Gripped by protests and crisis, EU nations are being forced to fend for themselves. It is time to go back to the drawing board, before it is too late, believes Nirj Deva, MEP, UK Conservative Party. He says the entire construct of the European Union is becoming unmanageable.”The construct is incapable of meeting the challenges [...]

Congressman Ron Paul speculated on the Alex Jones Show today that the war footing between North and South Korea could be an orchestrated crisis to boost the dollar and reverse the US economy, paralleling the RAND Corporation’s call two years ago for the United States to become embroiled in a major war as a means of preventing a double dip recession.

Protests against austerity measures have also flared in cities across Europe. Portugal has ground to a halt, as workers stage a 24-hour general strike over public sector pay cuts and tax rises. It comes two days before parliament votes on a severe new budget.

Iceland may be the first Western democracy to be forced into South-American style debt-slavery. The IMF, in concert with the UK and the Netherlands, has attempted to strongarm the recently impoverished Island of 317,000 into paying over 3.6 billion pounds ($6.3bn) — $86,000 per Icelandic family — at 5.5% interest for the next generation. The [...]

OpEdNews.com / Grant Lawrence (2010-10-17) President Obama’s popularity has crashed so perhaps doing something for the American people might help. President Obama in his weekly address to the American people says that he wants to get the American taxpayers’ money back. So far so good. So he wants to tax the big banks to get [...]

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