A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything

 

A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything By Ellen Brown, May 08, 2022 We have a serious debt problem, but solutions such as the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” are not the future we want. It’s time to think outside the box for some new solutions.

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“Virus Mitigation”, “Track and Trace”: The CDC Surveilled for COVID Lockdown Compliance By Jeffrey A. Tucker, May 08, 2022 A missing piece of the great lockdown plot was enforcement. How precisely were authorities going to know the whereabouts of hundreds of millions of people without a veritable army of snoops?

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Russian Oil Ban Plans Are Like ‘Dropping an Atomic Bomb on Hungary’s Economy’, Says Viktor Orban By Jorge Liboreiro, Efi Koutsokosta, and et al., May 09, 2022 Brussels’s proposal for a gradual EU-wide ban on Russian oil imports is sowing division, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán comparing the embargo to an economic “atomic bomb”. The main point of contention is the ambitious timeline envisioned by the European Commission: a phase-out of all Russian crude in six months and all refined oil products by the end of the year.

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UK: Starmer Threatens to Expel Corbyn and Any Labour MPs Not Backing NATO’s War on Russia By Chris Marsden, May 09, 2022 Starmer, who has repeatedly declared Labour to be the “party of NATO” during its proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, said he was “very clear” that support for the military alliance was at “the root of the Labour Party”.

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US Senate Committee Passes Bill Pressuring OPEC, Russia Over High Oil Prices By Middle East Eye, May 09, 2022 The bill would change US antitrust law to revoke the sovereign immunity that has long protected Opec and its national oil companies from lawsuits. By doing so, the US attorney general would then have the power to sue Opec, its members such as Saudi Arabia or its partners like Russia, in federal court on charges including market manipulation.

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Bongbong Politics: Rehabilitating the Marcos Family. Philippine Elections. By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 08, 2022 Children should not pay for the sins of their parents. But in some cases, a healthy suspicion of the offspring is needed, notably when it comes to profiting off ill-gotten gains. It is certainly needed in the case of Filipino politician and presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, who stands to win on May 9.

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Is China a Communist or a Capitalist Country? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 08, 2022 In 1981-82, based at the University of Hong Kong, Centre for Asian Studies (CAS), I started my research on the process of capitalist restoration in China. I took a crash course in Mandarin at the HKU Language School as well as in Taiwan. This research –which extended over a period of 4 years– included fieldwork in several regions of China (1981-83) focussing on economic and social reforms, analysis of the defunct People’s Commune (abolished in 1983) and the development of privately owned capitalist industry including the cheap labor export economy.

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History of World War II: Operation Barbarossa, the Allied Firebombing of German Cities and Japan’s Early Conquests By Shane Quinn, May 08, 2022 The Nazi invasion was the most brutal the world had ever seen. In 1941 alone millions of Soviet citizens, both military personnel and non-combatants, would either be killed or sent to concentration camps. The murderous nature of the Nazi occupation led to increased resistance from the Soviet Army and local populations, many of whom came to despise the occupiers and joined partisan groups.

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Adam Kinzinger Executes Neocon Vision for Ukraine By Patrick MacFarlane, May 08, 2022 Congressman Adam Kinzinger proposed a new Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation, if passed, would allow President Joe Biden to deploy American forces to restore “the territorial integrity of Ukraine” in the event that Russia uses chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.

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Carrot and Stick: US Pressure and Extortion to Break Latin America’s Ties with Russia and China By Prof. Jorge Elbaum, May 08, 2022 In the last two weeks, the State Department has deployed an ambitious blackmailing persuasion program on countries located in the so-called “Western Hemisphere”, with the aim of limiting their trade and cooperation ties with Moscow and Beijing.

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