The flurry of diplomacy reinforced a shift away from the possibility of military action by Israel.
The natural gas industry is working behind the scenes in Washington to block a green building rule.
Occupy Wall Street Protestors on the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011. (Photo: JSsocal)
American society has lost its claim on democracy. One indication of such a loss is that the crises produced on a daily basis by crony capitalism operate within a discourse of denial. Rather than address the ever proliferating crises produced by market fundamentalism as an opportunity to understand how the United States has arrived at such a point in order to change direction, the dominating classes now use such crises as an excuse for normalizing a growing punishing and warfare state, while consolidating the power of finance capital and the mega-rich.
On Monday, the streets in front of Boeing's corporate headquarters (HQ) were eerily similar to those in other countries where Boeing operates its defense business: bodies lying immobile on the ground, armed law enforcement ready to bring out reinforcements and the constant shuttering of media paraphernalia.
Many of the G8 countries - comprised of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Russia - are former colonial powers that have thrived by capturing at gunpoint basic mineral, petroleum and agriculture resources around the world, paying relatively little and thus subsidizing their corporations and their national economies.
