1. World stability hangs by a thread as economies continue to unravel

The political bubble is bursting. Spreads on geo-strategic risk are now widening as dramatically as the spreads on financial risk at the onset of the credit crunch. Whether it is the Indian rupee, the Shanghai bourse, or Kremlin debt, the stars...

02/12/2008 | 127 visite | Leggi tutto ...

2. Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede

A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store's front doors and trampled him, police said. The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into...

29/11/2008 | 230 visite | 4 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

3. What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner, the AIG Fiasco and Citigroup

On Friday, the FDIC closed and facilitated the sale of two CA savings banks, Downey Savings and Loan, the bank unit of Downey Financial Corp (NYSE:DSL) and PFF Bank and Trust, Pomona, CA. All deposit accounts and all loans of both banks have been...

26/11/2008 | 206 visite | Leggi tutto ...

4. War Crimes in Gaza - Interview with Donna Wallach

Donna Wallach was on the first Free Gaza boat that came from Cyprus in August 2008 and has stayed in Gaza since. She comes from California and is of Eastern-European Jewish descent. Donna lived in occupied Palestine in the Tel Aviv area from 1981 to...

23/11/2008 | 114 visite | 2 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

5. Who Killed Detroit?

Who killed the U.S. auto industry? To hear the media tell it, arrogant corporate chiefs failed to foresee the demand for small, fuel-efficient cars and made gas-guzzling road-hog SUVs no one wanted, while the clever, far-sighted Japanese,...

22/11/2008 | 251 visite | 3 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

6. Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US...fuel

Fuel and the Free Market: Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US When it Comes to Cars that Run on Something Other than Gasoline? In the last year or so, before the price of oil dropped, there was a bit of interest in finding ways to reduce our...

21/11/2008 | 256 visite | Leggi tutto ...

7. When It's a Clear Day and You Can't See GM

The Crisis Has Hardly Begun "The prospects of a government rescue for the foundering American automakers dwindled Thursday as Democratic Congressional leaders conceded that they would face potentially insurmountable Republican...

17/11/2008 | 238 visite | Leggi tutto ...

8. What’s Good for G.M. Is Good for the Army

AMERICA’S automobile industry is in desperate trouble. Financial instability, the credit squeeze and closed capital markets are hurting domestic automakers, while decades of competition from foreign producers have eroded market share and...

17/11/2008 | 230 visite | 2 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

9. We have a right to know where the EU's millions end up

The Brussels accounts scandal must be stopped Here we go again. Today, for the 14th year in a row, the European Court of Auditors will unveil their report, telling us that they refuse to clear the EU accounts. What's worse, no one will really...

12/11/2008 | 204 visite | Leggi tutto ...

10. What do you mean, bin Laden doesn't exist?

Dal pakistan, dubbi anche fra gli alti ufficiali sulla reale esistenza di Osama Obama must rethink America's muddled strategy in Pakistan if he is to defeat the threat from militants America's President-elect was being watched a lot closer...

10/11/2008 | 500 visite | 1 comment | Leggi tutto ...

11. White House defends last-minute deregulation push

The White House on Friday defended its bid to push through a series of new rules that could relax federal regulations on the economy and the environment in the final days of President George W. Bush's term. According to government watchdog...

05/11/2008 | 247 visite | Leggi tutto ...

12. Wall Street: “Il capitalismo del disastro degli ottusi”

14 motivi per cui l’uomo della strada perde mentre Wall Street sabota la democrazia Di certo siamo ottusi. Voi. Io. Tutti i 300 milioni di americani. Incapaci. Dovremmo vergognarci. Siamo ossessionati dagli slogan e dai rituali della...

23/10/2008 | 1038 visite | 5 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

13. Warring monks threaten destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Un altro segno dei tempi: monaci cristiani litigano nel Santo Sepolcro. Che rischia di crollare. A long-running row over the rights to a rooftop section of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre could bring the entire structure tumbling down,...

15/10/2008 | 370 visite | 2 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

14. Watching Ukraine

Just like John McCain told me to… "Watch Ukraine!" John McCain said it twice, once during the first presidential debate: "And watch Ukraine. This whole thing has got a lot to do with Ukraine, Crimea, the base of...

15/10/2008 | 334 visite | 1 comment | Leggi tutto ...

15. Warning signs of an Israeli strike on Iran

Some key decision makers in Israel fear that unless they attack Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities in the next few months, while George W Bush is still president, there will not be another period when they can rely on the United States as being...

