), and is now trying to force the Iranians into new negotiations by economically and militarily threatening them. This is a form of brinkmanship which is dangerous in the extreme.

Congress suddenly woke up to the reality of this situation -- that is, many in Congress have gone from petitioners trying to be tough guys, to understanding just how dangerous Trump's tactics can be. The result is the bipartisan amendments embedded in the House version of the Defense Appropriations Bill designed to rein in the delinquent in the White House.

Part IV -- Conclusion

... White resentment over the loss of public cultural privilege has festered in the largely unchanged, segregated private sphere. It has done so in rural regions and white suburbs alike. Now with Donald Trump, who is little more that an opportunistic demigod, that resentment has been empowered and our status as a civilized society is in danger.

In the realm of foreign policy the United States has much less to lose for here national behavior has always been uncivilized. The names of presidents who have lied so as to manufacture wars, steal other people's lands, and rein havoc and devastation upon innocent people, rank among many of our most easily recognized leaders.

Yet, for all the horrors our foreign adventures have wrought, the real present danger is that we will turn on ourselves and destroy our precarious democracy. Under these circumstances, the Democrats, for all their shortcomings, represent not only the party of choice, but the potential salvation of the United States. All they have to do is recognize this fact and, taking a cue from the progressive "squad" in the House, act accordingly.

Lawrence Davidson
ldavidson@wcupa.edu

Blog: http://www.tothepointanalyses.com

[Jul 20, 2019] Escobar Western Intellectuals Freak Over Frankenstein China

Jul 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

Decoupling

Assuming the decoupling would take place, that could be easily perceived as "strategic blackmail" imposed by the Trump administration. Yet what the Trump administration wants is not exactly what the US establishment wants – as shown by an open letter to Trump signed by scores of academics, foreign policy experts and business leaders who are worried that "decoupling" China from the global economy – as if Washington could actually pull off such an impossibility – would generate massive blowback.

What may actually happen in terms of a US-China "decoupling" is what Beijing is already, actively working on: extending trade partnerships with the EU and across the Global South.

And that will lead, according to Li, to the Chinese leadership offering deeper and wider market access to its partners. This will soon be the case with the EU, as discussed in Brussels in the spring.

Sun Jie, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that deepening partnerships with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will be essential in case a decoupling is in the cards.

For his part Liu Qing, an economics professor at Renmin University, stressed the need for top international relations management, dealing with everyone from Europe to the Global South, to prevent their companies from replacing Chinese companies in selected global supply chains.

And Wang Xiaosong, an economics professor at Renmin University, emphasized that a concerted Chinese strategic approach in dealing with Washington is absolutely paramount.

All about Belt and Road

A few optimists among Western intellectuals would rather characterize what is going on as a vibrant debate between proponents of "restraint" and "offshore balancing" and proponents of "liberal hegemony". In fact, it's actually a firefight.

Among the Western intellectuals singled out by the puzzled Frankenstein guy, it is virtually impossible to find another voice of reason to match Martin Jacques , now a senior fellow at Cambridge University. When China Rules the World , his hefty tome published 10 years ago, still leaps out of an editorial wasteland of almost uniformly dull publications by so-called Western "experts" on China.

Jacques has understood that now it's all about the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative:

"BRI has the potential to offer another kind of world, another set of values, another set of imperatives, another way of organizing, another set of institutions, another set of relationships."

Belt and Road, adds Jacques, "offers an alternative to the existing international order. The present international order was designed by and still essentially privileges the rich world, which represents only 15% of the world's population. BRI, on the other hand, is addressing at least two-thirds of the world's population. This is extraordinarily important for this moment in history."

[Jul 20, 2019] The European Union's New Executive Kowtows to the Left

Jul 20, 2019 | www.theamericanconservative.com

Ursula von der Leyen arrives clouded in scandal and ready to implement radical economic policies that will stifle growth.

like Jean-Claude Juncker, she arrives in Brussels with a record of negligence in her country of origin. Whereas Juncker was accused of failing in his duty to inform the Luxembourg Parliament of illegal wiretapping by the intelligence service, von der Leyen was denounced for mismanagement. In October 2018, when she was still Germany's minister of defense, she admitted that her department had made mistakes in awarding contracts to external consultants, amounting to several hundred million euros.

In 2012, Josep Borrell, former president of the European Parliament and former minister in various Spanish socialist governments, was forced to resign from his position as president of the European University Institute (UIE) following allegations of conflicts of interest. At that time, he was receiving €300,000 as a member of the board of directors of the Spanish sustainable energy company Abengoa, while at the same time promoting biofuels through the institute.

Nevertheless, alongside von der Leyen, Borrell is about to be confirmed as the new head of EU diplomacy. Another perfect candidate.

The scandal in Berlin is not the only reason the vote for Von der Leyen was narrow. It was also that socialists and environmentalists weren't given sufficient trade-offs (in their eyes). The European Union is all about distributing the large number of positions and policy priorities between the involved parties, and in this case, the left felt shafted.

The Nationalists Who Could Take Over the European Union Stopped Clocks: The European Union Gets War With Iran Exactly Right

A source from the PiS party (the ruling party in Poland) told journalist Oskar Górzyński of the media company Wirtualna Polska that it was a call from Chancellor Angela Merkel that tipped some Polish MEPs over. What did Mrs. Merkel promise them? More agricultural subsidies? The abandonment of the Article 7 sanction procedure against judicial reforms in Poland? Only Merkel knows that and she won't tell.

Bill Wirtz comments on European politics and policy in English, French, and German. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Examiner, CityAM, Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Die Welt.

[Jul 20, 2019] New Jersey lawmakers are trying to amend the state's discrimination laws to equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism by Michael Arria

I agree that denying Israel the right to exit is anti-Semitism, but "a double standard to Israel by requiring behavior of Israel that is not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation, or focusing peace or human rights investigations only on Israel" is an overkill. Which European country systematically kills and injure the protesters? Or bomb occupied territories? What about the absence of constitution or defined borders? What about Rabbinate approval of marriages?. What about generetic tests for Jewishness?

Critique of Israel as a theocratic state is still OK ;-) Critique of pro-Israel lobby is still OK too :-). And while holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of Israel is clear anti-Semitism, holding Zionists responsible is pretty straightforward and completely justified as Zionism was/is at the core of Isreal ideology. As a flavorof far-rigth nationalism Zionism is questionable on many levels.

Notable quotes:

"... The proposed New Jersey bill comes amidst a national debate regarding the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) and potential laws that would prohibit participation in it. As of April 2019, 27 states had adopted anti-BDS laws and there have been various attempts to criminalize the movement at the federal level. 344 Representatives currently back a resolution condemning BDS, while Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar recently proposed legislation affirming that all Americans have the right to participate in such boycotts. ..."

Jul 19, 2019 | mondoweiss.net

Lawmakers in New Jersey have introduced an antisemitism bill that would prohibit certain criticism of Israel in public schools and universities. The proposed legislation comes on the heels of similar bills being passed in South Carolina and Florida . Last year, the Department of Education adopted a new definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel.

SB 4001 was introduced on June 24 by Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Sen. Robert Singer. It aims to ensure that antisemitism is treated the same way as other forms of discrimination by amending state law. However, the bill equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism in a number of places including:

-[D]emonizing Israel by using the symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism to characterize Israel or Israeli people, drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis, or blaming Israel for all interreligious or political tensions;

-[A]pplying a double standard to Israel by requiring behavior of Israel that is not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation, or focusing peace or human rights investigations only on Israel; and

-[D]elegitimizing Israel by denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination and denying Israel the right to exist.

