Europe’s dilemmas

| May 21, 2010

“Those who follow obsolete paradigms become victims.” We’d like to move on to other topics, but Europe’s crisis has our attention. We could hope that Europe is on the verge of splitting apart and rediscovering nationalism, but this optimism is premature. Instead we are looking for forces of alignment and conflict within Europe, and trying […]

The Era of Constant Crisis, Part 2

| February 25, 2010

Paul Ferrell: “The future of our economy and indeed our nation demands another political revolution. We must take back our democracy and capitalism from a government run by Wall Street and its “Happy Conspiracy” … their toxic self-serving power hold must be broken and, if not, a rising new conspiracy of China, India, oil-sovereignties and […]

The Era of Constant Crisis, Part 1

| February 23, 2010

As we wrote in How to save Greece, European leadership is split and paralyzed over whether to bail out Greece as the value of its sovereign debt declines. The revelation that Goldman Sachs helped Greece to hide the extent of its debt obligations by writing PPI’s opens another layer of scandal that promises to reveal […]