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On October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials, ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were marched to the gallows. Some of the former elite Nazis did not die quickly of an intended broken neck but strangled slowly. Since the trapdoor was too small, several of More

It seems possible and may be probable that the conditions that create the inequities of plutocracy break down the psychic defensive capacities of those on the wrong side of plutocracy. It may be that the surrounding conditions created by gross inequities weaken mind, body before recuperative factors of family values, a father in every home, for-profit education, mostly STEM which innovates new products and new apps, early Mozart, Christian, and Constitutional values, the urge to start a business, and gun ownership kick in. Читать дальше...

On security, US military superiority over China has amounted to an absurd new military asymmetry. US Polling statistics reveal that military hawks tend to receive more votes than military doves. If the result is polarization, the competition then is to what degree one candidate can out-hawk the next. Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina wants to establish 50 army brigades, 36 Marine Corps battalions and 350 naval ships. The United States needs, the one-time (and failed) CEO lamented, “the strongest... Читать дальше...

If the U.S. is to ever change its foreign policy based on dominance and aggression to a foreign policy based on diplomacy and respect for international law, there needs to be foundation of realistic assessments. Foreign policy decisions need to be based on reality not fantasy and propaganda. Unfortunately, dysfunction, deception and propaganda extends across More

The United Nations General Assembly on October 27 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for “an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”   Approval was all but unanimous: 191 nations voted in favor and two voted against, the United States and Israel. There were no More

“Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” — Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1935 On November 3rd, the US government will again run More

Is mandatory voting coming into vogue? New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has touted compulsory balloting, and President Obama suggested last March that mandatory voting could cure some of the ills of American democracy. Obama said that compelling everyone to vote would “encourage more participation” — perhaps the same way that the specter of prison More

The story goes like this: India is an economic miracle, a powerhouse of growth. It is a nation that increasingly embodies the spirit of entrepreneurship. And the proof? Until recently, India had year on year 9% GDP growth (or thereabouts). Such logic, statements and figures are the stuff of headlines that pay homage to the More

In October 2008, something happened that had never happened before. The United States (US) Treasury 30 year bond interest rate swap spread went negative, below the interest rates being paid on US Treasury 30 year bonds. The wall street “algos” (computer algorithms) hadn’t been programmed for that because it was considered to be like a More

Over the past eighteen months two of the world’s largest automakers have been found responsible for deadly conspiracies. But, recent revelations can’t compete with the industry’s previous scandals. Last month Volkswagen was caught rigging millions of its cars emissions testing systems to meet regulatory standards. The German company programmed its turbocharged direct injection diesel engines More

There are few more intrinsically brutal facts than slavery’s role in the building of European, and then subsequently, its various settler empires. As a system, it became the peculiar institution, as it was euphemistically termed, in the American south. It signified a demographic theft that the African continent has struggled to overcome, a shock of More

The Spratlys, in the South China Sea, have already been built upon by Vietnam and the Philippines, others also eying them, yet only China draws the ire of USG, an opportune move for invoking the Law of the Sea to press forward America’s militarization of the Pacific specifically to engineer a power-confrontation, long in the More

With much of the US press focused on the daily images of barbarity coming out the lands occupied by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the brutal practices of the real Islamic State, Saudi Arabia, receive scant attention.  The reasons for this are as sickening as they are obvious: a major oil supplier More

“I don’t have roots, I have feet.” — Ruth Klüger What’s known as the refugee crisis continues to dominate public discourse in Germany. Is Germany faced with the humanitarian challenge of formulating and implementing appropriate public policy to manage the large numbers of refugees trecking through the Balkans? Or is there an urgent need to More

Last week, I was on RT’s show “CrossTalk” about Syria and ended up spending most of the show trying to make a point I didn’t think I’d have to on that media outlet. Here’s the video. RT of course used to be know as Russia Today and is often regarded as extremely critical of U.S. More

The issue of making college tuition-free has recently come to the fore in American politics, largely because the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, have each championed it. Sanders has called for free undergraduate tuition at public colleges and universities, to be financed by a tax on Wall More