climate talks fail in Bonn

Failure of Bonn Climate Talks a Bad Omen for Rio+20 and Doha Summits Two weeks of preparatory talks in Bonn ended in accusations and open discords, featuring clashes between development-minded delegations...

EU says argentina source of economic woes of world

STUPIDITY OF THE WEEK, AMONG MANY: THE EU'S TRADE COMMISSIONER KAREL DE GUCHT IS FILING A COMPLAINT AGAINST ARGENTINA before the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming that Argentina has adopted "restrictive...

spanish bank collapse could bring down money system this week

Abruptly, the Spanish debt crisis has erupted over the past 48 hours into a systemic rupture in the entire London/Wall Street financial and monetary facade, posing the immediate question: Will the European...

what's the basis of the existence of u.s.? what do we represent?

Russians Conduct Inspired Discussions of Space Exploration Coincident with Vladimir Putin's return to the Russian Presidency and the naming of a new government, there is currently a high density of public...

nixon on italian industrial managers - same mistakes now

Correspondence between Nixon and Italian Industrial Managers Shows: Mistakes of 1969-1971 Are Being Repeated A new book on the history of Italian industry contains correspondence between U.S. President...

democrats don't need obama, whose coattails are inoperative

Democratic Party Congressional Candidates Start To Abandon Obama's Foundering Ship Perhaps it was the May 8 West Virginia primary, where a federal prison inmate won 42% of the Democratic vote for President,...

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber wants stronger green hammer

In response to a question about sharp Argentine and Brazilian government attacks on ecologist positions, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, head of the German Chancellor's deindustrialization council, WBGU, said in...

poullain - euro a mistake

Landbank CEO: "The Euro Was a Big Mistake From The Start" In an interview with the Sueddeutsche Zeitung today, Ludwig Poullain (92), eminence grise of traditional banking in Germany and former CEO of...

colin powell corrects romney, russia no adversary

Colin Powell Rebukes Republican Charge that Russia Is an Adversary; Defense, Foreign Policy Circles Send Romney a Message During three television interviews yesterday as part of a book tour, Gen. (Ret.)...

it's time to cure the monetary disease

The European situation is rapidly spinning out of control, with bank runs known to be underway in at least two countries (Greece and Spain), and the beginning of a flight out of the euro itself, into...