by Dmitry Orlov Club Orlov (July 29 2014) The Americans are finding out the hard way that a fact-free zone is not a comfortable place to inhabit. The initial knee-jerk allegations, voiced by Obama, by the screechy UN representative Samantha…

: Gabor Maté Published on Tue Jul 22 2014 As a Jewish youngster growing up in Budapest, an infant survivor of the Nazi genocide, I was for years haunted by a question resounding in my brain with such force that…

by Dave Lindorff This Can’t Be Happening! (July 22 2014) About six years ago, as part of his Bar Mitzvah, my son Jed did a project on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, producing his own graphic novel about the underground fighters…

by Michael Snyder Economic Collapse (July 21 2014) In general, over the last several decades the world has experienced an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity. The opening up of relations with China and the “end of the Cold War”…

by Dmitry Orlov Club Orlov (July 14 2014) [Guest post by Makeda.] Recently I have run across a number of articles in American newspapers which emphasize the importance of higher education and reassure us that there is no crisis with…

by Tyler Durden {1}  Zero Hedge (July 14 2014) Three months ago we discussed in detail the growing anti-dollar hegemony alliances that were building across the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Their efforts at the time,…

… created to counter Western dominance http://rt.com (July 18 2014) Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has praised the new development bank founded this week by the BRICS countries for creating a financial institution that could counter the Western-dominated IMF and…

Troublemaking Washington by Mike Whitney CounterPunch (July 09 2014) The unipolar world model has failed. People everywhere have shown their desire to choose their own destiny, preserve their own cultural identity, and oppose the West’s attempts at military, financial, political…

by Dmitry Orlov Club Orlov (July 01 2014) As nation-states topple into the defunct bin at an ever-increasing rate (the nation-state will be extinct in just a couple of decades if the current trend continues) the world is awash in…

Western support will allow more IMF and European lending to prop the Ukrainian currency so the Ukrainian oligarchs can move their money safely to British and US banks, economist and author Michael Hudson told RT’s Truthseeker. http://rt.com/op-edge (July 07 2014)…