Discussion may have once been a means to an end. What is it today? I can offer, to anyone who has a working definition, that discussion is a relationship between people as people exchange accurate data. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GIR20080511&articleId=8942 Suppose people exchange inaccurate data and suppose someone claims that such an example of exchanging […]
Interview: Anne Bryant, Wealthy and On the Edge
I had the honor of becoming good friends with Anne Bryant this past Autumn, when I unknowingly defended her against a personal verbal assault at online “people’s media” giant Associated Content. Anne is the daughter of a former Walt Disney Corp. VP, an ambitious and highly successful business woman, and a very interesting and intelligent […]
The Fed’s Free Market Illusion
The very recent Treasury Department and Federal Reserve lender bailouts, interest rate manipulation actions, economic “stimulation” (in the form of giving taxpayers a small rebate of their own money), and now the orchestration of the Bear Sterns buyout deal (Treasury Secretary Paulson is a former Bear Sterns CEO—a very disturbing fact in light of the […]
Monopolyland: the Fragile Virtual World of Big Business
It’s one thing to suggest that Corporate True Believers are disinclined to live in the real world with the rest of us — but quite another to get such folks to at long last admit that everyone, but everyone, around them is the enemy by Donald Croft Brickner So — we’re not economists. […]
French Rally Behind Rogue Trader As Fraud Scandal Spreads
He is the man who nearly broke the bank … and who is fast becoming a hero to millions of his compatriots. Jérôme Kerviel, the 31-year-old trader whose fraudulent stock market transactions last week cost his employers Société Générale £3.7bn, was yesterday in a Paris police station after being taken into custody around 2pm by […]
Beijing’s Business Model is Not Globalisation As We Know It
Supported by a planeload of businessmen, Gordon Brown set out on his second visit to China last night, full of good intentions to strengthen political, economic and cultural ties with Beijing. They are the kind of intentions that have permeated British ministerial thinking since Margaret Thatcher first registered in the 80s that, post-Mao, the world’s […]