14/10/2008 | 383 visite | 1 comment | Leggi tutto ...

16. What are doing eurocrats to stop the crisis?

13/10/2008 | 274 visite

17. Will financial crisis turn G7 into G14?

The world's financial storm continues to rage forcing the Group of Seven of the world's most powerful economies to look further afield for help. Key players are now recommending expanding the group to G14, which would include Russia, China and...

12/10/2008 | 316 visite | Leggi tutto ...

18. Will Chavez murder be finishing touch for the Bush Administration?

President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez has repeatedly told that during the last weeks of George W. Bush`s presidency in the United States the Bolivarian republic and he, Chavez, personally would be in danger. The way he called on his allies to be on...

11/10/2008 | 303 visite | Leggi tutto ...

19. What is to be Done?

Paul Craig Roberts, ex vice-del Tesoro sotto Ronald Reagan, è a favore della riserva 100 per 100 alle banche Readers have been pressing for a solution to the financial crisis. But first it is necessary to understand the problem. Here is...

11/10/2008 | 248 visite | Leggi tutto ...

20. Why The Zionists Killed General George S. Patton

Why The Zionists (Including Henry Morganthau) Controlling The Allies Killed General George S. Patton At the end of World War II, one of America's top military leaders accurately assessed the shift in the balance of world power which that war...

06/10/2008 | 551 visite | 1 comment | Leggi tutto ...

21. We can't defeat Taleban, says Brigadier Mark Carleton Smith

The departing commander of British forces in Afghanistan says he believes the Taleban will never be defeated. Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, whose troops have suffered severe casualties after six months...

06/10/2008 | 235 visite | Leggi tutto ...

22. World Crisis Comes to the Baltic

The Fitch agency announced on Friday that it is lowering the country ratings of the Baltic countries. The ratings of Estonia and Lithuania will fall From A to A- and Latvia from BBB+ to BBB. Latvia’s credit rating had also been lowered once in...

06/10/2008 | 427 visite | Leggi tutto ...

23. Will the Crisis Bring Down the Global Financial System?

Go Get Your Dollars Out Now! FAST!!! The events of the last two weeks have clearly revealed that the global financial, monetary and banking system imposed on the world by the power structures promoting "globalization" is fundamentally...

06/10/2008 | 536 visite | 2 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

24. When is a Holocaust Not a Holocaust?

The Surge and the Stench of "Victory" When is a holocaust not a holocaust? When the perpetrators call it a victory. Although the "surge" has failed as policy, it appears to be succeeding as propaganda. It seems to...

05/10/2008 | 369 visite | 2 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

25. Will Goldman's coup fail?

30/09/2008 | 506 visite | 2 commenti

26. Where does Russia’s ‘sphere of influence’ end?

"In Russia, the optimists learn English; the pessimists learn Chinese and the realists learn to operate a Kalashnikov." This joke would have been funny had it not come from Dmitri Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to NATO, in a recent interview...

27/09/2008 | 312 visite | 3 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

27. When the gamblers bail out the casino

Why should American taxpayers give US Treasury Secretary "Hank" Paulson a blank check to bail out the shareholders of busted banks? Why should the Treasury turn itself into a toxic waste dump for their bad loans? Why not let other banks...

23/09/2008 | 240 visite | Leggi tutto ...

28. West complicit in Palestinian suffering

20/09/2008 | 206 visite

29. Washington refuse des armes à Israël pour attaquer l'Iran

Pour freiner le bellicisme israélien, les États-Unis ne livreront pas des matériels militaires suceptibles d'être utilisés contre Téhéran Face à la menace atomique iranienne, les...

17/09/2008 | 318 visite | Leggi tutto ...

30. Will Turkey Abandon NATO?

Will Turkey side with the United States, its NATO ally, and let more U.S. military ships into the Black Sea to assist Georgia? Or will it choose Russia? A Turkish refusal would seriously impair American efforts to support the beleaguered...

29/08/2008 | 621 visite | 6 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

31. Why I had to recognise Georgia's breakaway regions

On Tuesday Russia recognised the independence of the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It was not a step taken lightly, or without full consideration of the consequences. But all possible outcomes had to be weighed against a sober...

28/08/2008 | 459 visite | 2 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

32. Who Started Cold War II?

The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO. Had Georgia been in NATO when Mikheil Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia, we would be eyeball to eyeball with...

