Director | February 20, 2009
How is the global economic crash affecting China and China’s foreign policy? First, a superficial look at the post-crash Asian economies from the pro-NWO Economist. The Asian exporting economies were hardest hit by the crash. NWOU does not expect any of them to serve as the source of new demand stimulating global trade. Bloomberg reports […]
Director | February 17, 2009
Add the ethanol scam to the long list of environmentalist crimes against humanity. Robert Bryce offers a history of the ethanol movement, its effect on world food prices, and recent denunciations of ethanol investments by the IMF, the World Bank, various agricultural economists, the Congressional Research Service, the United Nations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, […]
Director | February 16, 2009
Bad news seems to get the biggest headlines. The center of the crisis appears to be in Eastern Europe at the moment. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has a scary article on the meltdown at the Telegraph.
Director | February 12, 2009
After decades suffering from dumping of agricultural products by Big Agriculture, African farmers have organized against World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund policies that impoverish them. Their website is at ROPPA.info. Free trade is protectionism for the rich. If you still worry about free trade versus protectionism, an analysis of world food markets by […]
Director | February 5, 2009
How are people responding to the global economic crash? Tom Engelhardt gathers local news reports on murders, suicides, and other extreme personal responses to financial reversal. Reuters reports on food scavengers in France. Bloomberg reports that the two global banks, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, will not be subject to salary and bonus regulations as […]
Director | February 2, 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced at Davos that she was on board with Gordon Brown’s call for a new world financial order. Merkel appears to be retreating from her stance of panicked nationalism after the global market crash. Sounds downright cheerful about globalism now. Bad news for Germany. Vladimir Putin also pulled his punches in […]
Director | January 29, 2009
The Herald Tribune reports on France’s general strike yesterday, with up to 2.5 million protesters in the streets across France. One irony of this demonstration is that most of the workers who walked off the job were government bureaucrats, those whose jobs are safest. Why aren’t U.S. workers protesting in the streets? There are plenty […]
