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Locking Down an American Workforce: Prison Labor as the Past - and Future - of American “Free-Market” Capitalism
Steve Fraser & Joshua B Freeman
17 May 2012
Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It can be found across broad stretches of the American economy and around the world. Penitentiaries have become a niche market for such work. The privatization of prisons in recent years has meant the creation of a small army...
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Russia’s Strategy
George Friedman
16 May 2012
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 reversed a process that had been under way since the Russian Empire's emergence in the 17th century. It was ultimately to incorporate four general elements: Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Siberia....
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America’s Pacific Logic
Robert D Kaplan
16 May 2012
The Obama administration “pivot” to the Pacific, formally announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last November and reiterated more recently by the president himself, might appear like a reassertion of America's imperial tendencies j...
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Pakistan: US Drone strikes are strengthening the Jihadis
Ramtanu Maitra
15 May 2012
US drones fired two missiles at a house in the Darai Nishtar locality of Shawal in North Waziristan, Pakistan, May 5, killing 10 people, and injuring 27 others. News reports indicate the death to...
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BP covered up blow-out prior to Deepwater Horizon
Greg Palast
14 May 2012
Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the US regulators and Congr...
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The Obama Contradiction: Weakling at Home, Imperial President Abroad
Tom Engelhardt
13 May 2012
He has few constraints (except those he’s internalized). No one can stop him or countermand his orders. He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to explain the “legality” of his actions. And if he cares to, he can send a robot assassin to kill...
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The India-China Rivalry
Robert D Kaplan
13 May 2012
As the world moves into the second decade of the 21st century, a new power rivalry is taking shape between India and China, Asia's two behemoths in terms of territory, population and richness of civilization. India's recent successful launch of a long-r...
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Opening the Vault of Time
Scott Jones
12 May 2012
Much has been written about anticipated events in 2012. However, history has shown that predicting future events, and especially the timing of these events, is at best an imprecise art. I suggest that a major factor is that consciousness, particularly collective co...
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The Upanishads: Happy Hunting Ground of the ONE god-ists
Vijaya Rajiva
11 May 2012
In previous articles, the writer pointed out that monotheist appropriators of Vedic Hinduism lift a few lines or verses from the Rig Veda to emphasise the similarity between their beliefs and those of the...
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