Clinton Chasing Votes With Fracking U-Turn
Clinton’s fracking reversal will alienate the energy industry without appeasing environmentalists, since fracking produces methane and earthquakes.
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IMF Not Funding July Greece Deal, Still Wants Serious Debt Relief Before Committing New Dough
The IMF has not given up on debt relief for Greece, but due to the upcoming Brexit vote, is holding off on the fight until fall.
Read more...Reader Note on Strikes in France: “Pass the Popcorn”
Transportation unions and airport workers are joining strikes in France to protest new labor laws,….right before the Euro Cup and tourist season.
Read more...Germany and IMF in Staredown Over Greek Debt Relief
The IMF and Germany have staked out irreconcilable positions on Greece. Who will blink first?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
Read more...Lynn Parramore: Austerity Without Debt Relief Courts New Unrest in Greece
Economist James K. Galbraith warns that ‘unrealistic expectations’ by creditors of Greece is a recipe for turmoil
Read more...Germany Blinks on Giving Debt Relief to Greece….or Did It?
Despite press reports to the contrary, in this year’s game of chicken over the Greek bailout, it looks like the IMF, and not Germany, blinked.
Read more...Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Pressure
Seeing states as the vehicle for projecting power is dated, particularly as far as understanding America’s position is concerned.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
Read more...Don Quijones: Wrath of Draghi Hits Germans Who Refuse to Blow Their Savings
Draghi plans to beat savers until morale improves.
Read more...Nuland Tells Cyprus To Cut Russian Ties – Pressures Anastasiades To Accept Nato Plan For Turkish Troops In Cyprus
Victoria Nuland is leading a US effort to pressure Cyprus to accept a secret NATO plan to keep Turkish forces on the island.
Read more...Greenpeace Leak Exposes Big EU-US Rifts, US Thuggishness, in TTIP “Trade” Negotiations
A leak of a major set of TTIP documents may throw a spanner in the works of a deal that is already contested in the US and EU.
Read more...Trade Costs of Border Controls in the Schengen Area
Granular analysis of the cost of imposing border controls along refugee routes versus ending the Schengen system, as well as who has the most to lose.
Read more...So Which Eurobank is Having Dollar Funding Problems?
Which Eurobank has led the ECB to tap its dollar swap line with the Fed?
Read more...Don Quijones: A Blow to Transatlantic Corpocracy – Support for TTIP Begins to Unravel
Why the TTIP “trade” deal is looking wobbly.
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