USAID Head Butts In: Baring Small Gifts, Wielding Big Threats

‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 04-10 September 2022 Questions to ask about a ‘struggle’: 1) What is the social base? 2) Who are the organizers? 3) Who are the funders? 4) How is the politics benefiting the working classes? 5) Who is producing the images? 6) Where does my knowledge

Blockading & Bluffing Sri Lanka

‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 07-13 August 2022 Q. Upon what system… does your Government surround a small rock in the middle of the sea with fortifications, and cram it full of clerks, soldiers, lawyers, and priests? A. Why, really, your Excellency, I am the last man in the world

A Quicky World History of Fake Debt, Default & Destruction

“Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 06-12 February 2022 Bloomberg News falsely proclaimed, ‘Russia invades Ukraine’, on Friday, February 4. Bloomberg left this headline up for 24 minutes on its digital frontpage. At least 100,000 contracts were being traded when stocks plunged, due to that headline. Bloomberg later apologized: ‘We prepare

USA, Japan, & India Turn off the Lights

‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 16-22 January 2022 Anyone hear the vroom of 500 million US dollars being paid to the white banks, last Tuesday? No clicking cameras, no clamorous reporters on location. How’s it done? Just a touch of a key? Who sent it from here? Who received it

The Planned Dividing of Sri Lanka & its Mythical Debts

‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 09-15 January 2022 In 1917 the USSR rejected Czarist debt. In 1949 China rejected colonial debt. In 1959 Cuba rejected colonial debt. Parasitic oligarchies the world over have to hide their loot in the white ‘havens’. US, English and EU spy agencies know all about