Ukraine showdown

Ukraine President calls for blockade to end Riot police are surrounding the protestors who have been encamped for four days, blocking access to government buildings. I doubt this will end peacefully. Pro-Russia Ukraine regions threaten to split off if Yuchchenko…

Better a fascist capitalist than a socialist?

Shadow of anti-semitism over Ukraine’s disputed election by British Helsinki Human Rights Group Western television viewers and newspaper readers are being fed on a diet of propaganda about the current crisis in Ukraine. The orange flags and uniforms of the…

Turk compares U.S. to Hitler

An official says the ‘genocide’ being committed in Iraq is the worst in human history. The head of Turkey’s parliamentary human rights group has accused Washington of genocide in Iraq and behaving worse than Adolf Hitler, in remarks that underscore…

Real estate prices are correcting in Los Angeles

After a startling rise in prices over the past several years, home prices in L.A. are dropping. My real estate agent tells me homes he showed a month ago at $899,000 are now $799,999 and that this drop started about…

And the dollar will probably go lower

Dollar’s record low levels contributed to the record rise in gold prices to $450 an ounce. This is the highest price in 16 years as gold began to be increasingly viewed as an alternative investment. Much of the fall of…