Mike Norman Economics

A shocking video, but look at the others here too? Immigrant women workers being raped on night shifts and in the fields at American farms. Trafficked in America, 1,475 Disappeared Children. Documentaryhttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/trafficked-in-america/The American Conservative The Arizona Republic writer E.J. Montini has a story that is so horrible that it can’t be true … can it? Yes, it’s true. Excerpts:The Trump administration recently announced a new, get-tough policy that...

Independent filmmaker Graham Phillips takes a close look at the BBC program “Russia with Simon Reeve”, revealing the degree of bias – and worse – beneath its benignly smiling exterior. Off-Guardian [embedded content] I remember watching a British documentary about Cuba a few years back which was presented nice looking middle class journalist. Well, surely he wouldn't lie, and so an unsuspecting public subliminally takes in the BBC propaganda without any thought?  The first minute or so the...

In the richest counties in the world there's a lot of loneliness as we become less group orientated and more individualistic.In primitive societies the group was very social, for instance, I always wondered how very young women coped with being teenage mothers when there was no age of consent so most of them may have been still children. But young inexperienced mothers would never be left alone all day with nagging children as the grandmothers and great grandmothers - who would have...

Does everyone have the same values? Yes, but libertarianism isn’t one of them.  Steve Pinker says that in modern societies people support some sort government social provision as they are aware the market can't meet the needs of everyone, for instance, the elderly, young children, and those that have no skills or talents that the market can use. But I think there is another very powerful reason: when the chips are down and you have run out of luck, no one wants to live in a society where,...

[embedded content] A former Time Magazine Editor admits he’s pro-propaganda, refuses to answer panel question. The former editor of Time magazine admits the MSM prints fake news. He says propaganda is fine and all all countries do it. Well, what's the point of reading the MSM then when it is full of fake news? Propaganda is rich people telling middle class people that the problem is poor people. 'Look the poor don't want to work, see, they just sit about doing nothing or get involved in...

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Writer Eric Zuesse wrote a great new piece ” How Democracy Ended ” seen on a few fine sites. In it he shows how our U.S. so called democracy is really a scam controlled by the super rich. When all else fails to stop a political momentum, the two parties have always resorted to ‘ The Fix is in’. To this writer, the ‘ fix ‘ that Zuesse alludes to is deeply nesting in both our mainstream media and our elected and enabling two party structure. The police have that wonderful saying ‘ To...

An announcement by Columbian President Juan Manuel Santos Friday said Colombia joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, known as OECD, and starting next week, will become a "global partner" of NATO. "We will formalize in Brussels next week -- and this is very important -- the entry of Colombia into NATO in the category of global partner, we will be the only country in Latin America with this privilege," the president said in a televised news address.... NATO is...

Karl Polanyi famously argued that land, labor, and money are “fictitious commodities.” They cannot be fully subjected to the dictates of the market without spurring backlashes that seek to re-embed them in society.… Polanyi was right to see land and labor in parallel, but we should now go further in unpacking globetrotting versus place-based industries and ask why “common good” frames have been so frequently embraced for environmental issues and rejected for global labor issues. Economic...

Economic warfare, political isolation, and subversion orchestrated by the neoliberal Empire and its vassals, cronies and minions. It's hardly just the result of "socialism," the collapse of the oil price, or the economic incompetence of the Bolivarian government. This is an attack. This is also a reason that the Soviet Union expanded post WWII to create a buffer, engaged in an arms race, and committed a huge portion of its resources to military use. Russia is now being forced to...