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Preparing for the Collapse of the Petrodollar System
BY JERRY ROBINSON
Over the last several weeks, there have been many news headlines containing the words "Iran" and "nuclear capability." If you listen closely, you can almost hear the drumbeats of a fresh war in the Middle East.
As an economist, I have been trained to view the world through the lens of incentives. (I am a "bottom line" kind of guy.) And just as every action is motivated by an underlying incentive, every decision has (…)

How Iran Changed The World
By Sharmine Narwani Feb 19, 2012 - 2:28:01 AM
Imagine this scenario: A developing nation decides to selectively share its precious natural resource, selling only to "friendly" countries and not "hostile" ones. Now imagine this is oil we’re talking about and the nation in question is the Islamic Republic of Iran...
Early news reports on Wednesday claimed that Iran pre-empted European Union sanctions by turning off the oil spigot to six member-states: the (…)

US Gov: Walk Slow »
Bob Nichols This "allowed" the patient to go ahead and croak before the life extending heroic measures arrived. It was that way because it was always that way.…
Short URL: http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=252778

Obama, Bush, Blair must be put on trial at International Criminal Court (ICC): Noam Chomsky
Fri May 24, 2013 12:31PM
Renowned American academic, Noam Chomsky, says US President Barack Obama, his predecessor George W. Bush, along with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair should face trial for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the ensuing turmoil in the Arab state.
“Bush and Blair ought to be up there [at the International Criminal Court]. There is no recent crime worse than the invasion (…)

Global Terror: The British Connection
December 1, 2005 By davidjones By JASON JEFFREY
“There are powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge.” – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II speaking to Paul Burrell, former butler to the late Princess Diana
On July 7, 2005 bombings on the London subway system and a bus killed 52 people and injured 700. As the list of unanswered questions and inconsistencies about the attacks continued to grow, blame was quickly laid on ‘al Qaeda’. (…)

The Truth is Out There
August 21, 1995 By davidjones By M. SABEHEDDIN
“Ignorance…brought about anguish and terror. And the anguish grew solid like a fog and no one was able to see.” The Gospel of Truth, 17:10, Nag Hammadi Texts
“Humanity is asleep, concerned only with what is useless, living in a wrong world….Do not prattle before the People of the Path, rather consume yourself. You have an inverted knowledge and religion if you are upside down in relation to Reality. Man is wrapping (…)

Israeli attack on Syria is a provocation against Russia
by Guennadi Ziouganov
In a statement from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov reviews the Israeli attack against Damascus in light of the 1980 Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the USSR and Syria. He calls for the delivery of defensive weapons and not just the fulfillment of current defensive arms contracts.
MOSCOW (RUSSIA) | 15 MAY 2013
A few days ago, Israel (…)

IRS Scandal Headlines: More Than Meets the Eye
by Stephen Lendman More than targeting political enemies is involved. More on than below. The practice is longstanding. Republican and Democrat administrations use the IRS abusively.
During the Coolidge administration, Republican Senator James Couzens investigated the IRS’ predecessor – the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon sued him. University of Virginia Law Professor George Yin called doing so the (…)

What’s Wrong With Bitcoin
May 21, 2013 – Since it’s raining today and I cannot cut the grass, I figured it’s a good day to get this one off my chest.
By The Cerebral Aesthetic Vagabond
I don’t mean to pick on bitcoin specifically, and this essay pertains to all virtual currencies, including devcoin, litecoin, namecoin, ppcoin, terracoin and probably many more I’m not aware of. I’m definitely not an apologist for fiat currencies, nor am I a “gold bug.” I simply evaluate my surroundings (…)

Socialism and social humanism in general aim to maximize human happiness, human opportunity and human dignity. However the prevalent corporatist, neoliberal culture wants to maximize freedom for the smart and advantaged to profit from the resources of the world with an asserted “trickle down” effect bringing benefits to the less smart and less advantaged.
The worsening climate crisis and mounting social inequity in the Western democracies (aka Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies and (…)