The Billion Barrel Oil Swindle: 80% Of U.S. Oil Reserves Are Unaccounted-For

Published on naked capitalism, by Arthur Berman / Yves Smith, Oct 10, 2016.

By Arthur Berman, a petroleum geologist with 36 years of oil and gas industry experience. He is an expert on U.S. shale plays and is currently consulting for several E&P companies and capital groups in the energy sector. Berman is an associate editor of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, and was a managing editor and frequent contributor to The Oil Drum.com (website). Continuer la lecture de « The Billion Barrel Oil Swindle: 80% Of U.S. Oil Reserves Are Unaccounted-For »

Bombing of Cuban Jetliner 40 Years Later

Published on National Security Archive NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 202 (Updated), by Peter Kornbluh and Yvette White, Oct 6, 2016.

Lessons For A World In Dire Need Of Sustainable Social Change And Economic Development

… Revisiting The New Deal – Published on Rozenberg Quarterly, by C.J. Polychroniou, 2016.

Few policies and programs designed to promote economic recovery and social reform have attracted as much attention as those associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s when the U.S. economy had plunged into its worst economic crisis in its history … // Continuer la lecture de « Lessons For A World In Dire Need Of Sustainable Social Change And Economic Development »

The Class Dynamics in the Rise of Donald Trump

… why Establishment Voices Stigmatize the “White Working Class” as Racist and Xenophobic – Published on Global Research.ca, by Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, Oct 6, 2016.

… The powerful establishment interests vested in the continuation of the status quo and, therefore, the election of Hillary Clinton, have created a campaign narrative that tends to stereotype and stigmatize the white working class as racist, sexist and xenophobic. Continuer la lecture de « The Class Dynamics in the Rise of Donald Trump »

Iraqis Use 9/11 Victims Bill To Demand Compensation From US For 2003 Invasion

Published on mint press news, by Sputnik News, Oct 3, 2016.

In light of a bill passed by the US Congress allowing families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia, Iraqis have asked their parliament to demand compensation for the US invasion of Iraq.   Continuer la lecture de « Iraqis Use 9/11 Victims Bill To Demand Compensation From US For 2003 Invasion »

(US) Wages are so stagnant even the Federal Reserve has begun to notice (pardon, to confess)

Published on Systemic Disorder, Sept 29, 2016.

You are working harder while not making more. It isn’t your imagination. The latest research demonstrating this comes, interestingly, from the St. Louis branch of the United States Federal Reserve. Continuer la lecture de « (US) Wages are so stagnant even the Federal Reserve has begun to notice (pardon, to confess) »

Unreliability, Spinelessness of the Western “Left”

Published on Dissident Voice, by André Vltchek, Sept 30, 2016.

… For years and decades, the so-called ‘left’ in the West has been moderately critical of North American (and sometimes even of European) imperialism and neo-colonialism. But whenever some individual or country rose up and began openly challenging the Empire, most of the Western left-wing intellectuals simply closed their eyes, and refused to offer their full, unconditional support to those who were putting their lives (and often even the existence of their countries) on the line.   Continuer la lecture de « Unreliability, Spinelessness of the Western “Left” »

Washington trying to break BRICS – the rape of Brazil has begun

Published on Axis of Logic (first on New Eastern Outlook NEO), by F. William Engdahl, Sept 26, 2016.

Washington’s regime change machinery has for the time being succeeded in removing an important link in the alliance of large emerging nations by railroading through a Senate impeachment of the duly elected President, Dilma Rousseff. On August 31 her Vice President Michel Temer was sworn in as President. Continuer la lecture de « Washington trying to break BRICS – the rape of Brazil has begun »

The Traffic Hierarchy

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No 1308, by Planka.nu, Sept 27, 2016: one is not born a motorist, one becomes one.

Mobility and class are deeply entangled. Not only because one’s potential for mobility often has to do with one’s economic position, but also because a society built on today’s mobility paradigm – automobility – directly contributes to growing economic and social differences.   Continuer la lecture de « The Traffic Hierarchy »

Following the Money: On the Trail of African Migrant Smugglers – part 1

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Alexander Bühler, Susanne Koelbl, Sandro Mattioli and Walter Mayr, Sept 26, 2016 (Photo Gallery).

Since 2013, over 10,000 migrants have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. Behind the deaths lies a multi-million dollar smuggling trade with financial connections to Frankfurt, Italy and Libya … // Continuer la lecture de « Following the Money: On the Trail of African Migrant Smugglers – part 1 »