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From
David Harvey's A
Brief History of NeoliberalismPart
3 - The corporate-backed institutions behind the rapid and artificial
ideological transformation of the American society in favor of
neoliberalism In the
US case I begin with a confidential memo sent by Lewis Powell to the
US Chamber of Commerce in August 1971.  Powell, about to be elevated
to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon, argued that criticism of and
opposition to the US free enterprise system had gone too far and that
‘the time had come –– indeed it is long overdue –– for
the wisdom, ingenuity and resources of American business to be
marshalled against those who would destroy it’.  Powell argued
that individual action was insufficient. ‘ Strength’, he
wrote, ‘lies in organization, in careful long-range planning and
implementation, in consistency of action over an indefinite period of
years, in the scale of financing available only through joint effort,
and in the political power available only through united action and
n…

globinfo
freexchange Why it
took so long for the Western mainstream media to 'discover' the war
in Yemen and the war crimes committed by the Saudi coalition in full
co-operation with the US?  One
might think that the humanitarian disaster there - caused also by the
blockade of goods for the relief of the civilians - has become so
obvious, condemned multiple times by the UN, that the media finally
forced to speak about it.  In
previous article
we attempted to explain the 'unexplained phenomenon' and the fact
that CNN surprisingly returned to the issue to openly condemn the US
support to the Saudi coalition atrocities against civilians in Yemen.  Yet,
despite that the Saudi regimes have been, traditionally, the best
allies of the Western neocolonialists, this time, the US had serious
reasons to overthrow the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman
(MBS).  And, surprisingly enough, at the center of this underground
conflict lies an attempt by the US to privatize Aramco, Saudi
Arab…

globinfo
freexchange Here is
another sector soon to be occupied entirely by private companies:
staging successful false flag operations and the subsequent suitable
psyops.  As the
World Socialist Web Site reported
early this year: Cambridge
Analytica’s parent company is British-based SCL.  Formerly
Strategic Communication Laboratories, it is a private behavioural
research and strategic communication company, founded in 1993 by
Nigel Oakes.  As
with Oakes, SCL’s board members include scions of the British
ruling class, from former military officers and defence
contractors to major Conservative Party donors.  SCL
boasts of providing “data, analytics and strategy to
governments and military organizations worldwide,” notably
the British Ministry of Defence, the US State Department and NATO. 
It states that it has carried out “behavioural change
programs” in more than 60 countries.  One of its first
contracts in 1999 was promoting Indonesian President Abdurrahma…

Joel
Whitney is a co-founder of the magazine Guernica, a magazine of
global arts and politics, and has written for many publications,
including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.  His book Finks:
How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers describes
how the CIA contributed funds to numerous respected magazines during
the Cold War, including the Paris Review, to subtly promote
anti-communist views.  In their conversation, Whitney tells Robert
Scheer about the ties the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom had
with literary magazines.  He talks about the CIA's attempt during the
Cold War to have at least one agent in every major news organization
in order to get stories killed if they were too critical or get them
to run if they were favorable to the agency.  And they discuss the
overstatement of the immediate risks and dangers of communist regimes
during the Cold War, which, initially, led many people to support the
Vietnam War.globinfo
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Jesus Angleton wa…

globinfo
freexchange Richard
Wolff brilliantly explains the economics behind the great US
anti-leftist purge (McCarthyism) after 1945: At the
end of WWII - late 1940s into the 50s - something remarkable happened
politically in the United States.  And it was in many ways surprising. 
Suddenly, a group of people in the United States who had been
celebrated as heroes, became instead - almost overnight – demons. 
From being leaders they became traitors.  Communists
- members of the American Communist Party, Socialists - members of
the two socialist parties at that time, and active leaders of the
labor movement - the big organizing drives of the CIO in the 1930s
and 40s, had brought millions of Americans who had never been in
unions before, into the unions.  They joined the unions because they
thought it would be a safe way to make it through the Great
Depression of the 1930s.  At least safer than not being in a union.  And
together, the Communists, the Socialists and the Unionists, really
struggled …

