Major powers successfully dictate regime change in Greece

by Chris Marsden, WSWS Just three days after he won a vote of confidence, Greece’s Prime Minister George Papandreou is out of office and a government of “national unity” is being formed—combining Papandreou’s PASOK and the main conservative opposition, New Democracy. The sole raison d’être of the new government is to impose on the Greek [...]

Iran Propaganda debunked in less than 6 minutes

UK, US, Israel threaten War on Iran – Interview on RT (Uh… really?)

(Really? It’s not the Daily Mail that had that article, the interviewee was wrong on that count, it was the Guardian.)  Yet the JC ended its report suggesting that at least “privately, senior MoD officials flatly refuted suggestions that Britain was ready to be part of a US-led attack on Iran.”  Source  

The Guardian of Israel

(Contrary to our local hasbara megaphones here in the states, NATO and the UK do not support a first strike on Iran nor does it seem they would be up for that particular fight. Guess Syria is next after all.) by Gilad Atzmon, Information Clearinghouse Israeli hasbara insists that an attack on Iran is compatible with both [...]

CME increases margin call; markets will be under pressure

from Money Life US options & futures holders will be forced to deposit billions in additional capital to the CME to avoid margin calls. This may pressure all asset classes on Monday There is a liquidity crunch in the options & futures markets for commodities worldwide. CME, the exchange for such transactions in the US, [...]

CME Goes To Collateral DefCon 1: Makes Maintenance Margin Equal To Initial For… Everything!?

by Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge The most important news announcement of the day was not anything to came out of Cannes  (as nothing did), nor from Greece (the merry go round farce there continues unabated). No, it was a brief paragraph distributed by the CME long after everyone had gone home, and was already on [...]

Gov. Scott Walker gets checked, Mic Checked!

The Icelandic Example? – Michael Hudson on GRTV

ESM the new European dictator

full transcript after the break…. and go here to read a thorough evaluation of the relevant facts presented in this video.

A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street; “The Leaders of the allegedly Leaderless Movement”

by Fritz Tucker On Sunday, October 23, a meeting was held at 60 Wall Street. Six leaders discussed what to do with the half-million dollars that had been donated to their organization, since, in their estimation, the organization was incapable of making sound financial decisions. The proposed solution was not to spend the money educating [...]

The Assassination of Gaddafi