20/08/2008 | 756 visite | 1 comment | Leggi tutto ...

33. Who Killed Obama? T-Shirt

Apollo Braun Designs "Jews Against Obama" T-shirt   Orchard Street designer Doron Braunshtein (aka Apollo Braun, pictured) is at it again; in March he launched his "Who Killed Obama?" t-shirt and now he's added a new...

09/08/2008 | 737 visite | 3 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

34. Washington senza speranza

17 luglio, 2008 (LPAC) - Il sistema internazionale bancario e finanziario si sta avvitando a spirale nell'oblìo a velocità crescente, le istituzioni guida a Washington non hanno la minima certezza sul da farsi. "Non esiste...

21/07/2008 | 1312 visite | 6 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

35. Website exposes Israeli 'nuke secrets'

10/07/2008 | 904 visite | 2 commenti

36. What John McCain didn't learn in Vietnam

In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the former POW insists we could have won. No wonder he talks of occupying Iraq for a century WARSAW, Poland: Nobody has denigrated the service of John McCain or his suffering in captivity as...

06/07/2008 | 403 visite | 1 comment | Leggi tutto ...

37. Wal-Mart branches out into locally grown produce

06/07/2008 | 426 visite

38. We, the Salt of the Earth, Take Precedence

Which country is the rogue nation? Iraq? Iran? Or the United States? Syndicated columnist Charley Reese asks this question in a recently published article. Reese notes that it is the U.S. that routinely commits "acts of aggression around...

02/07/2008 | 475 visite | 7 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

39. Wall Street Sold Auction-Rate Debt, Warned Issuers

28/06/2008 | 468 visite

40. WJC president urges Poland to compensate Holocaust victims

18/06/2008 | 558 visite | 6 commenti

41. Why It’s Worse Than You Think

For months, economic Pollyannas have looked beyond the dismal headlines and promised a quick recovery in the second half. They're dead wrong The forgettable first half of 2008 is stumbling to a close. On Friday, the Labor Department reported...

11/06/2008 | 550 visite | Leggi tutto ...

42. Walker's World: Are the BRICs crumbling?

WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The Chinese media is reporting that Beijing's financial authority, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has instructed Chinese mutual funds, on pain of "administrative punishment," to shore up falling stock...

06/06/2008 | 506 visite | Leggi tutto ...

43. When Free Speech Doesn’t Come Free

Free speech is not without consequence. In the United States, for example, criticism of Israel is tantamount to heresy. Former President Jimmy Carter felt a societal backlash last year after the release of his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,...

27/05/2008 | 468 visite | Leggi tutto ...

44. Wolfowitz: Iraq occupation ended in 2004

03/05/2008 | 548 visite | 1 comment

45. Wall Street Warns Americans To Begin Stockpiling Food

The New York Times recently told its more wealthy readers to consider buying a rural cottage, or even log cabin, to ride out the water and food riots that militarised police forces are preparing and training for, and now Wall Street recommends its...

25/04/2008 | 549 visite | 1 comment | Leggi tutto ...

46. Wall Street, la paura fa '70

L'allarme di Voicker: situazione simile alla crisi del 1973. Allora i listini persero il 23% Attenzione alripetersi di una recessione stile Anni Settanta, una delle peggiori della storia americana, anche dal punto di vista della Borsa....

15/04/2008 | 837 visite | Leggi tutto ...

47. Worried Yet? Saudis Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit

26/03/2008 | 1128 visite

48. Why The Dollar Is So Cheap And Euro & Gold Are So Dear

The dollar is trading at all time lows against the euro and gold for good reasons. The Bush administration has flooded the world with greenbacks, and global investors have little confidence in the management of the U.S. economy. During the Bush...

18/03/2008 | 833 visite | Leggi tutto ...

49. War at Any Cost?

In recent months the undeclared war in Iraq seems not to have been on the minds of most Americans. News of the violence and deprivation which ordinary Iraqis are forced to deal with on a daily basis rarely makes it to the front pages. Instead, we...

04/03/2008 | 632 visite | 2 commenti | Leggi tutto ...

50. Why Not Talk to Hamas?

On Jan. 23 Ha'aretz readers were utterly embarrassed. Just as the quality paper was printing its top headline, based on Israel's omniscient "security sources" – "New Israeli Policy in Gaza: Border Crossings Will Stay...

21/02/2008 | 478 visite | Leggi tutto ...