Panic at the Fed or Back to Financial Normalcy? By F. William Engdahl URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17788 Global Research, February 24, 2010 The decision of the US Federal Reserve to raise its key interest rate was definitely not a sign of confidence in the US economic recovery or a signal that Fed policy is [...]

US Economic War Directed Against Japan By Mike Whitney URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17804 Global Research, February 25, 2010 Does anyone really believe that Toyota is being pilloried in the media for a few highway fatalities?  Nonsense. If Congress is so worried about innocent people getting killed, then why haven’t they indicted US commander Stanley [...]

Why ‘NO Globalization’ Part II: Identity Reformation Globalization was forever a dream of humanity, all humanity. In the human mind, it was a dream to connect the world. But as always, even when the dream of the powerful and the weak is one and the same, the defenseless gets a bang on the head. Of [...]

Assessing the Illusion of Recovery By Andrew Gavin Marshall URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17736 Global Research, February 22, 2010 Understanding the Nature of the Global Economic Crisis The people have been lulled into a false sense of safety under the rouse of a perceived economic recovery. Unfortunately, what the majority of people think does not [...]

By Ellen Brown URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17732 Global Research, February 21, 2010 Web of Debt – 2010-02-17 While bank bailouts fatten Wall Street, states continue to battle the credit crisis.  In the search for innovative solutions, some political candidates are proposing that states generate their own credit by setting up their own banks. State [...]

By Prof. Michael Hudson URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17667 Global Research, February 17, 2010 Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wrote an op-ed in The New York Times, (Feb. 16)[1][1] outlining how to put the U.S. economy on rations. Not in those words, of course. Just the opposite: If the government hadnt bailed out Wall Streets bad [...]

Part II: A Survey of Attitude Change in 2009-2010 By Elizabeth Woodworth URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17624 Global Research, February 15, 2010 Abstract In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs investigating the official account. Increasingly, the [...]

By Prof John Kozy URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17569 Global Research, February 12, 2010 Grumbling over the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Citizens United continue to rumble like distant thunder. Will the decision go down in history as one more in the Court’s long line of egregious opinions? Likely! Will it have much effect on [...]

By Rick Rozoff URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17555 Global Research, February 11, 2010 Stop NATO – 2010-02-10 Following on the heels of identifying himself as the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars and moreover the head of state of no less than the worlds sole military superpower [1] while being presented [...]

Are Turkey, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Italy Nuclear Powers? By Michel Chossudovsky URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17550 Global Research, February 12, 2010 According to a recent report, former NATO Secretary-General George Robertson confirmed that Turkey possesses 40-90 “Made in America” nuclear weapons at the Incirlik military base.(en.trend.az/) Does this mean that Turkey is a nuclear power? “Far [...]