The Iraq pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale doesn’t shy away from the current conflict
STATE OF THE ART| 21 May 2015 Venice Biennale: Iraq pavilion (Credit: Akam Shex Hadi) The Iraq pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale doesn’t with work addressing Islamic State. Alastair Sooke reports. As Islamic State (IS) fighters continue to advance towards Baghdad, contemporary art in the region is probably the last thing on the…
In the presence of war, the willful delusion that war is inevitable is quite pervasive.
Alice Walker explains this line, “Though war speaks every language it never knows what to say to frogs” in the opening of her beautiful book, Why War Is Never a Good Idea, illustrated by Stefano Vitale, thus: War speaks every language she says, because every nation has war. But of course this isn’t true….
SOROS SAYS; Another World War depends on Chinese economy
Billionaire investor George Soros said flatly that he’s concerned about the possibility of another world war Much depends on the health of the Chinese economy, Soros said in remarks at a Bretton Woods conference at the World Bank. If China’s efforts to transition to a domestic-demand led economy from an export engine falter, there is…
Look who`s killing the great chiefs of Wall Street…
Technology will do to banking what Uber has done to taxis He doesn’t wear a tie. He’s got long hair. Tim Vasko doesn’t look anything like a Wall Street banker. But Vasko is, if not the new breed of Wall Street, the near future of it. He’s the founder of Finaeos,…
Janet Yellen : The Viceroy Of Wall Street
This whole spectacle of the health of the global economy pirouetting on the decision of an American Banker, or perhaps more properly, the Viceroy of Wall Street, on whether to symbolically raise a benchmark interest rate, tied to an avalanche of internationally distributed paper claim checks for conceptual ephemera and political promises, must be one…
Iraq War a Crime…: This is how the Bush dodge works
Stop it — you’re both right! Photo: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Pretty much everybody in American politics now agrees that the Iraq War was not a great idea. The source of disagreement has moved, instead, to a different question: Was it a failure, or a crime? Republicans insist the Bush administration was merely the victim of…
Obama botches Ukraine regime change…
OBama Gave Up on Ukraine, Press Simply Ignored It Posted on May 18, 2015 by Eric Zuesse. On Tuesday, May 12th, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was asked at a press conference in Sochi Russia, to respond to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s recent statements promising renewed war against Donbass, which were made…
Bond Bubble = Debt Jubilee = 1.5 + quadrillion Casino
An interesting article has neatly encapsulated the global (but primarily Western) “bond bubble”: The global bond bubble has ballooned to more than 76 trillion dollars, and interest rates have never been lower in modern history. In fact, 25 percent of all government bonds in Europe actually have a negative rate of return…
For Your Consideration…..START GIVING A DAMN
For your consideration….. One Man’s Message To Americans – “Start Giving A Damn!” The lives of Americans have become so easy and so secure that we no longer recognize living in a utopia of freedom comes not with costs but with obligations. I find it shocking how often I have people tell me the Constitution…