In fact, the bill states that criticism of Israel can only avoid being considered antisemitic if "it is similar to criticism toward any other country."

A group of 13 human rights groups (including Jewish Voice for Peace, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations) have sent a letter to the New Jersey Education Senate Committee urging lawmakers to reject the legislation:

We write to raise concerns with S. 4001/A. 5755, an Act prohibiting anti-Semitism in public schools and institutions of higher education (the Act), which fails to achieve this goal. The Act codifies a widely contested redefinition of antisemitism that includes protected speech critical of Israel.2 This vague and overbroad redefinition in the Act conflates political criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish hate, encouraging infringements on constitutionally protected speech related to a human rights movement, and undermining the fight against real antisemitism.

Indeed, in our experience defending civil rights on college campuses, we have seen firsthand how the redefinition that the Act would codify has been used as a tool to silence students, faculty, and staff who advocate for Palestinian rights.3 This experience makes clear that the primary aim of this bill is to censor First Amendment-protected criticism of Israeli government policies and speech calling for freedom, justice, and equality for Palestinians. It invites New Jersey schools and universities to violate free speech rights by discriminating against certain viewpoints and chilling one side of an important political debate.

SB 4001 is very similar to a Florida bill that was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis in May, just days after the state's cabinet held a ceremonial meeting in Israel. Last year, South Carolina became the first state to pass such a law.

Last September, the Department of Education changed the criteria for investigating antisemitism to include criticism of Israel and reopened a 2011 case in which Jewish students at Rutgers University were allegedly discriminated against. That complaint was originally made by the Zionist Organization of America in response to a pro-Palestinian event on campus. This new interpretation is sometimes referred to as the "State Department Definition" because it's listed on their website, but it hasn't actually been formally adopted as federal law. However, Congress is currently trying to change that.

In March, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2019 . The bill would adopt the definition listed on the State Department's website "for the enforcement of Federal antidiscrimination laws concerning education programs or activities." A previous version of the bill died at the end of the last congressional session. Scott's legislation currently has 16 cosponsors, including Florida Senator Marco Rubio.

Liz Jackson is a founding staff attorney for Palestine Legal, an independent organization that defends the rights of people who speak out on issues of Palestinian freedom. "This definition is the result of a decades-long lobbying push by Israel advocacy organizations (and Israel itself) to codify the false equation of antisemitism and criticism of Israel, in order to censor calls for Palestinian rights," she told Mondoweiss , "This is an Israel lobby priority because there is no other way to address critiques of Israel's human rights record. They don't want to talk about brutality towards Palestinians because they have no good answer. Their only response to Palestinians' call for freedom and equality is to censor it."

The push the redefine antisemitism began to gain steam over a decade ago after pro-Israel groups began promoting a paper by Tel Aviv University professor Dina Porat titled, "The International Working Definition of Antisemitism and Its Detractors." Porat wrote that antisemitism could manifest itself with regard to Israel in the following ways:

• Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

• Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

• Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.

• Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. • Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

Like the aforementioned state laws, Porat's definition stipulates that criticism of Israel is antisemitic unless it's "similar to that leveled against any other country."

The proposed New Jersey bill comes amidst a national debate regarding the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) and potential laws that would prohibit participation in it. As of April 2019, 27 states had adopted anti-BDS laws and there have been various attempts to criminalize the movement at the federal level. 344 Representatives currently back a resolution condemning BDS, while Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar recently proposed legislation affirming that all Americans have the right to participate in such boycotts.

[Jul 20, 2019] And why didn't they interview Julian Assange? And did the FBI look into the Seth Rich murder investigation?

Jul 20, 2019 | www.zerohedge.com

Smi1ey , 5 hours ago link

Robert Mueller, might have to answer some embarrassing questions about the conduct of his investigation -- like, why did it go on for two years when his chief deputy, Mr. Weissmann, was informed from the get-go that the main predicate document was a fraud?

And why didn't they interview Julian Assange?

And did the FBI look into the Seth Rich murder investigation?

[Jul 20, 2019] Western Interests Aim To Flummox Russia

Notable quotes:

"... One pressure on Putin comes from the Atlanticist Integrationists who have a material stake in their connections to the West and who want Russia to be integrated into the Western world. ..."

"... We agree with President Putin that the sanctions are in fact a benefit to Russia as they have moved Russia in self-sufficient directions and toward developing relationships with China and Asia. ..."

"... It is a self-serving Western myth that Russia needs foreign loans. This myth is enshrined in neoliberal economics, which is a device for Western exploitation and control of other countries. Russia's most dangerous threat is the country's neoliberal economists. ..."

"... Neoliberals argue that Russia needs privatization in order to cover its budget deficit. Russia's government debt is only 17 percent of Russian GDP. According to official measures, US federal debt is 104 percent of GDP, 6.1 times higher than in Russia. If US federal debt is measured in real corrected terms, US federal debt is 185 percent of US GDP. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/08/deteriorating-economic-outlook/ ..."

"... Russia's most dangerous threat is the country's neoliberal economists. ..."

"... Most of Russia's economic block has to be literally purged from their sinecures, some, indeed, have to be "re-educated" near Magadan or Tyumen, or Saransk. Too bad, two of these places are actually not too bad. Others deserved to be executed. Too bad this jackass Gaidar (actually no blood relation to Arkady whatsoever) died before he could be tried for crimes against humanity and genocide. Albeit, some say he died because of his consciousness couldn't take the burden. Looking at his swine face I, somehow, doubt it. ..."

"... This is not a US vs Russia issue. The real conflict is ... Globalism vs Russian nationalism and American nationalism. But since Jews control the media, they've spread the impression that it's about US vs Russia. ..."

"... Trump is an ultra-zionist for Sheldon Adelson and prolongs & creates wars for the Goldman banking crimesyndicat. ..."

"... Voltaire once said, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." ..."

"... You write about Russia but have not done your homework. Russia is very dependent on Western technology and its entire high-tech industry depends on the import of Western machinery. Without such machinery many Russian factories, including military ones, would stall. Very important oil industry is particularly vulnerable. ..."

Mar 03, 2017 | www.unz.com

An article by Robert Berke in oilprice.com, which describes itself as "The No. 1 Source for Oil & Energy News," illustrates how interest groups control outcomes by how they shape policy choices.

Berke's article reveals how the US intends to maintain and extend its hegemony by breaking up the alliance between Russia, Iran, and China, and by oil privatizations that result in countries losing control over their sovereignty to private oil companies that work closely with the US government. As Trump has neutered his presidency by gratuitously accepting Gen. Flynn's resignation as National Security Advisor, this scheme is likely to be Trump's approach to "better relations" with Russia.

Berke reports that Henry Kissinger has sold President Trump on a scheme to use the removal of Russian sanctions to pry President Putin away from the Russian alliance with Iran and China. Should Putin fall for such a scheme, it would be a fatal strategic blunder from which Russia could not recover. Yet, Putin will be pressured to make this blunder.

One pressure on Putin comes from the Atlanticist Integrationists who have a material stake in their connections to the West and who want Russia to be integrated into the Western world. Another pressure comes from the affront that sanctions represent to Russians. Removing this insult has become important to Russians even though the sanctions do Russia no material harm.

