OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE THE CARNAGE? WHY STAND FOR A COUNTRY THAT CAN GUN YOU DOWN IN COLD BLOOD?
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PUTIN MAKES OBAMA AN OFFER HE CAN’T REFUSE
Sunday, November 1st, 2015Just as the Soviets are hitting the ISIS forces in Syria, the United States are scrambling to call an emergency meeting and rethink their Syria policy. The signs are that the mighty CIA is rolling up its pet project in Syria and headed for the exits. By Mike Whitney. Why is ...
SINISTER PRETEXT FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014The American mainstream media doesn’t care about identifying the criminals who shot down Malaysia Flight 17 and killed 298 passengers. They just want to demonize Putin and create a pretext for waging war on Russia. By Mike Whitney. “There is no innocent explanation for the sudden disappearance of MH17 from the ...
WHO SHOT DOWN MH17? (Updated August 8, 2014)
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014After Malaysia's Flight MH17 was shot down on July 17, 2014, what the world saw was the United States pointing the finger at Putin and the Russia-back forces in Ukraine. In spite of expert testimonies, Washington has yet to offer definite evidence to refute Russia's charges of a second plane. ...
WHY ABENOMICS FLOPPED
Saturday, July 5th, 2014Japan, once a powerhouse of efficiency and creativity, is now yet another financialised economy addicted to asset inflation and too-big-to-fail corporations. Tax cuts for the rich and permanent low wages for the rest. Abenomics is just another word for class warfare. By Mike Whitney. By every objective standard, Abenomics has been ...
THE ISIS FIASCO: IT’S REALLY AN ATTACK ON IRAN
Saturday, June 21st, 2014When Iraq refused to grant immunity to US troops garrisoned on Iraqi soil, the Americans left in 2011. Now the man who refused to sign that amended treaty (the Status of Forces agreement), Nouri Kamal al-Maliki, is on his knees begging for the Americans to come back. ...
BLACK FLAGS OVER MOSUL
Sunday, June 15th, 2014It's Al-Qaeda week again. After we thought the Americans had totally destroyed them with their shock and awe invasion in 2003 and the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011, this week, Iraq's surrender of Mosul to freedom fighters, thought to be Al-Qaeda, put the spotlight back on these alleged ...
WHY IS PUTIN IN WASHINGTON’S CROSSHAIRS?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014A war in the Ukraine will be a big boost to America's failing economy. It's also an opportunity to show the only American muscle left - it's military force. Obama is having his "penis-envy moment". Mike Whitney examines the details. “Washington wants to weaken Moscow economically by slashing its gas revenues ...
THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD
Wednesday, February 12th, 2014Hard work won't pay off in a system that's geared for the well-connected. Just look at how policies today favor the big. By Mike Whitney. "The US worked hard to create the American dream of opportunity. But today, that dream is a myth." - Economist Joseph Stiglitz, Financial Times If you follow ...
ABENOMICS IN 14 WORDS
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013When more and more countries adopt economic policies that favor the very, very rich, you know socialism is well and truly dead. But more than ever before, people need fairness in wealth distribution before societies become dysfunctional. By Mike Whitney. Ferrari sales are going gangbusters in Japan, but beer sales have ...