This week marks 65 years since the Western-orchestrated coup in Iran. August 19, 1953 is the day that Iranians were taught a hard lesson in the rules of the game when it comes to empire and hegemony. For on this day, the country’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, was overthrown at the hands of…
Ecuador plans to allow the US to open up a so-called “Security Cooperation Office” in the South American state. RT reported that the Ecuadorian Defense Minister confirmed this development late last week and wrote that it represents a policy reversal from previous President Rafael Correa’s administration, which refused to renew the US’ lease on the…
Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource exhaustion are not included in Gross Domestic Product, we do not know whether an increase in GDP is a gain or a loss. External costs are huge and growing larger. Historically, manufacturing and industrial corporations, corporate farming, city…
