Thursday, 5 April 2012
Why the Wars Will Not End - How the New American Empire Really Works
By Paul Craig Roberts:
"Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes but Rome’s calculation that the cost of conquest exceeded the value of extractable resources."
The full article
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Towards global disorder: How the Corporate Rights System Straddles the World
Global Research - by John McMurtry:
"The actual social resistance and advance against the global corporate system occupation is thus not grounded in by theory, or recognised as an historically bonding human vocation across times, places and actions. But when the people roll into the streets, a millennia-old civil commons meaning binds them as the ongoing resistance to the oppressor in inhuman form. Ever more transparently representing the money interests of the one per cent alone, only armed force and ignorance can sustain the life-blind rule."
The full article
After the Arab Spring in Palestine: Neoliberalism and National Liberation
Global Research, Socialist Project - by Raja Khalidi:
"No doubt, mobilizing a broad national front in a relatively short war of national liberation from foreign, non-settler, military occupation as in the cases cited above is not as great a challenge as sustaining a movement for national self-determination and de-colonization over a century as in Palestine. And even with the best intentions and policies, success in building a productive, self-reliant and socially equitable economy in today's globalized, financialized and still largely neoliberal economy is not an assured thing."
The full article
Sunday, 1 April 2012
BRICS Challenges the World Order
Strategic Culture Foundation - Melkulangara Bhadrakumar:
"The West has never been spoken to like this before in all these centuries since the Industrial Revolution. The tides of history are, clearly, turning. The Delhi Declaration suggests: 'We believe that it is critical for advanced economies to adopt responsible macroeconomic and financial policies, avoid creating excessive global liquidity and undertake structural reforms to lift growth that create jobs. We draw attention to the risks of large and volatile cross-border capital flows being faced by the emerging economies. We call for further international financial regulatory oversight and reform, strengthening policy coordination and financial regulation and supervision cooperation, and promoting the sound development of global financial markets and banking systems'.”