Crimes of Empire: How Historical Fake News Contributed to Imperial Genocide
October 26, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Fake news is as old as empire, maybe even older
Fake news is as old as empire, maybe even older
The October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di Giovani titled “Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”. The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.
At the geographic centre of Europe, Berlin is a microcosm of European history.
Wall Street owns the country. That was the opening line of a fiery speech that populist leader Mary Ellen Lease delivered around 1890. Franklin Roosevelt said it again in a letter to Colonel House in 1933, and Sen. Dick Durbin was still saying it in 2009.
In order to meet the colossal challenges of the time, fundamental change to the socio-economic order is needed
As soon as Imran Khan took charge of the office of Prime Minister he announced a number of cosmetic economic policies
It’s hard now to believe how things once were. Full-blooded socialism never found a secure place in the British experience, but through the Seventies we had something more than the piecemeal reform of social democracy.
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their “independence” from government. They have become rogue players in a game of their own.
The U.S. credit card system siphons off excessive amounts of money from merchants. In a typical $100 credit card purchase, only $97.25 goes to the seller. The rest goes to banks and processors. But who can compete with Visa and MasterCard?
Alcohol consumption is one damaging effect among many that flow from this dominant socio-economic system