Disaster Capitalism

Creating a State Bank in California with Ellen Brown & Laura Wells_on Economic Collapse Teach-in

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Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster_on Guns & Butter

This show was broadcast on March 8, 2010.
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Coming up today and every Monday at 7:00 pm Pacific - 10:00 pm Eastern - 03:00 GMT GUNS AND BUTTER with Bonnie Faulkner Iceland Recovering From Neoliberal Disaster - Dr. Michael Hudson Iceland’s banking… »»»

100 Years Ago: Women’s Day (1910-2010) March 8th

Socialist Women Declare a Global Feminist Holiday
By Megan Cornish

Global Research, March 8, 2010

Freedom Socialist Party - 2010-02-01

Women are a revolutionary force. That fact shows in their holiday, International Women’s Day (IWD), both its past and present. Because the profit system depends on the second-class status of… »»»

More Than 1,000 March in Berkeley to Protest Budget Cuts

berkeleydailyplanet.com 3-4-2010

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Thursday March 04, 2010

By Riya Bhattacharjee
UC Berkeley students dance at the entrance of Sproul Plaza on Bancroft and Telegraph before starting on their march at noon Thursday. The Subway restaurant that was vandalized during a riot about a week ago can be seen in the background.

By Riya Bhattacharjee
Nancy… »»»

The Fall of Greece Yes, It Really is a Capitalist Plot

By Diana Johnstone

Global Research, March 4, 2010

Counterpunch - 2010-03-01

For Europe’s poorest countries, European Union membership has long held out the promise of tranquil prosperity. The current Greek financial crisis ought to dispel some of their illusions.

There are two strikingly significant levels to the current crisis. While primarily economic, the European Economic Community also claims… »»»

IMF “Economic Medicine” Comes to America

by Ellen Brown

Global Research, March 2, 2010
Web of Debt - 2010-02-28
In addition to mandatory private health insurance premiums, we may soon be hit with a “mandatory savings” tax and other belt-tightening measures urged by the President’s new budget task force. These radical austerity measures are not only unnecessary, however, but will actually make matters worse…. »»»

Jesse Ventura-Conspiracy Theory-H.A.A.R.P. Parts 1-6

HAARP: Part 1
Jesse Ventura and his team head to Alaska to investigate the purpose of the HAARP installation
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The Axis of Greed: The Nature and Structure of the Economic Elite — Part III

By David DeGraw

Global Research, February 27, 2010

Amped Status - 2010-02-19

This is the third-part of a six-part report. Part one can be viewed here, part two here.

“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent… »»»

The American Nightmare: US Economic Elite Wages War on the American People — Part II

Part II
By David DeGraw

Global Research, February 20, 2010

Amped Status - 2010-02-17

This is the second-part of a six-part report. Part one can be viewed here. Part three can be viewed here.

“The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class……. »»»

“Economic Terrorism”: The Consequences are Poverty and Mass Unemployment — Part I

By David DeGraw

Global Research, February 16, 2010
This is the FIRST-part of a six-part report. Part two can be viewed here, part three here.

Amped Status - 2010-02-15

“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part… »»»

Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle

By Matt Taibbi

Global Research, February 28, 2010

Rolling Stone - 2010-02-17

Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they’re re-creating the conditions for another crash

On January 21st, Lloyd Blankfein left a peculiar voicemail message on the work phones of his employees at Goldman Sachs…. »»»

How Prime Minister Hotoyama Can Stop The “Japan Bashing”

By Mike Whitney

Global Research, February 25, 2010

Information Clearing House

Japan should not allow itself to be publicly humiliated by the world’s biggest human rights abuser. It has many tools at its disposal which can be used to persuade sanctimonious senators and flannel-mouth congressmen that they need to stop… »»»

Targeting Toyota: US Economic War Directed Against Japan

By Mike Whitney

Global Research, February 25, 2010

Does anyone really believe that Toyota is being pilloried in the media for a few highway fatalities?
Nonsense. If Congress is so worried about innocent people getting killed, then why haven’t they indicted US commander Stanley McChrystal for blowing up another 27… »»»

Is the United States a Failing State?

By Barry Weisberg

Global Research, February 23, 2010

There is now a common chorus from CNN, the New York Times and the Economist.  They ask if government in the United States is broken and needs fixing?  But what if government in the US is “beyond repair,” as I argued in a… »»»

Unexplored Oil Reserves in the South Atlantic: Towards a New Falklands Conflict?

Little England Struts Again
By Finian Cunningham

Global Research, February 22, 2010

Exactly 28 years later, the spectre of the Falklands War makes a comeback. This was one of Britain’s last colonial wars – a sordid episode in the annals of the British Empire. In 1982, UK Prime Minister Margaret sent… »»»

Debt Dynamite Dominoes: The Coming Financial Catastrophe

Assessing the Illusion of Recovery
By Andrew Gavin Marshall

Global Research, February 22, 2010

Understanding the Nature of the Global Economic Crisis

The people have been lulled into a false sense of safety under the rouse of a perceived “economic recovery.” Unfortunately, what the majority of people think does not make it so, especially when… »»»

The American Nightmare: US Economic Elite Wages War on the American People

By David DeGraw

Global Research, February 20, 2010

Amped Status - 2010-02-17

This is the second-part of a six-part report. Part one can be viewed here.