We agree with President Putin that the sanctions are in fact a benefit to Russia as they have moved Russia in self-sufficient directions and toward developing relationships with China and Asia. Moreover, the West with its hegemonic impulses uses economic relationships for control purposes. Trade with China and Asia does not pose the same threat to Russian independence.

Berke says that part of the deal being offered to Putin is "increased access to the huge European energy market, restored western financial credit, access to Western technology, and a seat at the global decision-making table, all of which Russia badly needs and wants." Sweetening the honey trap is official recognization of "Crimea as part of Russia."

Russia might want all of this, but it is nonsense that Russia needs any of it.

Crimea is part of Russia, as it has been for 300 years, and no one can do anything about it. What would it mean if Mexico did not recognize that Texas and California were part of the US? Nothing.

Europe has scant alternatives to Russian energy. Russia does not need Western technology. Indeed, its military technology is superior to that in the West. And Russia most certainly does not need Western loans. Indeed, it would be an act of insanity to accept them.

It is a self-serving Western myth that Russia needs foreign loans. This myth is enshrined in neoliberal economics, which is a device for Western exploitation and control of other countries. Russia's most dangerous threat is the country's neoliberal economists.

The Russian central bank has convinced the Russian government that it would be inflationary to finance Russian development projects with the issuance of central bank credit. Foreign loans are essential, claims the central bank.

Someone needs to teach the Russian central bank basic economics before Russia is turned into another Western vassal. Here is the lesson: When central bank credit is used to finance development projects, the supply of rubles increases but so does output from the projects. Thus, goods and services rise with the supply of rubles. When Russia borrows foreign currencies from abroad, the money supply also increases, but so does the foreign debt. Russia does not spend the foreign currencies on the project but puts them into its foreign exchange reserves. The central bank issues the same amount of rubles to pay the project's bills as it would in the absence of the foreign loan. All the foreign loan does is to present Russia with an interest payment to a foreign creditor.

Foreign capital is not important to countries such as Russia and China. Both countries are perfectly capable of financing their own development. Indeed, China is the world's largest creditor nation. Foreign loans are only important to countries that lack the internal resources for development and have to purchase the business know-how, techlology, and resources abroad with foreign currencies that their exports are insufficient to bring in.

This is not the case with Russia, which has large endowments of resources and a trade surplus. China's development was given a boost by US corporations that moved their production for the US market offshore in order to pocket the difference in labor and regulatory costs.

Neoliberals argue that Russia needs privatization in order to cover its budget deficit. Russia's government debt is only 17 percent of Russian GDP. According to official measures, US federal debt is 104 percent of GDP, 6.1 times higher than in Russia. If US federal debt is measured in real corrected terms, US federal debt is 185 percent of US GDP. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/08/deteriorating-economic-outlook/

Clearly, if the massive debt of the US government is not a problem, the tiny debt of Russia is not a problem.

Berke's article is part of the effort to scam Russia by convincing the Russian government that its prosperity depends on unfavorable deals with the West. As Russia's neoliberal economists believe this, the scam has a chance of success.

Another delusion affecting the Russian government is the belief that privatization brings in capital. This delusion caused the Russian government to turn over 20 percent of its oil company to foreign ownership. The only thing Russia achieved by this strategic blunder was to deliver 20 percent of its oil profits into foreign hands. For a one-time payment, Russia gave away 20 percent of its oil profits in perpetuity.

To repeat outselves, the greatest threat that Russia faces is not sanctions but the incompetence of its neoliberal economists who have been throughly brainwashed to serve US interests.

Mao Cheng Ji , February 14, 2017 at 6:55 pm GMT \n

When Russia borrows foreign currencies from abroad, the money supply also increases, but so does the foreign debt. Russia does not spend the foreign currencies on the project but puts them into its foreign exchange reserves. The central bank issues the same amount of rubles to pay the project's bills as it would in the absence of the foreign loan. All the foreign loan does is to present Russia with an interest payment to a foreign creditor.

Yes, correct. But this is an IMF rule, and Russia is an IMF member. To control its monetary policy it would have to get out.

Lyttenburgh , February 14, 2017 at 6:57 pm GMT \n

Another pressure comes from the affront that sanctions represent to Russians. Removing this insult has become important to Russians even though the sanctions do Russia no material harm.

Oh dear, neolibs at their "finest"!

This "theory" is simply not true. If anything, Russians don't want the sanctions to be lifted, because this will also force us to scrap our counter-sanctions against the EU. The agro-business in Russia had been expanding by leaps and bounds for the last two years. This persistent myth that "the Russians" (who exactly, I wonder – 2-3% of the pro-Western urbanites in Moscow and St. Pete?) are desperate to have the sanctons lifted is a self-deception of the West, who IS desparate of the fact that the sanctions didn't work.

Russia's most dangerous threat is the country's neoliberal economists.

Yes! Ulyukayev is, probably, feeling lonely in his prison. I say – why not send Chubais, Siluanov and Nabiulina to cheer him up?

WorkingClass , February 14, 2017 at 7:59 pm GMT \n

Berke reports that Henry Kissinger has sold President Trump on a scheme to use the removal of Russian sanctions to pry President Putin away from the Russian alliance with Iran and China.

Kissinger, like Dick Cheney or George Soros, will probably never be completely dead.

SmoothieX12 , Website February 14, 2017 at 8:56 pm GMT \n

@WorkingClass

Berke reports that Henry Kissinger has sold President Trump on a scheme to use the removal of Russian sanctions to pry President Putin away from the Russian alliance with Iran and China.

Kissinger, like Dick Cheney or George Soros, will probably never be completely dead.

LOL! True. You forgot McCain, though.

SmoothieX12 , Website February 14, 2017 at 9:04 pm GMT \n

100 Words @Lyttenburgh

Another pressure comes from the affront that sanctions represent to Russians. Removing this insult has become important to Russians even though the sanctions do Russia no material harm.

Oh dear, neolibs at their "finest"! This "theory" is simply not true. If anything, Russians don't want the sanctions to be lifted, because this will also force us to scrap our counter-sanctions against the EU. The agro-business in Russia had been expanding by leaps and bounds for the last two years. This persistent myth that "the Russians" (who exactly, I wonder - 2-3% of the pro-Western urbanites in Moscow and St. Pete?) are desperate to have the sanctons lifted is a self-deception of the West, who IS desparate of the fact that the sanctions didn't work.

Russia's most dangerous threat is the country's neoliberal economists.

Yes! Ulyukayev is, probably, feeling lonely in his prison. I say - why not send Chubais, Siluanov and Nabiulina to cheer him up? ;)

I say – why not send Chubais, Siluanov and Nabiulina to cheer him up?

Most of Russia's economic block has to be literally purged from their sinecures, some, indeed, have to be "re-educated" near Magadan or Tyumen, or Saransk. Too bad, two of these places are actually not too bad. Others deserved to be executed. Too bad this jackass Gaidar (actually no blood relation to Arkady whatsoever) died before he could be tried for crimes against humanity and genocide. Albeit, some say he died because of his consciousness couldn't take the burden. Looking at his swine face I, somehow, doubt it.

Priss Factor , February 14, 2017 at 10:38 pm GMT \n

100 Words

A silver-lining to this.

If the US continues to antagonize Russia, Russia will have to grow even more independent, nationalist, and sovereign. At any rate, this issue cannot be addressed until we face that the fact that globalism is essentially Jewish Supremacism that fears gentile nationalism as a barrier to its penetration and domination.

