With the European Commission seriously considering a tax on financial transactions (sometimes referred to as a “speculation tax”), the opponents of such a tax are shifting their campaign into high gear. We are hearing predictions of disaster from the financial...
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Death of an Anti-Imperialist | by Yusuf Ansar
Muammar Gaddafi’s killing will prove to be more beneficial to western powers than Libyans EXACTLY 100 years ago, Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy began its invasion and subjugation of Libya. On 23 October 1911, Italian warships and land forces began the assault of...
Death of an Anti-Imperialist | by Yusuf Ansar
Muammar Gaddafi’s killing will prove to be more beneficial to western powers than Libyans EXACTLY 100 years ago, Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italy began its invasion and subjugation of Libya. On 23 October 1911, Italian warships and land forces began the assault of...
Occupy Wall Streeters are right about skewed economic rewards in the United States | by Josh Bivens and Lawrence Mishel
The Occupy Wall Street movement has captured much the nation’s attention with a clear message: A U.S. economy driven by the interests of business and the wealthy has generated increasingly unequal economic outcomes where the top 1 percent did exceptionally well but...
Death of Gaddafi | by Horace Campbell
The news of the killing of Colonel Gaddafi in the battle to take Sirte marked one more episode in this NATO war in Libya and North Africa. The killing has all of the hallmarks of a coordinated assassination, synchronized between NATO aircraft and forces on the ground....
‘Somalia on Verge of Worst Humanitarian Tragedy’ | by Yohannan Chemarapally
WAR torn Somalia faces yet another grave threat as the worst drought in decades devastates vast expanses of land in the Horn of Africa region. The other countries affected to a lesser extent are Ethiopia and Kenya. By early August, according to reports by...
The Futile Undertaking of Palestinian Statehood | by Esam Al-Amin
Today, September 23, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas submits, to the UN the application for Palestinian statehood for the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967. What are the implications of this effort? Does it serve the Palestinian...


