Country Intelligence and Analysis
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…
While Russia is of course guilty of crimes, the US is guilty of the same and far worse crimes, and is fervently supporting many other criminal groups and states. Thus, to understand why US extremists (not the US public) in control of the state are putting us all in serious potential danger by choosing…
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…
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…
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…
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…
* Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter We have entered into a particularly dismal…