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A new world is being born, one without the US dollar greasing the wheels of commerce, notes Eric Walberg
Yekaterinburg, famous tragically as the spot Lenin chose to have the Tsar and his family executed in 1918, and ironically as the fiefdom of Boris Yeltsin, who finished off the Russian revolution itself in 1991, witnessed [...]
BRIC & SCO summits: Reinventing the wheel
Instead of Real Financial Reform, Obama’s Plan capitulates to Wall Street
By Prof. Michael Hudson
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14048
Global Research, June 22, 2009
The story is worse than just “Pres. Obama labored, and brought forth a mouse.” He is morphing into Joe Lieberman in reaching across the aisle for Republican support – and no doubt future campaign contributions from the financial sector. There also is a touch [...]
The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders
Why Deflation and not Inflation is the Order of the Day
By Ellen Brown
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14011
Global Research, June 18, 2009
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While contrarians are screaming “hyperinflation!”, the money supply is actually shrinking. This is because most money today comes into existence as bank loans, and lending has shrunk substantially. That means the Fed needs to “monetize” [...]
The Eurasian Pipeline Calculus
By F. William Engdahl
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14007
Global Research, June 17, 2009
Calculus has two main variants—derivative and integral. The Eurasian energy pipeline geopolitics between Turkey Washington and Moscow today has elements of both. It is highly derivative in that the major actors across Central Asia from China, Russia to Turkey are very much engaged in [...]