Mike Norman Economics

All that oil and gold - the pirates are after it!  The US Imperial Project US policy towards Venezuela has three strategic objectives: privileged access to Venezuela’s natural resources (e.g., the world’s largest petroleum reserves and second largest gold deposits), restoration of a neoliberal regime obedient to Washington, and limitation of any movement towards regional independence. These US objectives are conditioned by a continuing adherence to the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America...

I tried to find out more about the British journalist, Graham Pillips, who reports about the war in the Ukraine, but everything on the internet is a massive smear campaign against him, where they say he is a terrorist who is funded by the Kremlin. Graham Phillips says he's neutral and independent, and his funding comes from crowdfunding.The British taxpayer funds a secret group called the Integrity Initiative which tries to influence American politics to keep the hostilities going with...

This was under reported by the Western MSM. It includes an interview with Philip Geraldi. [embedded content] Rick Sanchez explains how Israel has used commercial planes to covered airstrikes in Syria and how this unprecedented way of attacks is violating the rule of war on the use of civilians as humans shields. Then, RT correspondent Michele Greenstein joins to discuss.

According to David Shultz, the data shows that high taxes don't damage the economy, but rather, improve it. So what data are the mainstream economists using to back their theories? If taxes are a major factor deterring economic growth, lines on a graph should go in opposite directions: As tax rates go up the GDP should go down. No such pattern emerges between high taxes and GDP growth over 80 years. During the Depression of the 1930s corporate and individual taxes rates increased, but in...

Organised crime! The blowback is mass immigration into the West, but the British blame the immigrants for it. [embedded content] In its heyday, the British Empire ruled a quarter of the world and dominated global politics and warfare. But just how dangerous is the UK today?

Mathew O'Brien has the charts which show that why going back to the gold standard is a bad idea. It's a concise and short article.  The greatest trick Ron Paul ever pulled was convincing the world that the gold standard leads to stable prices. Well, maybe not the world. Just the Republican Party. After a 32-year hiatus, the party's official platform will include a plank calling for a commission to look at the possible return of the gold standard. There might be worse ideas than this, but...

[embedded content] It's easy to blame ourselves for not feeling 100% in our minds, but some of the causes of mental unwellness have to do with large systemic problems in our societies, among these, an emphasis on individualism, a manic faith in Romantic love and a cult of meritocracy.

This tries to be fair and balanced, but really it shows you how horrible Neoliberalism is, which is based on libertarianism. [embedded content]

In 2011 the Guardian reported that the U.S. had developed software that would let it secretly manipulate social media by using fake online personas to influence internet discussions and spread pro-American propaganda.The CIA hacked Angela Merkel's, which everyone has forgotten about, but imagine if the Russians had hacked Obama's phone? An act of war, or what, by those 'evil Russians?'Jimmy Dore explains how propaganda works. [embedded content]

This video is over a year old, but this guy articulates his arguments really well. He was once a libertarian, and for the best of reasons as he really thought it would bring peace and well-being to the world, but then the penny dropped and he turned to the left. [embedded content] Socialism is terrible, just look at Capitalist Venezuela...