Mike Norman Economics

In Losing Military Supremacy, his latest, groundbreaking book, crack Russian military-naval analyst Andrei Martyanov deconstructs in detail how, “the United States faces two nuclear and industrial superpowers, one of which fields a world-class armed forces. If the military-political, as opposed to merely economic, alliance between Russia and China is ever formalized – this will spell the final doom for the United States as a global power.”The US deep state (its influential bureaucrats) may...

Happy to see Patrick Lawrence writing for AlterNet.AlterNetWhat’s Going to Happen When Assad Wins the War in Syria?  Patrick Lawrence, Independent Media Institute

More weekend reading. Longish, but the author has it about right in my view.  While Konstantakopoulos is a self-identified Marxist, he asserts that his analysis is based on logic and observation, and while informed by a Marxist perspective, it stands on its own merits. I would largely agree with that. The historical dialectic is headed in a very dangerous direction, and the danger is existential given modern weaponry. Defend Democracy PressΤhe structural, fundamental factors...

Is the time of the release just ahead of the Trump-Putin summit coincident or poisoning the well?  People on different sides will view this diffidently. However, most people only read headlines and the message is that the Russian intelligence interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, calling into question the legitimacy of Donald Trump as the president of the United States, as well as his independence of Putin's putative control over him through kompromat. Low blow.Moon of...

This post presents an update of the economic forecasts generated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. We describe very briefly our forecast and its change since March 2018. As usual, we wish to remind our readers that the DSGE model forecast is not an official New York Fed forecast, but only an input to the Research staff’s overall forecasting process. For more information about the model and variables discussed here, see our DSGE...

This isn't a conspiracy theory, but is based on facts found in the recently released CIA documents. KV. Two US Army Cryptographic Code Operators Overheard JFK Assassination Plan President Trump forced the release of 53,000 CIA documents of the Kennedy assassination that were withheld from the public for more than a half century. The presstitute media, a CIA asset, did not report on the documents. Professor Jerry Kroth, who has written books about JFKs assassination found intercepted and...

Weekend reading. Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie set off a heated online debate with a series of tweets[1] claiming “the concept of race was birthed by the Enlightenment,”[2] which then sparked a full-length article fleshing out his position.[3] His key claim is that colonialism, slavery, imperialism, and racism in general were not “incidental developments or the mere remnants of earlier prejudice.” Race as we understand it—a biological taxonomy that turns physical...

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Is it possible that pro Israel Labour groups are racist because of the views they hold about Palestinians? Labour party members that support the rights of Palestinians and point out Israel's crimes are likely to be called racists and be expelled from the party. Things have gone too far, maybe I should join the Labour Party to fight the racist Zionist Labour groups? KV It is a sad indictment on modern politics that the long-standing socialist, Ken Livingstone who fought most of his...

Richard Werner makes the good argument that small private banks, many of them non profit, will understand their communities extremely well and so will provide a very good service. He kind of persuaded of the merits of private banking, but I still remain a big government man at heart.  It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.  KV Today Switzerland is set to hold a referendum to decide whether to ban commercial banks from creating money. The aim of campaigners is to limit financial...