“The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business… »»»

Wall Street’s War Against Main Street America

By Prof. Michael Hudson

Global Research, February 17, 2010

Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, (Feb. 16)[1] outlining how to put the U.S. economy on rations. Not in those words, of course. Just the opposite: If the government hadn’t bailed out Wall Street’s bad… »»»

US Forces Can Assassinate Americans, Supreme Court on Corporate Personhood and more!_on Anti-War Teachin

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And the U.S. Calls This a “Model Response?” A Million Homeless in Haiti

By BILL QUIGLEY
uruknet.info
February 15, 2010
Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in Haiti one month after the earthquake, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Ken Merten, is quoted at a State Department briefing on February 12, saying “In terms of humanitarian aid delivery…frankly, it’s working really well, and I believe that this will… »»»

The New Junk Economics — Dr. Michael Hudson

This show was broadcast February 15, 2010. It is part of both the Guns & Butter and Economic Collapse Teachin Series
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Refuse to Pay Government Debt Incurred for Unlawful and Oppressive Purposes … It Is the Personal Debt of Those Who Ordered It to Be Incurred

2-12-2010 washingtonsblog.com
There is an established legal principle that people should not have to repay their government’s debt to the extent that it is incurred to launch aggressive wars or to oppress the people.
These “odious debts” are considered to be the personal debts of the tyrants who incurred them, rather than the country’s debt.
Wikipedia gives… »»»

Global Economic Crisis: Look To Asia for The Financial Tsunami Wave, Not Europe

By Matthias Chang

Global Research, February 11, 2010

Future Fastforward

This will be one of my shortest articles as it is written as a RED ALERT.
When I send out Red Alerts, it is a dire warning and a call for immediate action to protect your wealth (if there is any… »»»

Washington anticipates a new 9/11 within six months

voltairenet.org 2-5-2010

The top US intelligence chiefs created a commotion at their annual hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on 2 February 2010.
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair first alluded to a cyberwar, implying that it would be triggered by China and would jeopardize the entire world internet infrastructure.
He later affirmed rather… »»»

VIDEO: War and the Economy: We Must Take our Countries Back

We can’t give in and we can’t give up
By Cynthia McKinney

Global Research, February 10, 2010

Transcript of Cynthia McKinney’s speeches in Munich, Germany
NATO Rally Speech, Munich, Germany
Thank you for allowing me to come from the United States and participate in this rally for peace.
My country has been hijacked by a criminal cabal intent on… »»»

VIDEO: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Montreal Lecture: The Great Depression of the 21st Century

By Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, January 17, 2009

THE GLOBAL RESEARCH LECTURE
Montreal, January 14, 2009

Causes and consequences of the financial meltdown;
The speculative onslaught;
Financial fraud and the “bank bailouts”;
Bankruptcy of the real economy;
Impacts on employment, wages and social services;
Towards a spiralling public debt;
The economic crisis and its relationship… »»»

Yes, America is Still in an Official State of Emergency

By Washington’s Blog

Global Research, February 11, 2010

Washington’s Blog

A reader asked whether the U.S. is still in an official state of emergency, and if so, what that means.
The answer is yes, we are still in a state of emergency.
Specifically:
On September 11, 2001, the government declared a state of emergency. That declared state of… »»»

Descent Into Barbarism: The US and NATO Wage War on the World

By Finian Cunningham

Global Research, February 9, 2010

The argument is won: capitalism as an effective system to organise society and provide for human needs has expired. The evidence is conclusive. Trillions of dollars to kickstart the economy in the US and Europe may have given an ephemeral lease of life to the financial… »»»

The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning

by James Petras
Global Research, January 3, 2010

Introduction:

Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building.

One Day’s Read of the Financial Times

Even a cursory read of a single… »»»

Obama’s Republican Class War Presidency — Dr. Michael Hudson _ on Guns & Butter

This show was broadcast February 8, 2010.
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Video - Ron Paul warns of Social unrest and Martial Law

SimpleDan76 2-3-2010
through the years many prophets warned of consequences to societies if they did not change their ways…I consider Ron Paul to be THE most honest elected official currently holding an office. His message has not changed. Love him or hate him..he lives up to his word. In this video he also openly discusses… »»»

US to Launch Fallujah-style Attack in Afghanistan

Global Research, February 8, 2010

World Socialist Web Site - 2010-02-06

As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war.
The operation in central… »»»

The Bankruptcy of the United States is Now Certain

By Porter Stansberry
Global Research, February 7, 2010
S&A Digest - 2009-11-24
It’s one of those numbers that’s so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while… Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And that’s not counting any additional deficit spending, which… »»»

