How Britain’s Aristocracy Are Playing the Brexit Thing
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org on July 6th; now updated in this version’s closing paragraphs HISTORICAL PRELIMINARY The European Union, and opposition to Brexit (or to any...
View ArticleTrump the Neocons
By Michael Hudson, Michael-Hudson.com. Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who has advised the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian...
View ArticleThe 1 Percent’s Useful Idiots
By Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, formerly of the New York Times. Truth Dig (republished with permission of the author.) By Chris Hedges Not everyone is celebrating the Democratic...
View ArticleIt’s Not the Economy, Stupid
The last time a Clinton tried to get into the White House, his campaign motto was “It’s the economy, stupid!” If you engage with peace organizations, you will very quickly be told repeatedly that...
View ArticleThe Problem with Chanting “USA”
These were instructions passed around during the last night of the Wells Fargo Arena Anti-Russia Don’t-Say-TPP Call-It-Debt-Free-College-Not-Free-College Democratic Party Extravaganza. Noise Makers...
View ArticleObama said Hillary will Continue his Legacy – Indeed!
By Michael Hudson, Michael-Hudson.com. Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who has advised the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian...
View ArticlePost-Convention Candidates
By Michael Hudson, Michael-Hudson.com. Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, who has advised the U.S., Canadian, Mexican and Latvian...
View ArticleWhirled Politics: Would you rather be Trumped or Pillaried?
By David Haggith, the Great Recession Blog. I’ve never seen anything so surreal as the United States’ current political circus of unelectable and undelectable candidates offered as each party’s top of...
View ArticleThe Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
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...
View ArticleWhether Sauds, in Effect, Own the U.S. Government
Eric Zuesse A bill is expected to come up for a vote in the U.S. Senate on Friday September 9th that could enable Saudis to be prosecuted for financing the 9/11 attacks, but the Saudi royal family are...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Just as Closed-Minded as Republicans
Eric Zuesse A website that was started in reaction against George W. Bush’s selection in 2000 by five Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court to be the President, has a debate among its readers, “Didn’t...
View Article10 Things That Every American Should Know About Donald Trump’s Plan To Save...
By Michael Snyder, the Economic Collapse Blog. Can Donald Trump turn the U.S. economy around? This week Trump unveiled details of his new economic plan, and the mainstream media is having a field day...
View ArticleTurkey Now Likely to Leave NATO if Clinton Becomes President
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Turkey’s two top leaders have both indicated that, if the U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton becomes elected as the U.S. President on...
View ArticleWhy Brookings Institution & Establishment Love Wars
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org America’s recent (at least since 2003) penchant for invasions of countries that haven’t invaded us (such as Iraq in 2003, and Libya in 2011)...
View ArticleU.N. Rights Expert Urges Nations Not to Sign ‘Flawed’ CETA Treaty
For more information and media requests, please contact Mr. Thibaut Guillet (+41 22 917 9674 / tguillet@ohchr.org) or write to ie-internationalorder@ohchr.org For media inquiries related to other UN...
View ArticleIs this person our new President?
Here’s Why Hillary Won’t Allow Her Corporate Speeches to be Published Eric Zuesse (update added 8 November 2016) In a previous report, I indicated “Why Hillary Clinton’s Paid Speeches Are Relevant”,...
View ArticleRand Paul Heroically Warns Trump Against Hiring Neocons
Eric Zuesse U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky), who voted against Obama’s TPP and virtually every other Obama sell-out to the international corporations which control the U.S. federal government, publicly...
View ArticleObama’s Nonexistent Legacy
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org “Trump did more than any democrat to deflate the neocon/neoliberal agenda that liberals themselves screamed was fascist when Bush was president.”...
View ArticleDear Mr. Trump, About Your 29 Ideas
Regarding your 29 proposals, here’s a bit more than just the ranking you asked for. I’ll start with the best: 7. Announce our official withdrawal from the TPP. That’s my favorite. Wonderful! We don’t...
View ArticleObama’s Failed Presidency
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org I’m a former lifelong Democrat, stating here a clear and incontestable fact: Barack Obama is a failed President. It’s true not just because of...
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