This is not a US vs Russia issue. The real conflict is ... Globalism vs Russian nationalism and American nationalism. But since Jews control the media, they've spread the impression that it's about US vs Russia.

Same thing with this crap about 'white privilege'. It is a misleading concept to fool Americans into thinking that the main conflict is between 'privileged whites' and 'people of color'. It is really to hide the fact that Jewish power and privilege really rules the US. It is a means to hoodwink people from noticing that the real divide is between Jews and Gentiles, not between 'privileged whites' and 'non-white victims'. After all, too many whites lack privilege, and too many non-whites do very well in America.

Seamus Padraig , February 14, 2017 at 11:29 pm GMT \n

@SmoothieX12

I say – why not send Chubais, Siluanov and Nabiulina to cheer him up?

Most of Russia's economic block has to be literally purged from their sinecures, some, indeed, have to be "re-educated" near Magadan or Tyumen, or Saransk. Too bad, two of these places are actually not too bad. Others deserved to be executed. Too bad this jackass Gaidar (actually no blood relation to Arkady whatsoever) died before he could be tried for crimes against humanity and genocide. Albeit, some say he died because of his consciousness couldn't take the burden. Looking at his swine face I, somehow, doubt it.

I'm generally a big fan and admirer of Putin, but this is definitely one criticism of him that I have a lot of sympathy for. It is long past time for Putin to purge the neoliberals from the Kremlin and nationalize the Russian Central Bank. I cannot fathom why he hasn't done this already.

Seamus Padraig , February 14, 2017 at 11:34 pm GMT \n

Does PCR really think that Putin is stupid enough to fall for Kissinger's hair-brained scheme? I mean, give Putin a little bit of credit. He has so far completely outmaneuvered Washington on virtually ever subject. I'm sure he's clever enough to see through such a crude divide-and-rule strategy.

anonymous , February 15, 2017 at 4:17 am GMT

The Russians can't be flummoxed, they aren't children. Russia and China border each other so they have a natural mutual interest in having their east-west areas be stable and safe, particularly when the US threatens both of them. This geography isn't going to change. Abandoning clients such as Syria and Iran would irreversibly damage the Russian brand as being unreliable therefore they'd find it impossible to attract any others in the future. They know this so it's unlikely they would be so rash as to snap at any bait dangled in front of them. And, as pointed out, the bait really isn't all that irresistible. It's always best to negotiate from a position of strength and they realize that. American policy deep thinkers are often fantasists who bank upon their chess opponents making hoped-for predictable moves. That doesn't happen in real life.

SmoothieX12 , Website February 15, 2017 at 2:29 pm GMT \n

@Seamus Padraig

I'm generally a big fan and admirer of Putin, but this is definitely one criticism of him that I have a lot of sympathy for. It is long past time for Putin to purge the neoliberals from the Kremlin and nationalize the Russian Central Bank. I cannot fathom why he hasn't done this already.

I cannot fathom why he hasn't done this already.

Partially, because Putin himself is an economic liberal and, to a degree, monetarist, albeit less rigid than his economic block. The good choices he made often were opposite to his views. As he himself admitted that Russia's geopolitical vector changed with NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia–a strengthening of Russia has become an imperative. This comeback was impossible within the largely "Western" monetarist economic model. Russia's comeback happened not thanks but despite Putin's economic views, Putin adjusted his views in the process, his economic block didn't. But many of them still remain his friends, despite the fact that many of them are de facto fifth column and work against Russia, intentionally and other wise. Eventually Putin will be forced to get down from his fence and take the position of industrialists and siloviki. Putin's present for Medvedev's birthday was a good hint on where he is standing economically today and I am beginning to like that but still–I personally am not convinced yet. We'll see. In many respects Putin was lucky and specifically because of the namely Soviet military and industry captains still being around–people who, unlike Putin, knew exactly what constituted Russia's strength. Enough to mention late Evgeny Primakov. Let's not forget that despite Putin's meteoric rise through the top levels of Russia's state bureaucracy, including his tenure as a Director of FSB, Putin's background is not really military-industrial. He is a lawyer, even if uniformed (KGB) part of his career. I know for a fact that initially (early 2000s) he was overwhelmed with the complexity of Russia's military and industry. Enough to mention his creature Serdyukov who almost destroyed Command and Control structure of Russia's Armed Forces and main ideologue behind Russia's military "reform", late Vitaly Shlykov who might have been a great GRU spy (and economist by trade) but who never served a day in combat units. Thankfully, the "reforms" have been stopped and Russian Armed Forces are still dealing with the consequences. This whole clusterfvck was of Putin's own creation–hardly a good record on his resume. Hopefully, he learned.

Vlad , February 17, 2017 at 8:44 am GMT \n

@Seamus Padraig

I'm generally a big fan and admirer of Putin, but this is definitely one criticism of him that I have a lot of sympathy for. It is long past time for Putin to purge the neoliberals from the Kremlin and nationalize the Russian Central Bank. I cannot fathom why he hasn't done this already.

He has not done it already because he just cannot let go of his dream to have it as he did in 2003, when Russia Germany and France together blocked legality of US war in Iraq. Putin still hopes for a good working relationship with major West European powers. Italy France and even Germany.

He still hopes to draw them away from the US. However the obvious gains from Import substitution campaign make it apparent that Russia does benefit from sanctions, that Russia can get anything it wants in technology from the East rather than the West. So the break with Western orientation is in the making. Hopefully.

annamaria , February 17, 2017 at 3:50 pm GMT \n

You forgot to mention the "moderate" jihadis, including the operatives from NATO, Israel, and US. (It seems that the Ukrainian "patriots" that have been bombing the civilians in East Ukraine, also include special "patriots" from the same unholy trinity: https://www.roguemoney.net/stories/2016/12/6/there-are-troops-jack-us-army-donbass ). There has been also a certain asymmetry in means: look at the map for the number and location of the US/NATO military bases. At least we can see that RF has been trying to avoid the hot phase of WWIII. http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/NATO-vs-Russia640.jpg

annamaria , February 17, 2017 at 4:11 pm GMT \n

200 Words @Priss Factor A silver-lining to this.

If the US continues to antagonize Russia, Russia will have to grow even more independent, nationalist, and sovereign.

At any rate, this issue cannot be addressed until we face that the fact that globalism is essentially Jewish Supremacism that fears gentile nationalism as a barrier to its penetration and domination.

This is not a US vs Russia issue. The real conflict is Jewish Globalism vs Russian nationalism and American nationalism. But since Jews control the media, they've spread the impression that it's about US vs Russia.

Same thing with this crap about 'white privilege'. It is a misleading concept to fool Americans into thinking that the main conflict is between 'privileged whites' and 'people of color'. It is really to hide the fact that Jewish power and privilege really rules the US. It is a means to hoodwink people from noticing that the real divide is between Jews and Gentiles, not between 'privileged whites' and 'non-white victims'. After all, too many whites lack privilege, and too many non-whites do very well in America.

