It’s notable that the whole issue surrounding growth and productivity has been reduced to that of wage levels. Yet the real question is investment and training for the growth of the real economy.  In Germany we find there is long term relationships between banks and medium sized family companies: the orientation of credit towards real production is crucial.

Deutsche Welle

16th March, 2010

It’s not the first time that Germany and France have clashed over economic policy, nor will it be the last. But this time, Germany doesn’t appear willing to budge on what it has gained with considerable pain: a globally competitive export industry.

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Legal in London- so that’s what deregulation means: legalised fraud. So no worries- everything is covered!

Independent

13th March, 2010

Britain’s financial centre faced fresh embarrassment yesterday after it emerged that London played a crucial role in Lehman Brothers concealing debts of up to $50.4bn (£33.2bn) in the run-up to its collapse.

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Late in 2005 I organised the first meeting in Scotland questioning the official 9/11 theory. Annie Machon was on that platform: now she can put across her message to millions via RT. RT has become a veritable phenomena. Their technique of interviewing western dissidents allows them to raise contentious issues with a certain deniability and they are no longer burdened by Marxism-Leninism as in the old days. Those who insist on unipolarity , the world under an unchallenged superpower, must explain the emergence of such an across the board challenge to the hegemony of the western media viewpopint.

This article explains well the mechanisms which enabled Greece to conceal state expenditure. The principle of deferring costs at inordinate expense is the same as that pioneered  in Britain  under the guise of public-private partnership which has contributed so much to the timebomb of UK government debt.

Louise Story and Landon Thomas and Nelson D. Schwartz

Global Research

4th March, 2010

Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts.

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Justin Raimondo

antiwar.com

3rd March, 2010

The reaction to Ron Paul’s runaway victory in the CPAC presidential poll continues to roll in, and I wouldn’t dwell on it as much as I have except for its significance as indicative of a sea-change on the right and in the country generally. And also, for another reason: because I can’t help but wonder at the paucity of intellectual firepower among Paul’s critics.

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Richard Tedor

Global Research

28th February, 2010

From June to September of 1944, the Germans lost more than 1 million men – some to the Soviet army, some to the bitter cold. When the German armed forces invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941, Berlin described the offensive as preemptive in the face of imminent Soviet aggression. The claim was generally dismissed as Nazi propaganda. Recently disclosed evidence from Soviet sources, however, suggests that Moscow’s foreign policy was not governed by neutrality when Europe went to war in 1939.

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