By Brandon Martinez
Many are hailing the recent nuclear agreement between the P5+1 powers and Iran as “historic” and a political “breakthrough,” the turning of a new leaf of peace and reconciliation between the West and the Islamic Republic.
DILBERT by Scott AdamsJuly 9: "Hard Work Is Necessary For Success"[Click to enlarge.]"I take Life as it comes, and although I grouse a great deal and sometimes lie on the floor and kick and scream and refuse to eat my supper, I find that taking Life as it comes is the only way to meet it. It isn't a very satisfactory way, but it is the only way. (I should be very glad to try any other way that anyone can suggest.
A new origami paper battery, which is powered by bacteria and costs five US cents (3p), could revolutionise the diagnosis of diseases in developing and remote areas
"As I travel around America, I’m struck by how utterly powerless most people feel."-- Robert Reich, in a new blogpost, "WhySo Many Americans Feel So Powerless" by KenThe former labor secretary begins with three cases he diagnoses as examples of people feeling powerless:
Corporate lobbyists who want to force genetically modified food on the world through secretive and unconstitutional, behind-closed-doors deals have just moved their agenda forward by cutting a deal with the President to move the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) through a fast-track approval in Congress. This agreement would lodge corporate power in place, undermining democracy.
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The United States, now on a new hunt for a great white whale, has virtually re-created East Germany’s dreaded Stasi, only in a much more sophisticated and far-reaching form. It meshes with the all-pervasive secret state police apparatus Israel has constructed in the Middle East with infinite care since 1948.
On this episode of the Non-Aligned Media podcast, host Brandon Martinez is joined by Canadian patriot and dissident publisher Arthur Topham.
For decades Arthur has been publishing critical commentaries on geopolitics and history with a particular focus on the destructive impact of Zionism on Canada and the world. Due to his anti-Zionist views, Topham has run afoul of Canada’s self-appointed thought police who have relentlessly harassed and pursued him for the ill-defined and erroneous crime of “hate.”
The world political economy is a mosaic of cross currents: Domestic decay and elite enrichment, new sources for greater profits and deepening political disenchantment, declining living standards for many and extravagant luxury for a few, military losses in some regions with imperial recovery in others. There are claims of a unipolar, a multi-polar and even a non-polar configuration of world power. Where, when, to what extent and under what contingencies do these claims have validity?
