By Jim Hightower on June 29, 2016
Art by Nancy Ohanian
The most shocking thing about “Brexit”—the British people’s resounding vote to pull their country out of the European Union—is that it came as such a shock to the British establishment. (more…)
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai on June 15, 2016
French authorities have begun the mass arrests of protestors taking part in what some are calling the biggest revolution in France for 200 years. (more…)
By Sean Adl-Tabatabai on May 27, 2016
France is running out of gasoline and suffering blackouts as the number of French strikers continues to grow, bringing the country to a grinding halt. (more…)
By Jonathan Marshall on March 25, 2016
In what may be the most dramatic blowback yet from Western military intervention in the Middle East, terrorism and the mass influx of foreign migrants are now putting the very existence of the European Union at risk. (more…)
By Glen Ford on March 8, 2016
The agreement between Europe and Turkey to keep millions of refugees from entering Europe is a deal between devils. Europe, which has fattened itself on other people’s lands and blood for half a millennium, is allowed to wall out the “invaders.” (more…)
Operation Sophia aims to reduce flow of migrants, with force.
By Branko Marcetic on March 3, 2016
With far-right sentiment on the rise across Europe, the once widespread sympathy for African and Middle Eastern migrants has evaporated, leaving them facing vitriol and violence from the citizens of the countries they hope to make their new homes. (more…)
The Big Lies
By Prof. John McMurtry on January 24, 2016
Impression of the making of the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos
The just-released Oxfam Davos Report which the mass media have ignored arrestingly shows that 62 individuals – 388 in 2010 – now own more wealth than 50% of the world’s population. (more…)
December 18, 2015
Under capitalism production is not for consumption but for trade to make profits. Countries particularly the developing ones are being forced to open their borders and markets to cheap and low quality agricultural commodities from countries such as the US, China, EU, Brazil etc. (more…)