The rise of the right-wing globalists The World Economic Forum showed how the right is seizing the levers of the international order. BY QUINN SLOBODIAN In 1937, the head of IBM Thomas Watson received the Order of the German Eagle from Adolf Hitler. The occasion was the annual congress of the International Chamber of…
JUNE 29, 2018 No Country for Old Women by STEVE MARTINOT Two homeless people died in Berkeley during the month of June, 2018. Marcia Poole wrote an essay in the Berkeley Planet (6/15/18) on Ani, an 80 year old Buddhist nun who’s been homeless for the last five years. She’s sick, and in a wheel chair,…
The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History Posted on September 2, 2016 by WashingtonsBlog By Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, formerly of the New York Times. Truth Dig(republished with permission of the author.) By Chris Hedges A 2014 protest in Tokyo against the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. (Shizuo Kambayashi / AP) Chris…