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Ne News 1 January 2018 Happy New Year and welcome to 2018 (at the time of writing, those on mainland Europe or Asia and parts of Africa would already be in 2018, while the Western Hemisphere are still in 2017 but will welcome in 2018 over the next 12 hours). At the time of writing (in UTC+11), it is 10:30 on Monday 1 January 2018; and already there is predictions of what will happen in 2018 in regards to the dying American Empire as it tries to overthrow democratic governments in Latin America ( https://www.globalresearch.ca/latin-america-in-limbo-in-2018-washingtons-operation-condor-2-0/5624471 ) and in particular Venezuela and Bolivia through so-called "colour revolutions" which is about overthrowing governments that would govern for the people and replace it with a government that would govern their countries for the American Empire. And in Iran, this is also happening in Iran with recent "protests" against the government ( https://www.globalresearch.ca/wha...

The Socialist Party of Great Britain 30 December 2017 A new edition of Rudolf Hilferding ‘s Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development has been published in a new translation and with a useful introduction and notes by Tom Bottomore (Routledge and Kegan Paul, £8.95). It provides an opportunity to consider whether the theories advanced by Hilferding and others have been confirmed in the years since the work was first published in 1910. Towards the end of the 19th century there was a growing tendency towards the formation of trusts and combines associated with what came to be known as imperialism. Among the other books on the subject there were J.A. Hobson ‘s  Imperialism  (1902) and his earlier  Evolution of Modern Capitalism , Lenin’s  Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism  and L.B. Boudin ‘s  Socialism and War  (1916). Later on J.M. Keynes had something to say about it in his...

Andre Vitchek Global Research 30 December 2017 Sometimes it is useful to take a break from news bulletins and newspapers, and even from ‘friendly’ Internet publications. Occasionally it is good to realize that there are actually two parallel realities that are constantly competing for the ‘hearts and minds’ of people living all over the world. There is real life and ‘fake life’. There is reality and elaborately manufactured pseudo-reality, which is designed to appear more real than the reality itself. It is like that chemically produced green apple shampoo that smells more authentic than the fruit itself.  * Periodically I disappear into some jungle or a war zone, in Afghanistan, Southern Philippines or in the middle of plundered Borneo Island. When I return to what some people would readily describe as the‘normal world’, and a news bulletin unexpectedly confronts me at some airport lounge, everything suddenly appears to be bizarre, grotesque,...

Michael Ratner Global Research 30 November 2001 The late Michel Ratner, passed away in 2016. As an attorney, he was powerful voice on civil rights as well as an analyst of “war on terrorism” and US foreign policy. With foresight, Ratner formulated Moving Toward a Police State (or Have We Arrived?) shortly after 9/11 in November 2001. What has been the historical evolution since the launching of the US Patriot Act by President Bush shortly after the 9/11 attacks: “The USA Patriot Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism), aimed at both aliens and citizens. The legislation met more opposition than one might expect in these difficult times. Sixteen years later, “Have we Arrived”?” Flash forward to 2018, the anti-war movement is defunct. Where is the opposition to the US Police State, which is tacitly supported by media propaganda and a carefully controlled protest movement largely fu...

Antony C. Black Global Research 29 December 2017 Following the meltdown of the global economy in 2008/9 it was almost inevitable that the capitalist elite who had engineered the crisis would place, not merely the burden of paying for, but the ideological blame for the crisis on its victims. Not all has gone the capitalists’ way however. Capitalism has, for example, come under concerted attack from varied and sundry sources as has not happened in almost a century. Thus, whether they arise from concerns for economic justice or ecological survival, from an interest in ‘radical democracy’ or in anti-imperialism, critiques of capitalism are back on the menu. Good stuff. Still, many of these critiques, well-meaning and intentioned though they be, suffer – not invariably, you understand, but often enough to warrant deep concern – from a certain, how to say, befuddlement. One need only witness, for instance, the plethora of qualifiers on the subject to get a sense...

Tanya Reinhart MiddleEast.org & Global Research 22 December 2001 Featured image: Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak This article, which at first sight seems to point to the current crisis was written sixteen years ago by the late Professor Tanya Reinart. The author reveals the diabolical historical process and intent to destroy Palestine and its political institutions. This incisive and carefully documented contribution by Prof.  Tanya Reinhart was among the first articles published by Global Research in December 2001. *** Already in October 2000, at the outset of the Palestinian uprising, military circles were ready with detailed operative plans to topple Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. This was before the Palestinian terror attacks started. (The first attack on Israeli civilians was on November 3, 2000, in a market in Jerusalem). A document prepared by the security services, at the request of then PM Barak, stated on Oct...

Darius Shahtahmasebi Anti-Media 28 December 2017 On November 13, 2017, 23 out of 28 European Union (EU) states  signed a declaration  to create what is expected to form the nucleus of a joint European army. The five countries that won’t be taking part are Great Britain, Denmark, Ireland, Malta, and Portugal, though Ireland previously expressed some interest in joining. The defense agreement is aimed at developing rapid reaction forces and implementing new material and equipment, including tanks and drones. It will  include  a five billion euro defense fund for buying weapons, as well as a special fund to finance operations and research. Germany has almost all but spearheaded this project by itself. Just two years ago, the president of the European Commission,  Jean-Claude Juncker , told the German newspaper  Welt am Sonntag  why Germany believes it is important to have a European army of its own. “You would not create a Euro...