Mike Norman Economics

Bring the jobs back home, said Trump.Several U.S. tech giants including Google, Microsoft and Intel Corporation have filled top positions with former members of Israeli military intelligence and are heavily investing in their Israeli branches while laying off thousands of American employees, all while receiving millions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies funded by American taxpayers. WASHINGTON — With nearly 6 million Americans unemployed and regular bouts of layoffs in the U.S. tech...

This is part one in an investigation into government-funded, opposition-linked NGOs that pose as impartial monitors and investigators of the Syrian conflict. More on propaganda, disinformation, and the information wars as tools in hybrid warfare.The Gray ZoneBehind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an opposition front group became Western media’s go-to monitor Max Blumenthal

The cat's now out of the bag. Secret no longer.Sputnik InternationalHuawei Trademarks Its Own Mobile OS Around World After US Ban See also

Another false flag? Maybe we are getting close to the boy that cried wolf.Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of DundeeSee alsoFort Russ NewsBREAKING: Pompeo’s FALSE FLAG REFUTED by Japanese Media Authority – Tanker hit by flying object, not mine – confirms onsite worker Joaquin Flores Also ReutersGermany: U.S video not enough to attribute blame over oil tanker attacks See alsoCaitlin Johnstone — Rogue JournalistSeven Reasons To Be...

For those [journalists] who want to keep their jobs, police raids and prosecutions are reminders when self-censorship isn’t enough to prevent their investigating abuses of the law, war crimes, fraud and corruption. The first home truth is that truth is loss-making for an enterprise; pauperizing for its reporter. The second home truth is that in wartime – that’s now – truth-telling may be a criminal offence which will get the reporter time in jail. Dances with BearsHOME TRUTHS AND PRESS...

It was always just a matter of time before the reemergence of establishment Democrats reminded people why they were booted from power in 2016. As ugly as Donald Trump is and as not constructive as his tenure in the White House has been, the Democratic establishment would rather lose with establishment candidates and retrograde policies than loosen its grip on its service to the oligarchs. Phrased differently, if Democrats cared about ‘defeating Trump,’ they would offer programs that people...

Another 100B CNY of system reserve asset increase...#PBOC injects 100 bn yuan via open market operation (28-day reverse repo)— YUAN TALKS (@YuanTalks) June 14, 2019

The US ban on Huawei is pushing it to develop alternative systems that may rival Google and Android Huawei is developing its own operating system for its phones (and any other company's phones) and it can be adapted to the Russian - Finnish  operating  system, named Aurora. But what made this article interesting to me, was that Google was concerned that this new OS could be bullet proof and can't be hacked.  So, the U.S. government is concerned about the Chinese government hacking Huawei...

At stake is whether China will agree to do what Russia did in the 1990s: put a Yeltsin-like puppet of neoliberal planners in place to shift control of its economy from its government to the U.S. financial sector and its planners. So the fight really is over what kind of planning China and the rest of the world should have: by governments to raise prosperity, or by the financial sector to extract revenue and impose austerity. U.S. diplomacy aims to make other countries dependent on its...

Boom.TASSRussia, China to develop military cooperation as strategic partners