On the power and privilege that really rule the US:
"Sanctions – economic sanctions, as most of them are, can only stand and 'succeed', as long as countries, who oppose Washington's dictate remain bound into the western, dollar-based, fraudulent monetary scheme. The system is entirely privatized by a small Zionist-led elite. FED, Wall Street, Bank for International Settlement (BIS), are all private institutions, largely controlled by the Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan et al clans. They are also supported by the Breton Woods Organizations, IMF and World Bank, conveniently created under the Charter of the UN.
Few progressive economists understand how this debt-based pyramid scam is manipulating the entire western economic system. When in a just world, it should be just the contrary, the economy that shapes, designs and decides the functioning of the monetary system and policy.
Even Russia, with Atlantists still largely commanding the central bank and much of the financial system, isn't fully detached from the dollar dominion – yet."

http://thesaker.is/venezuela-washingtons-latest-defamation-to-bring-nato-to-south-america/

Anon , February 17, 2017 at 4:55 pm GMT \n

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"I cannot fathom why he hasn't done this (nationalize the "central bank) already".

I read about a rumor a few years ago that Putin has been warned that nationalizing the now private Russian central bank will bring absolutely dire consequences to both him and Russia. It is simply a step he cannot take.

How dire are the potential consequences? Consider that the refusal of the American government to reauthorize the private central bank in the US brought about the War of 1812. The Americans learned their lesson and quickly reauthorized the private bank after the war had ended.

Numerous attempts were made to assassinate President Andrew Jacksons specifically because of his refusal to reauthorize the private central bank.

JFK anyone?

Agent76 , February 17, 2017 at 6:07 pm GMT \n

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Here it is in audio form so you can just relax and just listen at your leisure.

*ALL WARS ARE BANKERS' WARS* By Michael Rivero https://youtu.be/WN0Y3HRiuxo

I know many people have a great deal of difficulty comprehending just how many wars are started for no other purpose than to force private central banks onto nations, so let me share a few examples, so that you understand why the US Government is mired in so many wars against so many foreign nations. There is ample precedent for this.

Priss Factor , February 17, 2017 at 7:31 pm GMT \n

1,000 Words

Here is proof that there is no real Leftist power anymore.

Voltaire once said, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

If the Left really rules America, how come it is fair game to criticize, condemn, mock, and vilify Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Bakunin, Emma Goldman & anarchists, Castro, Che(even though he is revered by many, one's career isn't damaged by attacking him), Tito, Ceucescu, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Gramsci, Eurgene Debs, Pete Seeger, Abbie Hoffman, Bill Ayers, and etc.

You can say whatever you want about such people. Some will agree, some will disagree, but you will not be fired, blacklisted, or destroyed.

If the Left really rules, why would this be?

Now, what would happen if you name the Jewish Capitalists as the real holders of power?
What would happen if you name the Jewish oligarchic corporatists who control most of media?
What would happen if you said Jews are prominent in the vice industry of gambling?
What would happen if you named the Jewish capitalists in music industry that made so much money by spreading garbage?
What would happen if you said Jewish warhawks were largely responsible for the disasters in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine?
And what would happen if you were question the MLK mythology and cult?
What would happen if you were to make fun of homos and trannies?
Now, keep in mind that blacks and homos are favored by Jews as their main allies.
(Some say the US is not a pro-minority nation, but it's still permissible to criticize, impugn, and vilify Chinese, Iranians, Muslims, Mexicans, Hindus, and etc. Trump was hard on China, Iran, Muslims, and Mexicans, and he got some flak over it but not enough to destroy him. Now, imagine what would have happened if he'd said such things about blacks, Africa, homos, Jews, and Israel? American politics isn't necessarily pro-minority. If it is, it should favor Palestinian-Americans just as much as Jewish-Americans. Actually, since there are fewer Palestinian-Americans than Jewish-Americans, the US, being pro-minority, should favor Palestinians over Jews in America. In reality, it is AIPAC that draws all the politicians. America is about Pro-Power, and since Jews have the Power and since Jews are a minority, it creates the false impression that the US is a minority-supremacist nation. But WHICH minority? Jews would like for us think that all minorities are represented equally in the US, but do Eskimos, Hawaiians, Guatemalans, Vietnamese, and etc. have the kind of power & protection that the Jewish minority has? Do we see politicians and powerbrokers flock to such minorities for funds and favors?)

So, what does it about the real power in America? So many 'conservatives' say the Left controls America. But in fact, an American can badmouth all true bonafide leftist leaders and thinkers(everyone from Lenin to Sartre). However, if an American were to badmouth Sheldon Adelson as a sick demented Zionist capitalist oligarch who wants to nuke Iran, he would be blacklisted by the most of the media. (If one must criticize Adelson, it has to be in generic terms of him a top donor to the likes of Romney. One mustn't discuss his zealous and maniacal views rooted in Zionist-supremacism. You can criticize his money but not the mentality that determines the use of that money.) Isn't it rather amusing how the so-called Liberals denounce the GOP for being 'extreme' but overlook the main reason for such extremism? It's because the GOP relies on Zionist lunatics like Adelson who thinks Iran should be nuked to be taught a lesson. Even Liberal Media overlook this fact. Also, it's interesting that the Liberal Media are more outraged by Trump's peace offer to Russia than Trump's hawkish rhetoric toward Iran. I thought Liberals were the Doves.

We know why politics and media work like this. It's not about 'left' vs 'right' or 'liberal' vs 'conservative'. It is really about Jewish Globalist Dominance. Jews, neocon 'right' or globo-'left', hate Russia because its brand of white gentile nationalism is an obstacle to Jewish supremacist domination. Now, Current Russia is nice to Jews, and Jews can make all the money they want. But that isn't enough for Jews. Jews want total control of media, government, narrative, everything. If Jews say Russia must have homo parades and 'gay marriage', Russia better bend over because its saying NO means that it is defiant to the Jewish supremacist agenda of using homomania as proxy to undermine and destroy all gentile nationalism rooted in identity and moral righteousness.
Russia doesn't allow that, and that is what pisses off Jews. For Jews, the New Antisemitism is defined as denying them the supremacist 'right' to control other nations. Classic antisemitism used to mean denying Jews equal rights under the law. The New Antisemitism means Jews are denied the right to gain dominance over others and dictate terms.
So, that is why Jews hate any idea of good relations with Russia. But Jews don't mind Trump's irresponsible anti-Iran rhetoric since it serves Zionist interest. So, if Trump were to say, "We shouldn't go to war with Russia; we should be friends" and "We should get ready to bomb, destroy, and even nuke Iran", the 'liberal' media would be more alarmed by the Peace-with-Russia statement. Which groups controls the media? 'Liberals', really? Do Muslim 'liberals' agree with Jewish 'liberals'?

Anyway, we need to do away with the fiction that Left rules anything. They don't. We have Jewish Supremacist rule hiding behind the label of the 'Left'. But the US is a nation where it's totally permissible to attack real leftist ideas and leaders but suicidal if anyone dares to discuss the power of super-capitalist Jewish oligarchs. Some 'leftism'!

We need to discuss the power of the Glob.

annamaria , February 17, 2017 at 9:42 pm GMT \n

300 Words @Quartermaster Trump has not been neutered. Buchanan has the right on this and Flynn's actions.

Sorry, but Crimea is Ukraine. Russia is in serious economic decline and is rapidly burning through its reserves. Putin is almost down to the welfare fund from which pensions are paid, and only about a third of pensions are being paid now.

If Sanctions are of benefit to Russia, then the sanctions against Imperial Japan were just ducky and no war was fought.

Roberts is the next best thing to insane.