globinfo
freexchange Donald
Trump's response to recent General Motors' decision to close plants
and slash jobs, proves that he is completely clueless on what's the
real reason behind the mass layoffs epidemic in US big businesses and
how to deal with it.  The
media circulated what Trump thinks to do about it, including threats
against GM to impose auto tariffs, or, his most beloved action:
penalties on foreign cars.  Yet,
perhaps the most hilarious part in the whole story, is that one of
the key frontline tools of the global neoliberal capital immediately
published an 'in your face' article
to make Trump realize that he is completely powerless too, against
the forces of the markets.  Here are some interesting parts: ...
market forces are tough to beat, even if you’re president.  Trump
captured the White House thanks in large part to the story he told
-- that he could reverse America’s industrial decline.  He
promised to bring back manufacturing and fossil-fuel j…

globinfo
freexchange In a
discussion with Paul Jay of the Real
News, Daniel Ellsberg revealed that the US
discovered - through a top-secret operation -that the USSR had only
four(!)  ICBMs back in 1961.  This meant that the Soviets were very far
from becoming a serious threat for the West.  However, the false
picture of the 'Soviet threat' remained powerful in order to permit
the US to justify its frenzy nuclear armament race.  Ellsberg
explains: The
estimate of 40 to 60 [Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles] -
which was pretty much in 1962 at the time of the missile crisis based
on a lot of satellite photography - was much lower than was estimated
earlier, from ‘58, ‘59, ‘60.  The Air
Force had a higher estimate.  Even the CIA official estimate in 1961
was well over 100.  The State Department estimated like 160.  The Air
Force was much higher than that.  And in August of 1961, the then
commander of Strategic Air Command, Thomas Power, believed that there
were then 1000 Soviet ICBMs…

globinfo
freexchange A month
ago we gathered
some information to explain the sudden 180 degrees
hostile turn by the Western neoliberal status quo against the current
Saudi regime.  We
discovered that the US corporate dictatorship and the Wall Street
mafia heavily invested on the rapid neoliberalization of the Saudi
Arabian economy, with the privatization of the state-owned oil
company Aramco at the heart of this plan.  Suddenly,
Mohammed bin Salman decided to step back from the deal.  It would
be worth to note that Aramco was standing at the top of the global
list of the largest oil and gas companies for 2017
with a revenue of 465.49 billion US dollars.  It seems
that the neoliberal regime didn't abort its plans concerning Saudi
Arabia and silently seeks to "replace" bin Salman with a
more faithful puppet, exploiting, of course, the assassination of
Jamal Khashoggi.  Digging
a little bit more, we found plenty of evidence in the Western
mainstream media, in recent years, showing …

From
David Harvey's A
Brief History of NeoliberalismPart
4 - Neoliberalism's second big experiment after Chile: the financial
coup by the banking mafia to take over New York One line
of response to the double crisis of capital accumulation and class
power arose in the trenches of the urban struggles of the 1970s.  The
New York City fiscal crisis was an iconic case.  Capitalist
restructuring and deindustrialization had for several years been
eroding the economic base of the city, and rapid suburbanization had
left much of the central city impoverished.  The result was explosive
social unrest on the part of marginalized populations during the
1960s, defining what came to be known as ‘the urban crisis’
(similar problems emerged in many US cities).  The
expansion of public employment and public provision ––
facilitated in part by generous federal funding –– was seen as
the solution.  But, faced with fiscal difficulties, President Nixon
simply declared the urban crisis over in the early 1…

globinfo
freexchange The
Guardian has stepped up its contemptible role as one of the main
media conduits for the persecution of Julian Assange, publishing
unsubstantiated and sensationalist allegations that the WikiLeaks
publisher met with American political lobbyist, Paul Manafort.  One of
the two authors of the Guardian article was, predictably, Luke
Harding.  Harding has penned a stream of material aimed at undermining
support for Assange and WikiLeaks and attempting to justify the
efforts of the US government to prosecute him for espionage or
conspiracy.  Assange aptly described an error-filled 2014 book written
by Harding about whistleblower Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks as a
“hack job in the purest sense of the word.”  The
allegation that Assange met with Manafort is another desperate effort
to implicate WikiLeaks in the lurid claims of the Democratic Party,
US intelligence agencies and much of the media that the Russian
government “interfered” in the 2016 US presidential election to
pr…