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These agreements aren’t focused on lowering barriers, but harmonizing global regulations at the cost of sovereignty. Nowhere is this more clear than in the new enthusiasm for special “investor-state dispute settlement” (ISDS) mechanisms. ISDS gives foreign corporations the right to sue national governments for regulations that interfere with their expected profits. It…
“Vulnerable nations still depend on us to deter aggression from their larger neighbors,” says Marco Rubio. “Oppressed peoples still turn their eyes toward our shores, wondering if we can hear their cries.” “The world is slipping out of control,” warns Jeb Bush. “We have no reason to apologize for our leadership and our interest in…
Leading Mexican Journalist Explains Why Everything You’re Hearing About The Drug War Is Wrong The Huffington Post | By Roque Planas /2015 Updated: 06/02/2015 Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic that’s making headlines around the world. Today, we speak with investigative journalist Anabel Hernández. As one of Mexico’s…
Systemic Corruption Has Destroyed America Posted on June 3, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog Preface: There’s always been some corruption in the United States … but it’s never been this bad before. The Cop Is On the Take Government corruption has become rampant: Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead…
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…
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,…
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…
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 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…