Above photo: Facebook. Amazon is becoming a giant private government with the power to direct the economy. Amazon doesn’t fit comfortably within the free-market fable of how capitalism is supposed to operate. We are, in theory, supposed to get freedom, competition, the reward of innovation, the elimination of all-powerful centralized bureaucracy. But consider this recent Wall Street […]
Posts Tagged ‘justifications’
Bogdanov: Washington’s justifications for US troops’presence in Syria unacceptable
SANA– Russian President’s special representative to the Middle East and North Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister, Michael Bogdanov, stressed that the US justifications to keep its forces in Syria are “unacceptable and rejected”, particularly after eradicating Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organization. Russian mass media on Tuesday quoted Bogdanov as saying that Justifications for the presence of the […]
New Moon In Libra: New Beginnings In Relating & Striving For Balance
We will be having a New Moon in Libra on Monday, October 12th in the Americas and on Tuesday, October 13th everywhere east of there (12:06 am Universal Time). New Moons are the beginning of the 29.5 day moon cycle and signal a fresh start for the following month. This is when there is no […]
FPÖ to Take Vienna Deputy Mayor Post as Vote Rises to “Historic Best”
The populist and anti-invasion Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has continued its dramatic growth by increasing its share of the vote in today’s Vienna city and council elections to more than 30 percent, and will now take up the post of deputy mayor of the city. The FPÖ came second, increasing its vote from […]
U.S. ECONOMY: Justifications for Cutting Defense Spending Keep Adding Up
by Robert L. Hanafin This story from AP Reporter Richard Lardner is a follow-up to two earlier stories I posted dealing with the need for cuts to the Defense Budget. Defense Spending Will and Should be Cut but How Much? Doomsday Defense Budget? As with every effort to cut defense spending since the invasions […]