WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The biggest engineering project in the history of the world got under way this week, but don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of it. [by Darrell Delamaide | December 24, 2014 | MarketWatch] U.S. mainstream media tends to shy away from reporting anything that doesn’t directly involve American interests, especially…
The 114th Congress will be sworn in next week, and the media campaign for President Obama’s next power grab is already under way. The New York Times, Washington Post and Politico (Tiger Beat on the Potomac) are all telling us the GOP Congress is ready to surrender its oversight responsibilities and grant extraordinary new…
Nicaragua on Monday announced the start of work on a $50 billion shipping canal, an infrastructure project backed by China that aims to rival Panama’s waterway and revitalize the economy of the second-poorest country in the Americas. [by Gabriel Stargardter | December 22, 2014 | Reuters] The groundbreaking was largely symbolic, as work began…