Michael Hudson discusses the economic and political motives behind making Ukraine a focal point in a new cold war, such as the fact that the Ukraine is an important supplier of military equipment to Russia.
Read more...We remind the New Zealand government that a shell company network linked to $10-100Bn of alleged moneylaundering is still active in New Zealand.
Read more...Why the much-envied position of being a chronic exporter isn’t quite a bed of roses.
Read more...The nuts-and bolts view of these looting mechanisms shows how corruption actually works.
Read more...How America’ s abject fealty to the financial services industry, and its promotion of open capital markets in emerging economies, privatization and its tolerance of tax havens, have destroyed US credibility in Eastern Europe.
Read more...How New Zealand shell company incorporations help tax evaders and scammers.
Read more...Wow, Obama is really losing it. He can’t even manage a good war scare any more.
Read more...Yves here. I trust you’ll enjoy this long-form account of how President Obama put his foot in mouth and chewed in front of Japan’s Prime Minister Abe when he merely thought he was eating steak.
Read more...Despite President Barack Obama’s charm offensive in the region, Pacific nations are well-advised to remain wary of the U.S. government’s position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP)
Read more...As readers may know, the mislabeled trade deal known as the TransPacific Partnership hasn’t looked like it has great odds of being consummated. But the Administration has been browbeating Japan, and has also been talking of breakthroughs in negotiations. Has the dynamic changed?
Read more...While Congress cowers before multinationals’ lobbyists and moves to re-enact loopholes that let corporations like GE and Apple hide their income from the IRS, the Maine Legislature decided it had had enough.
Read more...In case you missed it, on Wednesday the US Trade Representative Michael Froman attacked Japan in front of Congress for undermining the TransPacific Partnership via refusing to give much ground on protection of its agricultural sector. So how are the Japanese responding to this US sniping?
Read more...Yves here. Das wrote this post to commemorate the anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, which killed over 1100 garment workers.
Read more...I’m clearly too feral to have the proper responses, but I’ve long considered Cokie Roberts to be too lightweight to be worth paying attention to. But since lightweight goes over well in many parts of America, Cokie still has a large following. And it’s separately worth paying attention to a fight she picked over Obama’s stalled trade deal, the TransPacific Partnership. The fact that people with popular followings are still defending it says the Administration remains keen to revive it, so opponents need to guard against becoming too complacent.
Read more...This is a welcome bit of good news. Countries are finally standing up for the rule of law over rule by multinational corporation.
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