Mike Norman Economics

My faith in Yanis Varoufakis has been restored. KV Yanis Varoufakis  “I find arrest is a proportionate response.” That was the judgement delivered in court last Tuesday by Judge Emma Arbuthnot, presiding over the case brought to court by Julian Assange’s lawyers. Their argument had been that the warrant for his arrest ought to be withdrawn because arresting him (after the extradition request from Sweden had been rescinded)  “was no longer proportionate or in the public interest“....

Lopez Obrador, who has run twice for president, led the pack of hopefuls with 27.1 percent in February, according to the survey by pollster Mitofsky published in El Economista newspaper. The former Mexico City mayor gained 3.5 percentage points over Mitofsky’s January poll, putting him nearly 5 percentage points ahead of his closest rival. Lopez Obrador has vowed to combat inequality and corruption, but some international investors are concerned over his questioning of the...

I'll bet Tim Cook is crapping in his pants. Although the FBI, NSA and CIA warned against the use of phones made by Chinese companies, Wikileaks revealed last year that U.S. intelligence agencies have the capability to hack into Google and Apple phones, as well as laptops and televisions. UPIU.S. intel agencies warn against using Chinese brand smartphones Ray Downs

His dossier was more than opposition research, it was part of a full-spectrum information operation. The American ConservativeChristopher Steele: The Real Foreign Influence in the 2016 Election? Peter Van Buren, 24-year US State Department veteran

In 2017, Russia’s Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina told President Vladimir Putin that Russia's banking sector had been provided with all the necessary conditions for operating lenders and payment systems in case of disconnection from SWIFT. According to the regulator, 90 percent of ATMs in Russia were ready to accept the Mir payment system, a domestic version of Visa and MasterCard.... Zero HedgeRussian Deputy PM: Our Banks Are Ready To Turn Off SWIFT Tyler Durden Also Simply...

The entire story about mass casualties of Russian PMCs is based on unconfirmed and fake data, that includes a few real facts like the US strikes, some PMCs casualties and the participation of the ISIS Hunters in the incident. The rest is an orchestrated campaign in keeping with the best traditions of propaganda. The goals of which would be that:the US is able to fight back against the Russians in Syria; Russia is not able to defend its interests; the Kremlin is not concerned over killed...

Most people, including many of you, have the memory of an Alzheimer's patient when it comes to putting events into their proper historical context. So let me help.... Sic Semper TyrannisPieces of the Coup Puzzle Fall Into Place Publius Tacitus Soon the investigative crosshairs will settle on Brennan. He’d better have the right answers. The Unz ReviewIs John Brennan the Mastermind Behind Russiagate? Mike WhitneyRelated White House Chief of Staff John Kelly blocked Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,...

*Jack Robinson, four, died from an inoperable brain tumour on April 1st 2014 *Mother Marie, 45, asked him to give her a 'sign' on the anniversary of his death *She visited his grave to find a robin trying to land on her *Robins are considered by some to be a sign from recently deceased loved ones Why here, you may ask, well, because politics as serous as this can get pretty depressing at times, especially with the war stuff, but this really uplifted me today. It really is...

How Greek austerity and multinational mining companies have ravaged Aristotle's birthplace. Kevin, KV Micheal Hudson says how all the debt gets compounded and to pay it back the world gets stripped of its natural resources on an ever increasing scale. But what do the bankers do with all their money, why, reinvest it of course? But then their wealth gets compounded too and that also gets reinvested, but surely there will come a time when they run out of things to invest their  in money...

Everything now has to be privatised, but this is pushing the cost of living up, say's Micheal Hudson, and making American companies less competitive abroad. He describes a world where once the government provided the infrastructure including the energy in Europe and the UK at cost to companies and consumers. Privatisation was supposed to make public companies more efficient when they became privatised, but prices have shot up instead. Micheal Hudson says it's a racket.The Chinese had six...