Greek pharmacists staged a one-day strike protesting the fact that the government owes them EU1 billion, which has created major shortages of medicines, which are killing Greeks.

The continuing publicity and calls for reinstating Glass-Steagall are prominently led by Time Magazine, in a new article, "The Case for Banking Regulation," datelined June 4, by Rana Foroohar, and posted this week in advance.

Just days after NATO made the decision at the summit in Chicago to proceed, over Russian objections, with placement of its ABM system in Europe, Russia has staged the first successful test-launch of a new intercontinental missile designed to penetrate the NATO defense system.

The flight-forward mentality, that the principle of the sovereign nation state is a thing of a past, was made abundantly clear at a forum at Brookings Institute, "Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities." The praise for President Obama's Atrocity Prevention Board (APB) and Tony Blair's anti-nation-state doctrine — the responsibility to protect R2P — was on everyone's lips in private and public dis

A satire published on TheModerateVoice.com, by columnist Michael Silverstein, tells the story of how "Mr. B." [Blankfein] enounters the Goldman Sachs washroom attendant, Selig Cartwright, who remarks that Mr. B. is "white as a sheet," and asks why. "They did it again, Selig," Mr. B. replies. "They spray painted those nine horrible words on our front entrance.

After two days of intense negotiations between the P5+1 countries and Iran in Baghdad, a next round of talks has been scheduled for Moscow on June 17-19. This is a significant advance in itself, because the just-concluded Baghdad talks were the first time that detailed proposals were put on the table and thrashed out.

While the G-8 meeting on May 18-19 and the Eurozone heads-of-state summit on May 23 were piously promising to prevent Greece from exiting the euro-zone, quiet war-style preparations were already underway by the British to deal with the exact opposite situation: the financial tidal wave that will be unleashed across Europe when Greece is either forced, or chooses, to quit the euro.

On May 30, the London-based Henry Jackson Society is sponsoring a forum on "Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: What's Next?" featuring Michael Ignatieff, former leader of Liberal Party of Canada. Their description of the event, to be held at Westminster, expresses quite well their hatred for the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-states:

During a bilateral meeting May 18 with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner made incisive remarks about the insanity of the current, collapsing global financial system, which is based on the idea that money is worth something. Her words for sure didn't escape the attention of the City of London.

British Monarchy hatchetman Tony Blair, the outspoken champion of eliminating national sovereignty and the Westphalian System, and who, according to his own cabinet officials, lied to force through the Iraq War, is running Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.