This is rich from a Ukrainian nationalist ruled by Groysman/Kagans.
First, figure out who is your saint, a collaborationist Bandera (Babiy Yar and such) or a triple-sitizenship Kolomojski (auto-da-fe of civilians in Odessa). If you still want to bring Holodomor to a discussion, then you need to be reminded that 80% of Ukrainian Cheka at that time were Jewish. If you still think that Russians are the root of all evil, then try to ask the US for more money for pensions, education, and healthcare – instead of weaponry. Here are the glorious results of the US-approved governance from Kiev: http://gnnliberia.com/2017/02/17/liberia-ahead-ukraine-index-economic-freedom-2017/ "Liberia, Chad, Afghanistan, Sudan and Angola are ahead of Ukraine. All these countries are in the group of repressed economies (49.9-40 scores). Ukraine's economy has contracted deeply and remains very fragile."

Here are your relationships with your neighbors on the other side – Poland and Romania:
"The right-winged conservative orientation of Warsaw makes it remember old Polish-Ukrainian arguments and scores, and claim its rights on the historically Polish lands of Western Ukraine" http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/01/17/poland-will-begin-dividing-ukraine/
" the "Assembly of Bukovina Romanians" has recently applied to Petro Poroshenko demanding a territorial autonomy to the Chernivtsi region densely populated by Romanians. The "Assembly" motivated its demand with the Ukrainian president's abovementioned statement urging territorial autonomy for the Crimean Tatars." https://eadaily.com/en/news/2016/06/30/what-is-behind-romanias-activity-in-ukraine
And please read some history books about Crimea. Or at least Wikipedia:
"In 1783, Crimea was annexed by the Russian Empire. In 1954, the Crimean Oblast was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by Nikita Khrushchev (a Soviet dictator). In 2014, a 96.77 percent of Crimeans voted for integration of the region into the Russian Federation with an 83.1 percent voter turnout." You see, the Crimeans do not like Nuland-Kagan and Pravyj Sector. Do you know why?

Astuteobservor II , February 17, 2017 at 9:56 pm GMT \n

100 Words @Seamus Padraig Does PCR really think that Putin is stupid enough to fall for Kissinger's hair-brained scheme? I mean, give Putin a little bit of credit. He has so far completely outmaneuvered Washington on virtually ever subject. I'm sure he's clever enough to see through such a crude divide-and-rule strategy.

well it depends. if putin is just out for himself, I can see him getting in bed with kissinger and co. if he is about russia, he would not. that is how I see it. it isn't about if putin is smart or stupid. just a choice and where his royalty lies.

Lyttenburgh , February 17, 2017 at 9:58 pm GMT \n

100 Words @Quartermaster Trump has not been neutered. Buchanan has the right on this and Flynn's actions.

Sorry, but Crimea is Ukraine. Russia is in serious economic decline and is rapidly burning through its reserves. Putin is almost down to the welfare fund from which pensions are paid, and only about a third of pensions are being paid now.

If Sanctions are of benefit to Russia, then the sanctions against Imperial Japan were just ducky and no war was fought.

Roberts is the next best thing to insane.

Sorry, but Crimea is Ukraine.

How so? #Krymnash

Russia is in serious economic decline and is rapidly burning through its reserves.

If by "decline" you mean "expects this year a modest growth as opposed to previous years" then you might be right.

I've been reading about Russia's imminent collapse and the annihilation of the economy since forever. Some no-names like you (or some Big Names with agenda) had been predicting it every year. Still didn't happen.

Putin is almost down to the welfare fund from which pensions are paid, and only about a third of pensions are being paid now.

Can I see a source for that?

If Sanctions are of benefit to Russia, then the sanctions against Imperial Japan were just ducky and no war was fought.

False equivalence.

P.S. Hey, Quart – how is Bezviz? Also – are you not cold here? Or are you one of the most racally pure Ukrs, currently residing in Ontario province (Canada), from whence you teach your less lucky raguls in Nizalezhnaya how to be more racially pure? Well, SUGS to be you!

bluedog , February 17, 2017 at 10:03 pm GMT \n

@Quartermaster Trump has not been neutered. Buchanan has the right on this and Flynn's actions.

Sorry, but Crimea is Ukraine. Russia is in serious economic decline and is rapidly burning through its reserves. Putin is almost down to the welfare fund from which pensions are paid, and only about a third of pensions are being paid now.

If Sanctions are of benefit to Russia, then the sanctions against Imperial Japan were just ducky and no war was fought.

Roberts is the next best thing to insane.

Do you have any links to verify this that Russia is down to bedrock,from everything I read and have read Russia's do pretty damn good, or is this just some more of your endless antiRussian propaganda,,

Philip Owen , February 17, 2017 at 10:54 pm GMT \n

The US needed huge amounts of British and French capital to develop. Russia has the same requirement otherwise it will be another Argentina.

annamaria , February 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm GMT \n

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A scandal of a EU member Poland: http://thesaker.is/zmiana-piskorski-and-the-case-for-polish-liberation/
Two days after he [Piskorski] publicly warned that US-NATO troops now have a mandate to suppress Polish dissent on the grounds of combatting "Russian hybrid war," he was snatched up by armed agents of Poland's Internal Security Agency while taking his children to school on May 18th, 2016. He was promptly imprisoned in Warsaw, where he remains with no formal charges to this day."

With the Poland's entry into EU, "Poland did not "regain" sovereignty, much less justice, but forfeited such to the Atlanticist project Poland has been de-industrialized, and thus deprived of the capacity to pursue independent and effective social and economic policies Now, with the deployment of thousands of US-NATO troops, tanks, and missile systems on its soil and the Polish government's relinquishment of jurisdiction over foreign armed forces on its territory, Poland is de facto under occupation. This occupation is not a mere taxation on Poland's national budget – it is an undeniable liquidation of sovereignty and inevitably turns the country into a direct target and battlefield in the US' provocative war on Russia."

" it's not the Russians who are going to occupy us now – they left here voluntarily 24 years ago. It's not the Russians that have ravaged Polish industry since 1989. It's not the Russians that have stifled Poles with usurious debt. Finally, it's not the Russians that are responsible for the fact that we have become the easternmost aircraft carrier of the United States anchored in Europe. We ourselves, who failed by allowing such traitors into power, are to blame for this."

More from a comment section: "Donald Tusk, who is now President of the European Council, whose grandfather, Josef Tusk, served in Hitler's Wehrmacht, has consistently demanded that the Kiev regime imposed by the US and EU deal with the Donbass people brutally, "as with terrorists". While the Polish special services were training the future participants of the Maidan operations and the ethnic cleansing of the Donbass, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs made this official statement (02-02-2014): "We support the hard line taken by the Right Sector The radical actions of the Right Sector and other militant groups of demonstrators and the use of force by protesters are justified The Right Sector has taken full responsibility for all the acts of violence during the recent protests. This is an honest position, and we respect it. The politicians have failed at their peacekeeping function. This means that the only acceptable option is the radical actions of the Right Sector. There is no other alternative".

In short, the US has been the most active enabler of the neo-Nazi movement in Europe. Mrs. Clinton seemingly did not get a memo about who is "new Hitler."

Chuck Orloski , February 17, 2017 at 11:17 pm GMT \n

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Scranton calling Mssrs. Roberts and Hudson:

Do you happen to know anything about western financial giants' influence upon Russia's "Atlanticist Integrationists"?

It's low hanging fruit for me to take a pick, but I am thinking The Goldman Sachs Group is well ensconced among Russian "Atlanticist Integrationists."

You guys are top seeded pros at uncovering Deep State-banker secrets. In contrast, I drive school bus and I struggle to even balance the family Wells Fargo debit card!

