Trans Pacific Partnership: Corporate Escape From Accountability | Paul Craig Roberts

July 2, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Information has been leaked about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), which is being negotiated in secret by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Six hundred corpor ...

America: The Gasoline War | John Michael Greer

Apr. 11, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- I apologize in advance to those of my readers who find military history uninteresting. The next part of the story I’m exploring just now, the story of the British ...

Empires Then And Now | Paul Craig Roberts

Mar. 26, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands e ...

BOOKS: Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping -- The Truth May Hurt. By Yves Engler | Jim Miles

Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping -- The Truth May Hurt. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Vancouver/Winnipeg, 2012. Mar. 23, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- This short book, or elongated essay, concer ...

Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields (Anthony Gucciardi)

Sept. 20, 2011 (NaturalSociety) -- Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1,000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically ...

The lost bases of the US empire (Tarak Barkawi)

The US maintains permanent bases in South Korea, established in 1954, that house some 28,500 personnel The United States maintains more than 700 military facilities on foreign soil that may not be as ...

America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time (Nick Turse)

Predator drone Oct. 17, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work inclimate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in ...

America’s 'worst enemy' -- The Latest Orchestrated Threat and The End of History (Paul Craig Roberts)

Sept. 27, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Have you ever before heard of the Haqqanis? I didn’t think so. Like Al Qaeda, about which no one had ever heard prior to 9/11, the “Haqqani Network” has ...

Colombia: Pillage, Promise and Peace (James Petras)

Aug. 6, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- We live in a time of great destruction and grand economic opportunities and Latin America is no exception. In the global context, the U.S. Empire is engag ...

This crisis has an exit (Ellen Brown)

June 7, 2011 (Asia Times) -- Countries everywhere are facing debt crises today, precipitated by the credit collapse of 2008. Public services are being slashed and public assets are being sold off, in ...

How the Empire will Prevail: Will Washington Foment War Between China and India? (Dr. Paul Craig Roberts)

June 6, 2011, (Information Clearing House) -- What is Washington’s solution for the rising power of China? The answer might be to involve China in a nuclear war with India. The staging of the fake de ...