We are a non-profit organization that has been set up to do research and to educate people about the need for a greater commitment to investment in the future.
Because the US government relied on neoliberal economists, who (in service of Wall Street) insisted that all of that cheap money should flow to the most profitable sectors, following the dogma of the "free market".
They said the government can't "pick winners", and instead private investors and corporations would "allocate capital more efficiently" (not by investing in fixed assets, but by juicing their stocks).
Infrastructure has notoriously low return on investment dragged out over long periods of time. Venture capitalists and private equity firms wanted high ROI in short-term cycles of a few years at most. So that's where most of the money went during the ZIRP period.
If you want good Infrastructure, you need state planning and state-directed investment of "patient capital", as Chinese officials call it. This is why China's socialist system -- based on public ownership of most banks and investment firms, with enormous state-owned enterprises in the construction industry -- has excelled in infrastructure development, while US infrastructure has deteriorated and 95% of US corporate earnings have gone to share buybacks and dividends.
Wall Street won. Main Street loss.
The US empire is waging an all-out assault on international law.
Why? Because the US knows its hegemony is declining fast, so it plans to wage even more barbaric wars around the world, in a desperate attempt to save its global empire.
What the US is doing to Gaza, Cuba, and Iran is what it plans to do across the Global South. And US officials want to make sure that they are never held accountable for their genocidal crimes against humanity.
BREAKING: 🇪🇺 The EU will start monitoring people's private chats
314 MEPs voted to REJECT Chat Control… but 361 were needed. They failed to stop this authoritarian law.
We cannot integrate our military with Israel’s and lose our sovereignty.
As a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, I am leading the fight to strip Section 224 from the Defense Authorization Act.
Not a single Russian missile has hit Europe during these five years. Not a single Russian tank has been sent to Europe during these five years. Not a single Russian combat aircraft has been flown to Europe during these five years.
And during all this time, THOUSANDS of European missiles, tanks, and aircraft have been sent into Russia and have hit Russia. And after all that, we are being lectured on Russian responsibility.
Watch full here: https://t.co/wxkCX3neHE
VIDEO | "They said that [if] you target Israel, we will target you and your family, you have been warned."
In a recent interview with Al Arabiya English, International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan revealed that he, ICC jurists, and UN personnel have been subjected to direct threats targeting their families after pursuing war crimes cases against Israeli leaders.
The coercion intensified following a formal letter from 12 US senators explicitly warning Khan that targeting Israel would prompt Washington to target him and his relatives.
The Lebanese government has joined Israel and the U.S. in declaring war on a massive segment of their population.
This agreement cements Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory, which can only be undone through civil war in coordination with the U.S. and Israel.
Shameful, treacherous, shocking are the words that come to mind. There is zero sovereignty here. The people who signed this seem to hate their country. I can’t understand it any other way.
A refinery in Moscow is burning, yet there is zero discussion in the media about the growing NATO involvement in these attacks on Russia. These attacks involve NATO weapons, intelligence, targeting, and even contractors, yet even discussing risks is believed to be "pro-Russian". If we still had journalism, then our chances of surviving would be much greater.
WOW!
@Theintercept reviewed more than 12000 print articles and 5000 TV segments to check for biases on Israel-Palestine.
I thought it would be bad.
I had no idea it was THIS bad.
No wonder Gaza killed what little credibility mianstream media had.
In NYT, Israel's right to defend itself was invoked 99 times. Only once for Palestine.
On CNN and MSNBC, it was invoked 755 times for Israel. But only 8 times for Palestine.
Emotive words such as slaughter and massacre were used frequently when Israelis had been killed. They were NEVER used in print when Palestinians were killed.
In Ukraine, 262 children were killed in the war, and it was mentioned 4223 times.
In Palestine, more than 10,000 children were killed, but it was mentioned only 3632.
The full article is in the subtweet. It's a MUST READ:
This is indefensible: Spraying glyphosate over wild lands is ecocide, and toxic to humans, of course. But there is one upside: It allows us to see the full corruption of our system, which pretends to be preoccupied with our health, even as it poisons the world behind our backs.
Israel did it in 1948
Israel did it in 1956
Israel did it in 1967
Israel did it in 1982
Israel did it in 2002
Israel did it in 2008
Israel did it in 2014, 2021, 2023,2024
Israel is currently doing it in 2026
78 years of genocide.
BREAKING: 🇫🇷 French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:
“We will withdraw from NATO. NATO only serves one purpose: to place us under U.S. control. (...) Israel is the most dangerous country in the region today. It is Israel that is attacking all its neighbors. It is the one triggering the war. It is carrying out a genocide. When I say Israel, I mean Netanyahu’s government.”
Astounding.
A German Government spokesman refuses to acknowledge that the Soviet Union liberated Berlin.
The journalist asks him to name the liberators.
He stares back in silence.
Sanctions are not an alternative to war; they are an even more deadly form of unconventional warfare.
Western sanctions killed roughly 38 million people over 50 years.
The US government has imposed sanctions on approximately one-third of the countries on Earth, including more than 60% of low-income nations, according to a 2024 report in the Washington Post.
A peer-reviewed academic article published in 2025 in the leading medical journal The Lancet concluded “that sanctions do kill: economic sanctions imposed by the USA or the EU were associated with 564,258 deaths … annually from 1971 to 2021, higher than the annual number of battle-related casualties (106,000 deaths)”.
https://t.co/uPMLfReBnT
Maybe future generations will understand the colossal gift Germany threw away with Vladimir Putin.
A Russian leader who lived in Dresden for years, speaks German, whose daughter was born in Saxony, and who repeatedly offered genuine partnership and friendship to the German people. Around the turn of the millennium, there was a real chance to combine Russian resources with German engineering and build a powerful, nearly untouchable alliance stretching from Vladivostok to Lisbon.
Instead, short-sighted and corrupt German politicians sabotaged it all, aligning themselves with those who would rather see Germany and Russia locked in a devastating conflict.
What could have been a historic partnership was tossed aside for political expediency, and the consequences are still unfolding.
Here is the historic speech the Russian president delivered in German to the Bundestag on September 25, 2001. He directly addressed the German people, a moment that, had it been seized, would have changed everything.......
BREAKING! Amid widespread bombing across Arab regions, Israel approves its largest-ever colonial expansion. Under the "fog of war'', what I warned on 14 Oct 2023 is unfolding: the largest ethnic cleansing/land grab in Palestine, since the Nakba. It’s happening. Under our watch.
This is the German newspaper @Tagesspiegel headline after Israel bombed entire neighborhoods in Lebanon, killing hundreds of civilians and sabotaging the ceasefire with Iran.
This is not journalism. This is a disinformation campaign to cover up war crimes.