Democracy
Impunity and Excess, Desperation and Violence: Two Worlds Collide in Spain
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Impunity and Excess, Desperation and Violence: Two Worlds Collide in Spain
The Suddenly Invisible And Silent President Of Argentina
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By Adrian Bono, Argentina, The Bubble: The last time President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was seen in public was December 10th – dancing at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the return of democracy, while a wave of looting tore through many provinces that left ten people dead and frayed the very fabric of society.
Death By A Thousand Cuts: The Silent Assassination Of European Democracy
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Freedom Or Subjugation? It’s (Not) Your Choice
by Don Quijones • • Comments Off on Freedom Or Subjugation? It’s (Not) Your Choice
By Don Quijones: While many Spaniards may spit bile and venom at the merest suggestion of Catalonian autonomy, they would do well to ask themselves what happened to their own national sovereignty. How is it, for example, that Spain is taking orders on virtually all economic matters from men in black dispatched from Brussels and Frankfurt?
EU Citizenship Goes On Sale, Price War Breaks Out
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on EU Citizenship Goes On Sale, Price War Breaks Out
Coming Soon: Corporate Tools To Hollow Out National Sovereignty
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Coming Soon: Corporate Tools To Hollow Out National Sovereignty
Now “trade agreements” are negotiated behind sealed doors, without public oversight, beyond the reach of Congress. The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is secret, but some sections were leaked. It deals with trade only on the margins. Corporate interests dominate. It mocks democracy, establishes kangaroo courts, and taxpayers are on the hook.
The Global Corporatocracy is Almost Fully Operational
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OMG, Those “Who Truly Rule The World”
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on OMG, Those “Who Truly Rule The World”
Most powerful person in the world? Putin! Sez Forbes. At least, it wasn’t Merkel, who has been throwing her weight around when she found out that her Handy had been bugged by the NSA, just like our cellphones. We have to take it; she gets to make a big stink and gripe to Obama on the (bugged) phone.