The 2015 Global Housing Market Crash, Capitalism’s Two Faces, US-NATO & Israeli War Crimes
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By Graham Vanbergen, September 08, 2015
Housing markets are prone to the bandwagon effect, they continue rising when the fundamentals vanish, a year, maybe two years before. Stock market and commodity price volatility and declines are currently chronicled ad-nausea by the press without seeing the dramatic…
The Myth of a Moral Capitalism
By Richard Becker, September 08, 2015
In a Sept. 5 blog, former Secretary of Labor and liberal commentator Robert Reich, asks, “What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism?” It’s not satire. Reich writes: “We’ve witnessed over the past two decades in the United States…
From Nuremberg to Gaza – Can Netanyahu Be Prosecuted For War Crimes?
By Inder Comar, September 08, 2015
In fact, the ICC has attempted to exercise such jurisdiction in at least two other occasions: both Omar al-Bashir of Sudan and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, sitting heads of state, have been formally charged by that court (the Kenyatta charges…
The Two Faces of Capitalism and Left Options
By Prof. James Petras, September 07, 2015
Introduction Rightwing politics now dominate the globe. Broadly speaking, the Right can be divided into a US-centered rightwing bloc and a variety of anti-US rightwing regimes and social forces. Israel is a special case of a rightwing regime, allied with…
The “Collateral Damage” of US-NATO Wars: Europe’s Refugee Crisis, Depraved Morality of UK Prime Minister Cameron
By Colin Todhunter, September 06, 2015
UK Prime Minister David Cameron this week said “as a father I felt deeply moved” by the image of a Syrian boy dead on a Turkish beach. As pressure mounts on the UK to take in more of those fleeing…