American empire: Parenti and Maher

Two people have done more to call a spade a spade and declare the USA to be an empire, these being Michael Parenti and Peter Dale Scott. Let me rephrase that, these are the two people who have called it that without advocating its expansion. Recently Parenti wrote an article on American empire and the [...]

Greek don’t want bailout- Duh! But why?

In this reuters article featured on the Irish Times website a poll has revealed that more than 60% of Greece’s population do not want ‘bailout’ money from the EU and the IMF to pay off their climbing debt and to stabilise the countries economy. I wonder why they don’t want this money, this gift from [...]