However, since our US Congress has anointed a seasoned G.S.G. veteran, Steve Mnuchin, as the administration's Treasury Secretary, he has become my favorite "Person of Interest" who I suspect spouts a Ural Mountain-level say as to how "Atlanticist Integrationists" operate.

Speaking very respectfully, I hope my question does not get "flummoxed" into resource rich Siberia.

Thank you very much!

Bobzilla , February 17, 2017 at 11:46 pm GMT \n

@WorkingClass

Berke reports that Henry Kissinger has sold President Trump on a scheme to use the removal of Russian sanctions to pry President Putin away from the Russian alliance with Iran and China.

Kissinger, like Dick Cheney or George Soros, will probably never be completely dead.

Kissinger, like Dick Cheney or George Soros, will probably never be completely dead

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Most likely the Spirit of Anti-Christ keeping them alive to do his bidding.

Bill Jones , February 18, 2017 at 12:39 am GMT \n

@Priss Factor Here is proof that there is no real Leftist power anymore.

Voltaire once said, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

If the Left really rules America, how come it is fair game to criticize, condemn, mock, and vilify Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Bakunin, Emma Goldman & anarchists, Castro, Che(even though he is revered by many, one's career isn't damaged by attacking him), Tito, Ceucescu, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Gramsci, Eurgene Debs, Pete Seeger, Abbie Hoffman, Bill Ayers, and etc.

You can say whatever you want about such people. Some will agree, some will disagree, but you will not be fired, blacklisted, or destroyed.

If the Left really rules, why would this be?

Now, what would happen if you name the Jewish Capitalists as the real holders of power?
What would happen if you name the Jewish oligarchic corporatists who control most of media?
What would happen if you said Jews are prominent in the vice industry of gambling?
What would happen if you named the Jewish capitalists in music industry that made so much money by spreading garbage?
What would happen if you said Jewish warhawks were largely responsible for the disasters in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine?
And what would happen if you were question the MLK mythology and cult?
What would happen if you were to make fun of homos and trannies?
Now, keep in mind that blacks and homos are favored by Jews as their main allies.
(Some say the US is not a pro-minority nation, but it's still permissible to criticize, impugn, and vilify Chinese, Iranians, Muslims, Mexicans, Hindus, and etc. Trump was hard on China, Iran, Muslims, and Mexicans, and he got some flak over it but not enough to destroy him. Now, imagine what would have happened if he'd said such things about blacks, Africa, homos, Jews, and Israel? American politics isn't necessarily pro-minority. If it is, it should favor Palestinian-Americans just as much as Jewish-Americans. Actually, since there are fewer Palestinian-Americans than Jewish-Americans, the US, being pro-minority, should favor Palestinians over Jews in America. In reality, it is AIPAC that draws all the politicians. America is about Pro-Power, and since Jews have the Power and since Jews are a minority, it creates the false impression that the US is a minority-supremacist nation. But WHICH minority? Jews would like for us think that all minorities are represented equally in the US, but do Eskimos, Hawaiians, Guatemalans, Vietnamese, and etc. have the kind of power & protection that the Jewish minority has? Do we see politicians and powerbrokers flock to such minorities for funds and favors?)

So, what does it about the real power in America? So many 'conservatives' say the Left controls America. But in fact, an American can badmouth all true bonafide leftist leaders and thinkers(everyone from Lenin to Sartre). However, if an American were to badmouth Sheldon Adelson as a sick demented Zionist capitalist oligarch who wants to nuke Iran, he would be blacklisted by the most of the media. (If one must criticize Adelson, it has to be in generic terms of him a top donor to the likes of Romney. One mustn't discuss his zealous and maniacal views rooted in Zionist-supremacism. You can criticize his money but not the mentality that determines the use of that money.) Isn't it rather amusing how the so-called Liberals denounce the GOP for being 'extreme' but overlook the main reason for such extremism? It's because the GOP relies on Zionist lunatics like Adelson who thinks Iran should be nuked to be taught a lesson. Even Liberal Media overlook this fact. Also, it's interesting that the Liberal Media are more outraged by Trump's peace offer to Russia than Trump's hawkish rhetoric toward Iran. I thought Liberals were the Doves.

We know why politics and media work like this. It's not about 'left' vs 'right' or 'liberal' vs 'conservative'. It is really about Jewish Globalist Dominance. Jews, neocon 'right' or globo-'left', hate Russia because its brand of white gentile nationalism is an obstacle to Jewish supremacist domination. Now, Current Russia is nice to Jews, and Jews can make all the money they want. But that isn't enough for Jews. Jews want total control of media, government, narrative, everything. If Jews say Russia must have homo parades and 'gay marriage', Russia better bend over because its saying NO means that it is defiant to the Jewish supremacist agenda of using homomania as proxy to undermine and destroy all gentile nationalism rooted in identity and moral righteousness.
Russia doesn't allow that, and that is what pisses off Jews. For Jews, the New Antisemitism is defined as denying them the supremacist 'right' to control other nations. Classic antisemitism used to mean denying Jews equal rights under the law. The New Antisemitism means Jews are denied the right to gain dominance over others and dictate terms.
So, that is why Jews hate any idea of good relations with Russia. But Jews don't mind Trump's irresponsible anti-Iran rhetoric since it serves Zionist interest. So, if Trump were to say, "We shouldn't go to war with Russia; we should be friends" and "We should get ready to bomb, destroy, and even nuke Iran", the 'liberal' media would be more alarmed by the Peace-with-Russia statement. Which groups controls the media? 'Liberals', really? Do Muslim 'liberals' agree with Jewish 'liberals'?

Anyway, we need to do away with the fiction that Left rules anything. They don't. We have Jewish Supremacist rule hiding behind the label of the 'Left'. But the US is a nation where it's totally permissible to attack real leftist ideas and leaders but suicidal if anyone dares to discuss the power of super-capitalist Jewish oligarchs. Some 'leftism'!

We need to discuss the power of the Glob.

Thanks for the digest of hasbarist crap.

Useful to have it all in one place..

annamaria , February 18, 2017 at 1:03 am GMT \n

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War profiteers (both of a dishonest character) have found each other: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-17/mccain-tells-europe-trump-administration-disarray http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-17/germany-issues-stark-warning-trump-stop-threatening-eu-favoring-russia
" Trump's administration was in "disarray," McCain told the Munich Security Conference, where earlier in the day Germany defense minister Ursula von der Leyen warned Trump to stop threatening the EU, abandoning Western values and seeking close ties with Russia, that the resignation of the new president's security adviser Michael Flynn over his contacts with Russia reflected deep problems in Washington."

What an amazing whoring performance for the war-manufacturers! And here is an interesting morsel of information about the belligerent Frau der Leyen: http://www.dw.com/en/stanford-accuses-von-der-leyen-of-misrepresentation/a-18775432
"Stanford university has said Ursula von der Leyen is misrepresenting her affiliation with the school. The German defense minister's academic career is already under scrutiny after accusations of plagiarism." No kidding. Some "Ursula von der Leyen' values" indeed.

Anonymous IX , February 18, 2017 at 2:42 am GMT \n

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I doubt we'll see little change from the Trump administration toward Russia.

From SOTT:

Predictable news coming out of Yemen: Saudi-backed "Southern Resistance" forces and Hadi loyalists, alongside al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), launched a new offensive against the Houthis in western Yemen on Wednesday.

This is not the first time Saudi-backed (and by extension, Washington-backed) forces have teamed up with al-Qaeda in Yemen .

