"The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock."
Chris Hedges
Links For Today
Moody's Review May Dent Bank Ratings
Game of Thrones Third Series Set for UK Debut
US Manufacturing Slows
Caroline Kennedy to be Named Ambassador to Japan
Money Laundering Banks Still Get a Pass from the US - Simon Johnson
Asteri Capital and the London Whale
US Deploys Stealth Fighters to South Korea
BRICs Go Over the Wall - AsiaTimes
As Market Heats Up, Trading Slips Into the Shadows
As Banks In Cyprus Falter, Other Tax Havens Step In
At Banks, Board Pay Soars Amid Cutbacks (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
More Stockman - Krugman
Big Business Believes in Subsidies, Not Free Markets - ataxingmatter
Canada Walks Out of UN Convention on Droughts
The Super Supercapacitor
The Treason of the Intellectuals - Hedges
Too Big To Jail - Mike Hudson
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception