Australia’s defence intelligence agency has conducted secretive programs to help the US National Security Agency hack and exploit computer networks, according to documents published by the Intercept. The documents, which were leaked by NSA whistleblower…
Tag: class
The Archdruid Report The senility that afflicts ruling elites in their last years, the theme of the previous post in this sequence, is far from the only factor leading the rich and influential…
To the growing army of critics of US military intervention, who also reject the mendacious claims by American officials and their apologists of ‘world leadership’, Washington is engaged in ‘empire-building”. But the notion that the…
Abstract This paper starts with summarizing the major theoretical elements in the definition of a global ruling class. It then examines how neoconservatives in the US took power and used regime change to…
Higher concentrations of wealth and growing class divisions represent the decline of world capitalism Note: This paper was presented at the Left Forum held at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University…
Twenty-five years ago today, every U.S. media outlet, along with then President Bush and the U.S. Congress were whipping up a full scale frenzied hysteria and attack against the Chinese government for what was described…
<h1 class=”node-title” style=”color: #000000;”>’Total Moral Surrender’: Matt Taibbi Unloads on Wall Street, Inequality and Our Broken Justice System</h1> <img src=”http://otherwords.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/thanksgiving-on-wall-street-1024×799.jpg” alt=”” /> <p style=”color: #000000;”>His relentless coverage of Wall Street malfeasance…
Democracy had another near-fatal stroke, and the military industrial complex further tightened UK defense spending with the appointment of ex-army officer and Tory hothead Rory Stewart MP as the new chairman of Westminster’s Defence Select…
NOTE: WhoRulesAmerica.net is largely based on my book, Who Rules America?, first published in 1967 and now in its 7th edition. This on-line document is presented as a summary of some of the main ideas…
The darkness to which I refer is something largely unanticipated in political studies and even in science fiction, a field which definitely enters this discussion, as readers will see. There have been many…