As this article is being written, expectations are that the US Federal reserve would cut interest rates by a quarter to half a percentage on top of an unscheduled and unprecedented 0.75 percent cut it announced recently.

In "The Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski (Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, and star consultant to several US Administrations) boasts of how he lured the Soviets into Afghanistan in order to bleed them in their own version of Vietnam.

The global stock market meltdown occurred in the wake of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage meltdown that begun last summer, followed by the U.S. real economy gradually entering a recessionary stage since late last year.

Like coffee beans, the cacao seeds from which we derive chocolate can only be grown successfully in equatorial regions—right where the world’s few remaining tropical rainforests thrive.

Israel's national labour center Histadrut is giving full support to workers at Tel Aviv's Ibn Gvirol street branch of the international coffee roaster and restaurant franchiser Coffee Bean, where workers have been on strike since January 22.

Economic turbulence largely due to credit market turmoil and rising oil prices could spur an increase in global unemployment by an estimated 5 million persons in 2008.

It’s true that humans do a lot more damage to shark populations than vice versa. Marine biologists report that sharks are in rapid decline around the world. In the North Atlantic Ocean, shark populations have declined more than 50 percent over the past 20 years alone, with some species now nearing extinction.

Bill Gates is giving (by now gave) a speech at Davos in which he is calling upon the capitalists of the world to be kinder and to help the poor. But only if they can make a buck.

In regards to our "global economy," one is better off reading Dostoevsky’s The Gambler and saying to himself, “at the present moment I must repair to the roulette-table,” than listening to George Bush deluding himself about the fact that “while there is some uncertainty, the financial markets are strong and solid.”

World Health Organization General Director Margaret Chan said on Monday that humanity is the most vulnerable species threatened by climate change.

Censored 2008 includes many stories that will be a cause for concern for people the world over, such as the increasing US military presence in Africa, the neoliberal assault on India and the encroaching police state in the land of the brave.

One of the many contributing factors driving the U.S. economy’s sharp downturn is the anger of foreign consumers boycotting American brands over the Iraq war.
It’s not just many of the 1.5 billion Muslim consumers, either, that have quit buying Made in America.

On December 9, 2007, in a move that went relatively unnoticed in India, seven South American countries signed an agreement that could have important implications for the dominance asserted by the IMF and World Bank in developing countries.

Salam Ali, the International Secretary for the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) recently visited Belfast and held a briefing meeting for the Communist Party of Ireland.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said here on Monday that China attaches great importance to sustainable development and will take a series of measures to better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers.

People making a New Year's resolution to consume less should bolster their resolve by reading Jared Diamond's "What's Your Consumption Factor?" in Wednesday's New York Times [op-ed 1-2-2008].

The central goal of the United States is control of the planet, power to install governments subservient to its demands, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, the power to inflict on peoples everywhere “free market” corporate capitalism.

In 1905 Albert Einstein, presented the Annus Mirabilis ("Wonderful Year") Papers, in which he explained the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc2, which lead to the development of nuclear energy.

The unfolding crisis in imperialist finance has the potential of plunging the world into unprecedented economic, political and social turmoil.

It is an interesting perspective, that of America needing ‘defending’, but it is one that John Bolton holds to thoroughly in “Surrender is Not an Option.”