Mike Norman Economics

What's wrong with the Guardian, the West has become an Orwellian nightmare? It once had an independent panel who overlooked it, but now it manned with bankers and Neocons. KV - Kevin. The Guardian Neswspaper, which once was an honest newspaper that spoke for the British working class has now been suborned, in my opinion, by the CIA and British Intelligence (sic). Perhaps you remember a few years ago that The Guardian complied with illegal orders from the corrupt UK government to destroy...

Liberal commentators are highly critical of President Donald Trump for what they see as a cozy relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But in their fury they’re missing the bigger picture: Trump’s stance on Russia may augur a return to a consensus between the U.S. and Russia on how to run the world.... FortuneTrump Didn’t Betray America. He Wants to Restore the Old U.S.-Russia Alliance Geoffrey Roberts |  expert on Russian and Soviet foreign policy, is an Emeritus Professor of...

Just when you thought it was safe - as Trump makes peace with Russia - Lester Holt, of the FBI, says China is a serious threat to the US. The Chinese are everywhere, he says, they involved with US agriculture, high tech, academia, grain, everything, and they are in every state the FBI research has found.Holt says China is trying to achieve economic superiority over the US. What, do you mean that if a country economic system outsmarts the US then the US will go to war with that country? ...

CEOs are known for their confidence. It is, after all, one of the reasons they’ve made it to the top. And yet, that confidence sometimes flags, as we at leadership advisory firm Egon Zehnder learned from a survey of 402 CEOs from 11 countries—executives who together run companies with $2.6 trillion in sales. Participating anonymously, CEOs told us that while they did feel ready for the strategic and business aspects of their roles, they felt much less prepared for the personal and...

Aleksandr Buzgalin, a professor of political economy at the Moscow University, says that Putin is only a figurehead and that the real power lies with the Russian oligarchs. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the oligarchs fought each other over the state industries, which was often very violent with drive-by shootings, etc, but once they had got as much as they could they wanted stability so they allowed Putin to gain power. . Paul Jay says the problem the West has with Putin is that...

The biggest city projected for 2100? Lagos, Nigeria. Pretty amazing article. Different world. Urbanization is in full swing globally. Unless....Business InsiderNew York City isn't even on the list of the projected 20 most-populated cities in 2100 Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist

...there is, if you like, a third way between utopian communism on the one hand and technocratic tweaks on the other. It begins from the idea that ten years of stagnant productivity might mean we are now at the phase of capitalism that Marx foresaw: At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the...

Reveals a technicality weak structure.

Think Bernie Sanders would have made a great president, well, Stephen Lendman was right, he is just another warmonger like all the others? I'm disappointed! [embedded content] The Helsinki summit was a good day for Putin and the oligarchs in Russia. But it was a bad day for people in the United States and all over the world who believe in democracy and who are trying to understand what world our idiot president lives in.

[embedded content] Moshé Machover discusses the advances and limitations of the Labour Party's document on anti-semitism, which represents an important step forward to diffuse an issue that has become an artificial controversy designed to undermine Jeremy Corbyn Pro Zionist groups are conflating any criticism of Israel as antisemitism and seem to be getting away with it. Momentum supports the rights of Palestinians and so have been targeted. They get away with it because the media is not...