Deepening Debt Crisis: The Bernanke Reappointment: Be Afraid, Very Afraid

by Prof Michael Hudson

Global Research, February 2, 2010

If the economy deteriorates in the L-shaped “hockey-stick” rut that many economists forecast, what political price will President Obama and the Democrats pay for having returned the financial keys to the Bush Republican appointees who gave away the store in the first place? Reappointing Federal… »»»

Jesse Ventura-Conspiracy Theory-”Apocalypse 2012″

Apolcaylse 2012 Parts 1-6
Source www.youtube.com
setokaiba22
January 13, 2010
It’s believed that the world is heading for disaster in 2012 and the government is preparing to save and protect the elite - while leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves. Jesse Ventura investigates claims of top secret underground bunkers being built in places ranging from the… »»»

Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending_on Economic Collapse Teachin

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The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti

By F. William Engdahl

Global Research, January 30, 2010

President becomes UN Special Envoy to earthquake-stricken Haiti.
A born-again neo-conservative US business wheeler-dealer preacher claims Haitians are condemned for making a literal ‘pact with the Devil.’
Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Bolivian, French and Swiss rescue organizations accuse the US military of refusing landing rights to planes bearing necessary medicines… »»»

The Russian Navy reports that the U.S. created the earthquake in Haiti

Haiti: The U.S. Created the Earthquake in Haiti?
24.01.2010
Source: Pravda.Ru
The Russian Navy reports that the U.S. created the earthquake in Haiti
The Russian Northern Fleet indicates that the earthquake that devastated Haiti was clearly the result of a test by the U.S. Navy through one of its earthquake weapons and drew up a diagram of linear… »»»

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows

By David Reilly

Global Research, January 29, 2010

Bloomberg

The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks… »»»

Is Corporate Personhood the End of Democracy?

By Michael Cornell
Global Research
January 30, 2010
I suspect the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on corporate personhood has many of our founding fathers turning in their graves including Thomas Jefferson who wrote, “I hope we shall … crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial… »»»

The Battle of the Titans: JP Morgan Versus Goldman Sachs

globalresearch.ca
1-29-2010

Or Why the Market Was Down for 7 Days in a Row

By Ellen Brown

Global Research, January 29, 2010

Web of Debt - 2010-01-28

We are witnessing an epic battle between two banking giants, JPMorgan Chase (Paul Volcker) and Goldman Sachs (Geithner/Summers/Rubin). Left strewn on the battleground could be your pension fund and… »»»

Jesse Ventura-Conspiracy Theory-2012 Parts 1-6

Apocalypse 2012
Part 1 of 1 - 6
Source www.youtube.com
Do scientists really believe Earth is headed for disaster in 2012? Is our government secretly planning to save and protect the elite - while leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves?
Time is of the essence as Jesse Ventura chases down the 2012 conspiracy. It began as… »»»

Go home US military: Haiti doesn’t need anymore pain!

The major media called, part 1 by Ezili Dantò/HLLN for Haitian Perspectives,
January 16, 2010
” Lè n ap badinen ak lou, fòk nou atann a kout grif nan plen figi” -
When you’re playing with a wolf, you must expect to be scratched in the face.
*
The major media called, a Black woman working for a major TV… »»»

Oil in Haiti - Economic Reasons for the UN/US occupation

OCTOBER 13, 2009
Ezili Dantò
open.salon.com

Oil in Haiti and Oil Refinery - an old notion for Fort Liberte as a transshipment terminal for US supertankers - Another economic reason for the ouster of President Aristide and current UN … »»»

The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?

by Michel Chossudovskyglobalresearch.ca

Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. US interventionism has contributed to the destruction of Haiti’s national economy and the impoverishment of its population.
The devastating earthquake is presented to World public opinion as the sole cause of… »»»

Medical Worker Outside of Port-Au-Prince: We Are Waiting For Patients That Have Yet To Arrive

January 17, 2010
democracynow.org
Democracy Now! just received this email from a medical worker at Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, 75 miles north of Port-Au-Prince.
From Tim Traynor at Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot:
I am sitting at Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, 75 miles north of PAP waiting for patients that have yet to arrive. I have… »»»

HAITI LATEST EARTHQUAKE VIDEO…… MUST SEEN VIDEO….VERY GRAPHIC…..7.0 EARTHQUAKE

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First Video of Haiti’s Earthquake SECONDS AFTER IT HIT..( VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED)

Mexibunch1-14-2010

CNN has obtained exclusive video of the damage and suffering of the people after a massive 7.0 earthquake (VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED)
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Video: The Moment Haiti Earthquake Hits Port-Au-Prince

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January 14, 2010
Shocking Moment at Earthquake Slams Hits Port-Au-Prince
Downtown Port-Au-Prince, Haiti flattened….Moment of disaster. Amazing video captures January 12 2010 Haiti Earthquake on tape…
Video below: Shocking moment a massive earthquake levels city of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
Shocking video has emerged of the moment a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the heavily populated city of Port-Au-Prince in… »»»