Wall Street’s Manipulated Stock Market Rally   By Matthias Chang URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12909 Global Research, March 26, 2009 FutureFastFroward.com The numbers that have been bandied about is beyond the comprehension of the average Joe Six-Packs. I cannot even figure out $500 billion, what more $500 trillion. Ninety per cent of government leaders are [...]

By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12913 Global Research, March 26, 2009 British MP George Galloway was refused entry to Canada on the pretext that he supported Hamas, which is categorized by the Canadian government as a “terrorist organization.”  Contrary to what has been reported in the media, this was not a unilateral decision by the government of Canada.  [...]

AIG, Larry Summers and the Politics of Deflection By F. William Engdahl URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12787 Global Research, March 18, 2009 Finally the US authorities have gotten ‘tough’ with the predator financial institutions. The world has been waiting for such decisive intervention since an unending series of Government bailouts of financial institutions began early [...]

Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases   By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12793 Global Research, March 18, 2009 The Economic and Social Crisis The financial meltdown has unleashed a latent and emergent social crisis across the United States.  What is at stake is the fraudulent confiscation of lifelong savings and [...]

By Prof. Michael Hudson URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12784 Global Research, March 18, 2009 It may seem odd, but the public outrage against $135 million in AIG bonuses is a godsend to Wall Street, AID scoundrels included. How can the media be so preoccupied with the discovery that there is self-serving greed to be found [...]

Dr. Ravi Batra: New Thinking on the Economy Matt Renner Truth Out March 16, 2009 http://www.truthout.org/031609A   Maverick Southern Methodist University economics professor Ravi Batra says the financial crisis is just one symptom of a long-festering economic disease – a disease caused by neglecting basic economic principles over the past 30 years. Comments made by [...]

Ben Bernanke’s False Analogy By Prof. Michael Hudson URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12735 Global Research, March 16, 2009 On the March 15 CBS show “60 Minutes”, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Speech. He likened the financial sector to a house burning [...]

Washington’s War on “Narco-Terrorism”   By Shamus Cooke URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12709 Global Research, March 14, 2009 Are Mexican drug cartels a threat to the United States?  This is an easy conclusion to make after reading most mainstream U.S. newspapers.  Hardly a day goes by without sensational stories about “broad daylight” gun battles, heart-wrenching [...]

By Stephen Lendman URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12696 Global Research, March 13, 2009 The title refers to the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), also known as the North American Union – formerly launched at a March 23, 2005 Waco, Texas meeting attended by George Bush, Mexico’s President Vincente Fox, and Canadian Prime [...]

By David Gordian URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12627 Global Research, March 9, 2009 In recent days we have seen even mainstream Democratic figures as Joe Stiglitz and Paul Krugman sound the alarm on what seems to be uncertainty in the Obama administration. Stiglitz, Krugman et al. are following in their essential critique a path well [...]