Is this administration’s bank policy Bush-3 – or Clinton-5 or Reagan 8? By Michael Hudson URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12092 Global Research, January 29, 2009 After (1) threatening for eight years that the prospect of a trillion-dollar deficit spread over a generation or so is sufficient reason to stiff Social Security recipients and abolish debts [...]

By Vladimir Putin URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12087 Global Research, January 29, 2009 World Economic Forum Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland January 28, 2009 Good afternoon, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the forum’s organisers for this opportunity to share my [...]

By José Miguel Alonso Trabanco URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12077 Global Research, January 28, 2009 There has been some talk concerning American intentions to forge an Asian NATO, i.e. a US led military alliance meant to advance its members’ geopolitical interests in the region. During the Cold War, the US created the Southeast Asia Treaty [...]

The Stabilization of the Financial Sector: The Holy Grail of Economic Salvation   By Andrew Hughes URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12053 Global Research, January 27, 2009 Idiocy is usually described as “endlessly repeating the same process, hoping for a different result”. Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden et al are straining at the [...]

Move to End “Internet Neutrality”: Blow to Bloggers. “Ten Pin Strike against Political Freedom”   By Sherwood Ross URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12016 Global Research, January 26, 2009 If the cable and phone companies that transmit Internet data are allowed to charge higher rates to some producers for faster service the result will be “a [...]

The $64 Billion Federal Budget Deficit is intended to Finance Canada’s Chartered Banks By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12007 Global Research, January 25, 2009 The Conservative government has leaked the details of Tuesday’s budget. They have announced a $64 billion deficit.  The Harper government, which has consistently committed itself to a “balanced budget”, [...]

By F. William Engdahl URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11950 Global Research, January 22, 2009 During the end of the 1970′s into the 1980′s British Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the City of London financial interests who backed her, introduced wholesale measures of privatization, state budget cuts, moves against labor and deregulation of the financial [...]

By Matthew Alford and Robbie Graham URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11921 Global Research, January 21, 2009 Here we build a prima facae case supporting the idea that Hollywood continues to be a target for infiltration and subversion by a variety of state agencies, in particular the CIA. Academic debates on cinematic propaganda are almost entirely [...]

By Eric Walberg URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11911 Global Research, January 20, 2009 Al-Ahram Weekly More tricks and hot air from across the Atlantic leave Europeans in the cold A hurried resolution to the Ukraine-Russia gas war was reached during a visit to Moscow by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko to meet with her Russian [...]

By Michael Carmichael URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11908 Global Research, January 20, 2009 planetarymovement.com As Barack Obama approaches the helm of the American ship of state, he is facing many challenges. Just as she was being born at the dawn of her journey into history, the American nation is poised on the brink of a [...]