(ZHE) When earlier today we reported that Turkey has closed the airspace above, and suspended all US-led air missions out of the giant Incirlik airbase (which houses some 50 US nuclear bombs), we said that there is speculation the “airbase may be held “hostage” by Ankara as a bargaining chip ahead of
Russian, US and EU sources are all reporting that a military coup is in progress in Turkey. It is way too early to comment on these events, but I have
Today, the rule of law in Honduras still has not recovered from the coup that Secretary Clinton helped enable.
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Democratic critics of military seizures of power commonly refer to them as military coups. They adopt a very narrow and misleading conception of what is taking place.
Likewise, human rights activists and progressive analysts who conceptualize the reign of violence which follows, a ‘coup’ as state terror fail to take account of the systemic forces – the capitalist social order and class relations – which determine the classes which wield state power. They ignore the specific classes and groups which are targeted and which classes direct and benefit from terror.
Let’s examine which nation has the most tactical advantages in case war breaks out in either the Ukraine or the Mideast.
Let’s examine which nation has the most tactical advantages in case war breaks out in either the Ukraine or the Mideast.
Karl Marx wrote On the Jewish Question in 1843 5 years before the Communist Manifesto. It is hopelessly out of date. Judaism is at the core of modern life. I believe mankind will not survive unless we answer the Jewish Question.
On Thursday June 18, 2015 the US Congress voted to fast track the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) without letting the public to read the bill. On Tuesday June 23, 2015 the Senate voted for cloture to approve fast track. Those two votes ended Democracy in America. The Congress has not paid attention to voters for a very long time. The previous fast track trade deal was the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) which closed 57,000 American manufacturing plants. Since its passage, US politicians added 50 million legal and legal immigrants.
Every dollar in new debt adds just 3 cents to America’s GDP. Does that mean that we can increase our GDP by a trillion dollars if we raise the US national debt from $18 trillion to $51 trillion?
