by Eric Walberg posted October 30, 2012 by PressTV The West’s attempts to destroy the Iranian economy through heightened sanctions-including most imports, oil exports and use of banks for trade operations-is having its affect. According to Johns Hopkins University Professor Steve Hanke, Iran is facing hyperinflation, with a monthly inflation rate of nearly 70% per…
by Jack Douglas posted November 7, 2012 by LewRockwell.com Vast social revolutions and wars are often preceded by periods of giving up on reforms, despairing withdrawal from public life by the best and brightest, and even peacefulness which seems to have become the normal condition in spite of deep conflicts and growing crises beneath the…
by Roula Khalaf posted November 2, 2012 by Financial Times Behind the scenes and on the street women are now stepping out of the shadows and emerging as a vital political force in Egypt Sondos Asem was five years old when Hosni Mubarak’s security men broke into the family home after midnight, dragged her father…
by Ellen Brown posted November 8, 2012 by Web of Debt Blog In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes to bankers, financiers, and bondholders, who take a 35% to 40% cut of our…
by Atul Aneja posted November 1, 2012 by The Hindu Although the U.S. is in denial, there is every reason to believe that it was Tahloob, a movement of pro-Qadhafi loyalists, that killed Ambassador Stevens Spin doctors in the United States are finding it hard to explain the September 11 strike in Benghazi that killed…