A Billion-Dollar Bank Fraud in Moldova, and 20,000 Opaque British Corporations
The role of UK Partnerships in a $1Bn bank fraud in Moldova
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Joe Firestone: TPP – Fast Track, the Next Rounds In Congress
An explanation of the votes on TAA and Fast Track last week, and the options open to the Administration for trying to reverse this defeat.
Read more...Will the Australian Government Walk Away from the TPP?
The idea that a loyal ally like Australia is even considering not signing the TPP is yet another sign that the deal is in trouble overseas as well as in the US.
Read more...Joe Firestone: Fast –Track: It Looks Like It’s In Pelosi’s Lap or Maybe Not!
This post presents the latest whip count on the Fast Track vote and how support is weakening among Republicans. Please keep up your calls to Representatives against the bill. You can find phone numbers here.
Read more...Creditors Reject Latest Greek Proposal, Tsipras Meeting with Merkel and Hollande in Doubt as Default Risk Rises
Greece’s creditors are not pleased, and perhaps more important, the Greek government has lost one of its few remaining advocates, Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission. The Eurocrats are finally waking up to the degree to which the two sides have talking past each other. The implication is that it is far less likely than they had believed.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Only Solution to Climate Change — Outlaw Fossil Fuel Production
Limiting greenhouse gas production requires more radical measures to reduce fossil fuel use, and that means on production as well.
Read more...TPP: Don Beyer (D-VA) Puts “Free Trade” Above National Sovereignty and Democracy
Debunking “free trade” and other spurious defenses of the multinational enrichment, democracy stripmining programs known as the Trade in Services Agreement, the TransPacific Partnership, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Read more...The Geopolitics of American Global Decline: Washington Versus China in the Twenty-First Century
America’s current leadership has failed to grasp the significance of a radical global change underway inside the Eurasian land mass. If China succeeds in linking its rising industries to the vast natural resources of the Eurasian heartland, then quite possibly, as Sir Halford Mackinder predicted on that cold London night in 1904, “the empire of the world would be in sight.”
Read more...New Brunswick: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Found a Really Soft Touch
By Richard Smith It’s high time for an update on this vast fraud story, which has, near its core, Bryan Cook and Thomas Yi, of bogus international investment bank London Capital. Here’s a synopsis of the story so far at NC, and the global press coverage that has ensued. First, there was “Is Power8, Sponsor of […]
Read more...Gaius Publius: Fast Track Will Also Apply to TISA
Fast Track is not just a path to TPP … it’s evil all on its own. There’s now another leaked “trade” deal, called TISA, and Fast Track will “fast-track” that one too. Want your municipal water service privatized? How about your government postal service? Read on
Read more...Gaius Publius: Nancy Pelosi Is Whipping “Almost Daily” for TPP
Why Nancy Pelosi is the White House’s secret weapon for the pending Fast Track bill.
Read more...“The Notion of the Competitiveness of Countries is Nonsense”
A 2004 book by Martin Wolf provided the intellectual foundation for the competitiveness fad. Ironically, Wolf debunked his own thesis in it.
Read more...Joe Firestone: Get Ready to Call ‘Em Out On the TPP!
The opposition has done vastly better than expected on stymieing Obama’s toxic trade deals. Thinking ahead to how to block them in the House, and if it gets that far, when the Fast Track fix goes to the Senate.
Read more...Greece: An Endgame Finally in Sight?
The noose continues to tighten on Greece.
Read more...Michael Klare: Delusional Thinking in Washington, The Desperate Plight of a Declining Superpower
How US superpower overreach has hit the breaking point, yet the officialdom acts as if somehow doing more will succeed.
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