Theodore Dalrymple writes… Not many people, I imagine, still read Dr. Johnson for pleasure or instruction, though he was once the favorite reading of the educated in the English-speaking world [ … ]

There is something about popcorn, soda and Mom. We used to love going to the movies together. There were months that we saw every major release. James Bond, Mel Brooks, [ … ]

Dan Thornton has an interesting essay, “The Limits of Monetary Policy: Why Interest Rates Don’t Matter.’’ Just why do we think that the Fed raising and lowering interest rates has [ … ]

Are opinion polls the 11th plague? What we’ve done with democracy is to assume it’s a measurement of public opinion. When I was young there was quite an argument as [ … ]

Ah, the companies that care about me, and indeed, humanity, and indeeder, improving shareholder return. What a bettr* world it would be, if they had it their way, which they [ … ]

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has joined the #resistance against Amazon acquisition of Whole Foods. “No employment decreases are arranged because of the arrangement,” a delegate said [ … ]

I went to the Amazon Bookstore today on an errand to audit its well-being. I am wary of any store that has a greeter. I think they said ‘can I help [ … ]

   Humanity appears to default to magical thinking when faced with untenable situations that demand systemic change. “Earth’s economy glorifies waste. Its economists rejoice when a product is disposed as [ … ]

The Amazon Whole Foods acquisition is a work in progress and so is the resistance. We’ve been pundited and corporate propagandizing to one side and my posts are the murmurs [ … ]

Text of Michel Chossudovsky’s 1996 article  (updated in 2002) published as a chapter in the The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Global Research, Montreal, 2003 Click image [ … ]