By Stephen Lendman
It’s not the first time and won’t be the last. On December 27, AP reported that:
“Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday in unprecedented waves of simultaneous attacks, and Hamas and medics reported dozens of people were killed.”
Haaretz headlined:
“Israel launched (Operation Case Lead) Saturday morning (at around 11:30AM with [...]

By Michael Hudson
Last week the Good Lord evidently realized that not enough people had been reading Hyman Minsky’s explanation of how financial cycles end in Ponzi schemes – the stage in which banks keep the boom going by lending their customers the money to pay interest and thus avoid default. So He sent Bernie Madoff [...]

By James Petras

“We never thought he would do this to us, he was one of our people”, member of Palm Beach Country Club.
December 22, 2008 “Information Clearinghouse” — Wall Street broker Bernard (‘Bernie’) Madoff, former president of NASDAQ, revered and respected investor confessed to pulling off the biggest fraud in history, a $50 [...]

From Global Trade Watch
Kids across America face dangerous threats this holiday season from unsafe imported toys. Our trade agreements have flooded the country with toys made in countries with incredibly lax safety standards, while at the same imposing limits on the safety standards and inspections we can impose on imports. China has repeatedly threatened action [...]