by Richard Eskow | Jun 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
It should be self-evident that recent NSA revelations bring up some grave concerns about civil liberties. But they also raise other profound and troubling questions - about the privatization of our military, our culture's inflated expectations for digital technology,...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Thomas Carlyle called economics “the dismal science.” Journalist A. J. Liebling called boxing “the sweet science.” To read the Internet lately you’d think they got the two professions mixed up. Economics is becoming a battle royale, a free-for-all. It’s a melee where...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 5, 2013 | Financial Reform, Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
After 237 years, we’re becoming a colony again. Our nation's losing the right to self-determination it fought so hard to win, and it’s happening on a scale unseen since the days of George III. As is so often the case these days, this wholesale loss of our rights is...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
Respected economist John Kay is about to make a public statement which essentially says that the world economy is a ticking time bomb and global markets are a lit fuse. Kay is a professor at the London School of Economics, a columnist for the Financial Times, and the...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
A Northern Ireland county made news this week when it literally created a false front of prosperity for dignitaries in town for the G8 conference. The Irish Times reports that County Fermanagh spent roughly £300,000 ($456,000 at today’s exchange rates) to conceal the...
