Iran Targets Weakest of EU Members (PIIGS) with their Counter Sanctions Plan in Order to Threaten Entire European Union

by Scott Creighton Press TV has announced that Iran is going to cut oil supplies to 6 of the EU nations that voted to support the US/British oil and banking sanctions imposed on Iran last month including Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Greece and Portugal. Notice something interesting there? The countries are mainly the nations designated [...]

Beyond Pretense: The Global Free Market Wars Finally Acknowledged (and another U.S.S. Liberty event on the horizon?)

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: After all attempts to frame Iran have failed thus far, a Jerusalem Post article (written by a former Israeli intelligence officer turned Operation Mockingbird style “journalist“) suggests Iran will provide the needed pretext for the war themselves by attacking a U.S. warship. Get that? They failed to frame Iran for everything [...]

DEBTOCRACY (FULL – ENG Subs)

Neoliberalism is a crime, it’s a crime against humanity, and it is the now the established religion of the elite and political classes. As is pointed out in this film, even if this odious debt we face here is in fact completely legitimate, which of course it is not, but even if it is, it [...]

The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part I: The Eight Families

(Another must read. Also read the post below by Michael Hudson.) by Dean Henderson, Left Hook Blog The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European [...]

Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy

(A must read) by Michael Hudson, Information Clearinghouse Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In May 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the lead in rounding up €120bn ($180 billion) from European governments to subsidize Greece’s unprogressive tax [...]

The Strauss-Kahn Set-Up and the Globalist Assault on Greek Sovereignty

by Scott Creighton Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been successfully removed from the equation, the globalist financial institutions are free to cash in on the Great Recession they created.  They’re attempting to hammer the people of Greece into submission with new “unprecedented” levels of privatization of public assets and even calls for “outside institutions” to [...]

Videos of Police Brutality in Spain

(H/T Prison Planet) Could you imagine the outcry if this were taking place in Iran? We would be at war in hours. They are wearing riot gear, masks, no name tags, no faces… beating on children. Go here to watch new videos being uploaded now. In this video, watch the fascist thugs get chased from [...]

The Fake Color Revolution is Back in Iran – Globalist Destabilization Efforts Under Cover of Egypt’s Real Revolution

by Scott Creighton In every crisis, real or manufactured, there is… opportunity. Contrary to Julian Assange’s assessment, the current wave of pro-democracy movements in the Middle East (recently called a “virus” by John McCain) was not created by the CIA honeypot called Wikileaks. Nor, as the one-time Lyndon LaRouche follower Webster Tarpley has put it, was it [...]

Wikileaks™ Cables Used to Remove Irish Foreign Minister on the Eve of the Announcement of the IMF Austery Plan

by Scott Creighton On Nov. 30th 2010, Wikileaks released a cable written by Ambassador Thomas C. Foley which purports to implicate Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern in complicity with the widespread extraordinary rendition program being run by the CIA and U.S. military during the Iraq war. This “leak” was designed to embarrass Ahern and there is no way [...]

American INGSOC: “New World Order” unword – replace with “New International Order”

by Scott Creighton “See? All those conspiracy theorists were so wrong, so stupid. There is no “New World Order”. How paranoid is that?  But there will be a “New International Order”.  We need it to keep us safe and spread democracy.   Everyone knows that…”  a random Amerian progressive In perhaps his most Orwellian speech to date, [...]

Greek government announces major pension cuts

(The Greek middle class has completely abandoned the working class. There are calls now from the billionaire owned papers to suspend the constitution in order to deal with the popular dissent in Greece. The Greek government in collusion with the IMF and the EU are calling for a pension freeze, massive tax increases on that [...]

Euro aid package inaugurates offensive against working class

by Peter Schwartz, WSWS Last weekend, European leaders and finance ministers agreed to a rescue package for the euro which inaugurates the most comprehensive offensive against the working class since the end of World War II. This offensive must be repulsed by the combined resistance of the European working class.

Greek Parliament approves deep social cuts in face of mass opposition; Stock markets fall sharply on fears of unrest

by Joe Kishore and Alexander Lantier, WSWS The Greek Parliament voted to approve €30 billion in cuts to jobs, wages, pensions, and social spending Thursday, the day after a general strike against the measures. The cuts were agreed to by Prime Minister George Papandreou as part of a loan package from European governments and the [...]