Yemen is quickly becoming the "spark that lights the powder keg". The conflict has already killed, maimed and displaced countless thousands (thanks to the stellar lack of reporting from trustworthy western news sources, we can only estimate the scale of Saudi/U.S. crimes in Yemen), but now it seems that elements of the Trump administration are keen on escalation, likely in hopes of giving Washington an excuse to carpet bomb Tehran.

Apparently, we feel satisfied fighting with our old allies, al-Qaeda and Saudis.

I had hoped for much better from Trump.

Kiza , February 18, 2017 at 4:23 am GMT \n

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I think that the authors may be underestimating Putin in his determination to keep Russia and the Russian economy independent. For example, I find this rumoured offer of "increased access to the huge European energy market" very funny, for at least two reasons:
1) US wants to sell hydrocarbons (LPG) to the European market at significantly higher prices than the Russian prices, and
2) the current dependence of EU countries on the Russian energy would have never happened if there were better alternatives.

In other words, any detente offer that the West would make to Russia would last, as usual, not even until the signature ink dries on the new cooperation agreements. Putin does not look to me like someone who suffers much from wishful thinking.

The Russian relationship with China is not a bed of roses, but it is not China which is increasing military activity all around Russia, it is the West. Also, so far China has shown no interest in regime-changing Russia and dividing it into pieces. Would you rather believe in the reform capability of an addict in violence or someone who does not need to reform? Would the West self-reform and sincerely renounce violence just by signing a new agreement with Russia?

The new faux detente will never happen, as long as Putin is alive.

Max Havelaar , February 18, 2017 at 8:22 pm GMT \n

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Trump is an ultra-zionist for Sheldon Adelson and prolongs & creates wars for the Goldman banking crimesyndicat.

The only one stopping Trump is Putin or Russia's missile defenses.

Indeed, Putin's main inside enemy is Russia's central bank, or the Jewish oligarchs in Russia (Atlanticists). Also Russia needs to foster and encourage small&medium enterprises, that need cheap credit, to create competitive markets, where no prices are fixed and market shares change. These are most efficient resource users.

In the US, Wallstreet controls government = fascism = the IG Farben- Auschwitz concentration camps to maximize profits. This is the direction for the US economy.

Meanwhile in the EU, the former Auschwitz owners IG Farben (Bayer(Monsanto), Hoechst, BASF) the EU chemical giants, who have patented all natures molecules, are in controll again over EU. Deutsche bank et allies is eating Greece, Italy, Spain's working classes, using AUSTERITY as their creed.

So what is new? Nothing, the supercorporate-fascist elites are the same families, who 's morality is unchanged in a 100 years.

Anon , February 20, 2017 at 4:28 am GMT \n

@Priss Factor

Here is proof that there is no real Leftist power anymore.

Voltaire once said, "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

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Sergey Krieger , February 20, 2017 at 12:20 pm GMT \n

@Seamus Padraig

I'm generally a big fan and admirer of Putin, but this is definitely one criticism of him that I have a lot of sympathy for. It is long past time for Putin to purge the neoliberals from the Kremlin and nationalize the Russian Central Bank. I cannot fathom why he hasn't done this already.

I would really love to like Putin and I am trying but him protecting all those criminals and not reversing the history greatest heist of 90′s makes it impossible. While I am behind all his moves to restore Russian military and foreign policy, I am still waiting for more on home front. Note, not only the Bank must be nationalized. Everything, all industries, factories and other assets privatized by now must be returned to rightful owner. Public which over 70 years through great sacrifice built all of it.

Sergey Krieger , February 20, 2017 at 12:31 pm GMT \n

300 Words @SmoothieX12

I cannot fathom why he hasn't done this already.

Partially, because Putin himself is an economic liberal and, to a degree, monetarist, albeit less rigid than his economic block. The good choices he made often were opposite to his views. As he himself admitted that Russia's geopolitical vector changed with NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia--a strengthening of Russia has become an imperative. This comeback was impossible within the largely "Western" monetarist economic model. Russia's comeback happened not thanks but despite Putin's economic views, Putin adjusted his views in the process, his economic block didn't. But many of them still remain his friends, despite the fact that many of them are de facto fifth column and work against Russia, intentionally and other wise. Eventually Putin will be forced to get down from his fence and take the position of industrialists and siloviki. Putin's present for Medvedev's birthday was a good hint on where he is standing economically today and I am beginning to like that but still--I personally am not convinced yet. We'll see. In many respects Putin was lucky and specifically because of the namely Soviet military and industry captains still being around--people who, unlike Putin, knew exactly what constituted Russia's strength. Enough to mention late Evgeny Primakov. Let's not forget that despite Putin's meteoric rise through the top levels of Russia's state bureaucracy, including his tenure as a Director of FSB, Putin's background is not really military-industrial. He is a lawyer, even if uniformed (KGB) part of his career. I know for a fact that initially (early 2000s) he was overwhelmed with the complexity of Russia's military and industry. Enough to mention his creature Serdyukov who almost destroyed Command and Control structure of Russia's Armed Forces and main ideologue behind Russia's military "reform", late Vitaly Shlykov who might have been a great GRU spy (and economist by trade) but who never served a day in combat units. Thankfully, the "reforms" have been stopped and Russian Armed Forces are still dealing with the consequences. This whole clusterfvck was of Putin's own creation--hardly a good record on his resume. Hopefully, he learned.

Smoothie, you seem to have natural aversion towards lawyers
Albeit, the first Vladimir, I mean Lenin also was a lawyers by education still he was a rather quick study. Remember that military communism and Lenin after one year after Bolsheviks took power telling that state capitalism would be great step forward for Russia whcih obviously was backward and ruined by wars at the time and he proceeded with New Economic Policy and Lenin despite not being industry captain realized pretty well what constituted state power hence GOELRO plans and electrification of all Russia plans and so forth which was later turned by Stalin and his team into reality.

Now, Lenin was ideologically motivated and so is Putin. But he clearly has been trying to achieve different results by keeping same people around him and doing same things. Hopefully it is changing now, but it is so much wasted time when old Vladimir was always repeating that time is of essence and delay is like death knell. Putin imho is away too relax and even vain in some way, hence those shirtless pictures and those on the bike. And the way he walks a la "Я Московский озорной гуляка". As you said it looks like he is protecting those criminals who must be prosecuted and yes, many executed for what they caused.

I suspect in cases when it comes to economical development he is not picking right people for those jobs and it is his major responsibility to assign right people and delegate power properly, not to be forgotten to reverse what constitutes the history greatest heist and crime so called "privatization". Basically returning to more communal society minus Politburo.

There is a huge elephant in the room too. Russia demographic situation which I doubt can be addressed under current liberal order. all states which are in liberal state of affairs fail to basically procreate hence these waves of immigrants brought into all Western Nations. Russia cannot do it. It would be suicide which is what all Western countries are doing right now.

Boris N , February 20, 2017 at 8:58 pm GMT \n

Russia does not need Western technology. Indeed, its military technology is superior to that in the West.

You write about Russia but have not done your homework. Russia is very dependent on Western technology and its entire high-tech industry depends on the import of Western machinery. Without such machinery many Russian factories, including military ones, would stall. Very important oil industry is particularly vulnerable.

Some home reading (sorry, they are in Russian, but one ought to know the language if one writes about the country).

http://www.fa.ru/fil/orel/science/Documents/ISA%2014644146.pdf

http://rusrand.ru/analytics/stanki-stanki-stanki