War and the Demise of the US Dollar?

Is the US or the World Coming to an End? It will be One or the Other – Published on Global Research.ca, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 10, 2014.

2014 is shaping up as a year of reckoning for the United States.

Two pressures are building on the US dollar. One pressure comes from the Federal Reserve’s declining ability to rig the price of gold as Western gold supplies shrivel and market knowledge of the Fed’s illegal price rigging spreads.   Continuer la lecture de « War and the Demise of the US Dollar? »

Solidarity Economics, a Forgotten Practice of the Black Radical Tradition

Published on truthout, by Laura Flanders, April 9, 2014.

Video on GRITtv: Interview With Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 15.28 min, (also on YouTube, uploaded there by GRITtv, April 8, 2014).

Excerpt of Transcript:

… So, tell us some of the stories. Some of the documents in your book go all the way back to slavery times. Continuer la lecture de « Solidarity Economics, a Forgotten Practice of the Black Radical Tradition »

NATO Members Conduct False Flag Terror In Attempt to Whip Up War

Published on Washington’s Blog, by blog owner, April 8, 2014.

… This is not the first false flag by NATO members. For example:

  • The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special,    Continuer la lecture de « NATO Members Conduct False Flag Terror In Attempt to Whip Up War »

Egypt: What vision for the future will El-Sisi bring?

Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will officially become a presidential candidate this week, but speculation is already high regarding who will be among his presidential staff and what his policies will be … //

… Shades of grey: … //

… Human rights versus security:   Continuer la lecture de « Egypt: What vision for the future will El-Sisi bring? »

The End of Capitalism

Published on ZNet, by David Harvey, April 7, 2014.

This is an excerpt — the last two chapters — from Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey, out now from Profile Books. David Harvey the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. He has authored such books as The Condition of Postmodernity (1989), A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), and A Companion to Marx’s Capital (2010). An interview with Harvey was featured on our website in 2012.

Prospects for a Happy but Contested Future: The Promise of Revolutionary Humanism:    Continuer la lecture de « The End of Capitalism »