Mike Whitney - Archive

The Downing of Malaysia Flight 17: Sinister Pretext for War with Russia By Mike Whitney, September 05, 2014
Washington’s “Pivot” hits a Brick Wall. Obama’s “Catastrophic Defeat” in Ukraine By Mike Whitney, August 30, 2014
Regime Change in Iraq: Standing in Washington’s Way. Why Obama Wants Maliki Removed By Mike Whitney, August 16, 2014
Threatening Russia: The Unanswered Questions of Malaysian Airlines MH17 By Mike Whitney, August 03, 2014
Oil and Gas Pipelines: Pushing Ukraine to the Brink By Mike Whitney, July 10, 2014
What Did the White House Know? Did Obama Know that ISIS Planned to Invade Iraq? By Mike Whitney, June 24, 2014
The ISIS Fiasco: It’s Really an Attack on Iran By Mike Whitney, June 20, 2014
The Latest Debacle in Iraq Black Flags Over Mosul By Mike Whitney, June 12, 2014
Obama’s Attempt at Intimidating Russia: Dispatching B-2 Stealth Bombers to Europe By Mike Whitney, June 10, 2014
European Central Bank Goes Sub Zero By Mike Whitney, June 09, 2014
West Point: Obama Defends US Aggression on the Grounds of “American Exceptionalism” By Mike Whitney, June 03, 2014
Japan’s Economy: Retail Sales Apocalypse leaves Abenomics in Tatters By Mike Whitney, June 02, 2014
America’s Economy in Crisis: First Quarter Growth Goes Negative while Bond Yields Plunge By Mike Whitney, May 29, 2014
Showdown in Ukraine By Mike Whitney, May 21, 2014
News Blackout: The U.S. Media Ignores Putin’s Peace Plan By Mike Whitney, May 12, 2014
False Flag in Odessa: The Pathetic U.S. Media Coverage By Mike Whitney, May 08, 2014
Obama’s Bloodbath in Odessa: As Guilty as Anyone in Kiev By Mike Whitney, May 07, 2014
Ukraine, Russia and China. Why is Putin in Washington’s Crosshairs? By Mike Whitney, April 29, 2014
Central Banks
Enough Already: The G-20 and the US Tell the Bank of Japan to End Quantitative Easing By Mike Whitney, April 22, 2014
The Obama Game: Is Putin Being Lured Into a Trap? By Mike Whitney, April 15, 2014
Stock Buybacks and Margin Debt By Mike Whitney, April 01, 2014
US Government Backing for Toxic Mortgage Securities? The Economic Scam of the Century By Mike Whitney, March 26, 2014
The US Housing Market is Still “Flat on its Back” By Mike Whitney, March 22, 2014
Russia-Ukraine Geopolitics: Big Oil’s Drive to War By Mike Whitney, March 12, 2014
The Federal Reserve’s Transcripts: The Greatest Propaganda Coup of Our Time? By Mike Whitney, February 28, 2014
Fraud and Financial Engineering: Foreclosure Filings Jump as Investors Eye Exits By Mike Whitney, February 16, 2014
Caught Red-Handed: Secret Tape Reveals US-backed Plot to Topple Ukraine’s Democratically-Elected President By Mike Whitney, February 13, 2014
A Threat to Global Financial Stability: The Fed’s Taper Sends Global Shares and Emerging Markets Tumbling By Mike Whitney, February 06, 2014
Margin Debt Hits All-Time High: Prelude to a Crash? By Mike Whitney, February 04, 2014
Is This the Big One? The New Wave of Financial Instability By Mike Whitney, January 29, 2014
Escape From The Dollar By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and Mike Whitney, November 05, 2013
Quantitative Easing Announcement Triggers Buying Frenzy: Bernanke’s Head Fake Sends Stocks Soaring By Mike Whitney, September 29, 2013
Deflation Smackdown: Bernanke’s Madcap Money Printing Fails to Boost Inflation By Mike Whitney, May 31, 2013
Obama’s Next Big Housing Market Giveaway to the Bankster Mafia By Mike Whitney, February 22, 2013
The “Qualified Mortgage” Rule: Housing Bubble on the Horizon By Mike Whitney, January 12, 2013
A US Plan to Topple Hugo Chavez? By Mike Whitney, October 06, 2012
Skimming Profits Off Bad Loans: Bankers And Their Dirty Tricks By Mike Whitney, September 29, 2012
Towards a Global Economic Slowdown: Stock Market Slide, Declining GDP, Rising Unemployment By Mike Whitney, June 05, 2012
EUROPE’S ECONOMIC CRISIS: Unraveling the “Welfare Safety Net”. Europe Moves Closer to Banktatorship By Mike Whitney, June 03, 2012
CRASH ALERT: The Stock Market is Falling like a Stone By Mike Whitney, May 24, 2012
The Meaning of “Austerity Measures” in the Eurozone By Mike Whitney, April 29, 2012
Would You Vote For This Man? By Mike Whitney, February 18, 2012
Crush Labor and Impose Austerity: ECB Head Draghi’s Real Goal for the Eurozone By Mike Whitney, December 23, 2011
The never-ending Eurofiasco By Mike Whitney, November 02, 2011
“Deixem os bancos pagarem as suas próprias contas” By Mike Whitney, September 20, 2011
Europe’s “Troubled Assets” Bank Bailout: Germany’s Chancellor Merkel Pushes for a Eurozone “Banktatorship” By Mike Whitney, September 05, 2011
Timebomb in Euroland: The Eurozone is Heading for a Crash. By Mike Whitney, August 28, 2011
The Eurozone Crackup By Mike Whitney, August 22, 2011
The Credit Crisis Rages On; What caused Stock Markets to Plunge? By Mike Whitney, August 07, 2011
Memo to Obama: “Create more jobs or resign” By Mike Whitney, July 11, 2011
More Treachery at the Fed? By Mike Whitney, June 24, 2011
A Beginners Guide to Shadow Banking By Mike Whitney, June 12, 2011
Replacing Strauss-Kahn with a Wall Street Washington Appointee: “Hardliner” Lagarde is a Shoo In By Mike Whitney, May 25, 2011
Was Dominique Strauss-Kahn Trying to Torpedo the Dollar? By Mike Whitney, May 19, 2011
IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in “Honey Trap” By Mike Whitney, May 16, 2011
America: “The beautiful” or “The mother-in-law with the booming voice”? By Mike Whitney, May 03, 2011
Financial Scam: Hanky-Panky at the Fed By Mike Whitney, April 29, 2011
Bernanke Strikes Again; QE2 sends margin debt soaring to new highs By Mike Whitney, April 21, 2011
Rampant Unemployment: Slip-sliding into Recession By Mike Whitney, April 16, 2011
Japan’s Nuclear Volcano Erupts By Mike Whitney, April 14, 2011