Beyond NAFTA:
Shaping the Future of North American IntegrationIn a move that signalled the importance placed on the NAFTA partnership, Mexico’s new president visited the U.S. and Canada before his inauguration. This...
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Our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens"1The hurricanes, the typhoons, the heat waves ... the droughts, the heavy rains, the floods ... ever more...
View ArticleThe “Fiscal Cliff” Is A Diversion:
The Derivatives Tsunami and the Dollar BubbleThe “fiscal cliff” is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers, the media, and the attentive public, if any, from huge problems to small...
View ArticleThe Big Banks Are Criminal Enterprises
The Mainstream Media Acknowledges the Criminal Nature of the Banking System“The Government Has Bought Into the Notion that Too Big to Fail Is Too Big to Jail”Alternative financial media have noted for...
View ArticleFiscal Cliff:
Let’s Call Their Bluff!The “fiscal cliff” has all the earmarks of a false flag operation, full of sound and fury, intended to extort concessions from opponents. Neil Irwin of the Washington Post calls...
View Article“Wiping Countries Off the Map”:
Who’s Failing the “Failed States”Washington is in the "business of destroying" a very long list of countries. “Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications....
View ArticleThe Tri-Command Strategy and Merging U.S.-Canada Arctic Foreign Policy
The Arctic has become an important part of North American perimeter security. Recently, the U.S. and Canada signed two new agreements that will expand bilateral military training, security and defense...
View ArticleThe GM Industry And The Disgusting Enemies Of The Poor
“I recognized my two selves: a crusading idealist and a cold, granitic believer in the law of the jungle” – Edgar Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto chairman, 1943-63, “The Spirit of Enterprise”, 1934.When rich...
View ArticleWhere have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
"France no longer recognizes its children," lamented Guillaume Roquette in an editorial in the Figaro weekly magazine in Paris. "How can the country of Victor Hugo, secularism and family reunions...
View ArticleTerrorism with a “Human Face”:
The History of America’s Death SquadsDeath Squads in Iraq and Syria. The Historical Roots of US-NATO's Covert War on SyriaThe recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US...
View ArticleThe GM Industry And The Disgusting Enemies Of The Poor
“I recognized my two selves: a crusading idealist and a cold, granitic believer in the law of the jungle” – Edgar Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto chairman, 1943-63, “The Spirit of Enterprise”, 1934.When rich...
View ArticleThe Lies Of Democracy and the Language Of Deceit
In an increasingly media-driven age, language is everything and is often used by officialdom to tyrannise meaning. With the deaths of millions on its hands since 1945, the US has become the world’s...
View ArticleThe Power of Idle No More’s Resurgent Radicalism
The remarkable Idle No More movement is the biggest and most important national outpouring of grassroots aboriginal anger ever seen in Canada. Not since the late 1960s when Indians (as they then...
View ArticleObama Inauguration Day: Two Nobel Peace Laureates, “Drones Apart”.
Martin Luther King: “From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring.”(Martin Luther King,15th January 1929-4th April 1968.)Oh the cynicism. The man whose words have rung down over four decades,...
View ArticlePowder Keg in the Pacific:
Will China-Japan-U.S. Tensions Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy?Don’t look now, but conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific. Things are turning ugly, with consequences that...
View ArticleCanada vs. Norway:
The Petro Path Not TakenMomentum is building across Canada on the need to develop a sustainable national energy strategy.On this front, Canada and Alberta, its main petro-province, has much to learn...
View ArticleThe 9/11 Plan:
Cheney, Rumsfeld and the “Continuity of Government”“If a mandarinate ruled America, the recruiting committee on September 11 would have had to find someone like Cheney.” Washington Post author Barton...
View ArticleWho Owns The Federal Reserve?
The Fed is privately owned. Its shareholders are private banks.“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon...
View ArticleThe Choice of Guns Over Butter
Years ago I read a newspaper story about an elderly man who lived in an impoverished area of Cleveland, Ohio. The man was a friendless loner who seemed to have no caring family members. Neighbors had...
View ArticleMoscow’s Message to America:
“Hands Off” the Middle East and AfricaMunich’s Security Conference is held annually. This year marks the 49th session. Dozens of countries participated. Hundreds of world leaders attended.They included...
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